Entertainment Weekly's Tony picks

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:43pm

Here's a link to EW's Tony predictions:

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1199909_9||1173347_0_,00.html

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:51pm

Go TARZAN!!!!!!! HELL YES!!!!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:51pm

I feel he is pretty close, but I kinda don't think TARZAN will win for lighting.
If it does DISNEY can push it as a TONY Award winning show.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:56pm

SWEENY TODD should win for lighting, I don't understand how it wasn't even nominated.

I agree with nearly all of their predictions.

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:00pm

"SWEENY TODD should win for lighting, I don't understand how it wasn't even nominated."

I agree.

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:03pm

Same here. I agree with every one of their predictions.

[ShuQ]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:16pm

Well I beg to differ that Jersey Boys will take home best musical over Drowsy. And while it may be so that LuPone is going to take home the Tony, LaChanze should have been included as a spoiler.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:17pm

Yup, those predictions are not far from my own.
Agreed about Sweeney's lighting. Boo.

~Steven

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:17pm

After seeing it last night, I agree Tarzan should win for lighting. Though, Sweeney should have been nominated.

And...ulgh, I guess they're right...but I don't understand why I feel so alone in thinking TCP deserves some awards--if not for show, definitely for at least of the actresses.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:17pm

If Cerveris doesn't win, I'll scream.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:20pm

Maybe The Color Purple is cursed, haha.
It got 11 Oscar nominations. 11 Tony nominations.
Oprah Winfrey attached. Oprah Winfrey attached.
0 Oscars. 0 Tonys?

~Steven

[worrell4077]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:14pm

The predictions for best musical and best leading actor that they posted are actually what I'm predicting. Jersey Boys taking Best Musical and John Lloyd Young winning Best Leading Actor.
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[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:22pm

LOL to the LuPone tuba theory. I believe the same thing myself. As Blucat500 so aptly put it, "Betchya LaChanze can't play the tuba!" and there you have it.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:24pm

THE COLOR PURPLE was a brilliant movie. The music is barely mediocre.

THE COLOR PURPLE lost the Oscars (undeservingly) to another fantastic film, also deserving of praise.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:25pm

HeyMrMusic--

Also, in both cases, the director was not nominated!

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:25pm

I just have a gut feeling that LaChanze or Kelli will surpass Patti in votes...

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:26pm

Christian Hoff?! Are they serious? If anything Jim Dale and Mano should be the two.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:27pm

Yeah, I strongly disagree with their projection of Hoff.

I also don't think JERSEY BOYS will win.

I think Patti is a lock...La Chanze is no competition.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:28pm

I'm also frightened by the closeness of their predictions to my own. In fact, most of my 2nd choices are also theirs.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:29pm

Same here.

I think this year is very cut and dry. There will be no surprises.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:32pm

Hopefully there will be surprises at the Tony Awards.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:36pm

There's usually always one or two, Muscle, but I think EW got it pretty much on the money. In the big categories, expect nothing surprising.
I think Musical, Play, all the acting categories, Directors, and Book and Score are the locks everyone generally thinks they are.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:37pm

EW favors Jersey Boys. Notice how they preditcted it for almoust every award.

Also The Color Purple 11 Oscar Nominations not one for Best Director though

The Color Purple 11 Tony Nominations not one for Best Director though

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:38pm

It is just so boring to know who's gonna win. It turns the Tony Awards into something too predictible. What's the point of watching them anymore? Last year, Bill Irwin was the only surprise.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:40pm

I was going to respopnd to that, but it's not even worth it.