FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS

[dramarama2]

FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#1

Posted: 5/14/08 at 4:28am

Any replies - please say Want & Will's for each category

Best Play

August: Osage County Author: Tracy Letts (Winner)
Rock 'n' Roll Author: Tom Stoppard
The Seafarer Author: Conor McPherson
The 39 Steps Author: Patrick Barlow (Want)

Best Musical

Cry-Baby
In The Heights (Want & Winner)
Passing Strange
Xanadu

Best Book of a Musical

Cry-Baby Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan
In The Heights Quiara Alegría Hudes
Passing Strange Stew
Xanadu Douglas Carter Beane (Want)

(NO IDEA WHO WILL ACTUALLY WIN)

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Cry-Baby Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger
In The Heights Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda (Want)
The Little Mermaid Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
Passing Strange Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew (Winner)

Best Revival of a Play

Boeing-Boeing (WANT & HOPEFULLY WINNER)
The Homecoming
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Macbeth

Best Revival of a Musical
Grease
Gypsy (WANT & WINNER)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Ben Daniels Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laurence Fishburne Thurgood (Winner???)
Mark Rylance Boeing-Boeing (Want)
Rufus Sewell Rock 'n' Roll
Patrick Stewart Macbeth

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Eve Best The Homecoming (Want)
Deanna Dunagan August: Osage County (Winner?)
Kate Fleetwood Macbeth
S. Epatha Merkerson Come Back, Little Sheba
Amy Morton August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

Daniel Evans Sunday in the Park with George (Want & Winner)
Lin-Manuel Miranda In The Heights
Stew Passing Strange
Paulo Szot Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Tom Wopat A Catered Affair

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Kerry Butler Xanadu
Patti LuPone Gypsy (Want & Winner)
Kelli O'Hara Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Faith Prince A Catered Affair
Jenna Russell Sunday in the Park with George

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

(NO IDEA!!!!)

Bobby Cannavale Mauritius
Raúl Esparza The Homecoming
Conleth Hill The Seafarer
Jim Norton The Seafarer
David Pittu Is He Dead?

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

(NO IDEA!!!)

Sinead Cusack Rock 'n' Roll
Mary McCormack Boeing-Boeing
Laurie Metcalf November
Martha Plimpton Top Girls
Rondi Reed August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Daniel Breaker Passing Strange
Danny Burstein Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Robin de Jesús In The Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein (WANT)
Boyd Gaines Gypsy

NO IDEA ON WINNER

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

de'Adre Aziza Passing Strange
Laura Benanti Gypsy (WINNER)
Andrea Martin The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein (WANT)
Olga Merediz In The Heights
Loretta Ables Sayre Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Direction of a Play

Maria Aitken The 39 Steps (WANT...WINNER???)
Conor McPherson The Seafarer
Anna D. Shapiro August: Osage County
Matthew Warchus Boeing-Boeing

Best Direction of a Musical

Sam Buntrock Sunday in the Park with George (WANT & WINNER)
Thomas Kail In The Heights
Arthur Laurents Gypsy
Bartlett Sher Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Choreography

Rob Ashford Cry-Baby (WANT)
Andy Blankenbuehler In The Heights (WINNER)
Christopher Gattelli Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Dan Knechtges Xanadu

Best Orchestrations

Jason Carr Sunday in the Park with George
Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman In The Heights
Stew & Heidi Rodewald Passing Strange
Jonathan Tunick A Catered Affair (WANT & WINNER)

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Peter McKintosh The 39 Steps (WANT)
Scott Pask Les Liaisons Dangereuses (WINNER???)
Todd Rosenthal August: Osage County
Anthony Ward Macbeth

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network Sunday in the Park with George
Anna Louizos In The Heights
Robin Wagner The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein(WANT & WINNER)
Michael Yeargan Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Costume Design of a Play

Gregory Gale Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob Howell Boeing-Boeing
Katrina Lindsay Les Liaisons Dangereuses (WANT & WINNER)
Peter McKintosh The 39 Steps

Best Costume Design of a Musical

David Farley Sunday in the Park with George
Martin Pakledinaz Gypsy
Paul Tazewell In The Heights (WANT & WINNER)
Catherine Zuber Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Lighting Design of a Play

NO IDEA

Kevin Adams The 39 Steps
Howard Harrison Macbeth
Donald Holder Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Ann G. Wrightson August: Osage County

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Ken Billington Sunday in the Park with George
Howell Binkley In The Heights
Donald Holder Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Natasha Katz The Little Mermaid (WANT & WINNER)

Best Sound Design of a Play

Simon Baker Boeing-Boeing
Adam Cork Macbeth
Ian Dickson Rock 'n' Roll (WANT & WINNER)
Mic Pool The 39 Steps

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Acme Sound Partners In The Heights (WANT & WINNER)
Sebastian Frost Sunday in the Park with George
Scott Lehrer Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Dan Moses Schreier Gypsy

Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Stephen Sondheim (WINNER!!! lol)

A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#2

Posted: 5/14/08 at 4:30am

Final?

We still have a month to go.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[scott68]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#2

Posted: 5/14/08 at 4:38am

WANT: No more threads on this topic for the next two and a half weeks.
WILL: At least two new threads a day, most likely more, and anyone with half a brain making a mass exodus to the off-topic board for tea and crumpets.

"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont


My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.

[dramarama2]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#3

Posted: 5/14/08 at 7:36am

Do what you want. These are MY final predictions. The nominations aren't gonna change...so what difference does it make when I make them???

Anyone who wants to express can.

A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.

[jackson992]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#4

Posted: 5/14/08 at 4:25pm

Would love to see Cry Baby take everything. Sounds much better than In the Heights does vocally.

Jack Mitchell Jack's Retail
Broadway To Go Online

[bwaygal1]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#5

Posted: 5/14/08 at 4:40pm

I think South Pacific is going to win best revival. I also think In the Heights will take score and Xanadu will get book. (It sure deserves it.)

Those are the glaring differences I see.

"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world." "Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.

[shh282]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#6

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:08pm

I hope Peter takes both, he's my best friend's cousin and he was precious upon finding out he was nominated.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#7

Posted: 5/15/08 at 4:58pm

I'll bite (for "will"):

Musical: IN THE HEIGHTS
Play: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (duh)
Actor, Musical: Paulo Szot
Actress, Musical: Patti LuPone
Actor, Play: Patrick Stewart
Actress, Play: Deanna Dunnagan
Featured Actor, Musical: Danny Burstein
Featured Actress, Musical: Laura Benanti
Featured Actor, Play: Jim Norton (possible upset in favor of Raul Esparza as a consolation prize because of last year)
Featured Actres, Play: Total toss-up, let's say Laurie Metcalf
Director, Musical: Barlett Sher
Director, Play: Anna D. Shapiro

Book and score are also total toss-ups. In any case, all predictions are meaningless because awards shows love to pull at least one big "surprise" winner, especially the Tonys. Last year we had David Hyde Pierce and Julie White, the year before we had LaChanze, etc.

Updated On: 5/15/08 at 04:58 PM

[Theatreboy49]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#8

Posted: 5/15/08 at 5:30pm

Baritone, I dont think Julie White was an upset or surprise. I actually predicted that as many did. Her performance was superb. DHP and Lachanze however defintily fall under, not only surprise but travesity comes to mind.

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[WEBManBWay]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#9

Posted: 5/15/08 at 5:39pm

Also, remember Avenue Q over Wicked! Sometimes the Tony people are CRAZY! Deffinetly Julie White and DHP were Suprises! Not LaChanze!

[ahmelie]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#10

Posted: 5/15/08 at 5:42pm

These are very subject to change:
Best Play
August: Osage County Author: Tracy Letts

Best Musical
In The Heights

Best Book of a Musical
Xanadu Douglas Carter Beane

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Passing Strange Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew

Best Revival of a Play
The Homecoming

Best Revival of a Musical
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Patrick Stewart Macbeth

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Amy Morton August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Paulo Szot Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific


Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Patti LuPone Gypsy

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Jim Norton The Seafarer


Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Laurie Metcalf November


Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Boyd Gaines Gypsy

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Laura Benanti Gypsy


Best Direction of a Play
Anna D. Shapiro August: Osage County

Best Direction of a Musical
Thomas Kail In The Heights


Best Choreography
Andy Blankenbuehler In The Heights


Best Orchestrations
Jonathan Tunick A Catered Affair

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#11

Posted: 5/15/08 at 7:03pm

All I know is Lin Manuel is going home with one Tony at least. Since he is probably not getting actor they will give him Score. It's amazing! I think it will get Choreography and Lighting and Best Musical and some others

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: FINAL TONY PREDICTIONS#12

Posted: 5/15/08 at 7:07pm

IN THE HEIGHTS and SOUTH PACIFIC will be the big winners.

ITH will get Musical, Score, Choreography, Sound Design, Lighting Design, possibly Featured Actor, and maybe Book.

SP will get Revival, Actor, Direction, Set Design, and Costume Design.

...in my opinion. (And obviously AUGUST will sweep the Play categories.)