I cannot believe Stew got a nomination over Cheyenne. Absurd.
And no Mary or Jackie.
"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)
The rules required that Grease be nominated. There were only 4 musical revivals and the committee is required to fill each category with a minimum number of nominees.
i agree with you all.....put a catered affair in the spot of crybaby for best musical. in the heights deserves to win this category. were the committee on drugs when they nominated crybaby for best musical?. i am rooting for in the heights.
I don't think I've ever used the word "squeed" but I squeed a little when I saw that Xanadu got more notice than Young Frankenstein and Little Mermaid.
I knew the featrured actress cateogry would have major snubs, but de'Adre Aziza over Mary Testa, Jackie Hoffman, Alli Mauzey, Karen Olivo, Leigh Ann Larkin, Harriet Harris, Leslie Kritzer, Mary Beth Peil? Crazy!
Other surpirses: Cry-Baby! Not much love for A Catered Affair! Top Girls only getting one nom (but for a personal favorite, Martha Plimpton!). Rock n' Roll did much better than I thought it would (both Rufus & Sinead got nominations). Grease was nominated. David Pittu but not Norbert Leo Butz. None of the men from August: Osage County. Arthur Laurents, not a surprise, I thought so.
The 2007-2008 Tony Award nominations were announced May 13 by Tony Award winners Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Nominees for Best Musical include Cry-Baby, In the Heights, Passing Strange and Xanadu.
Nominees for the 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards follow:
Best Play: August: Osage County Rock 'n' Roll The Seafarer The 39 Steps
Best Musical: Cry-Baby In the Heights Passing Strange Xanadu
Best Book of a Musical Cry-Baby, Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan In the Heights, Quiara Alegria Hudes Passing Strange, Stew Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane
Best Original Score Cry-Baby, Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger In The Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda The Little Mermaid, Music: Alan Menken and Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater Passing Strange, Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew
Best Revival of a Play Boeing-Boeing The Homecoming Les Liaisons Dangereueses Mabceth
Best Revival of a Musical Grease Gypsy 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 Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing Rufus Sewell, Rock 'n' Roll Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play Eve Best, The Homecoming Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County 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 Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights Stew, Passing Strange Paulo Szot, South Pacific Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical Kerry Butler, Xanadu Patti LuPone, Gypsy Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific Faith Prince, A Catered Affair Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Play 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 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 Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical de'Adre Aziza, Passing Strange Laura Benanti, Gypsy Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein Olga Merediz, In The Heights Loretta Ables Sayre, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Direction of a Play Maria Aitken, The 39 Steps 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 Thomas Kail, In The Heights Arthur Laurents, Gypsy Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Choreography Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights 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
Best Scenic Design of a Play Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps Scott Pask, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 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 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 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 Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Lighting Design of a Play 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
Best Sound Design of a Play Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing Adam Cork, Macbeth Ian Dickson, Rock 'n' Roll Mic Pool, The 39 Steps
Best Sound Design of a Musical Acme Sound Partners, In The Heights 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
Regional Theatre Tony Award Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Even though Cry-Baby wasn't great, at least I wasn't bored out of my mind like I was at A Catered Affair. Since no one apparently wanted to throw Mel Brooks or Disney a bone, it's the right mainstream choice.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
Who wouldn't get choked up announcing Stephen Sondheim's lifetime achievement award?
Surprised Kevin Kline wasn't given a nod - was hoping for an interesting competition between him and Patrick Stewart.
REALLY happy for Kerry Butler, Raul, and all the Passing Strange nods... surprised by Cry-Baby, but almost happy because I enjoy the slap in the face to Mel Brooks.
This is Stew learning he was ACTUALLY nominated for Cheyenne:
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Well, the saving grace is that Loretta Ables Sayre got a nod.
Thank God.
"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)
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
Will I lose my dignity Will someone care Will I wake tomorrow from This nightmare
And only ONE nod for Mauritius? No acting nods for The 39 Steps. Oh God.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
No Francesca Zambini for LITTLE MERMAID??? HORRORS!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
There are many awful choices up there. 
