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If you could pick one Tony winner...
#25re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 6:09pmDiane Wiest for Best Leading Actress in a Play
"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)
-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)
#26re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 6:56pm[title of show] for best score
Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.
#27re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 7:01pmTovah Feldshuh for Best Actress In A Play for her amazing performance in Irena's Vow.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
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#28re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 7:03pm
"N2N" winning (Score and Musical)
Alice Ripley- (PLEASE !!!)
"Joe Turner..." Winning
Roger Robinson winning
philly03
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#29re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 7:15pm
A Tale of Two Cities - Best Lighting!
Something for ATOTC atleast, whether it be for James Barbour, some aspect of the design team, or Featured Actress *nomination* for Natalie Toro!
Also add: Next to Normal for Best Musical!
#30re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:17pm
I couldn't pick just one, but narrowed down to two:
Will Swenson for Actor in a Featured Role (Musical) - I've seen several productions of Hair, and always found Berger to be nothing more than an annoyance and an asshole, but for the first time, I finally cared about the relationships he has with Claude and Sheila.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone for Revival of a Play - I had never seen or read anything by August Wilson, and going into the play, I was almost preparing to leave at intermission. But it sucked me in, and even now, it stands out as the most I've enjoyed any play this season.
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#31re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:29pmKristin Scott Thomas, Best Actress, The Seagull.
#32re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:37pmThe very first thing that came to my mind was Tovah Feldshuh for Leading Actress in a Play.
#33re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:50pm
Best Lighting or Set to A Tale of Two Cities.
Best Revival/Play to Norman Conquests.
Further, I would make them announce the winner of Best Revival of a Play ON the actual telecast.
#34re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:53pmI agree re the Best Revival of a Play announcement, especially considering the plethora of magnificent contenders this season.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#35re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:55pm
Also, Best Book and Best Choreography on the telecast.
The fact that those three categories were left off last year was awful.
"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)
-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)
#36re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 9:11pmI agree. I suspect they had been wanting to do that with the Best Book category for a while, I remember in one of the recent ceremonies Megan Mullally presented the category and they wrote this stupid joke for her saying something like "yeah, now I have to present the very important Best Book category" with a sarcastic Mullally-esque tone. It seemed like a slap in the face to the bookwriters.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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#37re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 9:13pm
It's a dead tiel
next to normal best musical
Alice Ripley best actress in a musical
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#38re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 9:32pm
Can't decide on one. Sorry.
I'm gonna agree with Wanna Be on Dianne Wiest for Leading Actress in a Play. I thought about it and I think I choose Wiest over Scott Thomas.
Featured Actress in a Play - Carey Mulligan, THE SEAGULL
Director (Musical) - Diane Paulus, HAIR
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#39re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 9:38pm
I guess what is important for me is that
Next to Normal wins for Best Original Musical
and
Title of Show wins for Book
That would make me happy....the other stuff I have numerous hopes but these two happening would make me quite content
#40re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 10:12pm
I'm going Next to Normal for best musical, because even with great reviews I think it will take a while for this show to catch a broader audience...but with a Tony it would have the time.
It deserves to have a long mainstreem run!
#41re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 10:17pmI definitely agree about showing best book, choreography, and especially revival on the actually telecast.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#42re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 10:27pm
Alice Ripley winning for best actress in a musical.
Anything else will sort of be a moot point for me if that doesn't happen.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#43re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 10:43pm
Brian D'Arcy James for Best Actor in a Musical. I love him and all of his work past and present. Is shrek the best musical ever? Absolutly not. But he does give a great performance, in a rather phyiscally demanding role. I think he should be awarded based on his current performance, work ethic and that he does 8 shows a week. Yes I am one of those people that don't think the boys in Billy Elliot deserve the award.
Title of Show for Best Book because I think it does deserve some recognition and I will be honest while I adore TOS the score is not better than others this year. N2N has score but TOS should get book. That my two cents.
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#44re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/19/09 at 11:57pm
My Picks
Musical: 9 to 5
Revival: WSS
Actress: Alison Janey
Featured Actor: Christopher Seiber, Shrek
Play: God of Carnage
Revival of a Play: Blithe Spirit
Actress: (TIE) Jayne Atkinson and Dianne Wiest
Featured Actress: Angela!
Also if I could go back in time I would chance 1998 best musical to Ragtime, and
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
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#45re: If you could pick one Tony winner...
Posted: 4/20/09 at 11:36amJames Barbour-Tale of Two Cities... If not nominated... Brian D'arcy James-Shrek
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