Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?

[jaystarr]

Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#1

Posted: 4/2/09 at 8:18pm

BEST NEW PLAY- GOD OF CARNAGE
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY- (this I am not sure?) BLITHE SPIRIT or EXIT THE KING? MARY STUART? THE NORMAN CONQUEST?

any inputs?

Updated On: 4/2/09 at 08:18 PM

[defyingravity11]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#2

Posted: 4/2/09 at 8:52pm

I hope The Seagull gets a nom for revival.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#2

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:05pm

THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, as of now, will probably win Best Revival: it's epic, it's funny, it's British. Unless it's one of those years where we're Officially Sick of the British, or Officially Proud of Our Country (see the year where Alfred Uhry's LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO won over David Hare's superior SKYLIGHT), in which case something else might win.

(however, I do think Matthew Warchus will win for Best Director)

Best Play, right now, is a tossup between DIVIDING THE ESTATE and REASONS TO BE PRETTY. ESTATE might win if enough voters want to reward Mr. Foote for an great career (and if enough voters want to give him, in fact, his first Best Play Tony). And it helps that the play is actually good. I think it'll be DIVIDING, as of now.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[WithoutATrace]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#3

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:11pm

I would love to see DIVIDING THE ESTATE win Best Play. Hopefully Tony voters will remember what a great show it was.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#4

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:12pm

BEST PLAY:
The American Plan
Dividing the Estate
God of Carnage
reasons to be pretty

BEST REVIVAL:
Blithe Spirit
Exit the King
The Norman Conquests
Waiting for Godot

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[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#5

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:14pm

I'm not into plays, but are you predicting that Irena won't get a nod...

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[PiraguaGuy2]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#6

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:19pm

Yes.

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[BustopherPhantom]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#7

Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:20pm

IRENA'S VOW will probably be nominated: even though it got very mediocre reviews, the audience response has been pretty fantastic, and people tend to vote for what they most enjoyed.

If VOW doesn't get in (if the voters feel sort of icky for putting it in), than I think 33 VARIATIONS will take its place: THE AMERICAN PLAN will probably divide audiences too much for that slot (although a nod certainly isn't impossible).

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Yankeefan007]

re: Let's talk about plays this season! predictions?#8

Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:45pm

My $$$ is on EXIT THE KING for the win.