My 2008 Tony predictions, right at this point in time (Musical) — Page 4

LOL Just because someone has only heard a live recording of a show it doesn't suddenly mean that the music (which he was talking about) morphs in to something different

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Best Scenic Design - David Farely, Sunday in the Park With George
Best lighting design - Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Costume Design - Cathy Zuber, South Pacific
Best Choreography - Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Best Direction - Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Score - Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange
Best Crchestrations - Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Best Book of a Musical - Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu

Acting (Musical)
Best Actor - Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Best Actress - Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Best Featured Actor - Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein (Boyd Gaines stands a chance for Gypsy, too)
Best Featured Actress - Most debatable, but I'll say Laura Benanti, Gypsy (Olga Merediz stands a chance too)

Acting (Play)
Best Featured Actress - Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Featured Actor - Unsure as of yet.
Best Actor - Unsure as of yet, but possibly Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Best Actress - Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County

Best Play - August: Osage County
Best Revival of a Play - Macbeth
Best Revival of a Musical - Sunday in the Park with George
Best Musical - In the Heights

Featured Actor in a Play has got to be Jim Norton.

Are you people kidding me? Passing Strange is BAD. At least In the Heights had sprighty choreography and some charm.

Hmm, it will be such a great show that night I can't wait! How many already have it on your calendar

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jv92, Passing Strange is Amazing.

If Sunday doesn't win lighting, I will be very very surprised.
It'd be kind of funny in a sadistic sort of way.

That being said, I thought it was a gorgeous production, and I really tried my hardest to not see or hear Mandy & Bernadette. Damn you, DVD!!!

jrb --

I may be wrong, but, the revival of Into the Woods used projections to portray Mrs Giant once she came down from the beanstalk and started stepping on all the characters.

That won a Tony for Best Lighting Design. My guess is the projections of the brush strokes and the multiple Young George in Act II would be considered lighting and not set.

And how about Osage County for set design? The acting and writing overshadowed everything else - but that set is pretty impressive.

As for acting, what happened to Megan Mullaly and Andrea Martin fans? I saw YF in November and I thought Megan was GREAT - funny and a little loopy. Granted that high falootin accent was a bit much. And Andrea Martin stole the whole show.

I read all these posts for Best Musical being In the Heights or Passing Strange and I wonder what push/pull thinking will be for rewarding a more traditional musical like A Catered Affair. When I heard about this production and the talent associated with it, I expected BIG BIG things and RAVE RAVE reviews.

Seems like Broadway is going to be torn between rewarding cutting edge productions (Passing Strange), youth oriented/young blood audience productions (In the Heights) and more traditional (even i if it may not quite fit that stereotype) productions (A Catered Affair). Once you throw in the camp productions (Xanadu and Cry Baby), the too overhyped to meet expectations production (Young Frankenstein) along with the Disney/kid friendly production (Little Mermaid) and you have a very eclectic season of musicals that has something for everyone.

Not to mention the off-broadway stuff (Gone Missing, Title of Show, Adding Machine - and the earlier production of In the Heights).

What a great year this has been - and I didn't even talk about ALL the high quality plays (August:Osage County was incredible) and revivals (Sunday and the upcoming Gypsy and South Pacific)!!! No wonder I had a hard time whittling down the productions between 3 visits and about 27 slots to see shows (even with the strike on one of my visits).

How are those "less sketchy"?

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I remember two years ago someone saying that they hoped LaChanze would win because this would be her only chance and that Patti would be up for the award again.
Well, LaChanze did win and Patti will be up for the award this year and will probably win.

Kelli O'hara will occupy a "filler" spot again.

I was couting them in lighting. If Sunday's projections count as sets, my set prediction goes to them.

broadwayman17 -

Thanks for being the only poster (correct me if I'm wrong) in this thread who actually remembered that there is a new Sound Design category this year for both plays and musicals. I hope that the voters know how to judge a sound design and it doesn't simply get thrown in with orchestrations or get handed to the most nominated show... Discuss...