NY Times Chooses Best Musical

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NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 10:05am

In the NY Times article, it says that (their experts) predict a Best Musical win for either Spam or Spelling.

I don't see voters going for another Ave Q so I'll give it to Spam.

Discuss.

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Updated On: 6/3/05 at 10:05 AM

#2

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 10:20am

I'd say if Spamalot doesn't win, that we should look for a Piazza upset.

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#3

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 10:23am

Much as I loved Spamalot, I don't think its necessarily deserving of Best Musical. I would love to see either Guettel or Finn get that particular award. Piazza is the most gorgeous thing I've ever heard.

That said...should Spamalot win I will jump in the air with my Christina Apple-tini (remember, I'm having a Tony party) and cheer!:)

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#4

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 10:25am

My preference is for DRS, but I fear there is no hope.

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#5

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Posted: 6/3/05 at 10:36am

I won't see Light in the Piazza till a week after the Tony's so I'm hoping DRS wins. Spamalot was very entertaining also.

#6

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Posted: 6/3/05 at 11:02am

Spam has lost its early support. DRS is where?

As much as we would all like to see a Q, I'm afraid this year voters will go back to their old tricks and serve Spam.

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#7

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Posted: 6/3/05 at 12:34pm

Spam or DRS

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#8

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 12:38pm

I firmly believe that DRS will win.

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#9

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 12:45pm

And Munk we Agree again...could be wrong as all hell, but I see it as the underdog that everyone will be voting for and just not mentioning...IT WAS BY FAR THE BEST OF THE BUNCH!

#10

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 1:53pm

Go DRS! I'm not expecting it to win at all, if for nothing else I won't be disappointed if it doesn't but I will be ecstatically surprised if it does.

I'd be pretty pleased if Piazza won as well, feel same way about that. Believing Spam is fav and Bee second, so mine are two underdogs, hope there's an upset!

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re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 2:08pm

I would like to see DRS take the win.
I think Spamalot will.

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#12

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 2:30pm

Riedel's picks are virtually identical except in the revival categories where he predicts Virginia Woolf over Twelve Angry Men, and says "La Cage" is on its last legs (the rumor is that it will close in mid-June whether it wins the Tony or not), so the award will probably go to "Sweet Charity" by a nose or, as one voter says, "a broken foot."

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/44837.htm

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#13

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 2:33pm

Great Tony year. Many surprises.

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#14

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Posted: 6/3/05 at 2:35pm

How sad is it when I agree pretty much completely with Reidel's results, if not his reasoning?

#15

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Posted: 6/3/05 at 2:38pm

I'm still pulling for a DRS upset.

#16

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:16pm

All I gotta say is thank god we have a quality year. Or we would have had doo doo like Little Women or Chitty nominated.

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#17

re: NY Times Chooses Best Musical

Posted: 6/3/05 at 5:24pm

Where are the good days when we only had 2 Best Musical contenders?

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