So who do you want to win?

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:07am

My heart will be with Beautiful and Mothers & Sons but my head is thinking Gentleman's Guide and All The way

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:12am

Musical: Gentleman's Guide
Play: Casa Valentina
Revival/Musical: Hedwig
Revival/Play: The Glass Menagerie
Actress/Play: Cherry Jones or Audra McDonald (don't care which-a tie would make me very, very happy)
Actor/Play: Bryan Cranston
Actress/Musical: Kelli O'Hara
Actor/Musical: Neil Patrick Harris
Featured Actor/Play: Paul Chahidi
Featured Actress/Play: Celia Keenan-Bolger
Featured Actor/Musical: James M. Iglehart
Featured Actress/Musical: Lena Hall
Director/Musical: Michael Mayer
Director/Play: John Tiffany

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:18am

I haven't seen enough of the nominees to have a fair assessment. But I do have a soft spot for James Monroe Iglehart, my first Mitch Mahoney. And Ruthie's mom in Bat Boy. :)

[frankenleeestein]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:18am

My heart is pulling SO hard for all the Beautiful acting noms.

[Freeman5]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:27am

Since this is who I WANT to win and not who I predict will win:

Mothers and Sons for Play; Samuel Barnett, Cherry Jones, Brian J. Smith, Celia Keenan-Bolger, John Tiffany, The Glass Menagerie for Revival; Es Devlin - Machinal for Scenic Design, Jenny Tiramini - Twelfth Night for Costume Design; Natasha Katz - The Glass Menagerie for Lighting Design; and Matt Tierney - Machinal for Sound Design

Gentleman's Guide for Musical, Book & Score; Jefferson Mays, Jessie Muller, Nick Cordero or Jarrod Spector; Anika Larsen or Adriane Lenox; Darko Tresnjak; Warren Carlyle for Choreography; Steve Sidwell for Orchestrations (for Beautiful); Santo Loquasto, Linda Cho's Gentleman's Guide costumes (with Isabel Toledo in a close second for After Midnight); HOwell Binkley for After Midnight; and Peter Hylenski for After Midnight

[RachelJean]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:33am

Really hoping that this will be Jessie Mueller's year. And I wouldn't complain about a tie between Cherry and Audra, either!

Also, James Monroe Iglehart for Featured would be such a great win.

Updated On: 4/29/14 at 10:33 AM

[After Eight]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:38am

I hope Gentleman's Guide and Act One win.

I'd like to see Cherry Jones win.

But what I'd like most of all is to see Mark Rylance lose in both categories. It's too bad he was even nominated for either of those performances. Unfortunately, he is now more likely to win at least one award, if not both.

Ugh.

[GatorNY]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:38am

The only category that I am really invested in now is Lead Actor in a Musical. I saw Les Mis on Sunday and during "Bring Him Home" I truly felt intoxicated...or like I was getting an injection of morphine intravenously. I have seen a lot of performances, but no one has ever given me that kind experience before. I am seeing Hedwig on 5/10. NPH is going to have to really amaze me for me to pull for him over Ramin.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:39am

Those who were snubbed.

[newintown]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 10:46am

Best Play - Casa Valentina (not that I thought it was that good, but it’s better written, I thought, than the others)

Best Musical - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (to me, no contest)

Best Revival of a Play - Twelfth Night

Best Revival of a Musical – I didn’t like any of them enough to call any one “best”

Best Book of a Musical - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play - Mark Rylance, Richard III

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play - Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical - Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical - Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play - Reed Birney, Casa Valentina (or Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night – both were great, but Rylance has thousands of prior performances of the role to use as inspiration; Birney created anew role)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play - Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical – I don’t care enough about these performances

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical - Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Scenic Design of a Play - Beowulf Boritt, Act One

Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Costume Design of a Play - Rita Ryack, Casa Valentina

Best Costume Design of a Musical - William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway

Best Direction of a Play - Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night

Best Direction of a Musical - Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Choreography – none are good enough to be “best”

Best Orchestrations - Jonathan Tunick, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Updated On: 4/29/14 at 10:46 AM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 11:19am

Kelli
Neil
Adriane
Nick

Cherry
Mark
Celia
Paul

[jnb9872]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 12:32pm

The ones I'd pull for against odds (though some will indeed be odds-on favorites):

Play
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (easily the play that most delighted me this year and stands as the best combination of production and text head and shoulders above the rest to me.)

Actress in a Musical
Jessie Mueller's time has come, as she carried BEAUTIFUL on her shoulders to 7 nominations. But if Sutton wins again, she's the only performer in that field who I'd think beat Jessie on the merits of her performance.

Featured Actress in a Play
Celia Keenan-Bolger in MENAGERIE was both the most heartbreaking Laura I've ever seen and the most fully-realized emotional breadth and depth I've ever seen from her.

Updated On: 4/29/14 at 12:32 PM