The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025 — Page 5

Sadly, it is curtains for Boop! No Best Musical, No Best Score for David (sad snub), this is a mountain is too steep to climb. Pending  the wrap for this week, a posting notice is coming. Too bad, great effort by all and Jasmine was devine. I don't get the nom for choreo, it was classic cookie cutter from Jerry's playbook, nothing original.         

BorisTomashevsky said: "Very nice for ALW and David Cullen to be nominated for Sunset’s orchestrations as the category wasn’t around in 1995. Although I suppose they could have been nominated in 2017."

SB orchestrations are absolutely sublime. I hope they win.

''Thom won the Outer Critics Circle Award last year (was nominated for Drama Desk also).''

HeyMrMusic, thanks for the correction! I'm disappointed for Sesma, too. He's such a scene-stealer as a crooning coroner in ''Dead Outlaw.' I believe he would've been the first Asian-American (of East-Southeast Asian ancestry) to be Tony nominated for Featured Actor in a Musical ... since Isao Sato (''Pacific Overtures'') in 1976 - almost 50 years ago!

In a career where Sesma has survived such flops, like ''Chu Chem,'' ''Nick & Nora,'' ''The Times They Are A-Changin''' and even Hwang's ''Face Value'' (which closed in previews), how great it is to see him in a critically acclaimed show, earning an Outer Critics Award and a Drama Desk nomination.

A Tony nomination would've been such a highlight for Sesma, 69, but ironically I think he got bumped out by ''Dead Outlaw'' co-star Jeb Brown. 

DAME said: "Phil B said: "I’ve listened to the Death Becomes Her cast recording several times, and found most of the songs to beweak, to see the least. Barely a discernible melody in there. How it’s been nominated for Best Score, I have no idea. I’ve found the songs from Boop which have been released are far better…"

Yet you have listened to it several times.
I love DBH . I am thrilled . Love how some of the songs have become parodies on social media . Great show."

Yes, I’ve listened to it several times, so that I made sure I gave it a good chance - some songs take several listens before I can fully appreciate them. However, my appreciation for these didn’t grow the more I listened to them. What point are you making with your opening sentence, exactly?

 

Phil B said: "DAME said: "Phil B said: "I’ve listened to the Death Becomes Her cast recording several times, and found most of the songs to beweak, to see the least. Barely a discernible melody in there. How it’s been nominated for Best Score, I have no idea. I’ve found the songs from Boop which have been released are far better…"

Yet you have listened to it several times.
I love DBH . I am thrilled . Love how some of the songs have become parodies on social media . Great show."

Yes, I’ve listened to it several times, so that I made sure I gave it a good chance - some songs take several listens before I can fully appreciate them. However, my appreciation for these didn’t grow the more I listened to them. What point are you making with your opening sentence, exactly?

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I just found it interesting.  That’s all.

 

MemorableUserName said: "Just realized Sieber didn't get in. That's a bit disappointing."

Really? Did you see the show?  He has a throw away part. And the one song he has with the puppets… funny… but… ehhhhhhh.

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "MemorableUserName said: "Just realized Sieber didn't get in. That's a bit disappointing."

Really? Did you see the show? He has a throw away part. And the one song he has with the puppets… funny… but… ehhhhhhh."

I have seen the show and he is fabulous in it .  He is the glue that holds it all together.  His role is deceivingly difficult.  It’s his genius that makes it look so easy .

Smash, Boop, and Real Women Have Curves must be worried.

Happy James squeaked in for Best Actor in a Musical. I really enjoyed that show.

"SMASH is doing well enough financially though that its immediate future didn't depend on nominations, unlike Boop, which needed them. I believe that's what the poster meant."

Understood but realistically BOOP did about as well as expected with nominations. Nobody really thought it would get "Best Musical" nomination which in the end is the only thing that really matters for box office help.

Embarassing David Thaxton (Sunset, Best Actor in a Musical) was not nominated.

Saheem Ali (Buena Vista) should NOT have been nominated over & Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat, Director of a Musical).

Glengarry Glen Ross should have been nominated over R+J or the tepid Our Town.

Kit Connor (R+J) should have been nominated over Henry Lennix (Purpose).  What's with that?

Surprised Inglehart was nominated.  Although James T. Lane would have been a shoe in.

Bill Burr or Kieran Culkin (Glengarry) should have been nominated before Glen Davis (Purpose).

Thaxton (Sunset Blvd) & Gotay (Floyd) should have been nominated before Brown (Outlaw) & Brooks Ashmanksas (Smash).

Buena Vista Social Club - Best Book of a Musical ????  Really?

Stephen Daldry & Justin Martin (Stranger Things) should have been nominated for Best Director, Play over Danya Taymor.  She didn't do anything terribly interesting on this easier to direct play, that hasn't been done by others in the regions.

Paguia over Joubert (Pirates) for orchestrations is very odd.  The Buena Vista scoring is very similar to the original album. 

Preferred Sunset's choreography to Gypsy which felt very generic stock with exception of the tap, that was more choreographed by the performer than Brown.

Loving Sunset Blvd. is the most nominated revival followed by Floyd Collins.  They got that right.    Glad English, Eureka Day and Hills Of California were not forgotten.

Updated On: 5/1/25 at 11:40 AM