The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025- Page 5
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#100
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:35am
It's a testament to how crowded this season is that there were three Best Actress in a Musical winners (Foster, Menzel, Warren) who were eligible to be nominated again this year and weren't.
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/24
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#101
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:36am
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/22
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#102
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:37am
Very nice for ALW and David Cullen to be nominated for Sunset’s beautiful orchestrations as the category wasn’t around in 1995. Although I suppose they could have been nominated in 2017.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#103
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:37am
And typically I'd feel terrible for Jason Robert Brown always getting screwed. Not this year, he did that sh*t to himself.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#104
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:40am
Where my girl Tammy Faye at? lol.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#105
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:40am
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.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#106
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:41am
Honestly, the nominators got this year pretty much right. What a year. So happy for Megan Hilty.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#107
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:43am
''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.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#108
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:43am
jacobsnchz14 said: "Where my girl Tammy Faye at? lol."
I would've nominated Michael Cerveris for featured actor tbh
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#109
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:44am
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?
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#110
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:48am
BOOP is the obvious loser here. How long before a closing notice is posted?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#111
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:52am
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#112
Posted: 5/1/25 at 10:59am
Sutton Ross said: "And typically I'd feel terrible for Jason Robert Brown always getting screwed. Not this year, he did that sh*t to himself."
Since when is three-time Tony winner JRB always getting screwed?
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#113
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:02am
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.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#114
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:05am
jacobsnchz14 said: "Where my girl Tammy Faye at? lol."
I just spit out my coffee
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#115
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:06am
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 .
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#116
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:10am
"BOOP is the obvious loser here. How long before a closing notice is posted?"
Actually, SMASH got one less nomination than BOOP.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#117
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:11am
Smash, Boop, and Real Women Have Curves must be worried.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#118
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:12am
Zeppie2022 said: ""BOOP is the obvious loser here. How long before a closing notice is posted?"
Actually, SMASH got one less nomination than BOOP."
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.
Updated On: 5/1/25 at 11:12 AM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#119
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:12am
Happy James squeaked in for Best Actor in a Musical. I really enjoyed that show.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#120
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:12am
Zeppie2022 said: ""BOOP is the obvious loser here. How long before a closing notice is posted?"
Actually, SMASH got one less nomination than BOOP."
But it's doing pretty well in the box office. I think RWHC is pretty much done.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#121
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:17am
"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.
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/24
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#122
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:36am
Zeppie2022 said: ""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."
GREAT POINT. BOOP! can't and won't sustain at the current weekly wraps. They had a very weak advance and the current grosses have them losing money every week.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#123
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:40am
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.
The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025#124
Posted: 5/1/25 at 11:46am
Sutton Ross said: "And typically I'd feel terrible for Jason Robert Brown always getting screwed. Not this year, he did that sh*t to himself."
Truly baffles me he allowed this to be that show's Broadway debut.
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