Tony Awards 2018 Winner Predictions Thread — Page 7

I don't think there's any hate for Once on this Island whatsoever. If it was hated, it'd be shut out of nominations or had a Frozen like nomination tally. Really, the word "hate" is being used too loosely in this case. The nominations just turned out the way it did. It got in most of the categories people expected. There were only like two featured performers that were hyped up earlier on that missed out mostly due to Carousel performing better than expected. Rather than "hate" I just think people underestimated how much the nominating committee (and Drama Desk) liked the Carousel production. Even Ben Brantley liked it much more than the posters here and said it SHOULD win Best Revival over both OotI and MFL, both productions much better received by the critics and the posters here. If OotI fails to win a bunch of Tonys tomorrow, it just means more voting members liked other productions' achievements more, but it doesn't mean they hated OotI.

Updated On: 6/9/18 at 11:07 PM

^ geez, what a Squidward

Mine

Best Musical - The Band's Visit

Best Revival of a Musical - My Fair Lady

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical - Tony Shalhoub, The Band's Visit

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Katrina Lenk, Tha Band's Visit

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical - Ari'el Stachel, The Band's Visit

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical - Lindsay Mendez, Carousel

Best Book of a Musical - Tina Fey, Mean Girls

Best Original Score - David Yazbeck, The Band's Visit

Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Dan Laffrey, Once on this Island

Best Costume Design of a Musical - Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady

Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Once on this Island

Best Sound Design of a Musical - Walter Trarbach & Mike Dobson, SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Direction of a Musical - David Cromer, The Band's Visit

Best Choreography - Justin Peck, Carousel

Best Orchestrations - Jamshied Sharifi, The Band's Visit



Totals

The Band's Visit 7

My Fair Lady 2

Carousel 2

Once on this Island 2

Mean Girls 1

SpongeBob SquarePants 1

The only award that really affects the box office is already a foregone conclusion, so there's nothing to predict there.

And now the big day is here. In the good old days, I would look forward to it. Now, I'm afraid I face it with a sort of grim resignation coupled with dread. Sadder still, this seems to have been the case for eons.

For too many years now, as entertainment, the shows have been lame, even cringeworthy: the forced banter; the sorry attempts at humor; the narcissistic, never-ending acceptance speeches. It was so much better when the awards were televised locally, and presented in a ballroom with people seated at tables. It was short, it was sweet, winners made a few gracious, heartfelt comments, and went back to their seats. And no lectures! I hope we won't be subjected to any tonight --- but is that likely?

And then the awards themselves. This year offers a repetition of the same sorry scenario we see year after year after year: the coronation of a critics' darling that will induce unsuspecting people to buy tickets to something they will hate. That is not good for the public, and not good for the theatre.

The New York Times article quoting the attitudes of some Tony Award voters (and do they ever possess attitude!) shows what we're up against. In other words, we're up against it.

Well, enjoy the show!

Once On This Island was by far the best revival of the season, My Fair Lady didn’t do much different than all the other revivals that have come before it!

benwilsonn.xo said: "Once On This Island was by far the best revival of the season, My Fair Lady didn’t do much different than all the other revivals that have come before it!"

I completely disagree. What it did wasn’t a complete reimagining but it had the more difficult task of taking a truly beloved classic that most people had high expectations for and gave it a fresh energy and vitality and making it work in 2018, by doing many subtle but vital changes in tone and intent. Doing a show like MFL has an extra obstacle of having the production be seen as unimportant or a garden-variety replication of what we’ve seen many times before, and yet this production completely avoids that. That is a lot more difficult than you are understanding.

Updated On: 6/10/18 at 01:22 PM

I think My Fair Lady will win because it is a superior production than Once on This Island.

I never said OoTI will be robbed. I don't think it's getting robbed. My Fair Lady has been the clear favorite for quite some time. This is no shock. However, it's surprising to me that OOTI, a production that is as well put together as it is, is likely to walk away completely empty-handed. Hopefully they honor it in some way, but I do think the lack of love for Ken Davenport has really hurt it's chances at being recognized at all. I mean, he's REALLY disliked. I think My Fair Lady will win, but I agree with the poster who felt that OOTI had the better production. I just had a problem with how sleepy this production of My Fair Lady was. I also didn't care for the libretto changes.

I just don't see how it's "hated" which makes it sound like if it loses any thing, then it's being robbed because it lost for reasons outside of merit. This production OoTI is incredible and creative. However, the competition in many of the categories is actually surprisingly high for a season with little depth in choices. So it's a situation where beautiful productions will miss out on Tonys because there is actual competition.

Littleshopofcarrie said: "While I’m wasn’t a huge Michael Arden fan before I saw it, I think the award should go to Once On This Island. No one on broadway is doing what they are achieving in the Circle in the Square. A production like My Fair Lady has been done before and will be done again but I was just totally captivated by Once On This Island."

Totally agree!

I think Leading Actor is between Ethan Slater and Joshua Henry. Ethan if they want to give it for the actual performance, but I think they'll give it to Joshua Henry for the same reason they'll give it to Lindsay Mendez; they've been around the block and have consistently given great performances, this one included. Slater and Ashley Park in Mendez's category will have their time a little later. That's my view, at least.

EDIT: I also feel like the critics liked Carousel a lot more than we did on here, so I think they have more of a chance at a lot of awards than we think. Something in my gut says Joshua Henry is winning, I'm not sure why.

Updated On: 6/10/18 at 05:55 PM