Very early Tony predictions

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Musical:
Jersey Boys
Color Purple
Drowsy Chaperone
Wedding Singer

Play:
Well
Bridge and Tunnel
Lt. of Inishmore
Rabbit Hole

Revival Musical:
Sweeney
Pajama Game
Threepenny Opera

Revival Play:
Awake and Sing
The Caine Mutiny
Faith Healer
Seascape

Actress in Musical:
Patti Lupone
LeChanze
Kelli O'Hara
Maria Friedman
Carolee Carmello

Actor in Musical:
John Lloyd Young
Michael Cerveris
Harry Connick, Jr.
Josh Strickland
Bob Martin

Actress in Play:
Cherry Jones
Julia Roberts
Sarah Jones
Cynthia Nixon
Judy Kaye

Actor in Play:
David Schwimmer
David Wilmot
Nathan Lane
Ralph Fiennes
Patrick Wilson

Featured actor in Musical: (wide open)
David Turner
Will Chase
Manoel Felciano
Brian Charles Rooney
Danny Burstein

Featured actress in Musical: (wide open)
Beth Leavel
Sutton Foster
Felicia P. Fields
Cyndi Lauper
Megan Lawrence

Featured actor in Play:
I have no idea -- wide open.

Featured actress in Play:
I have no idea -- wide open
For sure locks for Jill Clayburgh and Jayne Houdyshell

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Updated On: 4/14/06 at 12:36 PM

There are only 4 nominees in the best musical, play, and revival categories, as well as score.

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Lennon was extremely painful to sit through...it will not get any nominations.

I think your predictions are incredibly off.

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Also, as much as I love Carolee Carmello, Lestat shouldn't get any nominations either!

Play: Inishmore, History Boys, Rabbit Hole, Shining City

Musical: Drowsy, Purple, Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer

Musical Revival: Threepenny, Sweeney, PJ

Play Revival: Faith Healer, Three Days of Rain, Caine Mutiny, Awake and Sing

And Brian D'Arcy James has one of the smallest roles in INISHMORE. Not a chance in hell he'll be nominated as a Leading Actor. David Wilmot is their leading contender.

Updated On: 4/14/06 at 12:48 PM

Musical: Drowsy, Purple, Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer

How can TCP NOT win, then!?

With all the new musicals, you'd think more than a couple would be great. Turns out, most of the good new musicals are off-Broadway this season.

Broadway gave us these gems this season:
Ring of Fire
Lennon
Tarzan
Hot Feet
Wedding Singer
In My Life
Lestat

Sort of makes you wish for the days of Dracula and Dance of the Vampires, doesn't it?

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It's too bad The Woman in White closed. I liked it much more than Lennon, In My Life, Lestat and Ring of Fire. If it was still running, I think it would deserve a Best Musical nomination.

Maybe Joe Brooks will have a shot at a nom!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BSO, I almost spit my water all over the computer screen. That was hilarious!

I'm not sure I would count out Allsion Fischer, but there is a ton of competition in the acting catagories this year.

Didn't Aida win for score the year it opened? But it didn't get a best musical nod, right? I'm hoping that Lestat might, *might* get a score nomination, except for the fact that it's score & lyrics, which means it now won't.

The best score nominations will probably be:

THE COLOR PURPLE
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
(insert terrible score here)

The possibility for a THREE DAYS OF RAIN nomination here seems possible, but they'll probably go for THE WEDDING SINGER.

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