Who derserves the Tony and who is going to actually get it?

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 8:39pm

???

[Just_John]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 8:40pm

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, maybe Jersey Boys which I enjoyed but
I really don't want a jukebox musical to ever win.
Updated On: 5/16/06 at 08:40 PM

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 8:42pm

JERSEY BOYS

But I think it's neck and neck with THE DROWSY CHAPERONE.

I can't call this one.

Posted: 5/16/06 at 8:48pm

ALL of the nominees DESERVE it.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 10:01pm

No they don't. The featured actor singled out from THE COLOR PURPLE doesn't even deserve a nomination. Lisa Kron doesn't deserve it either, and i'll venture to say the same for Chita.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 10:17pm

well, since no one is playing, I'll kick this off:

Best Play
should win: THE HISTORY BOYS
will win: THE HISTORY BOYS

Best Musical
should win: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
will win: THE COLOR PURPLE

Best Book of a Musical
should win: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
will win: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Best Revival of a Play
should win: AWAKE AND SING!
will win: AWAKE AND SING!

Best Revival of a Musical
should win: SWEENEY TODD
will win: SWEENEY TODD

Best Original Score
should win: None are worthy.
will win: THE COLOR PURPLE

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
should win: Richard Griffiths, THE HISTORY BOYS
will win: Richard Griffiths, THE HISTORY BOYS

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
should win: Cynthia Nixon, RABBIT HOLE
will win: Judy Kaye, SOUVENIR

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
should win: Michael Cerveris, SWEENEY TODD
will win: John Lloyd Young, JERSEY BOYS

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
should win: Patti LuPone, SWEENEY TODD
will win: Patti LuPone, SWEENEY TODD

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
should win: Samuel Barnett, THE HISTORY BOYS
will win: Ian McDiarmid, FAITH HEALER

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
should win: Frances de la Tour, THE HISTORY BOYS
will win: Tyne Daly, RABBIT HOLE

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
should win: Manoel Felciano, SWEENEY TODD
will win: Manoel Felciano, SWEENEY TODD

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
should win: Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, THE COLOR PURPLE
will win: Beth Leavel, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Best Direction of a Play
should win: THE HISTORY BOYS
will win: THE HISTORY BOYS

Best Direction of a Musical
should win: SWEENEY TODD
will win: SWEENEY TODD

Best Choreography
should win: THE PAJAMA GAME
will win: THE PAJAMA GAME

Best Orchestrations
should win: SWEENEY TODD
will win: SWEENEY TODD

Best Scenic Design of a Play
should win: RABBIT HOLE
will win: THE HISTORY BOYS

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
should win: THE COLOR PURPLE
will win: THE COLOR PURPLE

Best Costume Design of a Play
should win: SEASCAPE
will win: SEASCAPE

Best Costume Design of a Musical
should win: THE COLOR PURPLE
will win: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Best Lighting Design of a Play
should win: THREE DAYS OF RAIN
will win: AWAKE AND SING!

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
should win: SWEENEY TODD, but due to no nom., THE COLOR PURPLE
will win: TARZAN

[TimeSuckage]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 10:25pm

"maybe Jersey Boys which I enjoyed but
I really don't want a jukebox musical to ever win."

So just because it's a jukebox musical it shouldn't win? No matter how good a show it is? That's like saying no show written by ALW should ever win, or that Avenue Q and Lion King should have been shut out because some of the characters are puppets. I am so bored with this argument, and it really has no weight whatsoever. Just because the songs in Jersey Boys were not written in the last year for this particular show means it's not the best musical of the season - okey dokey. Cause the season was so stellar they had to dig really hard to round out certain categories. That sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel being scraped.

Jersey Boys is a critical and box office success story. That it's a "jukebox musical" is irrelevant.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/16/06 at 10:48pm

I really think that this year the Tony's are going to play it safe. Give Best Musical to Drowsy Chaperone, Best Actor to Michael Cervis and Best Actress to Patti LuPone

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 1:41am

My picks:

Musical
Will: The Color Purple
Should: Jersey Boys

Play
Will and Should: The History Boys

Musical Revival
Will: Sweeney Todd
Should: The Pajama Game

Play Revival
Will and Should: Awake and Sing!

Actress Musical
Will: Patti LuPone, Sweeney Todd
Should: LaChanze, The Color Purple

Actor Musical
Will and Should: John Lloyd Young, Jersey Boys

Actress Play
Will: Cynthia Nixon, Rabbit Hole
Should: Judy Kaye, Souvenir

Actor Play
Will and Should: Richard Griffiths, The History Boys

Featured Actress Musical
Will: Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone
Should: Felicia P. Fields, The Color Purple

Featured Actor Musical
Will and Should: Manoel Felciano, Sweeney Todd

Featured Actress Play
Will: Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole
Should: Jayne Houdyshell, Well

Director Play
Will and Should: Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys

Director Musical
Will and Should: John Doyle, Sweeney Todd

Choreography
Will and Should: The Pajama Game

Orchestrations
Will and Should: Sweeney Todd

Original Score
Will and Should: The Color Purple

Book
Will and Should: The Drowsy Chaperone

Scene Design Play
Will and Should: Rabbit Hole

Scene Design Musical
Will: The Color Purple
Should: Jersey Boys

Costume Play
Will and Should: Seascape

Costume Musical
Will: The Drowsy Chaperone
Should: The Color Purple

Lighting Play
Will and Should: Three Days of Rain

Lighting Musical
Will: The Color Purple
Should: Jersey Boys

And I should just add that I'm not happy at all about the Intiman winning the regional theare award. Speaking as a Seattle native, the past 5 or so years have seen the Intiman slide onto the backburner as Bartlett Sher (Intiman Artistic Director and now two-time Tony directing nominee) has become more prominent on the NY scene. His productions of classic works have been increasingly lackluster, topped off by a sad new adaptation of Three Sisters that totally misused Judy Kuhn last summer. A recent remounting of Our Town was also a mess. I feel like they're just giving the award because Sher is involved. I, however, do not mean to cast negatively on the otherwise fine work actors, designers, stage managers, etc. have done at the Intiman in recent years. If they were going to pick a Seattle theatre, I think ACT is far more deserving.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 1:55am

Best Musical
will: Jersey Boys
should: The Wedding Singer

Best Book of a Musical
should: The Wedding Singer
will: The Color Purple

Best Revival of a Musical
should: The Pajama Game
will: Sweeney Todd

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
will: Music: Matthew Sklar Lyrics: Chad Beguelin The Wedding Singer
should: Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: David Zippel The Woman in White


Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
should: Stephen Lynch, The Wedding Singer
will: John Lloyd Young, Jersey Boys


Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
will and should: La Chanze, The Color Purple


Best Direction of a Musical
will and should: Des McAnuff Jersey Boys


Best Choreography
should: Rob Ashford The Wedding Singer
will: Kathleen Marshall The Pajama Game

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 2:27am

Why would anybody in their right mind think that The Wedding Singer deserves a Tony for...anything? The show is mediocre at best. The score WILL NOT win the Best Score award, Stephen Lynch hardly deserves the Best Actor award with competitors such as Michael Cerveris, John Lloyd Young, and Bob Martin, and the book is so pedestrian I'm surprised it even got a nomination.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 2:30am

thanks for the kindness.

[holly]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 2:35am

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[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 2:42am

FoscasBohemianDream- apparently you are new to muscles unique taste of theater.

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 2:57am

Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I just don't understand why anyone would say that The Wedding Singer will win or deserves to win any of the major awards; some people might consider it mindless fun, but at least they should recognize it's a very mediocre piece of theater with a good cast. I won't criticize any further, I just felt like voicing out my comments because I was slightly bothered.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 3:17am

"apparently you are new to muscles unique taste of theater". neddy, it's very sad that you need to say what you said to feel good about yourself. TWS is nominated for best musical, so Im not the only one who enjoyed this show. And many BWW users and people in general were very happy to have seen an uplifting and entertaining musical. This show made me laugh my a** off and had a great time, if you have a problem with that or you need to make fun of me for that, it is your problem, not mine.
I just happen to try to see most musicals and keep an open mind, and on the way i find that many good shows that people that need to feel superior and think they are better than the other person next to them, never get to appreciate. Their loss.

Updated On: 5/17/06 at 03:17 AM

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 3:47am

It makes me happy that other people think that Mano will/should win, haha.

I can't give a fair opinion on who should win since I haven't seen many of this season's productions. Just came back from school, and I hopefully will be all caught up by the time of the Tonys.

~Steven

[YessicaB]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 5:09am

I agree Foscas. I saw Wedding Singer and read some of the very positive comments about it on this board and am still wondering whether I saw the same show....

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 9:46am

The Wedding Singer SHOULD NOT have been nominated for Best Musical. Honestly, the nominators felt that it was the "best" new musical still running from this season, and rather than only nominate three musicals, they decided to nominate the less-than-mediocre Wedding Singer so that there can be another musical number done on the Tony awards. They should do "It's Your Wedding Day." Maybe this will get more people, who normally wouldn't go to see theater, to come out and see the show. This will help New York City. If they had nominated a better show (such as Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life or The Woman in White - IMO), no musical number would likely have been done on the Tony's and it wouldn't help business for NYC. (not that any of these non-theater lovers watch the Tony awards anyway...so I don't know why I'm rambling on about this)

The Tony awards are all political. It never has anything to do with what is really deserving. Therefore, The Wedding Singer was nominated for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. I'll even go out on a limb and say that some of the music from In My Life was better than the dreck I heard at the Al Hirschfeld a few weeks ago. End rant.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:01am

Well, you say The Wedding Singer shouldn't have been nominated, why do you think The Pajama Game is any better than TWS? TPG is as mediocre as TWS and has a horrible score, bad acting and it's dated. Even Kathleen Marshall couldn't save that.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:03am

Anyways, one man's trash can be another man's treasure. Let's be respectful to each others favorites. Plus as far as I remember i enjoyed Chita's show more than you! still i don't think her show deserved a Tony nod, and The Woman in White is my favorite, but we have to be realistic and we all knew it wouldn't get a nod for best musical.

Updated On: 5/17/06 at 10:03 AM

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:04am

I'm surprised people actually think THE COLOR PURPLE will win Best Musical.

It's a mediocre show, in my humble opinion. JERSEY BOYS is far superior.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:11am

I thought TCP was mediocre as well, a very flawed show with a weak score. But probably just because Oprah is involved in it, people who admire her will vote for the show, because she tells her fans to do so, like she tells her audience to see her show and they do. Jersey Boys is a good show, but i still can't get over the fact it is a juke box. I don't really have a favorite between these 2 shows.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:14am

Again, this is all subject to personal opinion, but I think The Pajama Game is a well-crafted musical with an EXCELLENT score. "Steam Heat," "Hernando's Hideaway," and "Hey There" are classic hit songs that have been around for over 50 years and people know them, love them, and still sing them. I will be SHOCKED if anyone in 50 years remembers any song from The Wedding Singer. You say even Kathleen couldn't save The Pajama Game? Well I think that Kathleen Marshall's direction and choreography are what made this revival so amazing. We may both have loved The Woman in White, muscle, but let's face it: we have completely different tastes in musicals.

As far as Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life goes, no, I did not enjoy the show. But at least it had good music (The Rink, Spider Woman, Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story) and a living legend who I adore. As bad as Chita's show was, it was still better than Lennon, In My Life, Lestat, The Wedding Singer and Hot Feet, in my opinion.
Updated On: 5/17/06 at 10:14 AM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/17/06 at 10:26am

I did enjoy Chita's show and although i got bored during The Pajama Game i tried finding good things about the show, probably Kelli O'Hara's acting and singing was the best thing about it. But i think that both Pajama Game and The Wedding Singer are both fluff, colorful, funny shows and they fit the same category.