Yankee's Tony Winner Predictions, Updated

For Best Director for a musical, do you mean Barlet Sher for South Pacific, or Annie Dorsen for Passing Strange.

Other than that, great predictions.

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In The Heights will at least get Actor for Lin-Manuel Miranda, if not Best Musical. I also think it will win Best Score.

Other than that, I agree pretty much entirely.

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Not a lot of love for In the Heights in your predictions. I think, even if it's not necessarily the best show, it will win more than you think because it's so unique and "ground-breaking" (though Passing Strange is, as well; it's just not as popular...yet). At any rate, though I haven't seen South Pacific, I think Lin-Manuel Miranda will at least pull down Best Actor and one or both of Best Score/Book.

BenKaye - My bad. Meant South Pacific. I was not at all pulling a Lucille Lortel Award blunder!

Musical:
Best Musical: IN THE HEIGHTS
Best Revival: SOUTH PACIFIC
Best Actress: Patti LuPone, Gypsy OR POSSIBLE UPSET BY FAITH PRINCE
Best Actor: LIN- MANUEL MIRANDA, IN THE HEIGHTS (i would bet my arm on this)
Best Score: LIN- MANUEL MIRANDA, IN THE HEIGHTS

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Yankee, I agree with a lot, but, well, not everything...

Musical:
Best Musical: A Catered Affair
Best Revival: South Pacific
Best Actress: Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Best Actor: Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Best Featured Actress: Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Best Featured Actor: Boyd Ganes, Gypsy
Best Director: Bartlet Sher, South Pacific
Best Choreography: Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Best Book: Harvey Fierstein, A Catered Affair
Best Score: John Bucchino, A Catered Affair
Best Set Design: Michael Yeargan, South Pacific
Best Lighting Design: Donald Holder, South Pacific
Best Costume Design: Catherine Zuber, South Pacific
Best Sound Design: South Pacific (Don't have my Playbill at my desk, who did the sound?)
Best Orchestrations: Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair

Plays:
Best Play: August: Osage County
Best Revival of a Play: Top Girls
Best Actor: Norbert Leo Butz, Is He Dead?
Best Actress: Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Featured Actor: Jim Norton, The Seafarer
Best Featured Actress: Laurie Metcalf, November
Best Director: Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County
Best Set Design: Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County
Best Lighting Design: Donald Holder, Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Costume Design: Gregory Gale, Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Sound Design: Adam Cork, Macbeth

Let me say a few things about A Catered Affair- it's very good. Is it entertaining? To most, not especially. However, I found it very entertaining because it grabbed me and I became emotionally involved. Fierstein's book was quite rich and quite well written. The score was quiet, simple, elegant and rather lovely. The orchestrations made the songs sound even better. John Doyle needs to learn the word "button", but it was staged very tenderly and very well. The cast was quite exceptional, Tomy Wopat being the standout. I'm going again next week, but a friend couldn't go on Friday and gave me his ticket, so I managed to go a little earlier than expected. It met my expectations. I think the critics will eat this up. At least, I think the Times will. If you remember, Ben Brantley really loved when Light in the Piazza concentrated on Margaret and wrote a love letter to Vicki Clark. This show concentrates very much on the adults- on Faith Prince and Tom Wopat's problems. It deals with their problems, however unimportant they are to uss, expertly and movingly. I think he'll like it. I think it'll get that "money" review and I think it'll win the Tony. In the Heights, to me, was empty. Passing Strange was stupid. Xanadu was both empty and stupid. That leaves us with A Catered Affair, sweet, simple, moving, human and in a weak season for new musicals, the best of the year. Remember when musicals were about people? Hopefully this one will remind you that they were if Light in the Piazza and Grey Gardens didn't already.

Jv, putting aside your love for A Catered Affair, how can you deny the brilliance of Douglas Carter Beane's book for Xanadu.

There is a difference between what he did and what Harvey did.

Harvey was given a story that worked and continued to make it work.
Doug was given the worst movie ever, and told to make a brilliant stage musical. He turned around what was a surefire flop and made a pretty darn funny show. That book was praised by every single major critic, and he is largely considered the savior of that show.

Now, Xanadu wasn't my favorite (though I really did like it), but I could recognize the brilliance of turning that awful movie into a funny and engaging stage musical.

Beane takes the cake for me.

For the musical predictions, this is how I put it.

Best Musical: Passing Strange
Best Revival: Sunday in the Park with George
Best Actress: Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Best Actor: Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Featured Actress: Mary Testa, Xanadu
Best Featured Actor: Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
Best Director: John Doyle, A Catered Affair
Best Choreography: Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Best Book: Stew, Passing Strange
Best Score: Stew and Heidi Rosewald, Passing Strange
Best Set Design: Michael Yeargan, South Pacific
Best Lighting Design: Kevin Adams, Passing Strange
Best Costume Design: Catherine Zuber, South Pacific
Best Sound Design: Tom Morse, Passing Strange
Best Orchestrations: Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair

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I think In The Heights will walk away with Best Actor and best score

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But it's NOT. That's the problem WickedRocks.

What about the "Glory Days" factor in the predictions?
Or will it be a factor at all?

Will someone please think of the children! (and by children I mean Young Frankenstein)