After the Tony's last year, I was dead set on seeing every show the next year so I can have an "informed" opinion when I watch the next years broadcast.And while I didn't see every show, I was able to see a vast majority, and have a pretty good sense of the season as a whole. So below are my predictions for the 2008 Tony Awards as well as those who I think should win, but maybe won't. Well... come June 15th we'll see how right or wrong I was.
Choreography
- Andy Blankenbuehler - In The Heights will win...
- Rob Ashford - Cry-Baby should win...
Orchestrations
- Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman - In The Heights will win..
- Jonathan Tunick - A Catered Affair should win...
Book of a Musical
- Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane should and will win...
- A Catered Affair should have been nominated...
Original Score
- In The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda will win...
- Passing Strange, Stew and Heidi Rodewld should win...
- A Catered Affair should have been nominated over The Little Mermaid.
Scenic Design (Play)
- Anthony Ward, Macbeth will win...
- Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County should win...
Scenic Design (Musical)
- David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park with George should and will win...
Costume Design (Play)
- Katrina Lindsay, Les Liaisons Dangereuses will win...
- Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps should win...
Costume Design (Musical)
- Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will win...
- David Farley, Sunday in the Park with George should win...
Lighting Design (Play)
- Kevin Adams - Macbeth should and will win...
Lighting Design (Musical)
- Donald Holder, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will win...
- Howell Binkley, In The Heights should win...
Sound Design (Play)*
- Adam Cork, Macbeth should and will win...
Sound Design (Musical)*
- Acme Sound Partners, In The Heights will win...
- Sebastian Frost, Sunday in the Park with George should win...
Direction (Play)
- Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County will win...
- Maria Aitken, The 39 Steps should win...
Direction (Musical)
- Arthur Laurents, Gypsy will win...
- Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park with George should win...
Featured Actor (Play)
- Raul Esparza, The Homecoming will win...
- David Pittu, Is He Dead? should win...
Featured Actress (Play)
- Rondi Reed, August: Osage County will win...
- Sinead Cusack, Rock 'n' Roll should win...
Featured Actor (Musical)
- Boyd Gaines, Gypsy will win...
- Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange should win...
Featured Actress (Musical)
- Laura Benanti, Gypsy will win...
- Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein should win...
Actor (Play)
- Patrick Stewart, Macbeth should and will win...
Actress (Play)
- Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County will win...
- Amy Morton, August: Osage County or Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth should win...
Actor (Musical)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights will win...
- Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair should win...
Actress (Musical)
- Patti Lupone, Gypsy will win...
- Faith Prince, A Catered Affair should win...
Play Revival
- Boeing-Boeing will win...
- Macbeth should win...
Musical Revival
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific and Gypsy should both win... it's too close to say...
Play
- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts should and will win...
Musical
- In The Heights will win...
- Passing Strange should win...
- A Catered Affair should have been nominated in place of Cry-Baby.
*first year award is being given out.
Anyone out there agree or disagree?
4 comments:
Hi!
Only six days ‘til the Tony Awards! That gives you approximately 144 hours to place bets, bake award-shaped sheet cakes and get that seven layer dip recipe from your Aunt Margaret (I’m only assuming you have an Aunt Margaret)!
Anyway!
Just wanted to give a heads up to Tony junkies that we’ll actually be live-blogging from the event on Sunday (we’re excited!).
Also, we’ve posted a ton of videos so you can meet the nominees and see clips of the shows nominated before flipping on the television Sunday night. This afternoon, Best Play will be posted as our final installment. Just head on over to http://mybroadway.com/ and tap the “channels” button!
See you on Sunday!
Mybroadway.com
What kind of spammers do you have commenting on your blog? All aside, I was surprised by the number of "should-haves" you gave to Sunday. Maybe we saw it too long ago, but it's just not embossed in my memory as a great theatrical experience. I was happy to see your write-in choices for A Catered Affair. So artistically better than most... Poor Harvey. He can console himself with Mrs. Doubtfire residual checks from TBS
candrus68, you're right. For not liking SITPWG, I sure did give it a lot of "should" wins... but most of those are for technical stuff, which I did gush over. The one for direction of a musical I believe should be deserved because with this show, he was able to make people see it in a whole new light without changing a single word. That is pretty great. That said... still didn't like it :)
Oh... and I'll be watching Mrs. Doubtfire on TBS in support of Harvey. I hope everyone else does too.
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