Well theater fans, it's that time of year again. The 2012-2013 Theater season is winding down. All the shows have officially opened. The reviews are in. Now it's time to wait for the Superbowl of Theater - The Tony Awards! The official nominations will be announced live on Tuesday April 30th, but to tide you over until then here are my picks for the major award categories!
Featured Actor in a play: 1) Michael Shannon Grace
2) Tony Shaloub Golden Boy
3) Daniel Stern The Other Place
4) Jeremy Shamos The Assembled Parties
5) Johnny Orsini The Nance
Honorable Mention: Courtney B. Vance Lucky Guy Danny Burstein Golden Boy
Featured Actress in a play: 1) Judith Light The Assembled Parties
2) Judith Ivey The Heiress
3) Jane HoudeyShell Dead Accounts
4) Elizabeth Marvel Picnic
5) Condola Rashad The Trip to Bountiful
Honorable Mention: Cady Hoffman The Nance,
Featured Actor in a musical: 1) Terrence Mann Pippin
2) Hunter Foster Hands on a Hard body
3) Will Chase The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4) Jim Norton The Mystery of Edwin Drood
5) Johnny Rabe A Christmas Story: The Musical
Honorable Mention: Gregory Haney, Bring it on, Andy Karl, Drood
Featured Actress in a Musical: 1) Andrea Martin Pippin
2) Annaleigh Ashford Kinky Boots
3) Ryann Redmond Bring it on
4) Jessie Mueller The Mystery of Edwin Drood
5) Victoria Clarke Cinderella
Honorable Mention: Rachel Bay Jones Pippin, Chita Rivera Drood
Lead Actor in a play: 1) Alan Cumming Macbeth
2) Douglas Hodge Cyrano
3) Nathan Lane The Nance
4) Seth Numrich Golden Boy
5) Tracy Letts Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honorable Mention: Boyd Gains An Enemy of the People, Jim Parsons, Harvey
Lead Actress in a play: 1) Holland Taylor Ann
2) Bette Midler I'll Eat You Last
3) Fiona Shaw The Testament of Mary
4) Laurie Metcalf The Other Place
5) Amy Morton Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honorable Mention: Scarlet Johannson Cat on a hot tin roof, Christine Neilson and Sigourney Weaver Vanya, and Sonja, and Masha, and Spike
Lead Actor in a Musical: 1) Bertie Carvel Matilda
2) Billy Porter Kinky Boots
3) Rob McClure Chaplin
4) Anthony Warlow Annie
5) Stark Sands Kinky Boots
Honorable Mention: Matthew James Thomas Pippin, Santina Fontana Cinderella
Lead Actress in a musical: 1) Patina Miller Pippin
2) Laura Osnes Cinderella
3) Stephanie J. Block The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4) Lilla Crawford Annie
5) Carolee Carmello, Scandalous
Honorable Mention: Adrienne Warren Bring it on, Erin Dilly A Christmas Story
Choreography: 1) Chet Walker and Gypsy Snyder Pippin
2) Warren Carlyle The Mystery of Edwin Drood
3) Patricia Wilcox Motown: The Musical
4) Peter Darling Matilda
5) Jerry Mitchel Kinky Boots
Honorable Mention: Sergio Trujillo Hands on a hard body, Warren Carlyle Chaplin, Andy Blankenbueler Bring it on
Director of a play: 1) Jack O'Brien, The Nance
2) Nicholas Martin Vanya, and Sonja, and Masha, and Spike
3) Barlett Sher Golden Boy
4) Joe Mantello, The Other Place
5) Pam McKinnon, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honorable Mention: George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy, Jamie Lloyd Cyrano
Director of a musical: 1) Diane Paulus Pippin
2) Matthew Warchus Matilda
3) Jerry Mitchel Kinky Boots
4) Neil Pepe Hands on a hard body
5) Scott Ellis The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Honorable Mention: Mark Brokaw Cinderella, John Rando A Christmas Story
Book of a Musical: 1) Dennis Kelly Matilda
2) Harvey Fierstein Kinky Boots
3) Doug Wright Hands on a hard body
4) Douglas Carter Beane Cinderella
5) Joseph Robinette A Christmas Story: The Musical
Honorable Mention: Jeff Whitty, Bring it on
Original Score: 1) Tim Minchin Matilda
2) Cyndi Lauper Kinky Boots
3) Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio Hands on a hard body
4) Benj Pasek and Justin Paul A Christmas Story: The Musical
5) Tom Kitt, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Amanda Green Bring it on
Honorable Mention: Christopher Curtis Chaplin
Revival of a play: 1) The Trip to Bountiful
2) Macbeth
3) Golden Boy
4) Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honorable Mention: Harvey, Cyrano
Revival of a Musical: 1) Pippin
2) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
3) Cinderella
Honorable Mention: None - the other two shows don't deserve to be nominated.
New Play: 1) The Other Place, by Sharr White
2) The Nance, by Douglas Carter Beane
3) Vanya and Sonja and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
4) The Assembled Parties, by Richard Greenberg
Honorable Mention: Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck, Ann by Holland Taylor
New Musical: 1) Matilda
2) Kinky Boots
3) Hands on a hard body
4) A Christmas Story: The Musical
Honorable Mention: Bring it on
There you have it folks! These are the performances and shows that I would nominate if it were all up to me (which clearly it is not!) Do you disagree? Which performances would you swap? Tune in tomorrow for my reactions to the actual award noms!
Sutton Foster and Jessie Tyler Ferguson will be announcing the nominations live from Lincoln Center tomorrow morning!
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