As I was going through the 26 categories making my picks, I couldn't help but feel like I was back in high school taking one of those dreaded multiple choice tests (or as I liked to refer to them, "multiple guess" tests). For almost every category, I was really torn between two choices. Since I was forced to make only one pick for each category, I am now left feeling the same uncertainty that I always felt after those tests. And if the results are anything like my high school test results, the winner will probably be the one that I didn't choose (especially for those ones where I went back and changed my answer!).
In particular, I found the categories of Musical Revival, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical, and Score to have extremely tough match-ups. I probably changed my picks 10 times for these categories. But the good thing about tough match-ups is that it means there is a ton of talent on Broadway this year (which sadly isn't always the case).
So since the school bell is ringing, I guess it's time to put my pencil down and turn in my test. We'll find out my score on Sunday night!
Musical
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Carol King Musical
*A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Play
Act One
All the Way
Casa Valentina
*Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullinger
Musical Revival
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
*Violet
Play Revival
The Cripple of an Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
A Raisin in the Sun
*Twelfth Night
Actor (Musical)
*Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Ramin Karimloo (Les Miserables)
Andy Karl (Rocky)
Jefferson Mays (A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder)
Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder)
Actress (Musical)
Mary Bridget Davies (A Night with Janis Joplin)
Sutton Foster (Violet)
Idina Menzel (If/Then)
*Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carol King Musical)
Kelli O'Hara (The Bridges of Madison County)
Actor (Play)
Samuel Barnett (Twelfth Night)
Bryan Cranston (All the Way)
*Chris O'Dowd (Of Mice and Men)
Mark Rylance (Richard III)
Tony Shalhoub (Act One)
Actress (Play)
Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons)
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun)
Cherry Jones (The Glass Menagerie)
*Audra McDonald (Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill)
Estelle Parsons (The Velocity of Autumn)
Featured Actor (Musical)
Danny Burstein (Cabaret)
Nick Cordero (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical)
Joshua Henry (Violet)
*James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin)
Jarrod Spector (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
Featured Actress (Musical)
*Linda Emond (Cabaret)
Lena Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Anika Larsen (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
Adriane Lenox (After Midnight)
Lauren Worsham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
Featured Actor (Play)
Reed Birney (Casa Valentina)
Paul Chahidi (Twelfth Night)
Stephen Fry (Twelfth Night)
Mark Rylance (Twelfth Night)
*Brian J. Smith (The Glass Menagerie)
Featured Actress (Play)
Sarah Greene (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie)
Sophie Okonedo (A Raisin in the Sun)
*Anika Noni Rose (A Raisin in the Sun)
Mare Winningham (Casa Valentina)
Score
Aladdin (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin)
*The Bridges of Madison County (Jason Robert Brown)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman)
If/Then (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)
Book of a Musical
*Aladdin (Chad Beguelin)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Douglas McGrath)
Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical (Woody Allen)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Robert L. Freedman)
Direction (Musical)
Warren Carlyle (After Midnight)
Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Leigh Silverman (Violet)
*Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
Direction (Play)
*Tim Carroll (Twelfth Night)
Michael Grandage (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun)
John Tiffany (The Glass Menagerie)
Choreography
*Warren Carlyle (After Midnight)
Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine (Rocky)
Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin)
Susan Stroman (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical)
Orchestrations
Doug Besterman (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical)
*Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County)
Steve Sidwell (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
Jonathan Tunick (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
Scenic Design (Musical)
*Christopher Barreca (Rocky)
Julian Crouch (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Alexander Dodge (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
Santo Loquasto (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical)
Scenic Design (Play)
Beowulf Boritt (Act One)
Bob Crowley (The Glass Menagerie)
Es Devlin (Machinal)
*Christopher Oram (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Costume Design (Musical)
Linda Cho (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
William Ivey Long (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical)
*Arianne Phillips (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Isabel Toledo (After Midnight)
Costume Design (Play)
Jane Greenwood (Act One)
Michael Krass (Machinal)
Rita Ryack (Casa Valentina)
*Jenny Tiramani (Twelfth Night)
Sound Design (Musical)
Peter Hylenski (After Midnight)
Tim O'Heir (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
*Mick Potter (Les Misérables)
Brian Ronan (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
Sound Design (Play)
Alex Baranowski (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Steve Canyon Kennedy (Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill)
Dan Moses Schreier (Act One)
*Matt Tierney (Machinal)
Lighting Design (Musical)
Kevin Adams (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
*Christopher Akerlind (Rocky)
Howell Binkley (After Midnight)
Donald Holder (The Bridges of Madison County)
Lighting Design (Play)
Paule Constable (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Jane Cox (Machinal)
*Natasha Katz (The Glass Menagerie)
Japhy Weideman (Of Mice and Men)
Well, this has been fun (in an end-of-school-year-this-was-my-last-final kind of way). To make your own Tony picks, The NY Times has a great ballot you can use.
And make sure to tune in to The Tony Awards on CBS on Sunday at 8:00pm!
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