It's Tony Time!!!!

Here come the Tony Awards: June 13, CBS, 8pm (Always a nice birthday present)

This season has truly been lackluster, what with two of the best revivals having been closed only a few months after they openend, and I'm not all that into the results but it's worth a gander. I've marked my HOPE for the winner (*) and my prediction for what will win (!) And the Nomiees Are:

BEST MUSICAL
American Idiot
Fela!*
Memphis!
Million Dollar Quartet

BEST PLAY
In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Next Fall*
Red! (I haven't seen this yet, but have heard great things.)
Time Stands Still

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Finian's Rainbow
La Cage aux Folles!
A Little Night Music
Ragtime*

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Fences!*
Lend Me a Tenor
The Royal Family
A View From the Bridge

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Everyday Rapture, Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott
Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones *
Memphis, Joe DiPietro !
Million Dollar Quartet, Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATER
Note: TWO of these shows are NOT musicals!
The Addams Family, Music and Lyrics: Andrew Lippa
Enron, Music: Adam Cork, Lyrics: Lucy Prebble
Fences, Music: Branford Marsalis
Memphis, Music: David Bryan, Lyrics: Joe DiPietro and David Bryan!*

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Jude Law, Hamlet
Alfred Molina, Red*
Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge
Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington, Fences!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Viola Davis, Fences
Valerie Harper, Looped*
Linda Lavin, Collected Stories
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Kelsey Grammer, La Cage aux Folles
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles!
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!*

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Kate Baldwin, Finian's Rainbow
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Montego Glover, Memphis
Christiane Noll, Ragtime*
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
David Alan Grier, Race
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences
Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts*
Stephen Kunken, Enron
Eddie Redmayne, Red!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family
Jessica Hecht, A View From the Bridge
Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge!
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor*

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Robin De Jesus, La Cage aux Folles
Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian's Rainbow
Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet
Bobby Steggert, Ragtime***** (Please: this is the only one I care about!)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises*
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music!
Karine Plantadit, Come Fly Away
Lilias White, Fela!

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Michael Grandage, Red!*
Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall
Kenny Leon, Fences
Gregory Mosher, A View From the Bridge

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Christopher Ashley, Memphis
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime*
Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Bill T. Jones, Fela!!

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises
Bill T. Jones, Fela*
Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles!
Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away

I have chosen not to include some of the tech awards for simplicity sake. Let see how many I get.