The Tony Awards are on Sunday. Oscar’s Shm-oscar’s its about showtunes and set design all the way baby.
My predictions for how the evenings going to go:
Best Play: War Horse (But if Jerusalem won I would not be surprised…)
Best Musical: Book of Mormon
Best Book of a Musical: Book of Mormon
Best Original Score: Book of Mormon (seeing a pattern? :P)
Best Revival of a Play: The Normal Heart
Best Revival of a Musical: Anything Goes
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Mark Rylance
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Frances McDormand
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Norbert Leo Butz (Even though they should give it to the Mormon’s)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Sutton Foster (duh.)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: John Benjamin Hickey
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Ellen Barkin
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Rory O’Malley (I’m secretly rooting for John Laroquette though…)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Laura Benanti
Best Direction of a Play: Joel Grey
Best Direction of a Musical: Trey Parker/Casey Nicholaw
Best Choreography: Kathleen Marshall