[Discussion 1]
Every so often I will post a little topic that we all may have a good discussion about, and with the upcoming Tonys I happened upon a perfect topic. who deserves the Tony? basically just comment don't post new threads please, to this thread with who you think should win in each catogory.
Best Play
Anna in the Tropics
Author: Nilo Cruz
Producer: Roger Berlind, Daryl Roth, Ray Larsen, Robert G. Bartner,
The McCarter Theatre Center
Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producer: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler,
John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos & Jeffrey Sine, Roy
Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy & Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers,
Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert
I Am My Own Wife
Author: Doug Wright
Producer: Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons
The Retreat from Moscow
Author: William Nicholson
Producer: Susan Quint Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ron Kastner, True Love
Productions,
Mary Lu Roffe, Jam Theatricals
Best Musical
Avenue Q
Producer: Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard
Theatre, The New Group
Caroline, or Change
Producer: Carole Shorenstein Hays, HBO Films, Jujamcyn Theaters,
Freddy DeMann,
Scott Rudin, Hendel/Morten/Wiesenfeld, Bergére/Fox
Theatricals/Manocherian, Roger Berlind, Clear Channel Entertainment, Joan Cullman, Greg
Holland/Scott Nederlander,
Margo Lion, Daryl Roth, Zollo/Sine, The Public Theater
The Boy from Oz
Producer: Ben Gannon, Robert Fox
Wicked
Producer: Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B.
Platt, David Stone
Best Book of a Musical
Avenue Q
Book: Jeff Whitty
Caroline, or Change
Book: Tony Kushner
The Boy from Oz
Book: Martin Sherman; Original Book: Nick Enright
Wicked
Book: Winnie Holzman
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Avenue Q
Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Caroline, or Change
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics: Tony Kushner
Taboo
Music & Lyrics: Boy George
Wicked
Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
Best Revival of a Play
Henry IV
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten
Jumpers
Producer: Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations Inc.,
Freddy DeMann,
Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, Arielle Tepper, The National
Theatre of Great Britain
King Lear
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten,
Stratford Festival of Canada
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh,
Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia
Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Best Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy
Big River
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy,
Deaf West Theatre, Ed Waterstreet, Bill O'Brien, Center Theatre
Group/Mark Taper Forum
Fiddler on the Roof
Producer: James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Harbor
Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett/Lawrence Horowitz, Clear
Channel Entertainment
Wonderful Town
Producer: Roger Berlind, Barry and Fran Weissler, Edwin W. Schloss,
Allen Spivak,
Clear Channel Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers
Kevin Kline, Henry IV
Frank Langella, Match
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife
Christopher Plummer, King Lear
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Tovah Feldshuh, Golda's Balcony
Anne Heche, Twentieth Century
Swoosie Kurtz, Frozen
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Hunter Foster, Little Shop of Horrors
Hugh Jackman, The Boy from Oz
Alfred Molina, Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton, Taboo
John Tartaglia, Avenue Q
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked
Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Donna Murphy, Wonderful Town
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Tom Aldredge, Twentieth Century
Ben Chaplin, The Retreat from Moscow
Aidan Gillen, The Caretaker
Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded
Brían F. O'Byrne, Frozen
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Essie Davis, Jumpers
Sanaa Lathan, A Raisin in the Sun
Margo Martindale, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anna in the Tropics
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
John Cariani, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Cerveris, Assassins
Raúl Esparza, Taboo
Michael McElroy, Big River
Denis O'Hare, Assassins
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Beth Fowler, The Boy from Oz
Isabel Keating, The Boy from Oz
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Jennifer Westfeldt, Wonderful Town
Karen Ziemba, Never Gonna Dance
Best Scenic Design
Robert Brill, Assassins
Ralph Funicello, Henry IV
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Tom Pye, Fiddler on the Roof
Best Costume Design
Jess Goldstein, Henry IV
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce, Taboo
Mark Thompson, Bombay Dreams
Best Lighting Design
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Assassins
Brian MacDevitt, Fiddler on the Roof
Brian MacDevitt, Henry IV
Kenneth Posner, Wicked
Best Direction of a Play
Doug Hughes, Frozen
Moises Kaufman, I Am My Own Wife
David Leveaux, Jumpers
Jack O'Brien, Henry IV
Best Direction of a Musical
Joe Mantello, Assassins
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jason Moore, Avenue Q
George C. Wolfe, Caroline, or Change
Best Choreography
Wayne Cilento, Wicked
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan, Bombay Dreams
Best Orchestrations
Paul Bogaev, Bombay Dreams
William David Brohn, Wicked
Larry Hochman, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Starobin, Assassins
Best Play
Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producer: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler,
John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos & Jeffrey Sine, Roy
Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy & Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers,
Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert
Best Musical
Avenue Q
Producer: Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard
Theatre, The New Group
Best Book of a Musical
Wicked
Book: Winnie Holzman
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Avenue Q
Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Best Revival of a Play
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh,
Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia
Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Best Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Christopher Plummer, King Lear
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
John Tartaglia, Avenue Q
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Essie Davis, Jumpers
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Denis O'Hare, Assassins
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Best Scenic Design
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Best Costume Design
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Best Lighting Design
Kenneth Posner, Wicked
Best Direction of a Play
Doug Hughes, Frozen
Best Direction of a Musical
Jason Moore, Avenue Q
Best Choreography
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Best Orchestrations
Michael Starobin, Assassins
Best Play
Anna in the Tropics
Author: Nilo Cruz
Producer: Roger Berlind, Daryl Roth, Ray Larsen, Robert G. Bartner,
The McCarter Theatre Center
Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producer: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler,
John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos & Jeffrey Sine, Roy
Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy & Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers,
Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert
I Am My Own Wife
Author: Doug Wright
Producer: Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons
The Retreat from Moscow
Author: William Nicholson
Producer: Susan Quint Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ron Kastner, True Love
Productions,
Mary Lu Roffe, Jam Theatricals
Best Musical
Avenue Q
Producer: Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard
Theatre, The New Group
Caroline, or Change
Producer: Carole Shorenstein Hays, HBO Films, Jujamcyn Theaters,
Freddy DeMann,
Scott Rudin, Hendel/Morten/Wiesenfeld, Bergére/Fox
Theatricals/Manocherian, Roger Berlind, Clear Channel Entertainment, Joan Cullman, Greg
Holland/Scott Nederlander,
Margo Lion, Daryl Roth, Zollo/Sine, The Public Theater
The Boy from Oz
Producer: Ben Gannon, Robert Fox
Wicked
Producer: Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B.
Platt, David Stone
Best Book of a Musical
Avenue Q
Book: Jeff Whitty
Caroline, or Change
Book: Tony Kushner
The Boy from Oz
Book: Martin Sherman; Original Book: Nick Enright
Wicked
Book: Winnie Holzman
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Avenue Q
Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Caroline, or Change
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics: Tony Kushner
Taboo
Music & Lyrics: Boy George
Wicked
Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
Best Revival of a Play
Henry IV
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten
Jumpers
Producer: Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations Inc.,
Freddy DeMann,
Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, Arielle Tepper, The National
Theatre of Great Britain
King Lear
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten,
Stratford Festival of Canada
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh,
Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia
Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Best Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy
Big River
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy,
Deaf West Theatre, Ed Waterstreet, Bill O'Brien, Center Theatre
Group/Mark Taper Forum
Fiddler on the Roof
Producer: James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Harbor
Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett/Lawrence Horowitz, Clear
Channel Entertainment
Wonderful Town
Producer: Roger Berlind, Barry and Fran Weissler, Edwin W. Schloss,
Allen Spivak,
Clear Channel Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers
Kevin Kline, Henry IV
Frank Langella, Match
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife
Christopher Plummer, King Lear
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Tovah Feldshuh, Golda's Balcony
Anne Heche, Twentieth Century
Swoosie Kurtz, Frozen
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Hunter Foster, Little Shop of Horrors
Hugh Jackman, The Boy from Oz
Alfred Molina, Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton, Taboo
John Tartaglia, Avenue Q
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked
Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Donna Murphy, Wonderful Town
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Tom Aldredge, Twentieth Century
Ben Chaplin, The Retreat from Moscow
Aidan Gillen, The Caretaker
Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded
Brían F. O'Byrne, Frozen
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Essie Davis, Jumpers
Sanaa Lathan, A Raisin in the Sun
Margo Martindale, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anna in the Tropics
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
John Cariani, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Cerveris, Assassins
Raúl Esparza, Taboo
Michael McElroy, Big River
Denis O'Hare, Assassins
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Beth Fowler, The Boy from Oz
Isabel Keating, The Boy from Oz
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Jennifer Westfeldt, Wonderful Town
Karen Ziemba, Never Gonna Dance
Best Scenic Design
Robert Brill, Assassins
Ralph Funicello, Henry IV
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Tom Pye, Fiddler on the Roof
Best Costume Design
Jess Goldstein, Henry IV
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce, Taboo
Mark Thompson, Bombay Dreams
Best Lighting Design
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Assassins
Brian MacDevitt, Fiddler on the Roof
Brian MacDevitt, Henry IV
Kenneth Posner, Wicked
Best Direction of a Play
Doug Hughes, Frozen
Moises Kaufman, I Am My Own Wife
David Leveaux, Jumpers
Jack O'Brien, Henry IV
Best Direction of a Musical
Joe Mantello, Assassins
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jason Moore, Avenue Q
George C. Wolfe, Caroline, or Change
Best Choreography
Wayne Cilento, Wicked
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan, Bombay Dreams
Best Orchestrations
Paul Bogaev, Bombay Dreams
William David Brohn, Wicked
Larry Hochman, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Starobin, Assassins
Best Play
Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producer: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler,
John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos & Jeffrey Sine, Roy
Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy & Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers,
Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert
Best Musical
Avenue Q
Producer: Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard
Theatre, The New Group
Best Book of a Musical
Wicked
Book: Winnie Holzman
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Avenue Q
Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Best Revival of a Play
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh,
Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia
Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Best Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard,
Julia C. Levy
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Christopher Plummer, King Lear
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
John Tartaglia, Avenue Q
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Essie Davis, Jumpers
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Denis O'Hare, Assassins
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Best Scenic Design
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Best Costume Design
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Best Lighting Design
Kenneth Posner, Wicked
Best Direction of a Play
Doug Hughes, Frozen
Best Direction of a Musical
Jason Moore, Avenue Q
Best Choreography
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Best Orchestrations
Michael Starobin, Assassins