the Tonys Who Will Win, Who Should Win

[edjames]

NYTimes weighs in on its picks for the awards...

 

The Tony Awards: Who Will Win (and Who Should)

 

 

By BEN BRANTLEY and CHARLES ISHERWOOD MAY 11, 2016

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  Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, the theater critics for The New York Times, make their Tony Award choices. For the Should Have Been Nominated category, the critics were allowed to expand the potential nominees to Off Broadway productions, which are ineligible for the Tonys.
  BEN BRANTLEY
  BEST MUSICAL
  WILL WIN: “Hamilton”
  SHOULD WIN: “Hamilton”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “On Your Feet!”
   
  BEST PLAY
  WILL WIN: “The Humans”
  SHOULD WIN: A tie! “The Humans” and “King Charles III”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “Hold on to Me Darling”*
   
  BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
  WILL WIN: “The Color Purple”
  SHOULD WIN: “The Color Purple”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “The Robber Bridegroom”*
   
  BEST PLAY REVIVAL
  WILL WIN: “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
  SHOULD WIN: “A View From the Bridge”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “Fool for Love”
  CHARLES ISHERWOOD
  BEST MUSICAL
  WILL WIN: “Hamilton”
  SHOULD WIN: “Hamilton”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “On Your Feet!”
   
  BEST PLAY
  WILL WIN: “The Humans”
  SHOULD WIN: “The Humans”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “Familiar”*
   
  BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
  WILL WIN: “The Color Purple”
  SHOULD WIN: “The Color Purple”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: None
   
  BEST PLAY REVIVAL
  WILL WIN: “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
  SHOULD WIN: “The Crucible”
  SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: “The Gin Game”
   
  Go to
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/theater/tony-award-winner-predictions.html
  for the full story and noms.
  

[+ Dane Scott]

I was able to get to NY in March with another Forum Member to see Disaster.

Jennifer Simard played a Nun with a gambling addiction. I have not laughed so hard like I did that night.

She has been nominated. Social media is blowing up to have her perform on the Tony's even though the show closed this weekend.

[bostonman]

I worked with Jennifer Simard some years back (ironically, she was playing a nun then, too), and I'm thrilled for her nomination. I somehow suspect she won't win (though I'm happy to see that Isherwood thinks she should win), but really excited that she was nominated.

 

I remember watching the crazy bloodbath that was the 2001 Tonys telecast, where Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick sat there figuratively masturbating as their show took every damn award. It was a question of whether the votes were going to The Producers the musical, or The Producers the hype, and the latter won. (Did it really seriously deserve every award it got, or were other shows deserving of at least some of the pie? I happen to think that The Full Monty was very deserving of even just a little attention, and I will say IMO that I enjoy listening to that score much more than I do The Producers, even though the latter does have a lot of fun numbers.)

 

I say this because as much as I am rooting for Hamilton, I really hope that the votes also acknowledge that other shows did deserving work this year. (For instance, should best scenic design really go to the rather stark but yes, effective rendering for Hamilton, or perhaps go to the much more intricate, beautiful, effective design for She Loves Me?) Is the point going to be for the Hamilton hype to cause a (gasp) record-breaking number of Tony wins, or are we going to actually celebrate the SEASON this time (with the acknowledgement that Hamilton played a big, but not exclusive, part of the season)?