Saturday, June 14, 2008

Tony Predix!

Best Play: August: Osage County
Best Musical: Passing Strange (alt. In the Heights)
Best Book of a Musical: Xanadu (alt. In the Heights)
Best Score of a Musical: In the Heights (alt. Passing Strange)
Best Revival of a Play: Boeing-Boeing (alt. Macbeth)
Best Revival of a Musical: South Pacific (alt. Gypsy)
Best Lead Actor in a Play: Mark Rylance - Boeing-Boeing (alt. Patrick Stewart - Macbeth)
Best Lead Actress in a Play: Deanna Dougan - August: Osage County (alt. Kate Fleetwood - Macbeth)
Best Lead Actor in a Musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda - In the Heights (alt. Paulo Szot - South Pacific)
Best Lead Actress in a Musical: Patti LuPone - Gypsy (alt. Kelli O'Hara - South Pacific, ugh, Kelli O'Hara is the Anne Hathaway of Broadway. Beautiful voice, incapable of acting.)
Best Featured Actor in a Play: Raul Esparza - The Homecoming (alt. Jim Norton - The Seafarer) (c'mon Raul! I don't care that it's a make-up award!)
Best Featured Actress in a Play: Rondi Reed - August: Osage County (alt. Mary McCormack - Boeing-Boeing)
Best Featured Actor in a Musical: Danny Burstein - South Pacific (alt. Robin de Jesus - In the Heights)
Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Laura Benanti - Gypsy (alt. Andrea Martin - Young Frankenstein)
Best Direction of a Play: Anna D. Shapiro - August: Osage County (alt. Matthew Warchus - Boeing-Boeing)
Best Direction of a Musical: Bartlett Sher - South Pacific (alt. Arthur Laurents - Gypsy)

So, basically, it'll be an orgy of love for August: Osage County, and I actually won't want to kill myself with the acting winners this year... hopefully. Patti, Raul, and Laura are three of my favorite Broadway actors. I haven't seen anything aside from Gypsy and Sunday in the Park with George, so I can't really speak to preferences.