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Post by theatreliker on Apr 28, 2024 9:17:46 GMT
Apologies if there's already a thread. With the Tony nominations on Tuesday here are my predictions for nominations/wins in the play/musical categories.
Original plays
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Patriots
Stereophonic (winner)
Original musicals - a crowded category this year
The Great Gatsby
Hell's Kitchen (winner)
Lempicka
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants
Play revivals
Appropriate (winner)
Doubt: A Parable
An Enemy of the People
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya
Musical revivals
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Merrily We Roll Along (winner)
The Who's Tommy
The Wiz
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Post by Mark on Apr 28, 2024 9:24:04 GMT
Not been following the plays so much this year but my thoughts are:
Musical:
Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
Suffs
The Outsiders
Here Lies Love
Musical Revival
Merrily We Roll Along
Cabaret
Tommy
Gutenberg
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 17, 2024 7:51:51 GMT
Any thoughts?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 17, 2024 7:57:45 GMT
Its hard to comment when i havent seen much.
Cabaret i was unimpressed with in London.
I did see Merrily, i wasnt impressed and so i agree with the judges regarding Freidman's direction.
I can comment negativity and subjectively!
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 17, 2024 8:22:39 GMT
Congratulations to all of the winners.
From what I saw on Twitter this morning, they all seemed to be overly excited.
There was also a lovely tribute to Chita Rivera .
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Post by Steffi on Jun 17, 2024 9:02:28 GMT
I loved The Outsiders. Very happy it won best musical. Also throught Illinoise was beautiful but it is very much a dance piece and shouldn't have been in the best musical category (in my opinion at least).
Glad Daniel Radcliffe won as for me he was the highlight of Merrily (all three leads were very good though).
I probably would have picked Maryann Plunkett over Maleah Joi Moon for lead actress in a musical. However, Maleah is wonderful in Hell's Kitchen so it's definitely a deserving win.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 17, 2024 9:21:50 GMT
Shocked and disappointed that Maria Friedman and Kelli OHara didn’t win.
What an odd year for musicals though.
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Post by theatrenerd on Jun 17, 2024 9:41:54 GMT
I absolutely loved the London production of Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne so I was only really rooting for that, however I’m not surprised that it lost out to Merrily We Roll Along (which also looks amazing) given its critical reception. I would love to see Merrily come back to London with Groff, Radcliffe and Mendez, though not sure how likely it would be considering it’s the same production from 2012.
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Post by Mark on Jun 17, 2024 9:42:17 GMT
I am absolutely thrilled that Kecia Lewis won featured actress, I said I wanted her to win from the interval at Hell's Kitchen and she won over some fierce competition. V Happy for Jonathan too.
Outsider Winning Best Musical - YES!! So happy, it was one of my favourites of my trip. It winning also means it's probably more likely to come to the UK eventually.
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Post by BVM on Jun 17, 2024 12:24:20 GMT
Tony's going for a Sondheim show and ignoring a (box office smash) UK produced one. Who on earth would have thunk!
#Groundbreaking
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 17, 2024 12:39:15 GMT
Tony's going for a Sondheim show and ignoring a (box office smash) UK produced one. Who on earth would have thunk! #Groundbreaking The UK produced one got bad reviews and the Sondheim show is literally the London revival? |
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Post by pattiaudrabernadette on Jun 17, 2024 13:00:26 GMT
Does anyone have a link to watch online? X
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Post by BVM on Jun 17, 2024 13:04:14 GMT
Tony's going for a Sondheim show and ignoring a (box office smash) UK produced one. Who on earth would have thunk! #Groundbreaking The UK produced one got bad reviews and the Sondheim show is literally the London revival? Kinda my point. On Cabaret, more or less exactly the same production was positively reviewed by UK critics and negatively by US ones. On Sondheim, the composer would often trump country of production in the hierarchy of things. (Obvs these are generalisations. Obvs there are exceptions!) |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 17, 2024 13:31:32 GMT
The UK produced one got bad reviews and the Sondheim show is literally the London revival? Kinda my point. On Cabaret, more or less exactly the same production was positively reviewed by UK critics and negatively by US ones. On Sondheim, the composer would often trump country of production in the hierarchy of things. (Obvs these are generalisations. Obvs there are exceptions!) It can work both ways: a lot of Pulitzer winning plays transfer to the UK and get lukewarm reviews, while half of the plays that won Best Play at the Tonys in the past decade are British or British imports. I think that on the whole imagining anti-British bias at the Tonys just highlights how much lower the standards are here when it comes to musicals. |
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Post by ncbears on Jun 17, 2024 14:42:09 GMT
Does anyone have a link to watch online? X Clips of performances and some speeches here: the full show does not seem to want to play for me (I'm in Oxford for a few days) www.cbs.com/shows/tony_awards/ |
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