SubscribeExperts predict who'll win the Tonys
Here's the first, early round of predix from some Tony Awards experts: Melissa Bernardo (Entertainment Weekly), Martin Denton (NYTheatre.com), Robert Diamond (BroadwayWorld.com), Elysa Gardner (USA Today), Susan Haskins ("Theater Talk"), Leonard Jacobs (Back Stage), Brian Lipton (TheaterMania.com), Tom O'Neil 
(TheEnvelope.com), Tony Phillips (Edge Publications),
Michael Riedel (New York Post / "Theater Talk"), David Sheward (Back Stage), Paul Sheehan (TheEnvelope.com), Matt Windman (AM New York) and Linda Winer (Newsday). We'll add to this breakdown as more pundits chime in.
BEST PLAY
"August: Osage County" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
BEST MUSICAL
"In the Heights" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
"Passing Strange" - Haskins, Riedel
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
"In the Heights" - Denton, Diamond, Gardner, O'Neil, Sheward, Winer
"Passing Strange" - Bernardo, Winer
"Xanadu" - Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, Phillips, Sheehan, Windman
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
"In the Heights" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
"Passing Strange" - Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Riedel
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
"Boeing-Boeing" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Jacobs, Lipton, Riedel, Sheward, Windman, Winer
"The Homecoming" - Gardner, Phillips
"Macbeth" - Haskins, O'Neil, Sheehan
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
"Gypsy" - Phillips
"South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY
Laurence Fishburne, "Thurgood" - Phillips
Mark Rylance, "Boeing-Boeing" - Jacobs, Riedel, Windman
Rufus Sewell, "Rock 'n' Roll" - Gardner
Patrick Stewart, "Macbeth" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Haskins, Lipton, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward, Winer
BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Deanna Dunagan, "August: Osage County" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Lin-Manuel Miranda, "In the Heights" - Windman
Paulo Szot, " South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Winer
BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Patti LuPone, "Gypsy" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Raúl Esparza, "The Homecoming" - Bernardo, Diamond, Gardner, Lipton, O'Neil, Winer
Conleth Hill, "The Seafarer" - Haskins
Jim Norton, "The Seafarer" - Denton, Jacobs, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
David Pittu, "Is He Dead?" - Riedel
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Sinead Cusack, "Rock ’n’ Roll&" - Phillips
Mary McCormack, "Boeing-Boeing" - Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
Martha Plimpton, "Top Girls" - Bernardo, Gardner, Jacobs, Winer
Rondi Reed, "August: Osage County" - Diamond, Haskins, Lipton
Laurie Metcalfe, "November " - Denton
BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein, "South Pacific" - Riedel
Christopher Fitzgerald, "Young Frankenstein" - Jacobs
Boyd Gaines, "Gypsy" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Laura Benanti, "Gypsy" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Riedel, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
Olga Merediz, "In the Heights" - Haskins
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Anna D. Shapiro, "August: Osage County" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Jacobs, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
Maria Aitken, "The 39 Steps" Haskins
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Bartlett Sher, "South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
Arthur Laurents, "Gypsy" - Phillips
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
"Cry-Baby" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil
"In the Heights" - Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer "South Pacific"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
"Sunday in the Park with George" - Gardner, Sheward
"South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Phillips, Sheehan, Windman, Winer
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
"August: Osage County" - Denton,
"The 39 Steps" - Bernardo, Diamond, Lipton, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
"Macbeth" - Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Winer
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
"Sunday in the Park with George" - Gardner, Winer
"South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward Windman
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
"A Catered Affair" - Phillips
"In the Heights" - Diamond, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
"Passing Strange" - Bernardo, Denton, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
"August: Osage County" - Bernardo, Denton, Diamond, Haskins, Lipton, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
"Les Liaisons Dangereuse" - Phillips, Winer
"Macbeth" - Gardner, Jacobs
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
"Sunday in the Park with George" - Diamond, Gardner, Lipton, Winer
"South Pacific" - Bernardo, Denton, Haskins, Jacobs, O'Neil, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman
"Young Frankenstein" - Phillips
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
"Macbeth" - Haskins, Jacobs, Sheward, Windman, Winer
"Rock 'n' Roll" - Denton, Diamond, Gardner, Lipton
"The 39 Steps" - Bernardo, Sheehan
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
"In the Heights" - Denton
"South Pacific" - Bernardo, Diamond, Gardner, Haskins, Jacobs, Lipton, Sheehan, Sheward, Windman, Winer
(Photo: Richard Rodgers Theater)
To make the Tony's much more main-stream, why doesn't someone create a Theatre-TV network. Broadcast the Tony winning award plays (after the Tony's of course) so Americans would know who the hell these people-actors are. I mean outside of New York, a stage actor's popularity is...well it "isn't".
Posted by: robinia | June 15, 2008 at 08:49 AM
why would lohan submit her name to the emmys? she literally had about three lines and about thirty seconds of air time.
Posted by: len | June 13, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Funny, I'm a voter, and a lot of these don't remotely reflect my votes. But then I think there are some missing nominations -- James Earl Jones, Sally Murphy, Jeff Perry, Ian McShane, Claire Danes, John Bucchino ...
Posted by: J | May 15, 2008 at 01:08 PM