Some Like It Hot (c) Marc J. Franklin
It is way too early to talk Tony Predictions. I know. But award shows are my sporting events, and I’m sure baseball fans are already talking about which teams will make it to the world series already and yet the season is only a week old. There are a lot of shows which haven’t even opened yet to make the cutoff date of April 27. But let’s see where we’re at based on reactions: on- off- and regionally.
Crazy that this season, which started on May 4, will have had productions of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning works running sometime during the season. Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, Death of a Salesman, Fat Ham, The Piano Lesson and Topdog/Underdog all had productions on Broadway while we had holdovers like Hamilton, How I Learned to Drive, The Skin of Our Teeth and A Strange Loop from previous seasons. And if we add Off-Broadway in the mix – we also had Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Delicate Balance.
So, here are my prediction (and two possibilities) in each of the major categories for early April. And I will, of course, send out my predictions once all the productions have opened.
The Interested Bystander’s 2022-23 Tony Award Nomination Predictions
Leopoldstadt (c) Joan Marcus
Best Play
Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
Fat Ham by James Ijames
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Summer, 1976 by David Auburn
Good Night, Oscar by Doug Wright
The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse
Best Musical
& Juliet
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Kimberly Akimbo
New York, New York
Some Like It Hot
Almost Famous
Shucked
Play Revival
Death of a Salesman
A Doll’s House
Ohio State Murders
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Topdog/Underdog
The Piano Lesson
Parade (c) Joan Marcus
Musical Revival
Camelot
Dancin’
Into the Woods
Parade
Sweeney Todd
1776
Actor in a Play
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – Topdog/Underdog
Corey Hawkins – Topdog/Underdog
Stephen McKinley Henderson – Between Riverside and Crazy
Jefferson Mays – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Wendell Pierce – Death of a Salesman
Sean Hayes – Good Night, Oscar
Oscar Isaac – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Actress in a Play
Jessica Chastain – A Doll’s House
Jodie Comer – Prima Facie
Jessica Hecht – Summer, 1976
Laura Linney – Summer, 1976
Audra McDonald – Ohio State Murders
Rachel Brosnahan – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Zoe Wanamaker – Pictures From Home
Ain't No Mo' - Joan Marcus
Featured Actor in a Play
Jordan E. Cooper – Ain’t No Mo’
Samuel L. Jackson – The Piano Lesson
Gregg Mozgala – Cost of Living
Seth Numrich – Leopoldtstadt
Brandon Uranowitz – Leopoldtstadt
Julian De Niro – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Arian Moayed – A Doll’s House
Featured Actress in a Play
Faye Castelow – Leopoldstadt
Sharon D Clarke – Death of a Salesman
Crystal Lucas-Perry – Ain’t No Mo’
Miriam Silverman – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Katy Sullivan – Cost of Living
Emily Bergl – Good Night, Oscar
Kara Young – Cost of Living
Actor in a Musical
Christian Borle – Some Like it Hot
Andrew Burnap – Camelot
J. Harrison Ghee – Some Like it Hot
Josh Groban – Sweeney Todd
Ben Platt – Parade
Colton Ryan – New York – New York
Will Swenson – A Beautiful Noise
Actress in a Musical
Annaleigh Ashford – Sweeney Todd
Sara Bareilles – Into the Woods
Victoria Clark – Kimberly Akimbo
Micaela Diamond – Parade
Phillipa Soo – Camelot
Adrianna Hicks – Some Like it Hot
Crystal Lucas-Perry – 1776
Featured Actor in a Musical
Justin Cooley – Kimberly Akimbo
Kevin Del Aguila – Some Like it Hot
Jordan Donica – Camelot
Kennedy Kanagawa – Into the Woods
Gaten Matarazzo – Sweeney Todd
Gavin Creel – Into the Woods
Zachary Noah Piser – KPOP
& Juliet (c) Matthew Murphy
Featured Actress in a Musical
Bonnie Milligan – Kimberly Akimbo
Patrena Murray – 1776
NaTasha Yvette Williams – Some Like it Hot
Betsy Wolfe – & Juliet
Carolee Carmello – Bad Cinderella
Alli Mauzey – Kimberly Akimbo
Director of a Play
Saheem Ali – Fat Ham
Michael Arden – Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Patrick Marber – Leopoldstadt
Justin Martin – Prima Facie
Max Webster – The Life of Pi
Jo Bonney – Cost of Living
Anne Kauffman – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
1776 (c) Joan Marcus
Director of a Musical
Michael Arden – Parade
Thomas Kail – Sweeney Todd
Casey Nicholaw – Some Like It Hot
Jessica Stone – Kimberly Akimbo
Susan Stroman – New York – New York
Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus – 1776
Bartlett Sher – Camelot
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