Oy, this is not a good year for sticking one’s neck out and predicting the Tony winners this Sunday evening (8 p.m., CBS-TV).
There are no front-runners, like The Book of Mormon, which won in every category in which it was nominated and pundits could look prescient. I’m thinking the honors are going to be spread around so that all shows can have bragging rights and a chance at surviving the summer. Well, not all shows. (Yes, I’m looking at you, Velocity of Autumn.)
So don’t write back and rub it in about how many I got wrong, OK? And do not dismiss the notion that it is the Tony voters who got it wrong.
Here are my predictions:
Play: All the Way
Musical: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Book, Musical: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Score: The Bridges of Madison County
Revival, Play: The Glass Menagerie
Revival, Musical: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Actor, Play: Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Actress, Play: Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Actor, Musical: Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Actress, Musical: Jessie Mueller, Beautiful
Featured Actor, Play: Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night
Featured Actress, Play: Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
Featured Actor, Musical: James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
Featured Actress, Musical: Adriane Lenox, After Midnight
Scenic Design, Play: Act One
Scenic Design, Musical: Rocky
Costume Design, Play: Casa Valentina
Costume Design, Musical: Bullets Over Broadway
Lighting Design, Play: The Glass Menagerie
Lighting Design, Musical: After Midnight
Sound Design, Play: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Sound Design, Musical: Les Misérables
Direction, Play: Twelfth Night
Direction, Musical: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Choreography: After Midnight
Orchestrations: The Bridges of Madison County