Last-Minute Tony Talk & Predictions
May 16th, 2006TONY nominations are less than nine hours away!
Playbill.com’s Andrew Gans states that one of the most highly anticipated days of the American theatrical season is the announcement of the Tony Award nominations, the annual event that occurs about a month prior to the actual awards ceremony.
This season’s nominees will be announced at TODAY at 8:45 AM ET at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Bruno Walter Auditorium. Actors Phylicia Rashad, Natasha Richardson and Liev Schreiber, who have all won Tony Awards, will announce the 2006 nominees, which will be broadcast live on NY 1.
The History Boys, Jersey Boys and The Drowsy Chaperone seem poised to garner several nominations. All three shows have fared well in the season’s other awards races: History Boys and Jersey Boys were named Outstanding Play and Musical, respectively, by the Outer Critics Circle, and Drowsy Chaperone nabbed four awards from that organization. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named History Boys and Drowsy Chaperone as winners of Best Play and Best Musical of the 2005-2006 season, and History Boys and Jersey Boys won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play and Musical.
More Predictions?
The Scotsman.com tells readers to expect to see The History Boys, Jersey Boys” and The Drowsy Chaperone showing up often in the list. The Palmbeachpost.com says probably those first two will be nominated for the all-important Best Musical Tony, but the real race will be between a jukebox musical called Jersey Boys and the only show this season not based on existing material, The Drowsy Chaperone. Recent jukebox shows drawn from the songs of John Lennon, The Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach and Johnny Cash have given this lazy genre a bad name, but Jersey Boys – the hit-stuffed biography of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – demonstrates how to do it right.
