Though the official Tony Awards nominations aren’t scheduled to be announced until Thursday, I give you my unofficial ones right now. If it were up to me, these would be the nominees.
They include some, marked with an asterisk, that because they were seen Off Broadway or were otherwise ineligible, the real Tonys won’t include. Call it theatrical license that I do so anyway. Also bucking the rule book is my Best Ensemble category, which I argue for every year even though choosing among the Broadway riches is all but impossible.
Best Play
“Cult of Love”
“English”
“The Hills of California”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“Oh, Mary!”
Best Musical
“Dead Outlaw”
“Death Becomes Her”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
“Smash”
“Swept Away”
Best Play Revival
“Eureka Day”
“Our Town”
“Vanya”*
“Yellow Face”
Best Musical Revival
Cats: The Jellicle Ball*
“Floyd Collins”
“Gypsy”
“Once Upon a Mattress”
Best Actor in a Play
Cole Escola, “Oh, Mary!”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Othello”
Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Jim Parsons, “Our Town”
Andrew Scott, “Vanya”*
Best Actress in a Play
Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”
Susannah Flood, “Liberation”*
Deirdre O’Connell, “Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.”*
Lily Rabe, “Ghosts”*
Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Best Actor in a Musical
Darren Criss, “Maybe Happy Ending”
John Gallagher Jr., “Swept Away”
Jonathan Groff, “Just in Time”
Joshua Henry, “Ragtime”*
Jeremy Jordan, “Floyd Collins”
Best Actress in a Musical
Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”
Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”
Jennifer Simard, “Death Becomes Her”
Adrienne Warren, “The Last Five Years”
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Gabriel Ebert, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Clark Gregg, “Good Night, and Good Luck”
Bill Irwin, “Eureka Day”
Francis Jue, “Yellow Face”
Michael McKean, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Tala Ashe, “English”
Amber Gray, “Eureka Day”
Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”
Marjan Neshat, “English”
Mare Winningham, “Cult of Love”
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Brooks Ashmanskas, “Smash”
André De Shields, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”*
Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat”
Thom Sesma, “Dead Outlaw”
Taylor Trensch, “Floyd Collins”
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Isa Antonetti, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Natalie Venetia Belcon, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Julia Knitel, “Dead Outlaw”
Kristine Nielsen, “Smash”
Joy Woods, “Gypsy”
Best Director of a Play
Knud Adams, “English”
Sam Mendes, “The Hills of California”
Sam Pinkleton, “Oh, Mary!”
Anna D. Shapiro, “Eureka Day”
Danya Taymor, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Best Director of a Musical
Michael Arden, “Maybe Happy Ending”
David Cromer, “Dead Outlaw”
Tina Landau, “Floyd Collins”
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”*
George C. Wolfe, “Gypsy”
Best Book of a Musical
Will Aronson and Hue Park, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Bob Martin and Rick Elice, “Smash”
Itamar Moses, “Dead Outlaw”
Marco Pennette, “Death Becomes Her”
Marco Ramirez, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Best Score
Will Aronson and Hue Park, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, “Real Women Have Curves”
Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, “Death Becomes Her”
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, “Smash”*
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, “Dead Outlaw”
Best Choreography
Bandaloop, “Redwood”
Joshua Bergasse, “Smash”
Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”
Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”*
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Best Ensemble
“Buena Vista Social Club”
“Dead Outlaw”
“Good Night, and Good Luck”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“Swept Away”
Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The Times. He writes reviews of Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regional and sometimes international productions.
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