My Predictions for the Tonys

Billy Porter and The Angels (L-R: Kyle Post, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Joey Taranto, and Paul Canaan) in Kinky Boots. Photo: Matthew Murphy

By Lauren Yarger
The Tony's will be announced tomorrow night at a star-studded event at Radio City Music Hall (watch on CBS beginning at 8 pm).
Some categories are slam dunks (Andrea Martin, for example). Others are neck-and-neck. The toughest competition will be between Kinky Boots and Matilda (I think Kinky Boots will prevail).

Here are my predictions. Happy Tonys! Check back MOnday for a full list of the winners.

Best Play

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang

Best Musical

Kinky Boots

Best Revival of a Play

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Revival of a Musical

Pippin

Best Book of a Musical

Kinky Boots by Harvey Fierstein

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Kinky Boots Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Billy Porter, Kinky Boots

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Richard Kind, The Big Knife

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Terrence Mann, Pippin

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Andrea Martin, Pippin

Best Scenic Design of a Play

John Lee Beatty, The Nance

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical

Best Costume Design of a Play

Ann Roth, The Nance

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Dominique Lemieux, Pippin

Best Direction of a Play

Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Best Direction of a Musical

Diane Paulus, Pippin

Best Choreography

Chet Walker, Pippin