Hello World! I'm Back!

Just in time for another Tony nominations announcement tomorrow morning (bright and early at 830 am), I have decided it is time for me to return to the boards and get back to blogging.  I usually don't like to jump in this late in the season, particularly as I have not been covering the season's ups and downs up to this point, but I find this year to be a particularly important year for the Tony Awards as there is no clear front runner in almost any category, and several categories are so crowded that predicting who or what will get nominated can cause your head to spin.  With that in mind, here are my best guesses as to who will be nominated tomorrow morning.

Play

Act One

All the Way

Casa Valentina

Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar

Musical

A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

After Midnight

Aladdin

Beautiful
Bullets Over Broadway

Book

Robert L. Freedman, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Chad Beguelin, Aladdin

Woody Allen, Bullets Over Broadway

Marsha Norman, Bridges of Madison County

Score

Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Alan Menkin, Aladdin

Andrew Lippa, Big Fish
Jason Robert Brown, Bridges of Madison County

Revival of a Play

12th Night

A Raisin in the Sun

Glass Menagerie

Waiting for Godot
The Cripple of Inishmaan

Revival of a Musical

Cabaret

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Les Miserables

Violet

Leading Actor in a Musical

Jefferson Mays, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Stephen Pasquale, The Bridges of Madison County

Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Ramin Karimloo, Les Miserables

Andy Karl, Rocky

Leading Actress in a Musical

Jessie Mueller, Beautiful

Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County

Idina Menzel, If/Then

Mary Bridget Davies, An Evening With Janis Joplin

Sutton Foster, Violet

Featured Actor in a Musical

James Monroe Igilhart, Aladdin
Jarrod Spector, Beautiful

Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway

Danny Burstein, Cabaret

Joshua Henry, Violet

Featured Actress in a Musical

Adriane Lenox, After Midnight
Anika Larsen, Beautiful

Marin Mazzie, Bullets Over Broadway
Linda Emond, Cabaret

LaChanze, If/Then

Leading Actor in a Play

Samuel Barnett, 12th Night
Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Bryan Cranston, All The Way

Zachary Quinto, The Glass Menagerie

Mark Rylance, Richard III

Leading Actress in a Play

Cherry Jones, Glass Menagerie

Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons

Debra Messing, Outside Mullingar

Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn

Featured Actor in a Play

Paul Chahidi, 12th Night
Stephen Fry, 12th Night
Mark Rylance, 12th Night

Reed Birney, Casa Valentina

Brian J. Smith, Glass Menagerie

Featured Actress in a Play

Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun

Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun

Sarah Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina

Celia Kenan-Bolger, Glass Menagerie

Director of a Play

Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun

Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Joe Mantello, Casa Valentina

John Tiffany, Glass Menagerie

Director of a Musical

Darko Tresnjak, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight

Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Scenic Design of a Play

Act One
All the Way

Glass Menagerie

Machinal

Scenic Design of a Musical

A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Bridges of Madison County

Bullets Over Broadway

Rocky

Costume Design of a Play

12th Night

Casa Valentina

Glass Menagerie

Machinal

Costume Design of a Musical

A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Aladdin

Bullets Over Broadway

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Lighting Design of a Play

12th Night
Glass Menagerie

Machinal

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Lighting Design of a Musical

Aladdin
After Midnight
Bridges of Madison County

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Sound Design of a Play

Act One

Glass Menagerie

Machinal

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sound Design of a Musical

After Midnight

Beautiful
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Rocky

Choreography

Warren Carlyle, After Midnight

Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin

Spencer Liff, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway

Orchestrations

A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Beautiful
Bridges of Madison County
Bullets Over Broadway