3rd Tony Predictions

I've been going back and forth on a few of the more up-in-the-air categories and have updated my predictions.  I'll update again, likely, once a week or so until the actual awards on June 13th.

Best Play: Red (potential surprise: Time Stands Still)

Musical: Memphis (potential surprise: Fela!)

Play Revival: Fences (potential surprise: A View From the Bridge)

Musical Revival: La Cage Aux Folles (potential surprise: Finian's Rainbow)

Actor in a Play: Alfred Molina, Red (potential surprise: Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge)

Actress in a Play: Laura Linney, Time Stands Still (potential surprise: Viola Davis, Fences)

Actor in a Musical: Douglas Hodge, La Cage Aux Folles (potential surprise: Chad Kimball, Memphis)

Actress in a Musical: Montego Glover, Memphis (potential surprise: Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music)

Featured Actor in a Play: Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences (potential surprise: Eddie Redmayne, Red)

Featured Actress in a Play: Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge (potential surprise: Jan Maxwell, Lend Me A Tenor)

Featured Actor in a Musical: Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian's Rainbow (potential surprise: Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet)

Featured Actress in a Musical: Katie Fineran, Promises, Promises (potential surprise: Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music)

Book of a Musical: Everyday Rapture (potential surprise: Memphis)

Score: Memphis (potential surprise: Fences)

Director of a Play: Kenny Leon, Fences (potential surprise: Michael Grandage, Red)

Director of a Musical: Bill T. Jones, Fela! (potential surprise: Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime)

Choreography: Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises (potential surprise: Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away)

Orchestrations: Fela! (potential surprise: Memphis)

Set Design of a Play: Fences (potential surprise: Present Laughter)

Set Design of a Musical: Fela! (potential surprise: Ragtime)

Costume Design of a Play: Fences (potential surprise: The Royal Family)

Costume Design of a Musical: La Cage Aux Folles (potential surprise: Fela!)

Lighting Design of a Play: Red (potential surprise: Fences)

Lighting Design of a Musical: Ragtime (potential surprise: Fela!)

Sound Design of a Play: Red (potential surprise: Enron)

Sound Design of a Musical: Ragtime (potential surprise: A Little Night Music)

Celebrity Tony Presenters Announced

The presenters for the 2010 Tony Awards have been announced.  The list includes friend-to-this-blog Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Cate Blanchett, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Justin Bartha, Michael Douglas, Kelsey Grammer, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Lucy Liu, Helen Mirren, Bernadette Peters, David Hyde Pierce, Tony Shalhoub, Liev Schreiber, and Raquel Welch.