And of course no one can see the astonishing Deirdre O’Connell in Dana H. For the Tonys, you’re not allowed to vote in a category unless you’ve seen all the nominated performances. Jaquel Spivey has been out of A Strange Loop because of a sinus infection and doctor-ordered rest. COVID closures and postponements, certainly, were part of it, but also several shows are happening without the nominated actor. There’s another practical concern at work here: It’s been difficult for people to see the performances. The fact that the show was a musical was just a sad oversight. Saturday Night I would absolutely nominate Billy Crystal for Best Lead Actor … in a play. I would have just liked to have him do stand-up comedy for the entirety of the musical! He is delightful. His singing wasn’t great, and that has to count for something. I didn’t make that joke on purpose.ĭ.I.: Also, I’m surprised that Billy Crystal got a nomination. Am I incorrect? He was always looking backwards. And - okay, do you know the moment I realized I wasn’t so warm on Hugh Jackman’s performance? My favorite part of The Music Man is “You’ve Got Trouble.” And I felt like he spent 25 percent of the number with his back to the audience. H.S.: Devon, did you see Hugh Jackman peddling his wares?ĭevon Ivie: I did. They’re up against so many other good people, like Jaquel Spivey for A Strange Loop and Sharon D Clarke for Caroline, or Change, or even Joaquina Kalukango - though possibly she has a chance because she’s fighting to be compelling in Paradise Square, which is a dud.
Sutton Foster won the Drama League performance prize, which made me think that Oh no, maybe Sutton Foster will also win.
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Hugh Jackman feels inevitable for The Music Man even though he’s miscast - his voice isn’t in the right range, but he’s just such a movie star. But, that said, the tough ones were the two lead actors in a musical. Jackson McHenry: One of my friends already told me that my predictions are “chaotic” and “wrong to a one,” so please take them with a grain of salt. What for you was your most painful prediction? The one where you were thinking, Oh, I know this is going to happen, but it breaks my soul? Helen Shaw: Jackson, in your newsletter, you laid out your predictions for the Tony Awards. Recently, Jackson, theater critic Helen Shaw, and Vulture staff writer and Broadway superfan Devon Ivie huddled to talk about what should win, if the world were perfect and would simply obey what our particular hearts demand. Which show will appeal to the cadre of road producers? Will voters forget the stuff that closed in January? If you want that kind of clearheaded analysis, go to Jackson McHenry’s predictions, which he laid out in his indispensable Stage Whisperer newsletter. In any year, though, conversations about “what will win” are shot through with practicality.
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And, because theater people know how to make art on a battleground, they showed us plenty of prizeworthy work. Shows opened and audiences returned, if tentatively. According to some metrics, we have actually managed to have something approximating a “regular” season. Everything is fine, the awards will say - hoping to distract a shaky Broadway from the wave of recently announced closings. On Sunday, the Tony Awards will try to reassert normalcy in 2022. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Marc J.
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