This Week on Broadway for June 6, 2010: The Tony Awards Predictions

  If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Ken Davenport Peter Filichia James Marino Matthew Murray Michael Portantiere This is the order of categories in the discussion: Following each category is a time code so that you can skip to the category. Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (2:48) - Jude Law (Hamlet) - Alfred Molina (Red) MP - Liev Schreiber (A View from the Bridge) - Christopher Walken (A Behanding in Spokane) KD, PF, MM - Denzel Washington (Fences) Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (5:17) KD, PF, MM - Viola Davis (Fences) - Valerie Harper (Looped) MP - Linda Lavin (Collected Stories) - Laura Linney (Time Stands Still) - Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family) Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (7:08) MM - Kelsey Grammer (La Cage aux Folles) - Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises) KD, MP - Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles) - Chad Kimball (Memphis) PF - Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!) Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (10:23) - Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow) MM - Montego Glover (Memphis) - Christiane Noll (Ragtime) - Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture) PF, KD, MP - Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music) Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (12:45) MM - David Alan Grier (Race) PF - Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences) MP, KD - Jon Michael Hill (Superior Donuts) - Stephen Kunken (Enron) - Eddie Redmayne (Red) Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (15:32) - Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room or the vibrator play) MM - Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family) - Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge) KD, MP, PF - Scarlett Johansson (A View from the Bridge) - Jan Maxwell (Lend Me a Tenor) Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (18:10) - Kevin Chamberlin (The Addams Family) KD, MP - Robin De Jesús (La Cage aux Folles) MM - Christopher Fitzgerald (Finian's Rainbow) - Levi Kreis (Million Dollar Quartet) PF - Bobby Steggert (Ragtime) Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (20:40) MM - Barbara Cook (Sondheim on Sondheim) KD, PF, MP - Katie Finneran (Promises, Promises) - Angela Lansbury (A Little Night Music) - Karine Plantadit (Come Fly Away) - Lillias White (Fela!) Best Choreography (23:40) - Rob Ashford (Promises, Promises) PF - Bill T. Jones (Fela!) MM - Lynne Page (La Cage aux Folles) KD - Twyla Tharp (Come Fly Away) Best Direction of a Play (25:50) KD - Michael Grandage (Red) - Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall) MM, PF - Kenny Leon (Fences) MP - Gregory Mosher (A View from the Bridge) Best Direction of a Musical (28:29) - Christopher Ashley (Memphis) - Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime) PF, MM, MP - Terry Johnson (La Cage aux Folles) KD - Bill T. Jones (Fela!) Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (30:52) PF - The Addams Family (Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa) - Enron (Music: Adam Cork Lyrics: Lucy Prebble) - Fences (Music: Branford Marsalis) MM, KD, MP - Memphis (Music: David Bryan Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan) Best Revival of a Play (36:55) KD, MM, PF - Fences - Lend Me a Tenor - The Royal Family MP - A View from the Bridge Best Revival of a Musical (39:56) - Finian's Rainbow PF, MM, MP, KD - La Cage aux Folles - A Little Night Music - Ragtime Best Book of a Musical (42:52) - Fela! (Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones) PF, MM - Memphis (Joe DiPietro) - Million Dollar Quartet (Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux) MP, KD - Everyday Rapture (Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott) Best Play (47:35) - In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Author: Sarah Ruhl) MP - Next Fall (Author: Geoffrey Nauffts) PF, KD - Red (Author: John Logan) MM - Time Stands Still (Author: Donald Margulies) (Next Fall discussion on previous podcast from March 14, 2010) Best Musical (52:17) MP - American Idiot - Fela! PF, MM, KD - Memphis - Million Dollar Quartet Discussion: Mythical "Road Voter" block Avenue Q vs Wicked How is Fela! still running? By the passion of its producers. Don't miss the BroadwaySpace Tony Awards Party! (See site for more details) You heard it here first: Justin Bieber is staring in A Few Good Men. Music: The opening music is the overture from the original cast recording of Camelot and the exit music is "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line.