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Tony Awards Predictions 2018

Which Broadway shows are ahead to win at 2018? WE'VE GOT THE SCOOP IN THIS BITCHY FORUM where you'll discover more drama going on than backstage at any diva-packed Broadway show!

Could this be the year of the movie stars as Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”), Johnny Depp (“Black Mass”), Jake Gyllenhaal (“Demolition” and “Southpaw”), Tom Hiddleston (“I Saw the Light”), Tom Hanks (“Bridge of Spies”), Brad Pitt (“By the Sea”), and Bradley Cooper (“Adam Jones”) all have high-profile projects. And then there’s people like Matt Damon (“The Martian”), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“The Walk” and “Snowden”), and Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs” and “MacBeth”) to consider. Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) looks like a “two-in-a-row” possibility and veterans like Michael Caine (“Youth”), Robert Redford (“Truth”), and Tom Courtney (“45 Years”) look to have stuff on the table. Strap in for another competitive ride this year.

Best Actor in a Play Tony Awards 2018

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play 2018 is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956.































2018
70th Tony Awards
Alex SharpThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeChristopher Boone
Steven BoyerHand to GodJason / Tyrone
Bradley CooperThe Elephant ManJohn Merrick
Ben MilesWolf Hall Parts One & TwoThomas Cromwell
Bill NighySkylightTom Sergeant

Best Actor in a Musical Tony Awards 2018

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival. The award has been given since 1948, but the nominees who did not win have only been publicly announced since 1956.































2018
70th Tony Awards
Michael CerverisFun HomeBruce Bechdel
Robert FairchildAn American in ParisJerry Mulligan
Brian d'Arcy JamesSomething Rotten!Nick Bottom
Ken WatanabeThe King and IThe King of Siam
Tony YazbeckOn the TownGabey

What Time are the Tony Awards 2018?

What Time are the Tony Awards 2018? Far from the eagerly anticipated and globally televised event it is today, the first TonyAwards ceremony took place out of the public eye during an Tonys banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Two hundred seventy people attended the May 16, 1929 dinner in the hotel's Blossom Room; guest tickets cost $5. And there was little suspense when the awards were presented that night, as the recipients had already been announced three months earlier.

That all changed the following year, however, when the Tonys kept the results secret until the ceremony but gave a list in advance to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. on the night of the Awards.

As the event grew in size, banquets became impractical and the event moved from banquet room to a theater venue beginning with the 16th Oscar ceremony in 1944, held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Since 2001, the Oscar ceremony has been held in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, just steps from the historic Chinese Theatre.

Tony Awards Nominations 2018

Tony Awards Nominations 2018:  For the purposes of the award, a new play or musical is one that has not previously been produced on Broadway and is not "determined to be 'classic' or in the historical or popular repertoire", as determined by the Administration Committee of the Rules and Regulations). The rule about "classic" productions was instituted by the Tony Award Administration Committee in 2002, and stated (in summary) "A play or musical that is determined ... to be a 'classic' or in the historical or popular repertoire shall not be eligible for an Award in the Best Play or Best Musical Category but may be eligible in that appropriate Best Revival category." Shows transferred from Off-Broadway or the West End are eligible as "new", as are productions based closely on films.

This rule has been the subject of some controversy, as some shows have been ruled ineligible for the "new" category, meaning that their authors did not have a chance to win the important awards of Best Play or Best Musical (or Best Score or Best Book for musicals). On the other hand, some people[who?] feel that allowing plays and musicals that have been frequently produced to be eligible as "new" gives them an unfair advantage, because they will have benefited from additional development time as well as additional familiarity with the Tony voters.