This Week on Broadway for June 12, 2016: The Morning of The Tony Awards

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss West Side Story @ Paper Mill Playhouse, Signature Plays (Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornes’ Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro), Michael Feinstein @ The Appel Room, Sin Twisters Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller @ Metropolitan Room, The Taming of the Shrew @ The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Incognito, Turn Me Loose (A play about comic genius Dick Gregory), and Cal in Camo @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. We also discuss the Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction of a Play, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations Tony Award nominations.

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook

PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook
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Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

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MATT TAMANINI is BroadwayWorld’s Senior TV and Film Critic and the host of the “Some Like it Pop” podcast, which is available on iTunes and Stitcher. You can connect with Matt on Twitter at @BWWMatt.

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Reviews: 

MP: West Side Story @ Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive Millburn, NJ, through June 26, 2016

PF: Signature Plays (Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornes’ Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro) @ Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street, through June 19, 2016

MP: Michael Feinstein @ The Appel Room

Vocabulary: Peripatetic

MP: Sin Twisters Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller @ Metropolitan Room

PF: The Public Theater’s production of The Taming of the Shrew @ The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, through June 26, 2016

MP: Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Incognito @ MTC Stage I at City Center, through July 10, 2016

PF: Turn Me Loose (A play about comic genius Dick Gregory) Westside Theatre, 407 West 43rd Street

PF: Cal in Camo @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place, through June 18, 2016

Tony Awards Predictions

Best Book of a Musical
Bright Star – Steve Martin
Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda
School of Rock—The Musical – Julian Fellowes
Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed – George C. Wolfe

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Bright Star – Music: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Lyrics: Edie Brickell
Hamilton: Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
School of Rock—The Musical: Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics: Glenn Slater
Waitress: Music & Lyrics: Sara Bareilles

Best Direction of a Play
Rupert Goold, King Charles III
Jonathan Kent, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Joe Mantello, The Humans
Liesl Tommy, Eclipsed
Ivo Van Hove, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge

Best Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden, Spring Awakening
John Doyle, The Color Purple
Scott Ellis, She Loves Me
Thomas Kail, Hamilton
George C. Wolfe, Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

Best Choreography
Andy Blankenbuehler, Hamilton
Savion Glover, Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
Hofesh Shechter, Fiddler on the Roof
Randy Skinner, Dames at Sea
Sergio Trujillo, On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan

Best Orchestrations
August Eriksmoen, Bright Star
Larry Hochman, She Loves Me
Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton
Daryl Waters, Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

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Post Script:

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Music:

Music from “Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” provided by the production.

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