In case you didn’t know, we’re obsessed with predicting the Tony Awards. We’re getting ready for this year’s Tony Award by publishing our predictions for nominations in each category here.
What we haven’t seen (yet): American Buffalo; Birthday Candles; Chicken & Biscuits; for colored girls…; Lackawanna Blues; The Minutes; Take Me Out; The Skin of Our Teeth
Last Updated: Sunday, May 8th, 2022.
Tony Award for Best Musical
Shoo-InsA Strange Loop
Six
Very Likely
Girl From The North Country
On the Bubble
MJ The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Paradise Square
Dark Horses
Flying Over Sunset
Tony Award for Best Play
Shoo-InsThe Lehman Trilogy
Skeleton Crew
On the Bubble
Clyde’s
Dana H.
Is This a Room
POTUS
The Minutes
Pass Over
Birthday Candles
Dark Horses
Chicken & Biscuits
Thoughts of a Colored Man
Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
Shoo-InsCaroline, Or Change
Company
On the Bubble
Funny Girl
The Music Man
Dark Horses
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Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
Shoo-InsHow I Learned to Drive
On the Bubble
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Lackawanna Blues
The Skin of Our Teeth
Trouble in Mind
Dark Horses
American Buffalo
Macbeth
Plaza Suite
Take Me Out
Best Leading Actor in a Musical
Shoo-InsMyles Frost (MJ)
On the Bubble
Jaquel Spivey (A Strange Loop)
Rob McClure (Mrs. Doubtfire)
Hugh Jackman (The Music Man)
Dark Horses
Billy Crystal (Mr. Saturday Night)
Ramin Karimloo (Funny Girl)
Jay O. Sanders (Girl from the North Country)
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Shoo-InsJoaquina Kalukango (Paradise Square)
Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change)
On the Bubble
Sutton Foster (The Music Man)
Mare Winningham (Girl from the North Country)
Adrianna Hicks (Six)
Andrea Macasaet (Six)
Abby Mueller (Six)
Brittney Mack (Six)
Samantha Pauly (Six)
Anna Uzele (Six)
Dark Horses
Jeanna De Waal (Diana)
Jenn Gambatese (Mrs. Doubtfire)
Katrina Lenk (Company)
Beanie Feldstein (Funny Girl)
Carmen Cusack (Flying Over Sunset)
Best Leading Actor in a Play
Shoo-InsSam Rockwell (American Buffalo)
On the Bubble
Simon Russell Beale (The Lehman Trilogy)
Adam Godley (The Lehman Trilogy)
Adrian Lester (The Lehman Trilogy)
David Morse (How I Learned to Drive)
Laurence Fishburne (American Buffalo)
Dark Horses
Matthew Broderick (Plaza Suite)
David Threlfall (Hangmen)
James Vincent Meredith (The Skin of our Teeth)
Daniel Craig (Macbeth)
Best Leading Actress in a Play
Shoo-InsDeirdre O’Connell (Dana H.)
LaChanze (Trouble In Mind)
On the Bubble
Sarah Jessica Parker (Plaza Suite)
Gabby Beans (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Ruth Negga (Macbeth)
Debra Messing (Birthday Candles)
Dark Horses
Emily Davis (Is This a Room)
Roslyn Ruff (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Best Director of a Musical
Shoo-InsStephen Brackett (A Strange Loop)
Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage (Six)
Marianne Elliot (Company)
On the Bubble
Michael Longhurst (Caroline, or Change)
Conor McPherson (Girl from the North Country)
Dark Horses
James Lapine (Flying Over Sunset)
Moises Kaufman ( Paradise Square)
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