Best Original Score
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Memphis (Music by David Bryan, Lyrics by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan)
2) Enron (Music by Adam Cork, Lyrics by Lucy Prebble)
[I couldn't find a clip of just the music, but there are a few clips of it in this PBS story, which is actually a pretty good recap of what I thought was the best show of the year, and also it's second biggest flop]
3) Fences (Music by Branford Marsalis)
4) The Addams Family (Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa)
Who Will Win: Fences (Music by David Bryan, Lyrics by David Bryan & Joe DiPietro)
Best Book of a Musical
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Everyday Rapture, by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan
Sherie Rene Scott: Topeka: the Kickapoo word for a good place to dig for potatoes. Topeka town motto; Latin, not Kickapoo: reductio ad absurdium, which I think means really, really absurd. Population: 117,893…churches. And our family worshipped at all but one or two, after we ditched the Mennonites. We got tired of the whole “good works” thing. ”Raise your own fucking barn!” my dad used to say. We’d laugh.
2) Fela! by Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones
3) Memphis by Joe DiPietro
4) Million Dollar Quartet by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Who Will Win: Memphis by Joe DiPietro
Should Have Been Nominated: American Idiot by Michael Mayer and Billie Joe Armstrong
Best Direction of a Play
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Gregory Mosher, A View From The Bridge
2) Michael Grandage, Red
3) Kenny Leon, Fences
4) Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall
Who Will Win: Michael Grandage, Red
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Rupert Goold, Enron
Best Direction of a Musical
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Bill T. Jones, Fela!
2) Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime
3) Christopher Ashley, Memphis
4) Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Who Will Win: Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Michael Mayer, Everyday Rapture
Best Choreography
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Bill T. Jones, Fela!
2) Rob Ashford, Promises Promises
3) Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles
-Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away
Who Will Win: Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Sergio Trujillo, Memphis
Best Orchestrations
1) Aaron Johnson, Fela!
2) Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis
3) Jonathon Tunick, Promises Promises
4) Jason Carr, La Cage aux Folles
Who Will Win: Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis
Should Have Been Nominated: Tom Kitt, Everyday Rapture
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Mark Henderson, Enron
2) Neil Austin, Red
3) Brian MacDevitt, Fences
4) Neil Austin, Hamlet
Who Will Win: Neil Austin, Red
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Russel H. Champa, In The Next Room
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Robert Wierzel, Fela!
2) Donald Holder, Ragtime
3) Nick Richings, La Cage aux Folles
4) Kevin Adams, American Idiot
Who Will Win: Kevin Adams, American Idiot
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Howell Binkley, Memphis
Best Sound Design of a Play
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Adam Cork, Red
2) Adam Cork, Enron
3) Acme Sound Partners, Fences
4) Scott Lehrer, A View From The Bridge
Who Will Win: Adam Cork, Red
Listen to the sound design nominees
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Who Should Win Rankings:
1) Dan Moses Schreier, Sondheim on Sondheim
2) Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!
3) Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen, A Little Night Music
4) Jonathon Deans, La Cage aux Folles
Who Will Win: Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Brian Ronan, American Idiot
