Though the official Tony Awards nominations aren’t scheduled to be announced until Thursday, I give you my unofficial ones right now. If it were up to me, these would be the nominees.
They include some, marked with an asterisk, that because they were seen Off Broadway or were otherwise ineligible, the real Tonys won’t include. Call it theatrical license that I do so anyway. Also bucking the rule book is my best ensemble category, which I argue for every year even though choosing among the Broadway riches is all but impossible.
One note: Because I am the co-author of “Shy,” with Mary Rodgers, who died in 2014, I did not review either “Once Upon a Mattress,” for which Rodgers wrote the music, or “Floyd Collins,” with a score by her son Adam Guettel, when they opened this season on Broadway. But my editors and I felt that for articles about the entire Broadway season and the Tony Awards, it would be impossible to ignore works that are clearly in the running.
Best Play
“Cult of Love”
“English”
“The Hills of California”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“Oh, Mary!”
