Nomination Predictions
Alan Cumming "Macbeth"
Tom Hanks "Lucky Guy"
Nathan Lane "The Lance"
Tracey Letts "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
David Hyde Pierce "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
Other Contenders - Seth Numrich "Golden Boy", Jim Parsons "Harvey", Douglas Hodge "Cyrano de Bergerac", Boyd Gaines "An Enemy of the People", Alec Baldwin "Orphans", Bobby Cannavale "The Big Knife", Norbert Leo Butz "Dead Accounts", Ciaran Hinds "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Paul Rudd "Grace", Michael Shannon "Grace", Cory Michael Smith "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Commentary - Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut with Lucky Guy a couple of weeks ago. But he could easily win his first Tony on his first time out. Lucky Guy has done extremely well, and for God's sake he is Tom Hanks. No more explanation needed. But he will have some competition from stage veterans who may be more palatable to Tony voters. David Hyde Pierce is one of the stars of the Best Play frontrunner Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and is already a Tony winner. Alan Cumming is also a Tony winner, and is taking on the classic Macbeth. Theater purists will eat his performance up. Tracey Letts has never been nominated for an acting Tony, but he is the is the mastermind and playwright behind August: Osage County, a Tony-award winning play, whose buzz is certaintly on the rise with its impending film adapation just around the corner. In the last slot, there are several choices. Jim Parsons did wonders with Harvey, and is a popular actor thanks to his Big Bang day job. Seth Numrich made a splash in Golden Boy, Alec Baldwin, a previous nominee, is always a possibility, and previous nominee Douglas Hodge has a baity role in Cyrano de Bergerac. But I am going with the ever-popular Nathan Lane, who could be walking away with a third Tony Award.
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