Mel's Picks for the Tony Awards

My pal Mel chimes in with her choices - remember, you have until the start of the broadcast Sunday night to make your predictions! The winner gets bragging rights (and that's about it). Send your guesses in as a comment or to this email address: TheMinskers@aol.com.

Here's Mel's take:

Although it'd be more appropriate to say "shots in the dark".. here goes:

Best Musical
American Idiot (I'm a Green Day fan, so I have a soft spot in my heart for this show! I love this album, "21 Guns" & "Know Your Enemy" so much. But that curtain call with "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)"...)

Best Play
Red

Best Book of a Musical
Everyday Rapture

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Fences (Branford Marsalis)

Best Revival of a Play
Fences

Best Revival of a Musical
La Cage aux Folles

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Denzel Washington, Fences

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Viola Davis, Fences

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (tough call with both Kelsey Grammer and Sean Hayes in the running. But Ngaujah is onstage virtually the whole show.)
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts (showin' the Steppenwolf folks some love)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (this is tough, because there's at least three ways it could go)
Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Santo Loquasto, Fences

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Christine Jones, American Idiot

Best Costume Design of a Play
Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me a Tenor

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Santo Loquasto, Ragtime

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Brian MacDevitt, Fences

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, American Idiot

Best Sound Design of a Play
Scott Lehrer, A View from the Bridge

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!

Best Direction of a Play
Michael Grandage, Red

Best Direction of a Musical
Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles

Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises

Best Orchestrations
Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis