The Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway's 2006-2007 season will air live on June 10th on CBS.Spring Awakening and Coram Boy are among the most nominated musicals and plays. See the full list.
Also, the NYTimes has put up a ballot for it's users to select who they'd pick for winners. If they had a say. Which we don't.
In other NYTimes theatre news, the paper has reviewed American Idol winner Fantasia's turn in The Color Purple on Broadway. I loved the show (saw it twice) when it first opened with LaChanze. The Times makes a case that 'Tasia, who once showed very few acting abilities in playing herself in a made for Lifetime movie, is apparently doing just fine playing someone else.
My favorite part of the piece is when he spends an entire paragraph trying to find the write words to call Fantasia...well, ugly:
Much is made of Celie’s unattractiveness. She is essentially sold off by her father to a brutish husband as if she were a workhorse with a lame leg. LaChanze, though a skilled singer and actress, couldn’t disguise her natural beauty and poise. Fantasia possesses her own beauty, but it is more idiosyncratic, and as Celie she moves with the uneven amble of a woman trained at a young age to debilitating drudgery and a carelessness about her looks.
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