The now-completed 2008 Tony Awards didn't exactly have a lot of surprises in the play category: "August: Osage County" took best play along with best director and lead and featured actress wins -- well-deserved -- and "The Seafarer" took a win for actor Jim Norton as featured actor. We were lucky enough to see both shows, and both deserved recognition. Though I will never quite figure out why neither David Morse nor Ciaran Hinds, the OTHER two leading actors in "Seafarer" got nominations in the acting category, it's nice that this production at least got some recognition.
As for the entire category of musicals: is it just me, or was it a pitifully weak year for musicals on Broadway? I certainly liked Patti LuPone in "Sweeney Todd" a few years back, but did we need another "Gypsy" revival this soon? And the big winner of the night -- yet another of many revivals for the year, "South Pacific." "In the Heights" and "Passing Strange" seem to have been reasonably well-received, but seem to me to be a litle bit niche-marketed. Would some additional folks with some original ideas and some other folks with the producer bucks AND the guts to get behind something not already written come along with some new stuff, please?
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