Overview
- Critics frame the Best Musical race as a four-way contest between The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titaníque, and Two Strangers with many pundits split chiefly between Schmigadoon! and The Lost Boys.
- Bess Wohl’s Liberation is the clear critics’ pick to win Best Play, with multiple outlets calling it the season’s consensus favorite.
- Joe Mantello’s Death of a Salesman is widely predicted to capture Best Revival of a Play after critics said its staging and performances recharged the classic.
- The Best Revival of a Musical looks competitive, with Ragtime and Cats: The Jellicle Ball trading frontrunner status as critics weigh Ragtime’s social resonance against Cats’s theatrical reinvention.
- Critics also name likely acting winners and potential upsets, with Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy leading the musical acting races and John Lithgow and Lesley Manville favored in play acting categories, and all pieces stress these are pre-award predictions ahead of the Tonys on Sunday.