Once On This Island!

Okay! It's official, I'm going to see Once On This Island on June 9th and I can't be more excited!!!!!

The Last Midnight: June

Mindgame
Theatre: Ambassadors Theatre (West End)
Opened: May 15, 2018
Closing: June 2, 2018
Olivier Awards: N/A

Saint Joan
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Broadway)
Opened: April 25, 2018
Closing: June 10, 2018
Tony Awards:
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Condola Rashād as Joan [Pending]

Quiz
Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre (West End)
Opened: April 10, 2018
Closing: June 16, 2018
Olivier Awards: N/A

Travesties
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre (Broadway)
Opened: April 24, 2018
Closing: June 17, 2018
Tony Awards:
Best Revival of a Play [Pending]
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Tom Hollander as Henry Carr [Pending]
Best Sound Design of a Play for Adam Cork [Pending]
Best Direction of a Play for Patrick Marber [Pending]

Ruthless
Theatre: Arts Theatre (West End)
Opened: March 27, 2018
Closing: June 23, 2018
Olivier Awards: N/A

Three Tall Women
Theatre: John Golden Theatre (Broadway)
Opened: March 29, 2018
Closing: June 24, 2018
Tony Awards:
Best Revival of a Play [Pending]
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Glenda Jackson as A [Pending]
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Pay for Laurie Metcalf as B [Pending]
Best Scenic Design of a Play for Miriam Buether [Pending]
Best Costume Design of a Play for Ann Roth [Pending]
Best Direction of a Play for Joe Mantello [Pending]

The Moderate Soprano
Theatre: Duke of York's Theatre (West End)
Opened: April 12, 2018
Closing: June 30, 2018
Olivier Awards: N/A

Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

HAPPY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH (Not to mention the month of my birthday, but that's not what this post is for.) The Asian community is one of the most

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overlooked communities when it comes to talented individuals. Are you aware that only 11 people of Asian descent have won a Tony?

1. B.D. Wong- Best Featured Actor in a Play for M. Butterfly in 1988
2. Clint Ramos- Best Costume Design of a Play for Eclipsed in 2016
3. David Henry Hwang- Best Play for M. Butterfly in 1988
4. Lea Salonga- Best Leading Actress in a Musical for Miss Saigon in 1991
5. Lena Hall- Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2014
6. Linda Cho- Best Costume Design of a Musical for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder in 2014
7. Mimi Lien- Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 in 2017
8. Ming Cho Lee- Best Scenic Design for K2 in 1983
9. Robert Lopez- Best Original Score for Avenue Q in 2004 and The Book of Mormon in 2011/Best Book of a Musical for The Book of Mormon in 2011
10. Ruthie Ann Miles- Best Featured Actress in a Musical for The King and I in 2015
11. Willa Kim- Best Costume Design for Sophisticated Ladies in 1981 and The Will Rogers Follies in 1991

    

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And do you know that 3 people have won a Tony for portraying yellowface? (This is not even mentioning the countless others that have been nominated.)

1. Jonathan Pryce- Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Miss Saigon in 1991
2. Juanita Hall- Best Featured Actress in a Musical for South Pacific in 1950
3. Yul Brynner- Best Featured Actor in a Musical for The King and I in 1952

Asians/Asian-Americans are bursting with talent and yet the theatre world barely seems to use them. Now, granted things have gotten much better as of recently, but it still could be much better. There is so much that I could say on this subject, and I do plan on writing it out one day, but I have finals to study for and a paper to write so I'll just stop here. Don't forget to have yourself a little Youtube concert of some of these outstanding actors/actresses. My personal favorites are Emily Bautista, Ethan Le Phong, Eva Noblezada, Hong Kwang-Ho, Jon Jon Briones, Megumi Hamada, Oak Joo-Hyun and of

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 course the fabulous Rachelle Ann Go. However, this year is a year to celebrate the Tony's because there are at least 10 nominees of Asian descent this year! They are in a vast amount of categories too which makes me so happy!

1. Ayad Akhtar- Best Play for Junk: The Golden Age of Debt
2. Ari’el Stachel- Best Featured Actor in a Musical for The Band's Visit
3. Ashley Park- Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Mean Girls
4. Clint Ramos- Best Costume Design of a Musical for Once On This Island
5. David Yazbeck- Best Original Score for The Band's Visit
6. Jamshied Sharifi- Best Orchestrations for The Band's Visit
7. Jenna Ushkowitz- Best Revival of a Musical for Once On This Island
8. Kai Harada- Best Sound Design of a Play for The Band's Visit
9. Robert Lopez- Best Original Score for Frozen
10. Tony Shalhoub- Best Leading Actor in a Musical for The Band's Visit

#AAAAHHHH Comparison

I did a thing, you guys :)

72nd Annual Tony Awards Predictions: Part 2

There were definitely some surprises on this list. I was very shocked by the number of

nominations for closed shows, but anyway, here we go! Part 2 of the 72nd Annual Tony Awards Predictions in which I compare my nominations with the actual nominations. All nominees in red are nominations I did not predict while nominees that are crossed out are nominations I predicted that were not nominated.

• Best Play
• The Children
• Farinelli and the King
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Junk: The Golden Age of Debt
• Latin History for Morons
• 1984
• Best Musical
• The Band's Visit
• Frozen
• Mean Girls
• Prince of Broadway
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Best Revival of a Play
• Angels in America
• Children of a Lesser God
• The Iceman Cometh
• Lobby Hero
• M. Butterfly
• Three Tall Women
• Travesties
• Best Revival of a Musical
• Carousel
• My Fair Lady
• Once On This Island
• Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
• Andrew Garfield- Angels in America as Prior Walter
• Denzel Washington- The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
• Jamie Parker- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Harry Potter
• Joshua Jackson- Children of a Lesser God as James Leads
• Mark Rylance- Farinelli and the King as Philip V of Spain
• Tom Hollander- Travesties as Henry Carr
• Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
• Amy Schumer- Meteor Shower as Corky
• Condola Rashād- Saint Joan as Joan
• Elizabeth McGovern- Time and the Conways as Mrs. Conway
• Glenda Jackson- Three Tall Women as A
• Lauren Ridloff- Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman
• Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
• Ethan Slater- Spongebob Squarepants as Spongebob Squarepants
• Harry Hadden-Paton- My Fair Lady as Henry Higgins
• Joshua Henry- Carousel as Billy Bigelow
• Paul Alexander Nolan- Escape to Margaritaville as Tully
• Tony Shalhoub- The Band's Visit as Tewfiq
• Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
• Hailey Kilgore- Once On This Island as Ti Moune
• Jessie Mueller- Carousel as Julie Jordan
• Katrina Lenk- The Band's Visit as Dina
• LaChanze- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical as Diva Donna
• Lauren Ambrose- My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle
• Taylor Louderman- Mean Girls as Regina George
• Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
• Anthony Boyle- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Scorpius Malfoy
• Bryan Tyree Henry- Lobby Hero as William
• David Morse- The Iceman Cometh as Larry Slade
• James McArdle- Angels in America as Louis Ironson
• Michael Cera- Lobby Hero as Jeff
• Nathan Lane- Angels in America as Roy Cohn
• Nathan Stewart-Jarrett- Angels in America as Belize
• Paul Thornley- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Ron Weasley
• Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
• Deborah Findlay- The Children as Hazel
• Denise Gough- Angels in America as Harper Pitt
• Kecia Lewis- Children of a Lesser God as Mrs. Norman
• Laurie Metcalf- Three Tall Women as B
• Noma Dumezweni- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Hermione Granger
• Poppy Miller- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Ginny Potter
• Susan Brown- Angels in America as Various Characters
• Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
• Alex Newell- Once On This Island as Asaka
• Alexander Gemignani- Carousel as Enoch Snow
• Ari’el Stachel- The Band's Visit as Haled
• Gavin Lee- Spongebob Squarepants as Squidward
• Grey Henson- Mean Girls as Damian Hubbard
• Norbert Leo Butz- My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle
• Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
• Ariana DeBose- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical as Disco Donna
• Ashley Park- Mean Girls as Gretchen Weiners
• Diana Rigg- My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins
• Kate Rockwell- Mean Girls as Karen Smith
• Lindsay Mendez- Carousel as Carrie Pipperidge
• Merle Dandridge- Once On This Island as Papa Ge
• Renée Fleming- Carousel as Nettie Fowler
• Best Book of a Musical
• Colman Domingo and Robert Cary- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
• Itamar Moses- The Band's Visit
• Jennifer Lee- Frozen
• Kyle Jarrow- Spongebob Squarepants
• Tina Fey- Mean Girls
• Best Original Score
• Adrian Sutton- Angels in America
• David Yazbek- The Band's Visit
• Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin- Mean Girls
• Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez- Frozen
• Various Artists- Spongebob Squarepants
• Best Scenic Design of a Play
• Chloe Lamford- 1984
• Christine Jones- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce- Angels in America
• Jonathan Fensom- Farinelli and the King
• Miriam Buether- Three Tall Women
• Paul Steinberg- M. Butterfly
• Santo Loquasto- The Iceman Cometh
• Best Scenic Design of a Musical
• Beowulf Boritt- Prince of Broadway
• David Zinn- Spongebob SquarePants
• Michael Yeargan- My Fair Lady
• Scott Pask- The Band's Visit
• Scott Pask, Finn Ross, Adam Young- Mean Girls
• Best Costume Design of a Play
• Ann Roth- The Iceman Cometh
• Ann Roth- Three Tall Women
• Jonathan Fensom- Farinelli and the King
• Katrina Linsay- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Nicky Gillibrand- Angels in America
• Paloma Young- Time and the Conways
• Best Costume Design of a Musical
• Ann Roth- Carousel
• Catherine Zuber- My Fair Lady
• Clint Ramos- Once On This Island
• David Zinn- SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gregg Barnes- Mean Girls
• Sarah Laux- The Band's Visit
• Best Lighting Design of a Play
• Ben Stanton- Junk: The Golden Age of Debt
• Donald Holder- M. Butterfly
• Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer- The Iceman Cometh
• Mike Baldassari- Children of a Lesser God
• Natasha Chivers- 1984
• Neil Austin- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Paul Russell- Farinelli and the King
• Paule Constable- Angels in America
• Best Lighting Design of a Musical
• Brian MacDevitt- Carousel
• Donald Holder- My Fair Lady
• Howell Binkley- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
• Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer- Once On This Island
• Kevin Adams- Spongebob Squarepants
• Kenneth Posner- Mean Girls
• Natasha Katz- Frozen
• Best Sound Design of a Play
• Adam Cork- Travesties
• Dan Moses Schreier- The Iceman Cometh
• Gareth Fry- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Ian Dickinson- Angels in America
• Jonathan Fensom- Lobby Hero
• Tom Gibbons- 1984
• Will Pickens- M. Butterfly
• Best Sound Design of a Musical
• Brian Ronan- Mean Girls
• Kai Harada- The Band's Visit
• Peter Hylenski- Frozen
• Peter Hylenski- Once On This Island
• Scott Lehrer- Carousel
• Walter Trarbach and Mike Dobson- Spongebob Squarepants
• Best Direction of a Play
• George C. Wolfe- The Iceman Cometh
• Joe Mantello- Three Tall Women
• John Tiffany- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Kenny Leon- Children of a Lesser God
• Marianne Elliot- Angels in America
• Patrick Marber- Travesties
• Best Direction of a Musical
• Bartlett Sher- My Fair Lady
• Casey Nicholaw- Mean Girls
• David Cromer- The Band's Visit
• Michael Arden- Once On This Island
• Tina Landa- Spongebob Squarepants
• Best Choreography
• Camille K. Brown- Once On This Island
• Casey Nicholaw- Mean Girls
• Christopher Gattelli- My Fair Lady
• Christopher Gattelli- Spongebob Squarepants
• Justin Peck- Carousel
• Sergio Trujillo- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
• Steven Hoggett- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Best Orchestrations
• Jamshied Sharifi- The Band's Visit
• Jason Robert Brown- Prince of Broadway
• John Clancy- Mean Girls
• Jonathan Tunick- Carousel
• Michael Starobin and AnnMarie Milazzo- Once On This Island
• Tom Kitt- Spongebob Squarepants

Nominations per production:

12: Mean Girls, Spongebob Squarepants

11: Angels in America, The Band's Visit, Carousel

10: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, My Fair Lady

8: The Iceman Cometh, Once On This Island

6: Three Tall Women

5: Farinelli and the King

4: Travesties

3: Frozen, Lobby Hero

2: The Children, Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

1: Children of a Lesser God, Latin History for Morons, Meteor Shower, Saint Joan, 1984