Good Afternoon!
-I just missed Good Morning here on the East Coast.
T-o-D (as oppposed to D-in-T):
Animal Crackers
A Night at the Opera
Duck Soup-And I'm actually fond of the stage works 
A Night in the Ukraine (preceded by 
A Day In Hollywood) as well as 
The Cocoanuts.
RE: The Tony Noms - No real surprises.  Really, I don't think were any surprises.  -Unless some idiot thinks Sean "Puffy" Combs should have gotten a Best Leading Actor nomination... ugh!  As far as Joe Manello not getting nommed for 
Wicked, no real surprise there either - imho.
For me, the one race I'm most excited about is the Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.  I'm so happy that Anika Noni Rose got nominated.  It's a pretty solid category - imho.
The only confusing thing to me is in 
Caroline, or Change's nomination for Best Original Score.  Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are listed... and not just Jeanine.  Hmm...  I shall have to investigate further...
On a related note - and I've hinted at this in previous posts... I've been talking with a bunch of friends and professional acquaintances in New York over the past couple of weeks, and to them - and to others - there seems to be sense that 
Caroline, or Change should win in the proverbial air.  -No matter how much you liked it - or didn't like it.  It's the classic case of "Who will win?"  and "Who should win?"  Again, I liked 
Caroline, but I thought it was more interesting than good.  Maybe some of the tweaks they made for the move uptown have "improved" the show, but since I won't be able to see the show again until after the Tonys...  We shall see.  -And, again, I'm really pulling for 
Avenue Q...  But I guess we can save our Tony picks for a few weeks from now.
And on another related note - The Washington, DC "Tonys" are being held tonight - The Helen Hayes Awards.  Alas, I shall be taking it easy at home tonight, but I just wanted to put out a collective "Congratulations!" to all my friends who got nominated!  -You better thank me in your acceptance speeches!!   
