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I've been going to Broadway shows since my Mom started taking me as a kid. So I've seen a LOT of shows. One of the best musicals I've ever seen is HERE LIES LOVE - not only of this season, but of ANY season. I completely understand why it wasn't nominated as Best Musical. But that doesn't change the fact that it certainly should have been.

I hate hat Tony voters only remember shows that open in April. How to Dance in Ohio deserved multiple nominations, but Tony voters have short memories.

Someone here commented that the review is "nuanced". It is, but also overblown, overlong and tedious.

Brent Comer OUTSIDERS--

Harmony truly was one of (if not THE) best musical I have ever seen. I got to see it a week before closing, and as a young Jewish person in America it was such a wonderful show to see. Very upset it got snubbed

Hi Mickey! Can you post some other Broadway reviews like Tommy or water for elephants. So excited for your Tonys coverage.

Been waiting for this!!! I loved this show so much I’m going again in July

Ofc I haven't seen this play, but the impression I get from this review is that the actors did what the could but the direction itself was misguided for this story.

I also thought Spamalot was largely snubbed - that was a powerhouse cast!

I really need your thoughts on Lempicka ASAP. I was already in New York with tickets to see it when they announced their closing and out of the 7 shows I saw on that trip, it was not my favorite but it's the one I've thought the most about since. I keep trying to put my finger on why this show out of the many this season had the most trouble finding its audience. It wasn't perfect but I think many of the critics missed the point of the show entirely and they are not the Tony voters as you said with Cabaret. I doubt it would have had a long life but I wish it would have stayed open long enough for the intended audience to see it, and sadly most of them never did. Could better marketing have helped keep it afloat, or a Best New Musical nom, or celebrity casting (though I really believe Eden was the right person for this role)? I still wonder

i've seen this show twice already and i am 100% going to see it again. it is all the fun of (good) rom com films but with a really great score (AND, unlike most rom coms, a 3rd act 'breakup' that didn't annoy me at all. i think 'the argument' is so well written.) sam and dujonna's chemistry and ability to command the stage on their own and as a duo is fantastic!!

Tony needs to have a category, for Ensemble cast in a musical. This would have solved the problem with Suffs. It would have freed up nominations for other deserving actors and actresses. Also you could put Gutenberg in this category and Merrily We Roll along, basically shows where all the characters have more or less of equal importance to the show.

Still think Ricky Ubeda and Ben Cook of Illinoise should have been nominated. They were not just amazing dancers but amazing actors as well

The score of The Notebook was NOT good. Now, Great Gatsby, THAT was snubbed for best score!

Respectfully I am still upset/pissed Shucked left for the production Who’s Tommy…

I 100% agree about Ali Louis Bourzgui! I wasn’t completely surprised he didn’t get a nomination, but I was blown away by his performance as Tommy. He deserves all the accolades, especially as this being his Broadway debut!

Can you imaging if Diane Paulus had critiqued Sara POrkalob in this way in an interview, expressing her disappointment in their acting, their choices, their relevance? After all, Diane is doing a job like Sara, Diane doesn't need to be grateful for Sara, or for any of her collaborators, she can just trash them and their work in print. No. I think it's awful. Artists and all people are entitled to opinions, but there is a difference between having opinions and trashing a show that is currently running on Broadway.

Is it me or does this show has a bit of a shucked the musical feel to it. Soon as I heard Work of Heart I instantly heard Independently Owned lol

Absolute shame not a single lead in the wiz got a nod - they were giving 200% in production that could meet their talent, I hope to see them in other projects soon

There needs to be a best hair and makeup design

The lack of the wiz choreo nom was pretty annoying, it wasn’t my favorite but when I saw it the choreo was def a highlight and lots of critics even liked the choreo.

Missed seeing you in NYC this past trip, next time ur in town please let us New Yorkers know as I would have loved to have said hi to you and your stagy fiancé Aaron!

I really did NOT like the movie and only went on the basis of a friend posting one of the songs but I must say I loved this show especially the performances of older Noah and esp Ali. Maryann Plunkett gives a transcendent performance that will remain with me for a long time

Nearly more in love with everyone's adaptations of "there's a party over here and a party over there" than I am of the actual song and that's saying something 🙃🙃🙃

Loooove these thoughts :)

Heart of RR > than HK....yeah, I said it (I think the book is anemic but individual performances are strong). Lempicka was even more (not surprisingly, yet) sadly snubbed. Sad for cottage - they get so many of these types of shows in London...wish we did on Bway also.

The fact that some of the New York critics were so pissy about being confronted with something just a little out of the norm for musicals, but perfectly suited to the medium it's depicting on Cabaret, like Julia Cheng's choreography, informed by her personal work, itself a part of club culture, tells me all about the openness displayed by New York critics. There are a couple of viral clips from the show, and that audiences instinctively understand what the movement work is saying, says a lot.

This is the most nerve wracking Tony Awards in years.

Any idea how I can view the Cyrano that was filmed? I’m in the US … thanks!

I saw the original concert at Drury Lane and both the Arts Theatre and Garrick Theatre productions too on multiple occaisions. So I went to see the touring show at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking at a matinee earlier in the tour and I thought it equalled the West End productions. The auditorium there was totally full, so it's all very sad.

Are you going to be doing a what to see at Edinburgh fringe video again this year?

Louis is awesome in it.

This sounds awful. I love Tom Holland so I know I would have bought tickets if on that side of the world. I appreciate the depth and fairness of your review.

We got to see most of this cast and we LOVED it! My second favorite Musical behind Wicked now. The Effing perfect song made me tear up. She stole the show as far as I am concerned. Great review!

Finally got to watch this today as I am also getting ready to pack and finish out my trip across the pond (just the other way around, lol). I love these and can't wait for more stagey trip vlogs! It was lovely to meet you at MickeyJoTheatre LIVE last night! Hopefully see you around the US on your next trip, or possibly on my next West End trip, since I'm already excited to return for more amazing theatre over here. Cheers!!

went this weekend and i agree with everything you said. lots of weird choices (the couple in front of me left during the intermission, and i cant blame them) also, having spider-man as romeo you would think this was a probably the first shakespeare for may (young) people, such a missed opportunity!! francesca was amazing, loved her a juliet. poor tom, he really needs a win...

So, no way I can watch this production but I have seen pictures and a bit of fancams here and there, at first glance my brain even mistaken it as Sunset Boulevard but that's impossible, there's no more production of that and the Broadway production is not gonna be until this autumn. So weird.

Oh well, as we all know, the sun'll come up tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar......or pound.....or Euro. Next!

Hello! Just wanted to give a little bit of what I've learned of Romeo & Juliet doing the play with a touring Shakespeare Festival for a couple years. Romeo & Juliet doesn't necessarily have to be about a "love surpassing all ages". For instance, when Romeo speaks of Rosaline, and then switches hard-core over to being crazy into Juliet, it isn't necessarily because Juliet is so much higher above Rosaline. It may just be because Romeo is in love with love. He's an angsty, poetic, young romantic...and maybe also kind of just a horny teenager. Over the years, we've sort of adopted this idea that Romeo & Juliet is the greatest love story of all time for some reason and that they are the perfect couple, but the structure of the story doesn't necessary support that... It's written to show two young, angsty people who fall head over heals really quickly and make really dumb, brash decisions in their infatuation, finally resulting in suicide. And maybe their love does grow throughout the story, but that doesn't mean it is unmatched or even that they're a good couple. Romeo & Juliet has a lot of humor in it. In fact, when it was first performed for Elizabethian audiences, the people were so shocked and disappointed at the ending being so sad (because everyone was laughing all the way through) that Shakespeare had to add a whole monologue at the beginning of the show to literally warn the audiences, "This is a play that's going to be really funny for a while, but it'll end sad, just fyi...." There is so much crude humor in the show, and some of the characters are such larger-than-life characters...There's even a lot of humor that has been lost through the ages. For instance, the name "Tybalt" was a famous, silly cat character in Elizabethian times. So, the fact that one of the most hot-tempered characters in the show was named "Tybalt" is frankly a joke in itself. Imagine today someone like Austin Butler playing some bad-boy swordsman named "Mickey Mouse". Point being...Romeo and Juliet is full of caricatures. And Romeo & Juliet's love in itself...sudden, unreasonable, between two teenagers that really have no clue what they're doing...could as well be a caricature in itself. Peace!

Rachel Ziegler has played Maria and will play Juliet? That’s so amazing