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It’s Time to Make Your Tony Nomination Predictions!

Choose your picks from TheaterMania’s lists of this year’s eligible contenders in all of your favorite categories.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has spoken for the fourth and final time. On April 26, the committee convened to make the last of its 2013 Tony Awards eligibility determinations after holding three other meetings, on October 25, February 14, and March 21.

Now, with the 2012-13 Broadway season officially behind us, TheaterMania has taken the time to make the Tony season just a little easier for all you theatergoing clairvoyants out there. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of all of the eligible productions and performers in the following categories: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, Best Play, Best Revival of a Play, Best Musical, and Best Revival of a Musical.

Before this season’s Tony Award nominees are announced on the morning of April 30, make your own nomination predictions (and then spend April 30 either celebrating your theater savvy or mourning the snubs of your favorites).

And for those of you who are of a wagering breed, may the odds be ever in your favor…

Leading Actor in a Play
• Boyd Gaines — An Enemy of the People
• Seth Numrich — Golden Boy
• Norbert Leo Butz — Dead Accounts
• Paul Rudd — Grace
• Michael Shannon — Grace
• Ciarán Hinds — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Benjamin Walker — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Douglas Hodge — Cyrano de Bergerac
• Jim Parsons — Harvey
• David Strathairn — The Heiress
• Alan Cumming — Macbeth
• Tracy Letts — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Cory Michael Smith — Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• David Hyde Pierce — Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• Nathan Lane — The Nance
• Bobby Cannavale — The Big Knife
• Alec Baldwin — Orphans
• Ben Foster — Orphans
• Tom Sturridge — Orphans
• Tom Hanks — Lucky Guy

Leading Actor in a Musical
• Rob McClure — Chaplin
• Anthony Warlow — Annie
• John Bolton — A Christmas Story
• Johnny Rabe — A Christmas Story
• Santino Fontana — Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
• Jim Norton — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Stark Sands — Kinky Boots
• Billy Porter — Kinky Boots
• Bertie Carvel — Matilda: The Musical
• Brandon Victor Dixon — Motown: The Musical
• Matthew James Thomas — Pippin
• Constantine Maroulis — Jekyll & Hyde

Leading Actress in a Play
• Laurie Metcalf — The Other Place
• Patti LuPone — The Anarchist
• Debra Winger — The Anarchist
• Holland Taylor — Ann
• Katie Holmes — Dead Accounts
• Fiona Shaw — The Testament of Mary
• Scarlett Johansson — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Clémence Poésy — Cyrano de Bergerac
• Jessica Chastain — The Heiress
• Amy Morton — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Kristine Nielsen — Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• Sigourney Weaver — Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• Emilia Clarke — Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Jessica Hecht — The Assembled Parties
• Cicely Tyson — The Trip to Bountiful
• Bette Midler — I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers

Leading Actress in a Musical
• Taylor Louderman — Bring It On: The Musical
• Adrienne Warren — Bring It On: The Musical
• Lilla Crawford — Annie
• Erin Dilly — A Christmas Story
• Laura Osnes — Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
• Carolee Carmello — Scandalous
• Stephanie J. Block — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Valisia LeKae — Motown: The Musical
• Patina Miller — Pippin
• Deborah Cox — Jekyll & Hyde

Play
The Anarchist
Ann
The Assembled Parties
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Dead Accounts
Grace
I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers
Lucky Guy
The Nance
The Other Place
The Testament of Mary
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Revival of a Play
The Big Knife
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cyrano de Bergerac
An Enemy of the People
Glengarry Glen Ross
Golden Boy
Harvey
The Heiress
Macbeth
Picnic
The Trip to Bountiful
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Orphans

Musical
Bring It On: The Musical
Chaplin
A Christmas Story
Hands on a Hardbody
Kinky Boots
Matilda: The Musical
Motown: The Musical
Scandalous

Revival of a Musical
Annie
Jekyll & Hyde
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella