Big Night Ahead For History Boys?

So who will go home happy from tonight’s Tony Awards ceremony? It might not be that hard to figure: “The best play and best play revival categories look to be about as suspenseful as a three-minute egg: Alan Bennett’s History Boys and the revival of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing!, said those polled, are safe money. The directors of those two plays, Nicholas Hytner and Bartlett Sher, are leading contenders in their category; Mr. Hytner will easily win. Indeed, The History Boys seems so likely to dominate the evening’s proceedings that it would hardly be surprising if the play somehow won the award for best regional theater, even though the recipient has already been announced.”