THEATER TALK Makes Tony Predictions This Weekend

As time moves inexorably closer to the annual Tony Awards ceremony celebrating Broadway's best on June 9, THEATER TALK reconvenes its notable crystal-ball gazers Patrick Pacheco (The Los Angeles Times), Jesse Green (New York Magazine), and entertainment columnist Michael Musto to share their predictions about this year's big contests. Tony Predictions 2013, co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and Susan Haskins, premieres Friday, May 24, 2013 at 1 AM (Saturday morning) on Thirteen/PBS, and repeats in the New York metro area on CUNY TV* Saturday at 8:30 PM, Sunday at 12:30 PM, and Monday at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

Amid happy agreement or respectful dissension, the group weighs in on Matilda v. Kinky Boots, Porter vs. Carvel, Hanks vs. Lane vs. Letts, Virginia Woolf vs. Golden Boy, and a host of other categories. And, as THEATER TALK has shown over 21 consecutive years of Tony predictions, there are plenty of quotable bon mots to savor and share. (We're not giving them away here!)

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*CUNY TV, the City University of New York television station, is broadcast on Ch. 25.3 in the New York metropolitan area, and cablecast in New York City's five boroughs on Channel 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision) and on other cable systems. This program will be also posted on CUNY TV's website beginning May 28 at http://www.cuny.tv/show/theatertalk/PR2001782 .