Big Poppy's Tony Scorecard

It had to be a disappointing night in Hatboro, PA last night when they opened the envelopes at the Tony Awards.  The Grandstander's Broadway Correspondent, Big Poppy, aka, the Truly Arrogant Guest Prognosticator, fell short of his hoped for eight correct predictions out of ten.  By my reckoning, Big Poppy went 5-5 in his predictions for Broadway's Tony Awards.

Oh, well, Big Poppy, even Stengal's Yankees didn't win the pennant every year, so keep on giving our regards to Broadway, and we'll look forward to a huge comeback come 2013!

BigPoppy Gives His Regards to Broadway

It seems that David Ortiz isn't the only Big Papi belting them out of the park these days. You will recall that last week I posted the Tony Award predictions of Loyal Reader BigPoppy (http://grandstander.blogspot.com/2011/06/special-guest-blogger-bigpoppy-on-tonys.html), and it turns out that this guy knows of which he speaks.

A check of the Tony Award Box Score shows that BigPoppy clicked on six of his seven predictions. Wow, I hope he had some action down on that!! He missed only in the category of Actress in a Featured Role. And "Book of Mormon" swept the Tonys last night, just as BP called it.

The Grandstander gives a firm Lock/Clasp to BigPoppy and welcomes him back any time in the role of, too use his very own words to me, "Truly Arrogant Guest Prognosticator."

I will also reinforce something I wrote in the post with BP's picks last week after seeing that "Anything Goes" won the Tony for Best Musical Revival. For a guy who wrote his last song in 1958 and died in 1964, Cole Porter is still gettin' it done! (And one can see Porter portrayed once again in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris.")