TONY Nominations Predictions 2013!

So the Tony Award nominations will be announced (by Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson) on April 30th, so here is my prediction of who will be nominated for some of the biggest awards. I also will have a wild-card pick per category if there is someone/or a show that could very well score a surprise nomination, even if it isn't necessarily likely.

BEST MUSICAL:
Matilda
Kinky Boots
Hands on a Hardbody
Chaplin
WILD-CARD: Bring It On! The Musical

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Pippin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Annie
WILD-CARD: Jekyll & Hyde

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL:
Rob McClure (Chaplin)
Bertie Carvel (Matilda)
Matthew James Thomas (Pippin)
Billy Porter (Kinkt Boots)
Brandon Victor Dixon (Motown)
WILD-CARD: Santino Fontana (Cinderella)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL:
Patina Miller (Pippin)
Laura Osnes (Cinderella)
Lilla Crawford (Annie)
Carolee Carmello (Scandalous)
Stephanie J. Block (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
WILD-CARD: Deborah Cox (Jekyll & Hyde)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL:
Will Chase (Mystery of Edwin Drood)
Jim Norton (Mystery of Edwin Drood)
Andy Karl (Mystery of Edwin Drood)
Terrence Mann (Pippin)
Gabriel Ebert (Matilda)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL:
Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots)
Andrea Martin (Pippin)
Keala Settle (Hands on a Hardbody)
Ann Harada (Cinderella)
Kate Finneran (Annie)

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL:
Diane Paulus (Pippin)
Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots)
Charles Randolph-Wright (Motown)
Warren Carlyle (Chaplin)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY:
Chet Walker (Pippin)
Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots)
Peter Darling (Matilda)
Josh Rhodes (Cinderella)

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL:
Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots)
Douglas Carter Beane (Cinderella)
Doug Wright (Hands on a Hardbody)
Dennis Kelly (Matilda)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Matilda
Kinky Boots
Hands on a Hardbody
A Christmas Story, The Musical
WILD-CARD: Chaplin

BEST PLAY:
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Nance
The Other Place
The Assembled Parties
WILD-CARD: I'll Eat You Last

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Golden Boy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Heiress
WILD-CARD: Picnic

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY:
Tom Hanks (Lucky Guy)
Tracy Letts (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Nathan Lane (The Nance)
Alan Cumming (Macbeth)
Alec Baldwin (Orphans)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY:
Jessica Chastain (The Heiress)
Holland Taylor (Ann)
Amy Morton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Laurie Metcalf (The Other Place)
Fiona Shaw (The Testament of Mary)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY:
Danny Burstein (Golden Boy)
Richard Kind (The Big Knife)
Jonny Orsini (The Nance)
Tony Shalhoub (Golden Boy)
Tom Sturridge (Orphans)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY:
Judith Ivey (The Heiress)
Elizabeth Marvel (Picnic)
Debra Monk (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Cady Huffman (The Nance)
Condola Rashad (The Trip to Bountiful)

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY:
Pam MacKinnon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Nicholas Martin (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike)
Jack O'Brien (The Nance)
Bartlett Sher (Golden Boy)
Michael Wilson (The Trip to Bountiful)