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The big news from the [Tony nominations](http://time.com/80803/the-2014-tony-awards-nominations-see-the-full-list/), announced this morning in advance of the June 8 awards ceremony, is the number of high-profile Broadway shows and stars who got shut out. Denzel Washington, who gives a commanding performance in an American classic, _A Raisin in the Sun_ (and is bringing in sellout crowds to the revival), was, surprisingly, left off the list of nominees for Best Actor in a Play. So was another well-known star giving a critically acclaimed performance — Daniel Radcliffe in the fine new revival of Martin McDonagh’s _The Cripple of Inishmaan_. Two more big-name stars, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, were also ignored for their work in the revivals earlier this season of _No Man’s Land_ and _Waiting for Godot_. Instead, for Best Actor, the Tony nominators gave a double shout-out to two less well-known British interlopers: Mark Rylance and Samuel Barnett, for their roles in two Globe Theater Shakespeare productions, _Richard III_ and _Twelfth Night._ Bryan Cranston, the _Breaking Bad_ star making his Broadway debut as Lyndon B. Johnson in _All the Way_, also snagged a nomination, along with Chris O’Dowd, who plays the slow-witted Lennie in a revival of _Of Mice and Men_, and Tony Shalhoub, in the stage adaptation of Moss Hart’s autobiography, _Act One_. Best Musical was another category where the no-shows were more startling than the nominees. In a season full of big-budget, brand-name musicals from widely admired Broadway hands, the snubs were many. Among the musicals denied nominations were _Rocky_, _The Bridges of Madison County_ and Woody Allen’s _Bullets Over Broadway_, along with _If/Then_, a small-scale show that some thought might sneak in among the blockbusters. The four shows that did get nominated constitute one of the weirdest Best Musical lists in years. The front-runner, by default, is _A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder_, the enjoyably frivolous musical about an heir who kills off all his relatives so he can inherit a family fortune, which leads the field with 10 nominations. Its competition includes one pastiche of jazz-era song-and-dance numbers, _After Midnight_; a routine songbook show, _Beautiful: The Carol King Musical_; and a Disney show, _Aladdin_, that seems a way for the Tony voters to make up to Disney for all its shows that have been snubbed since _The Lion King_. For Best Play, by contrast, the Tony voters seemed more inclined to the big-tent philosophy. In an especially weak year for new plays, almost any plausible show seemed to get a nomination. Among them were two interesting but long-winded plays, Robert Schenkkan’s _All the Way_, and James Lapine’s _Act One_; Harvey Fierstein’s dour look at cross-dressing in the Catskills, _Casa Valentina_; and two inferior works by major playwrights, Terrence McNally’s _Mothers and Sons_ and John Patrick Shanley’s _Outside Mullingar_. The odd play out was _The Realistic Joneses_, surely the strangest Broadway play of the season, but certainly deserving of more attention than it got. Not only was it denied a Best Play nomination, all four members of its excellent cast— Tracy Letts, Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall and Marisa Tomei — were surprisingly shut out as well. The richest category, and the toughest race to handicap, is the one for Best Actress in a Musical. Each nominee has a plausible chance to win: Mary Bridget Davies (_A Night With Janis Joplin_), Sutton Foster (_Violet_), Idina Menzel (_If/Then_), Jessie Mueller (_Beautiful: The Carol King Musical_) and Kelli O’Hara (_The Bridges of Madison County_). The race for Best Actress in a Play is nearly as competitive, though packed with some dutiful and dubious nominees — notably Tyne Daly in _Mothers and Sons_ and Estelle Parsons in _The Velocity of Autumn_. The race will more likely be between Cherry Jones in _The Glass Menagerie_, LaTanya Richardson Jackson in _A Raisin in the Sun_, and Audra McDonald, vying for a record sixth Tony, as Billie Holiday in _Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill_. Amid all the snubs, it was gratifying to see Andy Karl get a nod for his excellent job in the Stallone role in _Rocky_, an underrated show that did manage to pick up four nominations. And though Michelle Williams was overlooked for her low-key turn as Sally Bowles in the revival of _Cabaret_, the show’s two standout supporting actors, Danny Burstein and Linda Emond, both got deserved nominations. Meanwhile, one year after _Kinky Boots_ took home the award for Best Musical, the Tonys proved once again that drag queens rule Broadway. No fewer than four actors from the Globe’s all-male cast of _Twelfth Night_ were nominated; Reed Birney got a nod as one of the cross-dressing househusbands in _Casa Valentina_; and Neil Patrick Harris is the favorite to win Best Actor in a Musical for his flamboyant turn as the German transsexual star of _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_. **Correction:** The original version of this story misstated the source material for _A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder_. 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