Tony nominations

Billy Elliot dominates the field with 15 noms. The show is June 7 and you can see all the nominations here. Here are some of the big categories:

BEST PLAY Dividing the Estate, God of Carnage, reasons to be pretty, 33 Variations.

BEST MUSICAL Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, Shrek the Musical.

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Stockard Channing, Pal Joey, Sutton Foster, Shrek the Musical, Allison Janney, 9 to 5,  Alice Ripley, Next to Normal, Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story.

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage, Raul Esparza, Speed-the-Plow, James Gandolfini, God of Carnage, Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King, Thomas Sadoski, reasons to be pretty.