The 63rd annual Tony Awards will be presented from 8 to 11 p.m. Sunday at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Hosted by theater veteran and How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris, the ceremony will be broadcast on WFOR-CBS 4. Miami Herald theater critic Christine Dolen's predicted winners are starred.

MUSICALS

Best Musical

* Billy Elliot, The Musical; Next to Normal; Rock of Ages; Shrek The Musical

Best Revival

Guys and Dolls; * Hair; Pal Joey; West Side Story

Best Book

* Lee Hall, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal; David Lindsay-Abaire, Shrek The Musical; Hunter Bell, [Title of Show]

Best Score

* Elton John and Lee Hall, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal; Dolly Parton, 9 to 5: The Musical; Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, Shrek The Musical

Best Direction of a Musical

* Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Michael Greif, Next to Normal; Kristin Hanggi, Rock of Ages; Diane Paulus, Hair

Best Performance by a Leading Actor

* David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish, Billy Elliot, The Musical;Gavin Creel, Hair; Brian d'Arcy James, Shrek The Musical; Constantine Maroulis, Rock of Ages; J. Robert Spencer, Next to Normal

Best Performance by a Leading Actress

Stockard Channing, Pal Joey; Sutton Foster, Shrek The Musical; Allison Janney, 9 to 5: The Musical; * Alice Ripley,Next to Normal; Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story

Best Performance by a Featured Actor

David Bologna, Billy Elliot, The Musical;

* Gregory Jbara, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Marc Kudisch, 9 to 5: The Musical; Christopher Sieber, Shrek The Musical; Will Swenson, Hair

Best Performance by a Featured Actress

Jennifer Damiano, Next to Normal;

Haydn Gwynne, Billy Elliot, The Musical;

*Karen Olivo, West Side Story; Martha Plimpton, Pal Joey; Carole Shelley, Billy Elliot, The Musical

Best Choreography

Karole Armitage, Hair; Andy Blankenbuehler, 9 to 5: The Musical; * Peter Darling, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Randy Skinner, Irving Berlin's White Christmas

Best Orchestrations

Larry Blank, Irving Berlin's White Christmas;

* Martin Koch, Billy Elliot, The Musical; Michael Starobin and Tom Kitt, Next to Normal; Danny Troob and John Clancy, Shrek The Musical

PLAYS

Best Play

Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate,

* Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations

Best Revival

Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Mary Stuart;

* The Norman Conquests; Waiting for Godot

Best Direction of a Play

Phyllida Lloyd, Mary Stuart; Bartlett Sher,

Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Matthew Warchus, God of Carnage; * Matthew Warchus, The Norman Conquests

Best Performance by a Leading Actor

Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage;Raúl Esparza, Speed-the-Plow; James Gandolfini, God of Carnage; * Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King; Thomas Sadoski, Reasons to Be Pretty

Best Performance by a Leading Actress

Hope Davis, God of Carnage; Jane Fonda, 33 Variations;* Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage; Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart; Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart

Best Performance by a Featured Actor

John Glover, Waiting for Godot; Zach Grenier, 33 Variations; Stephen Mangan, The Norman Conquests; Paul Ritter, The Norman Conquests;