The Choreography of Tony Nominees

NYTimes.com: To see how hard it is to judge choreography in musicals, you need only watch all four of this year’s Tony nominees. What criteria are involved? In ballet and modern dance, choreography is the shaping factor, the ingredient that brings music, subject matter and performance together into a whole; in a musical, that’s seldom so. But the great choreographers are great directors too: inventors of their own genres of theater.