NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Sunday is do-or-die night for Tony. It doesn’t really matter which Tony you’re watching: the final episode of “The Sopranos” (HBO, 10-11 p.m. New York time) or the 61st Annual Antoinette Perry Awards (CBS, 9-midnight). Either way, there’ll be cheers and tears.The winners will celebrate their triumphs. The losers will leave their blood on the floor, at least metaphorically. And it’s curtains for everyone, probably including the cast of “Curtains”.

Some viewers have waited seven years for “The Sopranos” to come to an end; others felt like seven years passed while they were watching Tom Stoppard’s three-part meditation on Russian intellectual history, “The Coast of Utopia”. The trilogy is the front-runner to win the Tony for the year’s best play. “Spring Awakening”, set in the same century as “Utopia,” but more concerned with hormones than with hermeneutics, is the one to beat for best musical.

The Tony horse race always produces partisans. Bloomberg Broadway critic John Simon begs to differ with some of the prognosticators; so do theatre reporter Philip Boroff and I (as editor and critic).

What follows are our favourites in the major Tony categories, with a few comments. Some colleagues argue that the Tonys should include off-Broadway shows, to which we say: Get over it. We’ve restricted ourselves to Broadway productions, though not necessarily shows nominated for awards.

First, though, a note to Tony Awards executive producers Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss: An on-screen box emblazoned “`Sopranos’ Body Count” might be just the item to make viewers stick around during that treacherous middle hour.Best PlaySimon: “Frost/Nixon”

Gerard: “Radio Golf”

Boroff: “The Coast of Utopia”

(Gerard points out that August Wilson’s swan song had all the elements that made his entire play cycle momentous.)Best MusicalSimon: “Love/Musik”

Gerard: “Spring Awakening”

Boroff: “Grey Gardens”

(All three choices borrowed from older material. Simon casts a write-in vote for Hal Prince’s under-appreciated musical bio of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Boroff notes that “Spring Awakening” may be innovative and fun, but “Grey Gardens” is packed with quirky, enjoyable musical-theater songs that will last.)Best Revival, PlaySimon: “Journey’s End”

Gerard: “Translations”

Boroff: “Journey’s End”

(Though “Journey’s End” is a virtual shoo-in, Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of Brian Friel’s contemporary classic was every bit as powerful.)Best Revival, MusicalSimon: “110 in the Shade”

Gerard: “110 in the Shade”

Boroff: “Company”

(Gerard and Simon cast their votes for the sleeper of the season, an unsung (sung, actually) classic by the team that created “The Fantasticks.”)Best Performance, Actor in a PlaySimon: Boyd Gaines (“Journey’s End”)

Gerard: Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”)

Boroff: Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”)Best Performance, Actress in a PlaySimon: Eve Best (“A Moon for the Misbegotten”)

Gerard: Eve Best (“A Moon for the Misbegotten”)

Boroff: Julie White (“The Little Dog Laughed”)

(Boroff votes for the actress who portrayed an outrageously over-the-top Hollywood agent in one of the season’s early flops.)Best Performance, Actor in a MusicalSimon: Raul Esparza (“Company”)

Gerard: Jonathan Groff (“Spring Awakening”)

Boroff: Jonathan Groff (“Spring Awakening”)Best Performance, Actress in a MusicalSimon: Donna Murphy (“Love/Musik”)

Gerard: Donna Murphy (“Love/Musik”)

Boroff: Christine Ebersol (“Grey Gardens”)Best Director, PlaySimon: Jack O’Brien (“The Coast of Utopia”)

Gerard: Jack O’Brien (“The Coast of Utopia”)

Boroff: Michael Grandage (“Frost/Nixon”)Best Director, MusicalSimon: Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening”)

Gerard: Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening”)

Boroff: Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening”)Best ChoreographySimon: Rob Ashford (“Curtains”)

Gerard: Bill T. Jones (“Spring Awakening”)

Boroff: Bill T. Jones (“Spring Awakening”)Jeremy Gerard is an editor for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.