THE Tony Awards are no more unfair than life itself. The fact is, you can’t prove quality by consensus – not that it’s prevented anyone from trying.

Here are my choices that, in an ideal world – that is, one in which everyone agrees with me – would be the winners. Needless to say, it will bear only scant resemblance to the winners announced Sunday night. That’s life.

* Best Play: All the blood and guts notwithstanding, “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” * Best Musical: “Jersey Boys.” I know it’s a jukebox musical, but it’s not a drowsy jukebox, and it tells an engrossing story.

* Best Revival (Play): Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer.” It’s simply four linked monologues, but what writing and what feeling!

* Best Revival (Musical): Surely “Sweeney Todd.” In John Doyle’s marvelously imaginative re-invention, aided by Sarah Travis’ masterly orchestrations, fuses actor and musician.

* Best Actor in a Play: A tough choice, but I must go for the cold passion of Ralph Fiennes as Friel’s shabbily dubious Frank Hardy in “Faith Healer,” who almost managed to erase the memory of the great James Mason in the play’s first production.

* Best Actress in a Play: Zoe Wanamaker in “Awake and Sing!” Oops – she was stupidly nominated as Best Featured Actress, so let’s go with Cherry Jones (“Faith Healer”), but – oops! – she wasn’t even nominated at all. So it’s a horribly thin list, but probably Cynthia Nixon should win.

* Best Actor in a Musical: A close contest. this one, but my choice is Harry Connick Jr., who can play a mean piano and flex his abs while channeling Frank Sinatra over the splendid Johnny High Note of “Jersey Boys,” John Lloyd Young.

* Best Actress in a Musical: I love Chita Rivera, but I must go with Diva No. 2: Patti LuPone.