Lortel Awards Nominees 2009

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 4:13pm

Outstanding Play:

Animals Out of Paper; Second Stage Theatre, Producer; Rajiv Joseph,
Playwright

Becky Shaw; Second Stage Theatre, Producer; Gina Gionfriddo, Playwright

Ruined; Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre, Producer; Lynn Nottage,
Playwright

The Good Negro; The Public Theater in association with Dallas Theater
Center, Producers; Tracey Scott Wilson, Playwright

The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 192; New York Theatre Workshop and
Elevator Repair Service, Producers; Text by William Faulkner, Created by
Elevator Repair Service

Outstanding Musical:

Fela! A New Musical; Ruth and Stephen Hendel and Roy Gabay, Producers; Book
by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones, Music and Lyrics by Fela Anikulapo Kuti,
Add'l Music by AaRon Johnson and Jordan McLean, Add'l Lyrics by Jim Lewis.

My Vaudeville Man!; The York Theatre Company and Melanie Herman, Producers;
Book by Jeff Hochhauser, Music by Bob Johnston, Lyrics by Bob Johnston and
Jeff Hochhauser

Road Show; The Public Theater, Producer; Music and Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim, Book by John Weidman

Saved; Playwrights Horizons in association with Elephant Eye Theatrical,
Producers; Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman, Book and Lyrics by John
Dempsey and Rinne Groff

This Beautiful City; Vineyard Theatre, Producer; Composer and Lyricist
Michael Friedman, Librettist Steve Cosson and Jim Lewis, Created by The
Civilians

Outstanding Solo Show:

Humor Abuse; Manhattan Theatre Club, Producer; Created by Lorenzo Pisoni and
Erica Schmidt, Performed by Lorenzo Pisoni

Sleepwalk With Me; Eli Gonda, Ryan Scott Warren, Marc Turtletaub, Peter
Saraf, and Nathan Lane, Producers; Written and Performed by Mike Birbiglia


Outstanding Revival:

Enter Laughing, The Musical; The York Theatre Company, Producer; Book by
Joseph Stein, Music and Lyrics by Stan Daniels, Based on the play Enter
Laughing by Joseph Stein, from the novel by Carl Reiner.

Othello; Theatre for a New Audience, Producer; William Shakespeare,
Playwright

Our Town; Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, Ted Snowdon, Eagle
Productions, Dena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau, The Weinstein Company, Burnt
Umber Productions, Producers; Thornton Wilder, Playwright

The Cripple of Inishmaan; Atlantic Theater Company and Druid Theatre
Company, Producers; Martin McDonagh, Playwright

The Glass Cage; Mint Theater Company, Producer; J.B. Priestley, Playwright

Outstanding Director:

Arin Arbus, Othello
David Cromer, Our Town
Garry Hynes, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kate Whoriskey, Ruined
RoBert Woodruff, Chair

Outstanding Choreographer:

Martha Clarke, Garden of Earthly Delights
Bill T. Jones, Fela! A New Musical
Janet Miller, The Marvelous Wonderettes
Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Shonn Wiley, My Vaudeville Man!
Sergio Trujillo, Saved

Outstanding Lead Actor:

Ned Eisenberg, Othello
Brian d'Arcy James, Port Authority
Josh Grisetti, Enter Laughing, The Musical
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela! A New Musical
John Douglas Thompson, Othello

Outstanding Lead Actress:

Ellen Burstyn, The Little Flower of East Orange
Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Ruined
Carmen M. Herlihy, crooked
Kellie Overbey, The Savannah Disputation
Annie Parisse, Becky Shaw

Outstanding Featured Actor:

Utkarsh Ambudkar, Animals Out of Paper
Francois Battiste, The Good Negro
John McMartin, Saturn Returns
Aaron Monaghan, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Thomas Sadoski, Becky Shaw

Outstanding Featured Actress:

Annika Boras, Chair
Kerry Condon, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Lisa Emery, Distracted
Mamie Gummer, Uncle Vanya
Juliet Rylance, Othello

Outstanding Scenic Design:

Beowulf Boritt, Animals Out of Paper
Marina Draghici, Fela! A New Musical
Roger Hanna, The Glass Cage
James Schuette, Wig Out!
David Zinn, Chair

Outstanding Costume Design:

Marina Draghici, Fela! A New Musical
Ann Hould-Ward, Road Show
Toni-Leslie James, Wig Out!
Karen Perry, The First Breeze of Summer
Theresa Squire, Rafta, Rafta?

Outstanding Lighting Design:

Christopher Akerlind, Garden of Earthly Delights
Mark Barton, Chair
Lap Chi Chu, The Good Negro
Marcus Doshi, Othello
Jason Lyons, Mourning Becomes Electra

Outstanding Sound Design:

Quentin Chiappetta, Irena's Vow
John Gromada, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
Robert Kaplowitz, Wig Out!
Jane Shaw, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Matt Tierney, The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 192

Special Awards:

Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence:

Ira Weitzman

Outstanding Body of Work:

The Lark Play Development Center

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 4:15pm

Love all the love for ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER, a little show at 2nd Stage Uptown I was raving about last summer.

In fact, it's really an excellent list. Got a lot right.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 4:20pm

Wait, wait, wait.

David Wilson Barnes wasn't even NOMINATED for "Becky Shaw"?! That's disgusting. He'd have easily been my pick to win.

[KingKong]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 4:31pm

How was Saved nominated? it was a train wreck.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 5:57pm

ack! that's some stiff competition!

I'm pulling for some Civilians, Fela!, Elevator Repair Service, and Annika Boras wins!

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:51pm

KingKong, I second that emotion...Saved was a total disaster; I don't get it either.