2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS — Page 2

I'm glad that Plimpton finally received some recognition. Hers was the only female performance that really made an impression on me in UTOPIA.

I'm also surprised that an ensemble award was not given to JOURNEY'S END. That group of actors are a top notch ensemble in every sense of the word, in my opinion.

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Gustof, I feel the same way.

hey I agree it's crap but I'll gladly trade that for a Nod for Lea!

oh and where is Hugh Dancy!?!?!? Let's hope He's a Cynthia Nixon or a LaChanze

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I agree with the no lighting for spring awakening.... They must have had their eyes closed, LOL.

And I'm very very happy for In The Heights. It really was one of the best shows I've seen this year...... Everyone should go check it out! Its well worth the money and the to 37th and 9th

Any chance "In The Height" could transfer?

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I doubt it. I don't think it'd too well in a larger theater, nor do I think it has enough buzz, but anything is possible.

I have a question. What are the awards where they nominate a bunch of people from the season and then just give the award to one person? Is that Drama Desk? I know Norbert one it during his year.

Rent Boy that is Drama Leauge here are the people vying for that:

F. Murray Abraham — The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice
Heidi Armbruster — Tea and Sympathy
Christine Baranski — Regrets Only
Gary Beach — Les Misérables
Daniel Beaty — Emergence-See!
Eve Best — A Moon for the Misbegotten
Stephanie J. Block — The Pirate Queen
Justin Bond — Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway
Christian Borle — Legally Blonde
Ashley Brown — Mary Poppins
Laura Bell Bundy — Legally Blonde
Kate Burton — The Water’s Edge
Michael Cerveris — King Lear, LoveMusik
Kristin Chenoweth — The Apple Tree
Anthony Chisholm — Radio Golf
Jill Clayburgh — The Clean House, The Busy World Is Hushed
Jennifer Cody — Henry and Mudge
Billy Crudup — The Coast of Utopia
Michael Cumpsty — Richard II
Charlotte D'Amboise — A Chorus Line
Hugh Dancy — Journey's End
Jeff Daniels — Blackbird
Brian Dennehy — Inherit the Wind
Gregory Derelian — The Hairy Ape
*Ensemble — Columbinus
*Ensemble — Coram Boy
Raúl Esparza — Company
Gerald Finnigan — The Hairy Ape
John Fugelsang — All the Wrong Reasons
Boyd Gaines — Journey's End
John Gallagher Jr. — Spring Awakening
Alexander Gemignani — Les Misérables
Piper Goodeve — Anne of Green Gables
Logan Marshall-Green — King Lear, Pig Farm
David Greenspan — Some Men
George Grizzard — Regrets Only
Jonathan Groff — Spring Awakening
Ed Harris — Wrecks
Ethan Hawke — The Coast of Utopia
Phillip Seymour Hoffman — Jack Goes Boating
Jayne Houdyshell — The Pain and the Itch
Stephen Kunken — A Very Common Procedure, Frost/Nixon
Nathan Lane — Butley
Gavin Lee — Mary Poppins
Harry Lennix — Radio Golf
Norm Lewis — Les Misérables
Hamish Linklater — The Busy World Is Hushed
John Mahoney — Prelude to a Kiss
Dylan McDermott — The Treatment
Audra McDonald — 110 in the Shade
Lin-Manuel Miranda — In the Heights
Alfred Molina — Howard Katz
Debra Monk — Curtains
Kate Mulgrew — Our Leading Lady
Donna Murphy — LoveMusik
Kristine Nielsen — Our Leading Lady
Bill Nighy — The Vertical Hour
Brian F. O'Byrne — Shining City, The Coast of Utopia
Denis O'Hare — Inherit the Wind, A Spanish Play
Sandra Oh — Satellites
Thaddeus Phillips — El Conquistador!
David Hyde Pierce — Curtains
Allison Pill — Blackbird
Oliver Platt — Shining City
Michelle Ragusa — Adrift in Macao
Vanessa Redgrave — The Year of Magical Thinking
Liev Schreiber — Macbeth, Talk Radio
Pablo Schreiber — Dying City
Andrew Scott — The Vertical Hour
Michael Sheen — Frost/Nixon
Martin Short — Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Meryl Streep — Mother Courage and Her Children
Michael Stuhlbarg — The Voysey Inheritance
Nilaja Sun — No Child
Alan Tudyk — Prelude to a Kiss
Barbara Walsh — Company

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I am absolutely thrilled for Orfeh! She deserves every bit of the recognition she's received lately and I wish her continued success to come. As many have already said, a lot of these nominations will not be in the same categories come Tony time. My personal WTF moment is Heather Hach for Blonde's book. Truly terrible when not directly lifted from the movie. Excited for SA.

"What pisses me off is that Meryl Streep got a nomination, in my opinion, because she's Meryl Streep, and Kevin Spacey got a nomination because he's Kevin Spacey. Streep's performance in MOTHER COURAGE was tired. Spacey brings nothing new to MISBEGOTTEN in his performance. In fact, he hinders the production, in my opinion. I would have given his slot to Hugh Dancy in a heartbeat."

WannaBe, I disagree on almost all counts with you here. Meryl Streep was FAR from giving a tired performance in Mother Courage in the park this past summer. She was incredible IMO, and I'm just glad they remembered how amazing she was. I haven't seen Spacey in Moon, so I can't speak on that, but if I agreed with your statement, I still would give his slot to Stark Sands before I would give it to Hugh Dancy

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I'm going to predict the Tonys will look alot different come nomination time. Some of these are just mixed up and there's 1,000 entires per category. YEAH ORFEH! That's really great news as is all the Spring Awakening love but I also can't believe the BOOK of Legally blonde got one. IMO, that's the single weakest link in the show. Again, just as we said about the DD's following the OCC's, the Tonys are going to be very different.

I must say, I'm upset Heather Laws hasn't been nominated. If I had to award only one of the COMPANY ladies, I'd take her over Walsh any day (although I loved Walsh too).

I also find it surprising and interesting that Jonathan Gallagher is considered a lead while Gavin Lee is featured. I know Bert's not that big a role, but I'd still push it as leading.

Am SO happy Celia got nominated! I hate to sound like a fangirl, but I loooooved her Eponine. I don't expect her to win, but it's nice to see a nomination. :3

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Meryl Streep, Mother Courage and Her Children

She has to win. She carried a three hour production without faltering.

I can't believe Celia got nominated for Les Mis. She was terrible in it.

Glad Michael Cerveris and LoveMusik received nominations.

Balgord is terrific and deserves her nom.
I think Block and Fraser should have been included also.
(she is better than Cheno was, and at least as good as Bundy Michelle)
For me the two biggest missing noms are Daniele and Bress's Choreography for PQ and the most glorious Costume Design in New York right now: Martin Pakledinaz also for PQ.
Even the show's nay sayers admired the Costumes.
I also think A CHORUS LINE should be included.
(THE APPLE TREE????)

Updated On: 4/26/07 at 01:17 PM