Congratulations Eden Espinosa!!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:47pm

"Eden Espinosa nominated for Distinguished Performance by Drama League"

Nominees Announced for the 71st Annual Drama League Awards
Nominations for the 2005 Drama League Awards were announced on April 19. The Drama League honors both Broadway and off-Broadway shows and is the oldest theatrical institution to give awards (pre-dating the Tony Awards by 12 years).

The 71st Annual Drama League Awards luncheon and ceremony will be held on May 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Cherry Jones, a previous recipient of the Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award, will host the ceremony.

The Drama League Awards pays tribute to the season's best performers by including the nominees of The Distinguished Performance Award on a dais. This year the awards will feature plenty of stars from the 2004-2005 Broadway and off-Broadway season, including co-chairs Lea DeLaria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sutton Foster, John Lithgow, Frances Sternhagen and Leslie Uggams. The cut-off date for this year's nominations was April 13.

Updated On: 4/19/05 at 06:47 PM

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:50pm

Congrats to her! :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:51pm

Where's the full list of nominations?

And congrats!

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:53pm

wow good for her...i would love to know who else was nominated

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:55pm

Idina was nominated

[442namffug]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:55pm

How many winners do they pick for the acting award? It's tough to compare those performers because they are SO different and so are the productions that they are nominated for...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:56pm

YAY FOR EDEN... HEY TINY-TOON... WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO ADORE BROOKLYN AND ITS AMAZING LEADING LADY!

WAS ANYONE ELSE FOR IT NOMINATED?!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:58pm

"WAS ANYONE ELSE FOR IT NOMINATED?!"

I still don't know, because the full list is not up yet.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 6:59pm

If they dont nominate Ramona then they are insane!

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:01pm

Unless I missed something, Idina wasn't nominated this year. She wasn't in anything new.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:01pm

Full List

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=510810

[Al Dente]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:02pm

Not to diminish Espinosa's nomination, but surely you did realize that sixty-eight people were nominated, not including multilple cast members for ensemble nods, so we should congratulate all sixty-eight+ of them, no?

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:11pm

Eden is nominated against Denzel Washington & Whoopi Goldberg!

[Al Dente]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:17pm

As are Sara Ramirez, Altar Boyz, 12 angry Men,Norbert Leo butz,Billy Crystal, Lea Delaria, Sheri Rene' Scott, cherry Jones and about 60 other performers.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:24pm

Heck... its an honor to be nominated

Plus Brooklyn could use this...

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 7:26pm

Oh, YES they can..
(aahhmm.. NYT AD.. aahhmm)

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:20pm

not time to break out the party hats just yet... with that many people in a catagory its not that much of an honor...

[Aigoo]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:21pm

It's sort of like...tying for first place.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:22pm

Idina is just so good that she'll be nomitated twice.

WTF, No streetcar?

[bjivie2]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:27pm

Why are there so many freaking people nominated?

[Plum]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:29pm

That's how they do it every year, bjivie2. And thank you for pointing it out so I wouldn't have to, Al. Everybody and their mother gets nominated for this award- it's notable because only one performer, whether male or female and performing in a play or a musical, gets to win.

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:44pm

Ramona is so much better.
Some things suck. This is one of them.

Updated On: 4/19/05 at 08:44 PM

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 8:47pm

I was happy to see Liev Schreiber's name mentioned for Glengarry Glen Ross.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 9:28pm

Wait, so they nominate all those people, but only one wins? Or does one male and one female win? I'm confused.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 9:31pm

One wins. Though I think a few years ago there was a tie.