Drama Desk Nominations Thread- Page 5

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:23am

No Kerry Butler!

Updated On: 4/28/08 at 10:23 AM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:24am

Here's the entire list...

Outstanding Ensemble Performances
The Dining Room
The Homecoming

Special Awards
Edward Albee in his 80th year, "whose provocative plays, including this season's Peter and Jerry, enrich the American theater."

James Earl Jones, a "commanding force on the stage for nearly half a century."

59E59 Theaters, whose "imaginative curatorial vision has created a stimulating environment to nurture a diverse range of artists."

Playwrights Horizons for "ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work."

Nominees for the 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards follow:

Outstanding Play:
Alan Ayckbourn, Intimate Exchanges
Rinde Eckert, Horizon
Liz Flahive, From Up Here
Horton Foote, Dividing the Estate
Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
Tom Stoppard, Rock ’n’ Roll

Outstanding Musical:
A Catered Affair
Adding Machine
Passing Strange
The Glorious Ones
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Xanadu

Outstanding Revival of a Play:
Boeing-Boeing
Happy Days
Macbeth
The Country Girl
The Dining Room
The Return of the Prodigal

Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
Black Nativity
Gypsy
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George
Take Me Along

Outstanding Revue:
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
Fugitive Songs
Make Me a Song

Outstanding Actor in a Play:
Bill Champion, Intimate Exchanges
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac
Bill Pullman, Peter and Jerry
Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Tobias Segal, From Up Here
Rufus Sewell, Rock 'n' Roll

Outstanding Actress in a Play:
Sinead Cusack, Rock 'n' Roll
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
Frances McDormand, The Country Girl
Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Fiona Shaw, Happy Days
Julie White, From Up Here

Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
André De Shields, Black Nativity
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu
Matthew Morrison, 10 Million Miles
Paulo Szot, South Pacific

Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
Sierra Boggess, The Little Mermaid
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O’Hara, South Pacific
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
John Cullum, The Conscientious Objector
Conleth Hill, The Seafarer
Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Arian Moayed, Masked
Jeff Perry, August: Osage County
Michael T. Weiss, Scarcity

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
Elizabeth Ashley, Dividing the Estate
Johanna Day, Peter and Jerry
Zoe Kazan, 100 Saints You Should Know
Linda Lavin, The New Century
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County
Marisa Tomei, Top Girls

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:
Danny Burstein, South Pacific
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein
Bobby Steggert, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Leslie Kritzer, A Catered Affair
Andrea Martin, Young Frankenstein
Mary Testa, Xanadu
Amy Warren, Adding Machine
Mare Winningham, 10 Million Miles

Outstanding Director of a Play:
David Schweizer, Horizon
Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County
Leigh Silverman, From Up Here
Jonathan Silverstein, The Dining Room
Matthew Warchus, Boeing-Boeing
Deborah Warner, Happy Days

Outstanding Director of a Musical:
Christopher Ashley, Xanadu
Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park with George
David Cromer, Adding Machine
John Doyle, A Catered Affair
Bob McGrath, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Bartlett Sher, South Pacific

Outstanding Choreography:
Karole Armitage, Passing Strange
Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby The Musical
Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider, Traces
Dan Knechtges, Xanadu
Peter Pucci, Queens Boulevard (the musical)
Susan Stroman, Young Frankenstein

Outstanding Music:
John Bucchino, A Catered Affair
Stephen Flaherty, The Glorious Ones
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Mark Mulcahy, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Joshua Schmidt, Adding Machine
Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange

Outstanding Lyrics:
Lynn Ahrens, The Glorious Ones
Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein
John Bucchino, A Catered Affair
Ben Katchor, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt, Adding Machine
Stew, Passing Strange

Outstanding Book of a Musical:
Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu
Harvey Fierstein, A Catered Affair
Ben Katchor, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt, Adding Machine
Stew, Passing Strange
Eric H. Weinberger, Wanda's World

Outstanding Orchestrations:
Doug Besterman, Young Frankenstein
Jason Carr, Sunday in the Park with George
Michael Starobin, The Glorious Ones
Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange
Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair
Tim Weil, 10 Million Miles

Outstanding Set Design of a Play:
Beowulf Boritt, Spain
Scott Bradley, Eurydice
David Korins, Hunting and Gathering
Santo Loquasto, Trumpery
Scott Pask, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Clint Ramos, The Return of the Prodigal

Outstanding Set Design of a Musical:
David Gallo, A Catered Affair
Takeshi Kata, Adding Machine
Derek McLane, 10 Million Miles
George Tsypin, The Little Mermaid
Robin Wagner, Young Frankenstein
Michael Yeargan, South Pacific

Outstanding Costume Design:
Mara Blumenfeld, The Glorious Ones
Michael Bottari and Ronald Case, Jessica Jahn, Die Mommie Die!
Ann Hould-Ward, A Catered Affair
Ana Kuzmanic, August: Osage County
Katrina Lindsay, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
William Ivey Long, Young Frankenstein

Outstanding Lighting Design:
Kevin Adams, The 39 Steps
Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George
Maruti Evans, Slaughterhouse-Five
Donald Holder, South Pacific
Natasha Katz, The Little Mermaid
Keith Parham, Adding Machine

Outstanding Sound Design:
Adam Cork, Macbeth
Jorge Cousineau, Opus
Joseph Fosco, The Conversation
Scott Lehrer, South Pacific
Mic Pool, The 39 Steps
Tony Smolenski IV, Adding Machine

Outstanding Solo Performance:
Kris Andersson, Dixie's Tupperware Party
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
Stephen Lang, Beyond Glory
April Yvette Thompson, Liberty City

Outstanding Projection and Video Design:
Paul Barritt, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Timothy Bird and The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park with George
Zachary Borovay, A Catered Affair
Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Lorna Heavey, Macbeth
Tal Yarden, The Misanthrope

Unique Theatrical Experience:
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Cut to the Chase
Fabrik – The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
The 39 Steps
Traces

Shows with multiple nominations:
A Catered Affair, 12
Adding Machine, 9
Young Frankenstein, 8
South Pacific, 8
August: Osage County, 7
Passing Strange, 7
Sunday in the Park with George, 7
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, 7
Xanadu, 6
The Glorious Ones, 5
10 Million Miles, 4
From Up Here, 4
Gypsy, 4
Boeing-Boeing, 3
Happy Days, 3
Macbeth, 3
Rock 'n' Roll, 3
The 39 Steps, 3
The Dining Room, 3
The Little Mermaid, 3
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 2
Black Nativity, 2
Dividing the Estate, 2
Horizon, 2
Intimate Exchanges, 2
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 2
Peter and Jerry, 2
Next to Normal, 2
The Country Girl, 2
The Return of the Prodigal, 2
Traces, 2

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:25am

Wow, lots of love for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, XANADU & THE SLUG-BEARERS (of something I couldn't hear).

Did anything from THE HOMECOMING or THE SEAFARER get nominated? I couldn't hear several of the categories. I'm guessing IN THE HEIGHTS was nominated last year and wasn't eligible this time?

[A Grey Spring]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:25am

Good nominations.... Very happy for August: OC!!!!

[BenKaye]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:26am

I am loving these nominations!!!

[RyToast1]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:26am

Cry Baby better start editing their sign now!!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:26am

THE SLUG BEARERS OF KAYROL ISLAND, OR THE FRIENDS OF DR. RUSHLOWER played a critically acclaimed run at the Vineyard Off-Broadway.

Hopefully it will transfer to a commercial run.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:26am

Yay for Mary and Cheyenne and Xanadu!
And I'm pleasantly surprised for Sierra Boggess. She won't win, but yay for being nominated.
What no Sherie for Featured?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:26am

Mary Testa, but no Jackie Hoffman!

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:28am

Boo for no Jackie or Kerry. Boo.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:28am

Is the category for Best Projection a new thing?

RyToast, I think their sign said "Drama League" not "Drama Desk."

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:29am

So am I the only one with the gut feeling that A CATERED AFFAIR might take Best Musical?

12 nominations and it won't win for any of it's performances or it's technical aspects (it's just not big or grand enough)...

I think it's either going to win Best Musical randomly without too many other wins, or go home empty-handed. Sadly...


It's toughest competition at this point is PASSING STRANGE, I think.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:29am

They must not have nominated any individual cast members from The Homecoming because they got the ensemble nod. Which I guess is fair?

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:30am

Yeah for Xanadu's nods! Go Mary Testa and Cheyenne Jackson! (Would've liked the co-nomination for Mary and Jackie, but I'll take the one for Mary!)

Disappointed for Kerry-she should've been nominated!

And Loretta Ables-Sayre should've been for South Pacific! She's really fantastic!

But go Xanadu!!!!!!!

Huzzah!

[James885]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:30am

Wow, A Catered Affair and August:OC certainly racked up the noms. I wasn't expecting Sierra to be nominated for TLM. I'm also glad to see Xanadu get some recognition.

[AntonEgo]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:30am

I'm so excited for all the nominations for The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island. It was a very innovative show. And yeah for Bobby Steggert.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:31am

I guess Cry Baby will have to revise that poster that was out the other day.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:31am

I'm so happy that CRY BABY didn't get any nominations...and I know some of you are surprised by Kerry's snub, but she will likely get a Tony nomination.

Here's hoping for a Patti, Laura, and Boyd sweep!

[BenKaye]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:31am

I'm also very happy for the Glorious Ones Nominees, even though they probably won't win anything. At least their show was recognized.

[bestinshow2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:31am

Yay for Rufus!

Boo for Raul!

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:33am

really no love for Kate Fleetwood? She was only the best thing in Macbeth.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:34am

Eve Best deserved a nomination.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:35am

I think it's a pretty safe guess at this point that the Tony nominations for Best Musical will be PASSING STRANGE, XANADU, A CATERED AFFAIR, & IN THE HEIGHTS. I'm wondering if A CATERED AFFAIR will actually end up winning the Drama Desk, since it's so far ahead of anything else in nominations.

I'm glad to see so much love for AUGUST & PASSING STRANGE!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:35am

Emcee, when a show wins Best Ensemble, they are all automatically ineligible for individual performance nominations.

[Maurice]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:36am

Yay for Amy Morton!