"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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
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?
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.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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?
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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!
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
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.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
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.
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!
Emcee, when a show wins Best Ensemble, they are all automatically ineligible for individual performance nominations.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
