HADESTOWN tops list of 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award winners

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 12:21am

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
The Ferryman *WINNER*
Ink
Network
To Kill a Mockingbird
What the Constitution Means to Me

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
Be More Chill
Hadestown *WINNER*
Head Over Heels
The Prom
Tootsie


OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Fairview
The House That Will Not Stand
Lewiston / Clarkston
The Light
White Noise *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
The Beast in the Jungle
Black Light
Girl from the North Country *WINNER*
The Hello Girls
Midnight at the Never Get

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Robert Horn - Tootsie *WINNER*
Conor McPherson - Girl from the North Country
Peter Mills and Cara Reichel - The Hello Girls
Anas Mitchell - Hadestown
Jeff Whitty and James Magruder - Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (THE MARJORIE GUNNER AWARD) (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin - The Prom
Joe Iconis - Be More Chill
Peter Mills - The Hello Girls
Anas Mitchell - Hadestown *WINNER*
David Yazbek - Tootsie

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
All My Sons *WINNER*
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Juno and the Paycock
Our Lady of 121st Street
The Waverly Gallery

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Carmen Jones
Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) *WINNER*
Kiss Me, Kate
Oklahoma!
Smokey Joe's Caf

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY (THE Lucille Lortel AWARD)
Rupert Goold - Ink
Sam Mendes - The Ferryman *WINNER*
Jack O'Brien - All My Sons
Bartlett Sher - To Kill a Mockingbird
Logan Vaughn - The Light

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Rachel Chavkin - Hadestown *WINNER*
Scott Ellis - Tootsie
Daniel Fish - Oklahoma!
Joel Grey - Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)
Cara Reichel - The Hello Girls

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Warren Carlyle - Kiss Me, Kate *WINNER*
Christopher Gattelli - The Cher Show
Denis Jones - Tootsie
David Neumann - Hadestown
Sergio Trujillo - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Beowulf Boritt - Bernhardt/Hamlet
Bunny Christie - Ink
Rachel Hauck - Hadestown
Rob Howell - The Ferryman
David Korins - Beetlejuice *WINNER*


OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Rob Howell - The Ferryman
Bob Mackie - The Cher Show *WINNER*
William Ivey Long - Beetlejuice
William Ivey Long - Tootsie
Arianne Phillips - Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Neil Austin - Ink
Stacey Derosier - Lewiston / Clarkston
Bradley King - Hadestown *WINNER*
Jason Lyons - Sugar in Our Wounds
Peter Mumford - King Kong

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Peter England - King Kong *WINNER*
Alex Basco Koch - Be More Chill
Peter Nigrini - Beetlejuice
Jeff Sugg - All My Sons
Tal Yarden - Network

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (Play or Musical)
John Gromada - All My Sons
Peter Hylenski - King Kong *WINNER*
Drew Levy - Oklahoma!
Eric Sleichim - Network
Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz - Hadestown

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose - Hadestown
Simon Hale - Girl from the North Country
Joseph Joubert - Carmen Jones
Daniel Kluger - Oklahoma! *WINNER*
Harold Wheeler - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations


OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
McKinley Belcher III - The Light
Bryan Cranston - Network *WINNER*
Daveed Diggs - White Noise
Bill Irwin - On Beckett
Jeremy Pope - Choir Boy

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Glenn Close - Mother of the Maid
Edie Falco - The True
Glenda Jackson - King Lear
Mandi Masden - The Light
Elaine May - The Waverly Gallery *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Brooks Ashmanskas - The Prom
Reeve Carney - Hadestown
Damon Daunno - Oklahoma!
Santino Fontana - Tootsie *WINNER*
Steven Skybell - Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block - The Cher Show *WINNER*
Kelli O'Hara - Kiss Me, Kate
Beth Leavel - The Prom
Anika Noni Rose - Carmen Jones
Mare Winningham - Girl from the North Country

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bertie Carvel - Ink
John Clay III - Choir Boy
Hugh Dancy - Apologia
John Procaccino - Downstairs
Benjamin Walker - All My Sons *WINNER*


OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Joan Allen - The Waverly Gallery
Stephanie Berry - Sugar in Our Wounds
Fionnula Flanagan - The Ferryman
Harriett D. Foy - The House That Will Not Stand
Celia Keenan-Bolger - To Kill a Mockingbird *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
John Behlmann - Tootsie
Andr De Shields - Hadestown *WINNER*
Reg Rogers - Tootsie
George Salazar - Be More Chill
Ephraim Sykes - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Amber Gray - Hadestown *WINNER*
Leslie Kritzer - Beetlejuice
Bonnie Milligan - Head Over Heels
Sarah Stiles - Tootsie
Ali Stroker - Oklahoma!

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Mike Birbiglia - The New One *WINNER*
Maddie Corman - Accidentally Brave
Jake Gyllenhaal - A Life
Carey Mulligan - Girls & Boys
Rene Taylor - My Life on a Diet


John Gassner PLAYWRITING AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Jeremy O. Harris - Slave Play
Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell - The Lifespan of a Fact *WINNER*
Donja R. Love - Sugar in Our Wounds
Ming Peiffer - Usual Girls
Charly Evon Simpson - Behind the Sheet

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The Executive Committee voted and decided upon the presentation of Special Achievement Awards to:

The Puppetry Team That Created and Operates King Kong

This award recognizes the artistry and technical achievement that brings a 2,000-pound gorilla to life:

Puppet designer and builder Sonny Tilders and the Creature Technology Company
Scenic designer Peter England, who collaborated on the aesthetics of the puppet
Aerial and movement director Gavin Robins
The members of the King's Company, who move Kong on stage: Mike Baerga, Rhaamell Burke-Missouri, J?van Dansberry, Casey Garvin, Gabriel Hyman, Marty Lawson, Roberto Olvera, Khadija Tariyan, Lauren Yalango-Grant, David Yijae, Christopher Hampton Grant, Jena VanEslander, Scott Webber, Warren Yang, James Retter Duncan, Jonathan MacMillan, and Leigh-Ann Vizer.
Kong's Voodoo Operators, who control his facial expressions: Jon Hoche, Danny Miller, and Jacob Williams.
The York Theatre Company
James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director
Evans Haile, Executive Director

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 12:32am

The award for Lead Actor in a musical really should've gone to Steven Skybell.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 12:43am

Agreed. Sadly, Santino will get the Tony in a week year.

[magictodo123]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 8:37am

The awards will go to the best person in the category. You can be "salty" and upset all you want, but that won't change the minds of the Tony voters. The thing that will make me question how much of a theatre fan people are is if they immediately decide "the Tony's are cancelled" if someone they don't like wins the award. If the person is the best in that category, yes, they will win. That's no reason to boycott the awards, or to badmouth the show, or badmouth the actor. You can be disappointed, sure, but being angry enough to say "eff this show" is completely inappropriate. 
On the other hand, if Rachel Chavkin doesn't win for Best Direction I will be seriously upset. I can't imagine it going any other way. 

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 8:47am

magictodo123 said: "The awards will go to the best person in the category. You can be "salty" and upset all you want, but that won't change the minds of the Tony voters. The thing that will make me question how much of a theatre fan people are is if they immediately decide "the Tony's are cancelled" if someone they don't like wins the award. If the person is the best in that category, yes, they will win. That's no reason to boycott the awards, or to badmouth the show, or badmouth the actor. You can be disappointed, sure, but being angry enough to say "eff this show" is completely inappropriate.
On the other hand, if Rachel Chavkin doesn't win for Best Direction I will be seriously upset. I can't imagine it going any other way."

"Best" is subjective. The award will go to whoever gets the most votes, not necessarily the "best." 

[Wick3]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 8:58am

The award will go to the person who gets the most votes. For all we know it could have been a very close vote (like 21% Santino Fontana, 20% Skybell, 20% Daunno, 20% Ashmanskas, and 19% Carney.)

The term best is so subjective. Personally, nomination day is more exciting to me as any of these 5 nominees could have won depending on the personal criteria of the individual voters on voting day.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 9:22am

...but did anyone say "eff this show?" 

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 9:23am

CT2NYC said: "Best" is subjective. The award will go to whoever gets the most votes, not necessarily the "best.""

This.

Truth be told, all of the acting winners are solid!

[Kad]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 10:45am

The major miss here for me is Lifespan of a Fact winning the Gassner Playwriting Award over Slave Play. 

[LarryD2]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 11:21am

Kad said: "The major miss here for me is Lifespan of a Fact winning the Gassner Playwriting Award over Slave Play."

My guess is that more OCC members saw Lifespan of a Fact than Slave Play (and probably all the other nominees combined).

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 1:00pm

magictodo123 said: "The awards will go to the best person in the category. You can be "salty" and upset all you want, but that won't change the minds of the Tony voters. The thing that will make me question how much of a theatre fan people are is if they immediately decide "the Tony's are cancelled" if someone they don't like wins the award. If the person is the best in that category, yes, they will win. That's no reason to boycott the awards, or to badmouth the show, or badmouth the actor. You can be disappointed, sure, but being angry enough to say "eff this show" is completely inappropriate.
On the other hand, if Rachel Chavkin doesn't win for Best Direction I will be seriously upset. I can't imagine it going any other way."

Is this unhinged paragraph in response to me feeling that Steven Skybell probably should've won?  Because if it is, chill out.  I really loved Santino in Tootsie and I think he'll win the Tony, but Steven Skybell does give an absolutely definitive performance of a classic role and is definitely the superior performance here.  Also did anyone here say "eff this show" or "the Tonys are cancelled?"  

Jesus, is it summer break already?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 1:06pm

magictodo123 said: "The awards will go to the best person in the category. You can be "salty" and upset all you want, but that won't change the minds of the Tony voters. The thing that will make me question how much of a theatre fan people are is if they immediately decide "the Tony's are cancelled" if someone they don't like wins the award. If the person is the best in that category, yes, they will win. That's no reason to boycott the awards, or to badmouth the show, or badmouth the actor. You can be disappointed, sure, but being angry enough to say "eff this show" is completely inappropriate.
On the other hand, if Rachel Chavkin doesn't win for Best Direction I will be seriously upset. I can't imagine it going any other way."

So, just who are you yelling at?   I don't see ANYONE commenting here that said anything "worse" than your comment about Chavkin.   

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 1:09pm

For a show everyone hates KING KONG is cleaning up in the tech categories this season.

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 1:25pm

With 3-4 exceptions, I think this is the Tony winners list. So we can quibble about a few individual things, but the OCC winners are very much in line with the mainstream.

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 2:57pm

I'm shooked that this list will be, basically, equal to the Tony's.


Also, what can Ain't too Proud and The Prom win at the Tonys? Can't see a place to reward those shows.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 4:58pm

SomethingPeculiar said: "With 3-4 exceptions, I think this is the Tony winners list. So we can quibble about a few individual things, but the OCCwinnersarevery much in line with the mainstream."

Took the words right outta my mouth. This list looks pretty spot on with my "will win" predictions. That's not to say it's who "should win" though.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 5:02pm

MadsonMelo said: "I'm shooked that this list will be, basically, equal to the Tony's.


Also, what can Ain't too Proud and The Prom win at the Tonys? Can't see a place to reward those shows."

Nothing!