Awards2017 Drama Desk Awards Presented June 4Michael Urie hosts the Town Hall ceremony.
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Ryan McPhee
June 04, 2017
The 62nd annuals Drama Desk Awards will be presented June 4 in a ceremony at Town Hall hosted by Michael Urie.
Gavin Creel, Jerry Zaks, and Kate Baldwin
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Leading the pack this year with ten nominations is the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler. Trailing closely behind with nine nominations each are the new musicals Come From Away and Anastasia.
This year's list includes a notable representation of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, with Park Avenue Armory's The Hairy Ape and Atlantic Theater Company's Broadway-bound The Band's Visit earning seven nods each. Additionally, The Playwrights Realm's The Wolves earned recognition for Outstanding Ensemble, while its director Lila Neugebauer is set to receive this year's Sam Norkin Award.
The 8 PM ceremony is set to include performances by Stephanie J. Block (Falsettos), Jenn Colella (Come from Away), Katrina Lenk (The Band's Visit), and the cast of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Drama Desk Award winner and Tony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon (Hamilton) will perform during the In Memoriam tribute.
The Drama Desk Awards are one of the only major New York City theatre honors to place Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway productions and artists in the same categories. The awards are voted on and bestowed by theatre critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theatre.
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See Who Came Out For the 2017 Drama Desk Award Nominees Reception
See Who Came Out For the 2017 Drama Desk Award Nominees Reception
Outstanding Play If I Forget, by Steven Levenson (Roundabout Theatre Company) Indecent, by Paula Vogel (Vineyard Theatre) A Life, by Adam Bock (Playwrights Horizons) Oslo, by J. T. Rogers (Lincoln Center Theater) Sweat, by Lynn Nottage (The Public Theater)
Outstanding Musical Anastasia The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company) Come From Away Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Outstanding Revival of a Play The Front Page The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club) The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club) "Master Harold"... and the Boys (Signature Theatre Company) Picnic (Transport Group Theatre Company)
Outstanding Revival of a Musical Falsettos (Lincoln Center Theater) Hello, Dolly! Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweet Charity (The New Group) Tick, Tick...BOOM! (Keen Company)
Outstanding Actor in a Play Bobby Cannavale, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Daniel Craig, Othello (New York Theatre Workshop) Kevin Kline, Present Laughter David Hyde Pierce, A Life (Playwrights Horizons) John Douglas Thompson, Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club)
Outstanding Actress in a Play Cate Blanchett, The Present Laura Linney, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club) Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2 Amy Ryan, Love, Love, Love (Roundabout Theatre Company) Harriet Walter, The Tempest (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Outstanding Actor in a Musical Nick Blaemire, Tick, Tick...BOOM! (Keen Company) Jon Jon Briones, Miss Saigon Nick Cordero, A Bronx Tale Andy Karl, Groundhog Day Jeremy Secomb, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Outstanding Actress in a Musical Christy Altomare, Anastasia Christine Ebersole, War Paint Sutton Foster, Sweet Charity (The New Group) Patti LuPone, War Paint Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly! Laura Osnes, Bandstand
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Michael Aronov, Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater) Danny DeVito, The Price (Roundabout Theatre Company) Nathan Lane, The Front Page Jeremy Shamos, If I Forget (Roundabout Theatre Company) Justice Smith, Yen (MCC Theater)
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Jayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2 Randy Graff, The Babylon Line (Lincoln Center Theater) Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (BAM) Cynthia Nixon, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club) Emily Skinner, Picnic Kate Walsh, If I Forget (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Gavin Creel, Hello, Dolly! Jeffry Denman, Kid Victory (Vineyard Theatre) George Salazar, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical Ari'el Stachel, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company) Brandon Uranowitz, Falsettos (Lincoln Center Theater)
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Kate Baldwin, Hello, Dolly! Stephanie J. Block, Falsettos (Lincoln Center Theater) Jenn Colella, Come From Away Mary Beth Peil, Anastasia Nora Schell, Spamilton
Outstanding Director of a Play Richard Jones, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Anne Kauffman, A Life (Playwrights Horizons) Richard Nelson, What Did You Expect?/Women of a Certain Age (The Public Theater) Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club) Daniel Sullivan, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club) Daniel Sullivan, If I Forget (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Outstanding Director of a Musical Christopher Ashley, Come From Away Bill Buckhurst, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Rachel Chavkin, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 David Cromer, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company) Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly!
Outstanding Choreography Andy Blankenbuehler, Bandstand Warren Carlyle, Hello, Dolly! Aletta Collins, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Kelly Devine, Come From Away Denis Jones, Holiday Inn (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Outstanding Music Stephen Flaherty, Anastasia Dave Malloy, Beardo (Pipeline Theatre Company) Richard Oberacker, Bandstand Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away David Yazbek, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company)
Outstanding Lyrics Gerard Alessandrini, Spamilton GQ and JQ, Othello: The Remix Michael Korie, War Paint Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away David Yazbek, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company)
Outstanding Book of a Musical Terrence McNally, Anastasia Itamar Moses, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company) Richard Oberacker and Rob Taylor, Bandstand Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away Joe Tracz, The Lightning Thief: The Percy JacksonMusical
Outstanding Orchestrations Doug Besterman, Anastasia Bruce Coughlin, War Paint Benjamin Cox, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen, Bandstand August Eriksmoen, Come From Away Jamshied Sharifi, The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company)
Outstanding Music in a Play Daniel Ocanto, Graham Ulicny, and Sean Smith, Alligator (New Georges in collaboration with the Sol Project) Marcus Shelby, Notes from the Field (Second Stage) Bill Sims Jr., Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club)
Outstanding Revue Hello Dillie! (59E59) Life is for Living: Conversations with Coward (59E59)
Outstanding Set Design for a Play David Gallo, Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club) Nigel Hook, The Play That Goes Wrong Laura Jellinek, A Life (Playwrights Horizons) Stewart Laing, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Douglas W. Schmidt, The Front Page
Outstanding Set Design for a Musical Lez Brotherston, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (St. Ann's Warehouse) Simon Kenny, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mimi Lien, Natasha,Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Santo Loquasto, Hello, Dolly! Jason Sherwood, The View UpStairs
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play Jane Greenwood, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club) Susan Hilferty Present Laughter Murell Horton, The Liar (CSC) Toni-Leslie James, Jitney (Manhattan Theatre Club) Stewart Laing, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Ann Roth, The Front Page
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical Linda Cho, Anastasia Toni-Leslie James, Come From Away Santo Loquasto, Hello, Dolly! Anita Yavich, The View UpStairs Paloma Young, Bandstand Catherine Zuber, War Paint
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play Christopher Akerlind, Indecent (Vineyard Theatre) James Farncombe, The Tempest (St. Ann's Warehouse) Rick Fisher, The Judas Kiss (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Mimi Jordan Sherin, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) Stephen Strawbridge, "Master Harold"...and the Boys (Signature Theatre Company) Justin Townsend, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club)
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical Jeff Croiter, Bandstand Mark Henderson, Sunset Boulevard Bradley King, Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop) Bradley King, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Amy Mae, Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street Malcolm Rippeth, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Outstanding Projection Design Reid Farrington, CasablancaBox (HERE) Elaine McCarthy, Notes from the Field (Second Stage) Jared Mezzocchi, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club) John Narun, Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey (Life Jacket Theatre Company) Aaron Rhyne, Anastasia
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play Mikhail Fiksel, A Life (Playwrights Horizons) Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin, The Encounter Brian Quijada, Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre/Radio Drama Network) Leon Rothenberg, Notes from the Field (Second Stage) Jane Shaw, Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb)
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical Simon Baker, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (St. Ann's Warehouse) Peter Hylenski, Anastasia Scott Lehrer, Hello, Dolly! Nicholas Pope, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Mick Potter, Cats Brian Ronan, War Paint Matt Stine, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Outstanding Wig and Hair David Brian Brown, War Paint Campbell Young Associates, Hello, Dolly! John Jared Janas, Yours Unfaithfully (Mint Theatre Company) Jason Hayes, The View UpStairs Josh Marquette, Present Laughter Tom Watson, The Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club)
Outstanding Solo Performance Nancy Anderson, The Pen (Inner Voices) (Premieres) Ed Dixon, Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose Marin Ireland, On the Exhale (Roundabout Underground) Sarah Jones, Sell/Buy/Date (Manhattan Theatre Club) Brian Quijada, Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre/Radio Drama Network) Anna Deavere Smith, Notes from the Field (Second Stage)
Unique Theatrical Experience CasablancaBox (HERE) The Paper Hat Game (The Tank/3-Legged Dog) The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (National Theatre of Scotland) The Ephemera Trilogy (The Tank/Flint & Tinder)
Outstanding Fight Choreography J. David Brimmer, Yen (MCC Theatre) Donal O'Farrell, Quietly (Irish Repertory Theatre) Michael Rossmy and Rick Sordelet, Troilus and Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival) Thomas Schall, Othello (New York Theatre Workshop) Thomas Schall, The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory) U. Jonathan Toppo, Sweat (The Public Theatre)
Outstanding Adaptation David Ives, The Liar, (Classic Stage Company) Ellen McLaughlin, The Trojan Women, (The Flea Theatre)
Outstanding Puppet Design Basil Twist, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Lyndie Wright, Sarah Wright, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Special Awards
The Wolves – Outstanding Ensemble “The superbly talented cast of Sarah DeLappe's debut play—Mia Barron, Brenna Coates, Jenna Dioguardi, Samia Finnerty, Midori Francis, Lizzy Jutila, Sarah Mezzanotte, Tedra Millan, Lauren Patten, and Susannah Perkins—jelled as one, proving that team spirit is just a alive on the stage as it is on the soccer field.”
Special Award to Phil LaDuca “Proving that character comes from the ground up, the designer's innovative flexible dance shoe ensures that hoofers on any stage remain on point.”
Lila Neugebauer – Sam Norkin Award “During a season that saw her helm the original works The Antipodes, Everybody, Miles For Mary, and The Wolves, and resurrect the works of esteemed playwrights Edward Albee, Maria Irene Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy in Signature Plays, director Lila Neugebauer has shown that her dauntless insight into the human condition knows no bounds.”
The Drama Desk nominating committee determined that the Broadway productions of Dear Evan Hansen and Significant Other were ineligible this year, as they were considered in the 2015–2016 season for their Off-Broadway engagements. Indecent, Sweat and Oslo were considered for their Off-Broadway stagings despite also transferring to Broadway this season.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 was considered eligible for its design, staging, and new members of the company, but not for book and score as the committee determined them not sufficiently different from its earlier, already eligible Off-Broadway productions.
The Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George was not considered in accordance with the wishes of its producers.
Shows with multiple nominations Hello, Dolly! – 10 Anastasia – 9 Come From Away – 9 The Hairy Ape – 8 Bandstand – 7 The Band's Visit – 7 The Little Foxes – 7 War Paint – 7 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – 7 Jitney – 6 A Life – 5 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – 4 The Front Page – 4 If I Forget – 4 Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 – 4 Notes from the Field – 4 Falsettos – 3 Present Laughter – 3 The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – 3 The View UpStairs – 3 CasablancaBox – 2 A Doll's House, Part 2 – 2 Hadestown – 2 Indecent – 2 The Liar – 2 "Master Harold" ...and the Boys – 2 Oslo – 2 Othello – 2 Picnic – 2 Spamilton – 2 Sweat – 2 Sweet Charity – 2 The Tempest – 2 Tick, Tick...BOOM! – 2 Where Did We Sit on the Bus? – 2 Yen – 2
