Winners were announced in six competitive categories: Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Musical Revival, Best Play Revival, Best Special Event and Best Family Show. Winners in all categories were selected by secret ballot by members of the awards committee of the Off Broadway Alliance.
Top prizes went to Silence! The Musical, which is billed as the unauthorized parody of "The Silence of the Lambs"; and Tribes, Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated drama.
The 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Awards will be presented June 19 at 4:30 PM at Sardi's.
In addition to the competitive awards, Off Broadway Alliance Legend of Off Broadway Awards will be presented for sustained achievement in the world of Off-Broadway to Edward Albee, Gerard Alessandrini, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Russell and Mary Louise Wilson. Two 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Hall of Fame Awards will be presented posthumously to Howard Kissel and Theodore Mann.
Nominees follow (winners names are in bold preceded by an asterisk): Best New Musical
The Blue Flower
Once
Queen of the Mist
*SILENCE! The Musical
Sistas: The Musical
Best New Play
4000 Miles
Milk Like Sugar
Sons of the Prophet
*Tribes
Unnatural Acts
Best Musical Revival
*Carrie
Ionescopade
Rent
Best Play Revival
Beyond the Horizon
The Cherry Orchard
*Cymbeline
The Lady From Dubuque
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Best Special Event
The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
An Iliad
The Patsy
*Traces
Voca People
Best Family Show
Alice in Wonderland
The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things
The Berenstain Bears LIVE!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Ohmies
*Stinkykids, The Musical
Legend of Off Broadway Honorees
Edward Albee
Gerard Alessandrini
Kathleen Chalfant
Catherine Russell
Mary Louise Wilson
Off Broadway Alliance Hall of Fame Honorees
Howard Kissel
Theodore Mann
The Off Broadway Alliance is a non-profit corporation organized by theater professionals dedicated to "supporting, promoting and encouraging the production of Off Broadway theater and to making live theater increasingly accessible to new and diverse audiences."
Last year’s Off Broadway Alliance winners for Best New Play (Freud’s Last Session) and Best New Musical (NEWSical the Musical) continue to play Off-Broadway.
For more information visit www.offbroadwayalliance.com.
