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Winners of 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards Will Be Presented Trophies Sept. 16
Winners of the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards for the 2009-2010 New York theatre season will receive their engraved trophies at an upcoming cocktail reception in their honor.
The Sept. 16 by-invitation-only event will be held at Il Punto Ristorante in Manhattan.
Olivier Award winner, two-time Tony Award winner and three-time Drama Desk Award winner Patti LuPone hosted the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards May 23 at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. John Logan's Red was named Outstanding Play, and Memphis won the award for Outstanding Musical.
Nominations for the competitive categories follow with winners in bold and preceded by an asterisk.
Outstanding Play:
Alan Ayckbourn,
My Wonderful Day
Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation
Lucinda Coxon, Happy Now?
*John Logan, Red
Geoffrey Nauffts, Next Fall
Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park
Outstanding Musical:
American Idiot
Everyday Rapture
*Memphis
The Addams Family
The Scottsboro Boys
Yank!
Outstanding Revival of a Play:
*A View from the Bridge
Brighton Beach Memoirs
*Fences
Hamlet
So Help Me God!
The Boys in the Band
Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
A Little Night Music
Finian's Rainbow
*La Cage Aux Folles
Promises, Promises
Ragtime
Outstanding Actor in a Play:
Bill Heck, The Orphans' Home Cycle
Jude Law, Hamlet
Alfred Molina, Red
Eddie Redmayne, Red
*Liev Schreiber, A View from the Bridge
John Douglas Thompson, The Emperor Jones
Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane
Outstanding Actress in a Play:
Ayesha Antoine, My Wonderful Day
Melissa Errico, Candida
Anne Hathaway, Twelfth Night
Kristen Johnston, So Help Me God!
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
*Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family
Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
Brandon Victor Dixon, The Scottsboro Boys
*Douglas Hodge, La Cage Aux Folles
Cheyenne Jackson, Finian's Rainbow
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Nathan Lane, The Addams Family
Bobby Steggert, Yank!
Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
Kate Baldwin, Finian's Rainbow
*Montego Glover, Memphis
Jayne Houdyshell, Coraline
Christiane Noll, Ragtime
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
*Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
Chris Chalk, Fences
Sean Dugan, Next Fall
*Santino Fontana, Brighton Beach Memoirs
Adam James, The Pride
Hamish Linklater, Twelfth Night
Nick Westrate, The Boys in the Band
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
Victoria Clark, When the Rain Stops Falling
*Viola Davis, Fences
Xanthe Elbrick, Candida
Mary Beth Hurt, When the Rain Stops Falling
Scarlett Johansson, A View from the Bridge
Andrea Riseborough, The Pride
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Robin De Jesus, La Cage Aux Folles
Jeffry Denman, Yank!
*Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian's Rainbow
Jeremy Morse, Bloodsong of Love
Bobby Steggert, Ragtime
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:
Carolee Carmello, The Addams Family
Carrie Cimma, Lizzie Borden
*Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music
Kenita Miller, Langston in Harlem
Terri White, Finian's Rainbow
Outstanding Director of a Play:
Jonathan Bank, So Help Me God!
Jack Cummings III, The Boys in the Band
Sam Gold, Circle Mirror Transformation
Michael Grandage, Hamlet
*Michael Grandage, Red
Ethan Hawke, A Lie of the Mind
Outstanding Director of a Musical:
Warren Carlyle, Finian's Rainbow
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime
Igor Goldin, Yank!
Terry Johnson, La Cage Aux Folles
*Michael Mayer, American Idiot
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Outstanding Choreography:
Warren Carlyle, Finian's Rainbow
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime
Lynne Page, La Cage Aux Folles
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
*Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away
Sergio Trujillo, Memphis
Outstanding Music:
*David Bryan, Memphis
Michael Friedman, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Joe Iconis, Bloodsong of Love
John Kander & Fred Ebb, The Scottsboro Boys
Andrew Lippa, The Addams Family
Joseph Zellnik, Yank!
Outstanding Lyrics:
Rick Crom, Newsical The Musical
Kevin Del Aguila, Click, Clack, Moo
*John Kander & Fred Ebb, The Scottsboro Boys
Dillie Keane and Adèle Anderson, Fascinating Aïda Absolutely Miraculous!
Andrew Lippa, The Addams Family
David Zellnik, Yank!
Outstanding Book of a Musical:
Joe DiPietro, Memphis
Joe Iconis, Bloodsong of Love
Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
David Thompson, The Scottsboro Boys
*Alex Timbers, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
David Zellnik, Yank!
Outstanding Orchestrations:
Larry Hochman, The Scottsboro Boys
Tom Kitt, American Idiot
Tom Kitt, Everyday Rapture
John Oddo, All About Me
*Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis
Outstanding Musical Revue:
Fascinating Aïda Absolutely Miraculous!
Million Dollar Quartet
Newsical The Musical
Simon Green: Traveling Light
*Sondheim on Sondheim
Outstanding Music in a Play:
Adam Cochran, A Play on War
Adam Cork, Red
Gaines, A Lie of the Mind
Philip Glass, The Bacchae
Hem, Twelfth Night
*Branford Marsalis, Fences
Outstanding Set Design:
Sandra Goldmark, The Boys in the Band
*Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch & Basil Twist, The Addams Family
Derek McLane, Ragtime
Christopher Oram, Red
Jay Rohloff, Underground
Karen Tennent, Hansel and Gretel
Outstanding Costume Design:
Antonia Ford-Roberts & Bob Flanagan, The Emperor Jones
Clint Ramos, So Help Me God!
Bobby Frederick Tilley II, Lizzie Borden
*Matthew Wright, La Cage Aux Folles
David Zinn, In the Next Room or the vibrator play
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Neil Austin, Hamlet
*Neil Austin, Red
Christian M. DeAngelis, Lizzie Borden
Maruti Evans, John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
Natasha Katz, The Addams Family
Dane Laffrey, The Boys in the Band
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical:
*Acme Sound Partners, Ragtime
Jonathan Deans, La Cage Aux Folles
Ashley Hanson, Kurt Eric Fischer & Brian Ronan, Everyday Rapture
Peter Hylenski, The Scottsboro Boys
Scott Lehrer, Finian's Rainbow
Brian Ronan, Promises, Promises
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
:
Dan Bianchi & Wes Shippee, Frankenstein
Dale Bigall,
Underground
Adam Cork,
Enron
Lindsay Jones and Jamie McElhinney,
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
*Fitz Patton, When the Rain Stops Falling
Elizabeth Rhodes,
John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
Outstanding Solo Performance:
Theodore Bikel, Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears
*Jim Brochu, Zero Hour
Colman Domingo,
A Boy and his Soul
Carrie Fisher,
Wishful Drinking
Judith Ivey,
The Lady With All the Answers
Anna Deavere Smith,
Let Me Down Easy
Unique Theatrical Experience:
Charles L. Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit
Hansel and Gretel
John Tartaglia's
Imaginocean
*Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Stuffed and Unstrung
The Provenance of Beauty
The following awards were voted by the nominating committee and were presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony:
Outstanding Ensemble Performances
This year the nominators chose to bestow special ensemble awards for acting to the casts of two shows. (Therefore, individual cast members for these shows were not eligible for acting awards in the competitive categories.)
• Circle Mirror Transformation
• The Temperamentals
Special Awards:
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theatre.
• To the cast, creative team and producers of Horton Foote’s epic The Orphans' Home Cycle: "We salute the breadth of vision, which inspired the exceptional direction, performances, sets, lighting, costumes, music and sound that made it the theatrical event of this season."
• To Jerry Herman "for enchanting and dazzling audiences with his exuberant music and heartfelt lyrics for more than half a century."
• To Godlight Theatre Company for "consistent originality and excellence in dramatizing modern literature, and especially for the vibrant theatricality of its innovative productions."
• To Ma-Yi Theater Company for "more than two decades of excellence and for nurturing Asian-American voices in stylistically varied and engaging theater."
The Drama Desk, organized in 1949, presented its first awards in 1955. William Wolf is president of the Drama Desk; Leslie (Hoban) Blake is vice president.
For more information visit DramaDesk.