Monday, May 15, 2006

DROWSY and JERSEY BOYS Win Outer Critics Circle Awards

Wait...there's more!

According to this article in Playbill:

The Drowsy Chaperone and The History Boys top this season's winners for Outer Critics Circle Awards with four honors each. Other shows with multiple awards are Jersey Boys, Sweeney Todd and Grey Gardens.

The 55th annual honors will be presented May 25 at Sardi's Restaurant. The winners were made public May 14. The awards are decided upon by an group of writers "covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway."

The only show the committee did not consider for this year's nominations was Tarzan because they could not view the production prior to the eligibility cut-off date. The musical will be eligible for next year's honors. The collective also added a new award for Oustanding New Score (in which both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions were eligible).

The 2005-2006 Outer Critics Circle Awards nominees (*with winners in bold) are as follows:

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY: Festen - *The History Boys - The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Primo

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL: The Color Purple - The Drowsy Chaperone - *Jersey Boys - The Woman in White

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY: Beauty of the Father - In The Continuum - *Stuff Happens - Tryst

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL: Bernada Alba - *Grey Gardens - See What I Wanna See - Thrill Me -- The Leopold & Loeb Story

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE: The Color Purple - *The Drowsy Chaperone - Grey Gardens - See What I Wanna See

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY: *Awake and Sing! - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - The Constant Wife - The Trip to Bountiful

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - The Pajama Game - *Sweeney Todd - Two Gentlemen of Verona

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY: *Gabriel Byrne, A Touch of the Poet - Zeljko Ivanek, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - Ian McDiarmid, Faith Healer - David Wilmot, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Cynthia Nixon, Rabbit Hole - *Lois Smith, The Trip to Bountiful - Zoe Wanamaker, Awake and Sing! - Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Michael Cerveris, Sweeney Todd - Harry Connick, Jr., The Pajama Game - Hugh Panaro, Lestat - *John Lloyd Young, Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: *Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens - LaChanze, The Color Purple - Patti LuPone, Sweeney Todd - Kelli O'Hara, The Pajama Game

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY: Richard Easton, Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Peter Gerety, The Lieutenant of Inishmore - *Richard Griffiths, The History Boys - Mark Ruffalo, Awake and Sing!

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY: *Frances de la Tour, The History Boys - Hallie Foote, The Trip to Bountiful - Jan Maxwell, Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Lynn Redgrave, The Constant Wife

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Michael Ball, The Woman in White - Peter Benson, The Pajama Game - *Jim Dale, The Threepenny Opera - Christian Hoff, Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Megan Lawrence, The Pajama Game - *Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone - Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens - Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, The Color Purple

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE: Steven Fales, Confessions of a Mormon Boy - Margo Gomez, Los Big Names - Jack Holmes, RFK - *Anthony Sher, Primo

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY: *Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys - Wilson Milam, The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Bartlett Sher, Awake and Sing! - Jerry Zaks, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL: *John Doyle, Sweeney Todd - Michael Greif, Grey Gardens - Kathleen Marshall, The Pajama Game - Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY: Graciela Daniele, Bernarda Alba - *Kathleen Marshall, The Pajama Game - Casey Nicholaw, The Drowsy Chaperone - Sergio Trujillo, Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN: John Lee Beatty, The Color Purple - William Dudley, The Woman in White - *David Gallo, The Drowsy Chaperone - Allen Moyer, Grey Gardens

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: *Gregg Barnes, The Drowsy Chaperone - William Dudley, The Woman in White - William Ivey Long, Grey Gardens - Martin Pakledinaz, The Pajama Game

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN: *Howell Binkley, Jersey Boys - Richard G. Jones, Sweeney Todd - Jeff Nellis, Tryst - Paul Pyant, The Woman in White

JOHN GASSNER AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright): Rolin Jones, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow - *Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter, In the Continuum - Adam Rapp, Red Light Winter - Rinne Groff, The Ruby Sunrise

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