2007-8 Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Announced

58th Annual Awards Outer Critics Circle Announce 2007-08 Award Winners

 

"South Pacific" Heads the List With 4 Awards followed by "August: Osage County" with 3!

- 2 Tie Votes! -

Outstanding Musical:  "Young Frankenstein" & "Xanadu"

Outstanding New Score: "Adding Machine" & "Next to Normal"

 

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for all media covering New York theatre announced today its award winners for the 2007-08 season in 23 categories.

          

Celebrating its 58th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater, the Outer Critics Circle, is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.  The annual awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22nd (4PM) at the legendary Sardi's Restaurant.

 

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

*August: Osage County

Rock 'N' Roll

The Seafarer

The 39 Steps

 

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

A Catered Affair

Cry-Baby The Musical

*Xanadu----------tie

*Young Frankenstein----------tie

 

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

*Dividing the Estate

The Drunken City

From Up Here

The Receptionist

 

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

*Adding Machine

The Glorious Ones

Make Me a Song – The Music of William Finn

Next to Normal

 

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE

*Adding Machine    tie

*Next to Normal       tie

Passing Strange

Young Frankenstein

 

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Come Back, Little Sheba

Cyrano de Bergerac

*The Homecoming

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

 

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Gypsy

*South Pacific

Sunday in the Park With George

Take Me Along

 

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Maria Aitken     The 39 Steps

Rupert Goold     Macbeth

Rufus Norris     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

*Anna D. Shapiro    August: Osage County

 

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

David Cromer     Adding Machine

Arthur Laurents     Gypsy

*Bartlett Sher   South Pacific

Susan Stroman     Young Frankenstein

 

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

*Rob Ashford  Cry-Baby The Musical

Graciela Daniele     The Glorious Ones

Christopher Gattelli     South Pacific

Susan Stroman     Young Frankenstein

 

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

*David Farley / Timothy Bird   Sunday in the Park With George

Scott Pask     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Robin Wagner     Young Frankenstein

Michael Yeargan     South Pacific

 

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

David Farley     Sunday in the Park With George

*Katrina Lindsay    Les Liaisons Dangereuses

William Ivey Long     Young Frankenstein

Jessica Jahn, Michael Bottari & Ronald Case     Die Mommie Die!

Catherine Zuber     South Pacific

 

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

(Play or Musical)
Kevin Adams     The 39 Steps

*Ken Billington  Sunday in the Park With George

Donald Holder     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Peter Kaczorowski     Young Frankenstein

 

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Kevin Anderson     Come Back, Little Sheba

Ben Daniels     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

*Kevin Kline  Cyrano de Bergerac

Patrick Stewart     Macbeth

 

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Eve Best     The Homecoming

*Deanna Dunagan  August: Osage County

Laura Linney     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

S. Epatha Merkerson     Come Back, Little Sheba

 

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Roger Bart     Young Frankenstein

Daniel Evans     Sunday in the Park With George

Boyd Gaines     Gypsy

*Paulo Szot   South Pacific

 

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

*Patti LuPone     Gypsy

Kelli O'Hara     South Pacific

Faith Prince     A Catered Affair

Alice Ripley     Next to Normal

 

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Raúl Esparza     The Homecoming

*James Earl Jones     Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Jim Norton     The Seafarer

David Pittu     Is He Dead?

 

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Jessica Collins     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Jayne Houdyshell     The New Century

*Laurie Metcalf     November

Siân Phillips     Les Liaisons Dangereuses

 

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

*Danny Burstein     South Pacific

Christopher Fitzgerald     Young Frankenstein

Shuler Hensley     Young Frankenstein

Tony Yazbeck     Gypsy

 

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

*Laura Benanti     Gypsy

Harriet Harris     Cry-Baby The Musical

Sherie Rene Scott     The Little Mermaid

Amy Warren     Adding Machine

 

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

*Laurence Fishburne     Thurgood

Stephen Lang     Beyond Glory

Chazz Palminteri     A Bronx Tale

April Yvette Thompson     Liberty City

 

JOHN GASSNER AWARD

(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Bob Clyman     Secret Order

*Liz Flahive     From Up Here

Michael Hollinger     Opus

George Packer     Betrayed

 

 

2007-2008 Outer Critics Circle Executive / Nominating Committee

Simon Saltzman (President)

Marjorie Gunner (President Emerita)

Mario Fratti (Vice-President) Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary)

  Louis A. Rachow (Treasurer) Glenn Loney (Historian & Member-at-Large)

 Rosalind Friedman (Recording Secretary) and Aubrey Reuben & Thomas Gentile (Members-at-Large)

 

NOTE: The new musical "Glory Days" was the only Broadway production the Nominating Committee did not get to see prior to the OCC Award cut-off date and therefore will consider the production for next season's awards. "In The Heights" was already considered last season and won Outstanding Off Broadway musical.

 

WINNERS Talley for 3 or more:

 

South Pacific (4); August: Osage County (3)