TONYS Announce Eligibility for RED, Sondheim, Enron, Tenor, Idiot, Fences & More

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the fourth and final time this season to decide the eligibility of thirteen Broadway productions for the 2010 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards®, presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. The thirteen productions discussed included: Come Fly Away; Red; Lend Me a Tenor; The Addams Family; Million Dollar Quartet; La Cage Aux Folles; American Idiot; Sondheim on Sondheim; Promises, Promises; Fences; Enron; Collected Stories and Everyday Rapture.

Eddie Redmayne will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in Red.

Anthony LaPaglia will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in Lend Me a Tenor.

John Gallagher, Jr. will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical category for his performance in American Idiot.

Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actress/Actor in a Musical categories respectively for their performances in Sondheim on Sondheim.

Viola Davis will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Fences.

Norbert Leo Butz will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in Play category for his performance in Enron.

Adam Cork (Music) and Lucy Prebble (Lyrics) will be considered eligible in the Best Score (Music and/or Lyrics Written for the Theatre) category for Enron.

Collected Stories will be eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

Linda Lavin will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Collected Stories.

All other decisions were consistent with the opening night program credits.

Additionally, BroadwayWorld.com has confirmed that American Idiot will not be eligible for Best Score and that Branford Marsalis' score for Fences, will be eligible.

The Tony Awards Nominations will be announced on Tuesday, May 4th and will stream live on www.TonyAwards.com.

The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 13, 2010. For more information on the Tony Awards, please visit www.TonyAwards.com.