2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
#12007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:18am
Outstanding Play:
David Harrower, Blackbird
Terrence McNally, Some Men
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia
Bernard Weinraub, The Accomplices
August Wilson, Radio Golf
Outstanding Musical:
Curtains
In the Heights
Legally Blonde
LoveMusik
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Outstanding Revival of a Play:
The Hairy Ape
Hedda Gabler
Journey's End
Talk Radio
The Taming of the Shrew
Woyzeck
Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
110 in the Shade
The Apple Tree
Company
Di Yam Gazlonim!
H.M.S. Pinafore
Les Miserables
Outstanding Actor in a Play:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Brían F. O'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia
Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio
Kevin Spacey, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Paul Sparks, Essential Self-Defense
Outstanding Actress in a Play:
Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Orlagh Cassidy, The Field
Blythe Danner, Suddenly Last Summer
Jennifer Mudge, Dutchman
Sandra Oh, Satellites
Annie Parisse, The Internationalist
Meryl Streep, Mother Courage and Her Children
Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik
Raúl Esparza, Company
John Gallagher, Jr., Spring Awakening
Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening
David Hyde Pierce, Curtains
Martin Short, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
Ashley Brown, Mary Poppins
Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde
Kristin Chenoweth, The Apple Tree
Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade
Lea Michele, Spring Awakening
Donna Murphy, LoveMusik
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
Anthony Chisholm, Radio Golf
Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia
Boyd Gaines, Journey's End
John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating
Andrew Polk, The Accomplices
Frederick Weller, Some Men
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
Myriam Acharki, Woyzeck
Xanthe Elbrick, Coram Boy
Sarah Nina Hayon, Rearviewmirror
Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy
Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia
Rita Wolf, The American Pilot
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:
Brooks Ashmanskas, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Christian Borle, Legally Blonde
Aaron Lazar, Les Misérables
Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins
Orville Mendoza, Adrift in Macao
David Pittu, LoveMusik
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:
Linda Balgord, The Pirate Queen
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Les Misérables
Debra Monk, Curtains
Orfeh, Legally Blonde
Barbara Walsh, Company
Karen Ziemba, Curtains
Outstanding Director of a Play:
Declan Donnellan, Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage, Frost/Nixon
Doug Hughes, Inherit the Wind
Jack O'Brien, The Coast of Utopia
Ciarán O'Reilly, The Hairy Ape
Tom Ridgely, Marco Millions (based on lies)
Outstanding Director of a Musical:
John Doyle, Company
Thomas Kail, In the Heights
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde
Harold Prince, LoveMusik
Alex Timbers, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Outstanding Choreography:
Patricia Birch, LoveMusik
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Matthew Bourne, Edward Scissorhands
Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear, Mary Poppins
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde
Outstanding Music:
John Kander, Curtains
Paul Leschen, Twist: Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?
Peter Melnick, Adrift in Macao
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde
Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening
Outstanding Lyrics:
Fred Ebb with added lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes, Curtains
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde
Steven Sater, Spring Awakening
Bill Strauss, Elaina Newport and Mark Eaton, Capitol Steps
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Outstanding Book of a Musical:
Scott Brown and Anthony King, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Julian Fellowes, Mary Poppins
Heather Hach, Legally Blonde
Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone, Curtains
Steven Sater, Spring Awakening
Alfred Uhry, LoveMusik
Outstanding Music for a Play:
Mark Bennett, The Coast of Utopia
Adam Cork, Frost/Nixon
Gerard McBurney, Oliver Twist
The Propeller Company, The Taming of the Shrew
Ray Rizzo, Adam Rapp, and Lucas Papaelias, Essential Self-Defense
David Van Tieghem, Inherit the Wind
Outstanding Orchestrations:
William David Brohn, Curtains
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Company
Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening
Jonathan Tunick, The Apple Tree
Jonathan Tunick, LoveMusik
Outstanding Set Design of a Play:
Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, The Coast of Utopia
David Gallo, Radio Golf
David Korins, Essential Self-Defense
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
Garin Marschall, Hell House
Scott Pask, Blackbird
Outstanding Set Design of a Musical:
Beowulf Boritt, LoveMusik
Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins
Anna Louizos, Curtains
Anna Louizos, In the Heights
David Rockwell, Legally Blonde
Kris Stone, Brundibar/But the Giraffe
Outstanding Costume Design:
Mara Blumenfeld, Lookingglass Alice
Judith Dolan, LoveMusik
William Ivey Long, Curtains
Santo Loquasto, Suddenly Last Summer
Robert Morgan, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Howell Binkley LoveMusik
Maruti Evans, Blindness
Paul Gallo, Blackbird
Jonathan Mark, Prometheus Bound
Kenneth Posner, Brian MacDevitt, Natasha Katz, The Coast of Utopia
Japhy Weideman, Jack Goes Boating
Outstanding Sound Design:
Acme Sound Partners, In the Heights
Mark Bennett, The Coast of Utopia
Gregory Clarke, Journey's End
Duncan Robert Edwards, LoveMusik
Frank Gaeta, Dai (enough)
Richard Woodbury, Talk Radio
Outstanding Solo Performance:
Iris Bahr, Dai (enough)
Ed Harris, Wrecks
Capathia Jenkins, (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story
Anna Manahan, Sisters
Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking
Nilaja Sun, No Child?
Unique Theatrical Experience:
Absinthe
Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise
Be
Brundibar/But the Giraffe
Edward Scissorhands
Hell House
Special Award Winners:
Outstanding Ensemble: In the Heights
Outstanding Ensemble: Lebensraum
John Kander and Fred Ebb
Austin Pendleton
Transport Group
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbeine
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Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:18 AM
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:23am
See? This is why I dislike the Drama Desks.
They nominate everyone and their brother to fill all 6/7 spots.
MOST of them deserve the nominations, but still.
Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:23 AM
#3re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:24amMonk for Featured. Interesting!
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#4re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:25amLinda Balgord? Are you kidding me?
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#5re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:26amI agree, Yankee. What's the point if they're going to have so many nominees?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#6re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:28am
Yes. Exactly.
PS: Was Jay Johnson inelligible because of his off-Broadway staging a few years ago?
BwayFan832
Understudy Joined: 12/27/05
#7re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:29am
I wonder why they chose to nominate Gallagher as lead actor. Very happy for him, Groff and Michele nonetheless.
Things that struck me the most:
-No best play nomination for Coram Boy?
-No best musical revival nomination for A Chorus Line? I think it should be there in place of Les Mis. As much as I love Les Mis it's much more of a return engagement than an actual revival, IMO.
-No best lighting nomination for Spring Awakening?
More that I'll notice later I'm sure...
#8re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:30amNo revival nod for Inherit the Wind? Interesting...
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#9re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:31am
lots of love here and in the OCC awards for In The Heights...havent heard that much about it, even here (havent looked, will now.)
Surprised to see so much love for Adrift in Macao...TERRIBLE show, but glad Orville Mendoza got a nod, surprised Michelle Ragusa didnt join him.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
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#10re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:32am
Yankee, Jay Johnson was eligible a few years ago.
No direction or set design nomination for JOURNEY'S END. Bazaar.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#11re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:32amThe point of "so many nominations" is that it is Broadway AND Off-Broadway. You'll notice some glaring omissions, so obviously there are not too many slots for every category.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#12re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:33am
Bazaar? Bizarre.
: )
(Cheerily corrective.)
"PercIEve.
Continue."
-Poking his perfectionist head into a conversation about self-importance, the spelling & grammar whore himself,
Itty Bitty Geisha?
Toyland?
Gypsy Pasadoble?
Just a few popular favorites...
Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:33 AM
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#13re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:33am
That's what I thought. Thanks for clarifying.
Gosh, the nominee list gets more and more bizarre every time I read it.
#14re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:34am
No director noms for Curtains or Mary Poppins. No Luker or Jenkins either, as with the OCC awards.
Interesting that Monk and Gavin Lee are in "featured" categories this time.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:34 AM
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#15re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:36am
I agree, wanna be...
Those seem like odd omissions.
Gavin Lee should be in the featured category (if nominated at all). I didn't think his role was all that large, or that he was all that good.
Way too many nominees. At least all of the LEGALLY BLONDE groupies will be happy that they allowed so many nominations, otherwise it would have been virtually shut out like before.
Itty Bitty Geisha?
Toyland?
Gypsy Pasadoble?
Just a few popular favorites...
#16re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:36am
The nominees and winners here are going to say very little about the Tony nominees and winners. The categories are divided so differently.
For the Tonys, John Gallagher, Jr. will be Featured, while Gavin Lee will be Leading, yet here they're switched.
Debra Monk will be Leading, and here she is Featured.
Boyd Gaines will be Leading, while here he is Featured.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#18re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:41amWhy do the Lead Performance in a Play categories have seven nominees?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
kidmanboy
Leading Actor Joined: 5/10/04
#19re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:42am
Three wtfs:
-No Spring Awakening lighting nom. One of the most thrilling lighting plots I've seen on Broadway.
-No Rob Ashford for choreography. I found his choreography to be most of the humor in Curtains. I always love his work.
-Orfeh's continued love. I really didn't love her in Legally Blonde...although I can't necessarily think of someone that's missing from that list...perhaps Rebecca Luker...
#20re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:42am
Quick observations:
No choreography nom for Curtains?
Musical revival noms for Les Miserables and Apple Tree, but not A Chorus Line?
Linda Balgord???
Happy to see that Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me wasn't forgotten.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#21re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:45am
No lighting nod for Spring Awakening? What the hell? The show has some of the best lighting I've ever seen. I'm glad Lea Michele will be recognized for something this season. This is a little odd there is no nod for ACL.
Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:45 AM
#22re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:46amI'm glad to see Walsh nominated... and Esparza, even though that was a given. I'm just counting the minutes until people start saying that since Groff got a DD nomination, he's totally going to get a Tony nom. as well. Kinda bummed that Company didn't get one for its lighting.
#23re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:46amWhat pisses me off is that Meryl Streep got a nomination, in my opinion, because she's Meryl Streep, and Kevin Spacey got a nomination because he's Kevin Spacey. Streep's performance in MOTHER COURAGE was tired. Spacey brings nothing new to MISBEGOTTEN in his performance. In fact, he hinders the production, in my opinion. I would have given his slot to Hugh Dancy in a heartbeat.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#24re: 2007 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:47am
The Chorus Line revival being overlooked doesn't bother me because I expect 110 in the Shade to win anyway. Also, Coram Boy being overlooked doesn't surprise me, but glad that Xanthe and Jan Maxwell got nods. BUT, I predicted Spring Awakening to win Best Lighting. So WOAH!!?? No nomination, kinda curious. Also, Rob Ashford didn't deserve a nod for the choreography in Curtains, it was not even close to his best work.
Also, really surprised Martha Plimpton got nominated over Jennifer Ehle, but I can understand if they considered Jennifer leading again here like in the OCC nods. She will be featured come Tony time.
