The 2012 Tony Award Nominations.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 8:46am

Nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards.

***Best Play
Clybourne Park
Author: Bruce Norris
Producers: Jujamcyn Theaters, Jane Bergère, Roger Berlind/Quintet Productions, Eric Falkenstein/Dan Frishwasser, Ruth Hendel/Harris Karma Productions, JTG Theatricals, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Center Theatre Group, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons

Other Desert Cities
Author: Jon Robin Baitz
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Bob Boyett

Peter and the Starcatcher
Author: Rick Elice
Producers: Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, Disney Theatrical Productions, Suzan & Ken Wirth/DeBartolo Miggs, Catherine Schreiber/Daveed Frazier & Mark Thompson, Jack Lane, Jane Dubin, Allan S. Gordon/Adam S. Gordon, Baer & Casserly/Nathan Vernon, Rich Affanato/Peter Stern, Brunish & Trinchero/Laura Little Productions, Larry Hirschhorn/Hummel & Greene, Jamie deRoy & Probo Prods./Radio Mouse Ent., Hugh Hysell/Freedberg & Dale, New York Theatre Workshop

Venus in Fur
Author: David Ives
Producers: Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove, Jon B. Platt, Scott Landis, Classic Stage Company

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***Best Musical

Leap of Faith
Producers: Michael Manheim, James D. Stern, Douglas L. Meyer, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Annette Niemtzow, Daryl Roth, Robert G. Bartner, Steven and Shanna Silva, Endgame Entertainment, Patricia Monaco, Debi Coleman, Dancap Productions, Inc., Steve Kaplan, Relativity Media, LLC, Rich/Caudwell, Center Theatre Group, Michael Palitz, Richard J. Stern, Melissa Pinsly/Celine Rosenthal, Independent Presenters Network, Diana Buckhantz, Pamela Cooper, Vera Guerin, Leading Investment Co., Ltd., Christina Papagjika, Victor Syrmis, Semlitz/Glaser Productions, Jujamcyn Theaters

Newsies
Producers: Disney Theatrical Productions, Thomas Schumacher

Nice Work If You Can Get It
Producers: Scott Landis, Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman Productions, Roy Furman, Standing CO Vation, Candy Spelling, Freddy DeMann, Ronald Frankel, Harold Newman, Jon B. Platt, Raise the Roof 8, Takonkiet Viravan, William Berlind/Ed Burke, Carole L. Haber/Susan Carusi, Buddy and Barbara Freitag/Sanford Robertson, Jim Herbert/Under the Wire, Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization

Once
Producers: Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart, Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, The Shubert Organization, Robert Cole, New York Theatre Workshop

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***Best Revival of a Play

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Producers: Scott Rudin, Stuart Thompson, Jon B. Platt, Columbia Pictures, Jean Doumanian, Merritt Forrest Baer, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman Productions, Ruth Hendel, Carl Moellenberg, Scott & Brian Zeilinger, Eli Bush

Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, INFINITY Stages, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Barbara Manocherian/ Michael Palitz, Kathleen K. Johnson, Andy Sandberg, Ken Mahoney/The Broadway Consortium, Fifty Church Street Productions, Larry Hirschhorn/Bennu Productions, Patty Baker, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, Wendy Federman, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, Cricket Hooper Jiranek, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Carl Moellenberg, Harold Thau, Will Trice

Master Class
Producers: Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove, Max Cooper, Maberry Theatricals, Marks-Moore-Turnbull Group, Ted Snowdon

Wit
Producers: Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove

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***Best Revival of a Musical

Evita
Producers: Hal Luftig, Scott Sanders Productions, Roy Furman, Yasuhiro Kawana, Allan S. Gordon/Adam S. Gordon, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Gutterman Fuld Chernoff/Pittsburgh CLO, Thousand Stars Productions, Adam Blanshay, Adam Zotovich, Robert Ahrens, Stephanie P. McClelland, Carole L. Haber, Richardo Hornos, Carol Fineman, Brian Smith, Warren & Jâlé Trepp

Follies
Producers: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, David M. Rubenstein, Michael A. Kaiser, Max A. Woodward, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., Adrienne Arsht, HRH Foundation, Allan Williams

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Rebecca Gold, Howard Kagan, Cheryl Wiesenfeld/Brunish Trinchero/Lucio Simons TBC, Joseph & Matthew Deitch, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, Terry Schnuck, Freitag Productions/Koenigsberg Filerman, The Leonore S. Gershwin 1987 Trust, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Ken Mahoney, Judith Resnick, Tulchin/Bartner/ATG, Paper Boy Productions, Christopher Hart, Alden Badway, Broadway Across America, Irene Gandy, Will Trice, American Repertory Theater

Jesus Christ Superstar
Producers: The Dodgers and The Really Useful Group, Latitude Link, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group, Waxman-Dokton, Joe Corcoran, Detsky/Sokolowski/Kassie, Florin-Blanshay-Fan/Broadway Across America, Rich/Caudwell, Shin/Coleman, TheatreDreams North America, LLC, Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Best Book of a Musical
Lysistrata Jones
Douglas Carter Beane
Newsies
Harvey Fierstein
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Joe DiPietro
Once
Enda Walsh

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***Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde
Music: Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics: Don Black
Newsies
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Jack Feldman
One Man, Two Guvnors
Music & Lyrics: Grant Olding
Peter and the Starcatcher
Music: Wayne Barker
Lyrics: Rick Elice

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***Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
James Earl Jones, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Frank Langella, Man and Boy
John Lithgow, The Columnist

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***Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow
Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities
Linda Lavin, The Lyons
Cynthia Nixon, Wit

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***Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Follies
Jeremy Jordan, Newsies
Steve Kazee, Once
Norm Lewis, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Ron Raines, Follies

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***Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Jan Maxwell, Follies
Audra McDonald, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Cristin Milioti, Once
Kelli O’Hara, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Laura Osnes, Bonnie & Clyde

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***Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Michael Cumpsty, End of the Rainbow
Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Andrew Garfield, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Jeremy Shamos, Clybourne Park

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***Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Linda Emond, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Spencer Kayden, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Peter and the Starcatcher
Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
Condola Rashad, Stick Fly

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***Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Michael Cerveris, Evita
David Alan Grier, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Josh Young, Jesus Christ Superstar

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***Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Elizabeth A. Davis, Once
Jayne Houdyshell, Follies
Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Jessie Mueller, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ghost the Musical

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***Best Scenic Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities
Daniel Ostling, Clybourne Park
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher

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***Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Bob Crowley, Once
Rob Howell and Jon Driscoll, Ghost the Musical
Tobin Ost and Sven Ortel, Newsies
George Tsypin, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark

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***Best Costume Design of a Play
William Ivey Long, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Paul Tazewell, A Streetcar Named Desire
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher

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***Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, Follies
ESosa, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Eiko Ishioka, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Martin Pakledinaz, Nice Work If You Can Get It

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***Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jeff Croiter, Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter Kaczorowski, The Road to Mecca
Brian MacDevitt, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Kenneth Posner, Other Desert Cities

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***Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Christopher Akerlind, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Natasha Katz, Follies
Natasha Katz, Once
Hugh Vanstone, Ghost the Musical

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***Best Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti, One Man, Two Guvnors
Scott Lehrer, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Gareth Owen, End of the Rainbow
Darron L. West, Peter and the Starcatcher

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***Best Sound Design of a Musical
Acme Sound Partners, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Clive Goodwin, Once
Kai Harada, Follies
Brian Ronan, Nice Work If You Can Get It

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***Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Evita
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Steven Hoggett, Once
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It

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***Best Direction of a Play
Nicholas Hytner, One Man, Two Guvnors
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park
Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, Peter and the Starcatcher

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***Best Direction of a Musical
Jeff Calhoun, Newsies
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Diane Paulus, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
John Tiffany, Once

***Best Orchestrations
William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Bill Elliott, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Martin Lowe, Once
Danny Troob, Newsies

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Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories

***Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Emanuel Azenberg

***Regional Theatre Award
The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.

***Isabelle Stevenson Award
Bernadette Peters

***Special Tony Award
Actors’ Equity Association
Hugh Jackman

***Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
Freddie Gershon
Artie Siccardi
TDF Open Doors

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Tony Nominations by Production-

Once - 11
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess - 10
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 10
Peter and the Starcatcher - 9
Follies - 8
Newsies - 8
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman - 7
One Man, Two Guvnors - 7
Other Desert Cities - 5
Clybourne Park - 4
End of the Rainbow - 3
Evita - 3
Ghost the Musical - 3
Bonnie & Clyde - 2
Don’t Dress for Dinner - 2
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man - 2
Jesus Christ Superstar - 2
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark - 2
Venus in Fur - 2
Wit - 2
The Columnist - 1
Leap of Faith - 1
The Lyons - 1
Lysistrata Jones - 1
Man and Boy - 1
Master Class - 1
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - 1
The Road to Mecca - 1
Stick Fly - 1
A Streetcar Named Desire -





Updated On: 5/1/12 at 08:46 AM

[Jonwo]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:25am

Leap of Faith getting nominated for Best Musical is a shock, Where other musicals so bad that they had to nominate it. Once unsurprisenly got loads of nominations as did Nice Work and Newsies.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:38am

Bonnie and Clyde or Lysistrata Jones could of and should of been nominated, but you have to be one outstand and a show to be closed and nominated, to win a Tony and be closed is virtually unheard of.

Two years ago we had the 'Tinseltown' Tonys, complete shutout this year for Mattew Broderick and Antonio Banderas.

Poop poor Julie what you going to do, snubbed for Spiderman, in this and virtually every other category.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:40am

One Man, Two Guvnors snubbed again, not even nominated for best play.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 12:42pm

Antonio Benderas was not in a Broadway show this season.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 1:18pm

Wow there were some spectacular slaps round the face.

Quite a laugh!

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 1:21pm

Banderas! Yea, where did that come from???

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 1:22pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2137932/Tony-Award-nominations-2012-Cynthia-Nixon-earns-nod-cancer-role-70m-Spider-Man.html

[Scripps2]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 4:17pm

The Tony Awards may put on a good show but their qualitative judgements are frequently questionable.

[MusicalBoy]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 6:19pm

Would have loved to have seen Elaine Paige up there, I can't speak for the show, but she stops the bootleg cold! :)

Although, there were an awful lot of British acceptance speeches last year (Rylance + War Horse), and I'd always assumed that was why Daniel Radcliffe missed out on a nomination...

[bob8rich]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 6:41pm

There could be an awful lot of British acceptance speeches this year too! At least, there are a large number of British nominees - e.g.
JOHN TIFFANY, STEVEN HOGGETT, NICHOLAS HYTNER, DON BLACK, JAMES CORDEN, TRACIE BENNETT, GRANT OLDING, ANDREW GARFIELD, ROGER REES......

[hermajesty]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:52pm

Amazing
good luck to all.

Updated On: 5/2/12 at 07:52 PM

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:56pm

Ghost was robbed, that is a far better show than the dreadful Leap of Faith. America are clearly teaching us a lesson after we sent them so many big OTT musicals in the 80s, they are looking at Ghost the same way.

I am shocked One Man, Two Guvnors was snubbed after its reviews were brilliant.

Glad to see some love for Bonnie and Clyde

[Jonwo]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 8:15pm

Ghost should have got a nomination over Leap of Faith. While I'll be happy if either Once or Newsies win Best musical, I think Newsies will get it as it's got more tour potential, we've seen in previous years that big shows tend to get the Best Musical over smaller shows with a few exceptions.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 2:48am

...Wicked and Avenue Q being one!

I always remind myself though, that these were the people who awarded Best Musical to The Will Rogers Follies over Miss Saigon...

[bob8rich]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 5:34am

The Will Rogers Follies was actually a great show with a fantastic score! Don't get me wrong - I love Miss Saigon too, just don't see that decision as such a huge faux pas. Not as big a miscarriage of justice IMO as The Phantom Of The Opera over Into The Woods! Or The Lion King over Ragtime! LOL - Thousands are now going to totally disagree with me - it just highlights the fact that all lists of award nominees and winners are totally subjective.

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 2:55pm

I agree about Will Rogers Follies deserving it.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 3:01pm

'The Will Rogers Follies' was brilliant, pure old fashioned Broadway musical comedy!
Well deserved!

[bdn223]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 3:15pm

@bob8rich
The reason the LION KING beat RAGTIME for best musical was because LION LION KING was not neccisarily the better musical but it was the better production the perfect example of this is WAR HORSE winning best play last year over Jerusalem, Good People, and Mother****er with the Hat, all of which are superior plays, no one would argue that, but WAR HORSE is clearly the better production, same thing goes for LION KING and RAGTIME

[bob8rich]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 3:22pm

Sorry bdn223 but I disagree totally. I saw both TLK and Ragtime and to me Ragtime was a better production in EVERY way. But, as I said before, it's always just an opinion.

[rjm516]

Posted: 5/2/12 at 3:40pm

Crossing my fingers for James Corden! I love him.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/3/12 at 4:39pm

I always remind myself though, that these were the people who awarded Best Musical to The Will Rogers Follies over Miss Saigon...

Do you remind yourself about the Oliviers, too? Miss Saigon lost that one as well to Return to the Forbidden Planet.

I thought Lion King was a better production than Ragtime, too. I really hated the staging and choreography for Ragtime and while the book was stronger than Lion King, I think it was still problematic and not the great work that most hail it to be. I do love Ragtime's score, though.

[Princeton Returns]

Posted: 5/3/12 at 4:59pm

James Cordon is an odd one, he is very good at what he does (the chubby likeable clown) but as a personality in his tv outings he comes across as a complete douche. It would be interesting to see him do some real drama and see if he can really act.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/3/12 at 7:22pm

On a side note, does anyone here actually think Forbidden Planet actually deserved that over Saigon?