OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY Act One Casa Valentina All The Way Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL After Midnight Aladdin Beautiful: The Carole King Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Rocky
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY Appropriate Choir Boy The Explorer's Club The Heir Apparent Stage Kiss
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL Far From Heaven Fun Home Murder For Two Storyville What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Aladdin Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Rocky
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Aladdin The Bridges of Madison County Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder If/Then
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway) The Cripple of Inishmaan The Glass Menagerie Machinal Twelfth Night The Winslow Boy
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Cabaret Hedwig and the Angry Inch Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Les Misérables Violet
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan Lindsay Posner, The Winslow Boy Bill Rauch, All The Way Lyndsey Turner, Machinal
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL Warren Carlyle, After Midnight Laurence Connor and James Powell, Les Misérables Sam Gold, Fun Home Alex Timbers, Rocky Dark Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER Warren Carlyle, After Midnight Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine, Rocky Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (Play or Musical) Christopher Barreca, Rocky Beowulf Boritt, Act One Bob Crowley, Aladdin Es Devlin, Machinal Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical) Gregg Barnes Aladdin Linda Cho A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder William Ivey Long Bullets Over Broadway Jenny Tiramani Twelfth Night Isabel Toledo After Midnight
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical) Kevin Adams Hedwig and the Angry Inch Howell Binkley After Midnight Paule Constable Les Misérables Natasha Katz Aladdin Philip S. Rosenberg A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY Bryan Cranston All The Way Ian McKellen No Man’s Land Brían F. O’Byrne Outside Mullingar Mark Rylance Twelfth Night Tony Shaloub Act One
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Tyne Daly Mothers and Sons Rebecca Hall Machinal Jessica Hecht Stage Kiss Cherry Jones The Glass Menagerie Estelle Parsons The Velocity of Autumn
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Michael Cerveris Fun Home Neil Patrick Harris Hedwig and the Angry Inch Andy Karl Rocky Jefferson Mays A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Sutton Foster Violet Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Jessie Mueller Beautiful The Carole King Musical Kelli O’Hara The Bridges of Madison County Michelle Williams Cabaret
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY Paul Chahidi Twelfth Night Michael Cyril Creighton Stage Kiss John McMartin All the Way Alessandro Nivola The Winslow Boy Brian J. Smith The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY Barbara Barrie I Remember Mama Andrea Martin Act One Sophie Okonedo A Raisin in the Sun Anika Noni Rose A Raisin in the Sun Mare Winningham Casa Valentina
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Danny Burstein Cabaret Nick Cordero Bullets Over Broadway Joshua Henry Violet James Monroe Iglehart Aladdin Jarrod Specter Beautiful The Carole King Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Judy Kuhn Fun Home Anika Larsen Beautiful The Carole King Musical Sydney Lucas Fun Home Marin Mazzie Bullets Over Broadway Lisa O’Hare A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE Jim Brochu Character Man Debra Jo Rupp Becoming Dr. Ruth Ruben Santiago-Hudson How I Learned What I Learned Alexandra Silber Arlington John Douglas Thompson Satchmo at the Waldorf
JOHN GASSNER AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Scott Z. Burns The Library Eric Dufault Year of the Rooster Madeleine George The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence Steven Levenson The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin Lauren Yee The Hatmaker’s Wife
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Given that last year 26 of the 40 acting nominees ended up getting Tony nods, I'd say these do reflect the Tony nominations quite a bit (especially when you consider the Outer Critics include performances from off-Broadway shows, meaning many of the other 14 nominees weren't eligible for the Tonys).
They're never an exact match for the Tonys, but last year's winners were Kinky Boots, Pippin, Vanya/Sonia, and Virginia Woolf. Showing up here (Broadway only, of course) isn't a guarantee for Tony attention, but it's a very good sign.
^ and not even nominated for Best Play, the award the OCC gave it.
So, you know, selective hearing hears only what it selects.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
^ and not even nominated for Best Play, the award the OCC gave it.
So, you know, selective hearing hears only what it selects.
Though, to be fair, the three Tony frontrunners that year for Best Play (Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, and Venus is Fur) weren't eligible because they had been nominated or were eligible in the off-Broadway category previously.
And the year Shrek won three awards, it matched the Tony's on one and the other two Tony's were won by people not eligible at the OCC's. Best Actor (the Billys weren't jointly eligible) and Actress (Ripley wasn't eligible b/c it had been off-broadway). Again--it's not consistent, but it's very, very often very close. Look back through.
Shrek won 4... Best Actor (the Billy boys weren't eligible for the OCC, and had they been not eligible for the Tony, BDJ probably would have won that too), Best Actress (Sutton tied with Scaglione for WSS due to Alice Ripley's ineligibility since Next to Normal was eligible the year before...both were nominated for Tonys), Best Costumes (it won the Tony for that), and Best Scenic Design (the only award it won that didn't line up with the Tonys).
I don't care whether they serve as augers or even semi-augers for the tony's or not. If anything, the theater awards season is more interesting when the different honoring organizations show at least some degree of independence.
But I am interested in what contributions they will recognize.
No prob, bjh--you were more accurate. I missed set design!
In general, I don't think there's an argument to be had. Sometimes things get wacky with them, and then there's the fact that they include off-Broadway which throws things out of wack, but looking back through the years, I was surprised by how much lined up! http://outercritics.org/awards/