Drama Desk Nominations

[jdrye222]

Posted: 4/24/14 at 9:22pm

I am excited for these tomorrow morning.
Fingers crossed for some BRIDGES love....
.... and some BETH MALONE recognition for Fun Home!!!!!! I can't believe she hasn't been nominated for anything so far!

[getlucky2]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:26am

yes Idina got nominated!

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:27am

No Cherry Jones! Shocked! Featured nod for Celia, but no leading nom for Cherry. Audra nommed for Actress in a Play.

[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:28am

ALADDIN continues to pick up steam! SO HAPPY for Adam Jacobs!

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:28am

WOW. Well I don't care whether Audra or Cherry wins the Tony at this point. They were both stellar. But I'm wondering where the Tonys will place Audra now-it seemed more likely she'd be in the musical category.

[east side story]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:28am

How in the name of Mother Dixie was Cherry Jones snubbed?

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:29am

^^^ Baffling beyond belief.

Pleased for Adam Jacobs. Nice surprise nom for him...

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:29am

Outstanding Play
Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club
Steven Levenson, Core Values
Conor McPherson, The Night Alive
Richard Nelson, Regular Singing
Bruce Norris, Domesticated
Robert Schenkkan, All the Way
John Patrick Shanley, Outside Mullingar

Outstanding Musical
A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Fun Home
Love's Labour's Lost
Rocky
The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Revival of a Play
I Remember Mama
London Wall
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Model Apartment
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare's Globe Production

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
LES MISERABLES
Violet

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Hamish Linklater, The Comedy of Errors
Ian McKellen, No Man's Land
David Morse, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Daniel Radcliffe, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Denzel Washington, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Barbara Andres, I Remember Mama
Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons
Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Laurie Metcalf, Domesticated
J. Smith-Cameron, Juno and the Paycock
Harriet Walter, Julius Caesar

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adam Jacobs, Aladdin
Andy Karl, Rocky
Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Steven Pasquale, The Bridges of Madison County
Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Sutton Foster, Violet
Idina Menzel, If/Then
Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County
Margo Seibert, Tamar of the River
Barrett Wilbert Weed, Heathers: The Musical

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Reed Birney, Casa Valentina
Chuck Cooper, Choir Boy
Peter Maloney, Outside Mullingar
Bobby Moreno, Year of the Rooster
Bill Pullman, The Jacksonian
Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Betty Buckley, The Old Friends
Julia Coffey, London Wall
Diane Davis, The Model Apartment
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
Jan Maxwell, The Castle
Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Cabaret
Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Joshua Henry, Violet
James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
Rory O'Malley, Nobody Loves You
Bobby Steggert, Big Fish

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Stephanie J. Block, Little Miss Sunshine
Anika Larsen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox, After Midnight
Sydney Lucas, Fun Home
Laura Osnes, The Threepenny Opera
Jennifer Simard, Disaster!
Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Director of a Play
Joe Calarco, A Christmas Carol
Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
Thomas Kail, Family Furniture
Bill Rauch, All the Way
Anna D. Shapiro, Domesticated
Julie Taymor, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Sam Gold, Fun Home
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bartlett Sher, The Bridges of Madison County
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Alex Timbers, Rocky
Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Choreography
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Steven Hoggett, Kelly Devine, Rocky
Danny Mefford, Love's Labour's Lost
Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Sonya Tayeh, Kung Fu

Outstanding Music
Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County
Andrew Lippa, Big Fish
Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Alan Menken, Aladdin
Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, Heathers: The Musical
Jeanine Tesori, Fun Home

Outstanding Lyrics
Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Chad Beguelin, Aladdin
Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Michael Friedman, Love's Labour's Lost
Michael Korie, Far from Heaven
Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Chad Beguelin, Aladdin
Robert L. Freedman, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Joe Kinosian, Murder for Two
Lisa Kron, Fun Home
Douglas McGrath, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Marsha Norman, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Orchestrations
Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County
John Clancy, Fun Home
Larry Hochman, Big Fish
Steve Sidwell, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Michael Starobin, If/Then
Jonathan Tunick, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Music in a Play
Lewis Flinn, The Tribute Artist
Elliot Goldenthal, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rob Kearns, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan, Almost, Maine
Nico Muhly, The Glass Menagerie
Duncan Sheik, A Man's a Man

Outstanding Revue
After Midnight
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond
Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
Til Divorce Do Us Part
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Outstanding Set Design
Christopher Barreca, Rocky
Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Richard Hoover, Small Engine Repair
Santo Loquasto, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Ian MacNeil, A Doll's House
Donyale Werle, The Explorers Club

Outstanding Costume Design
Constance Hoffman, A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Zane Pihlstrom, Nutcracker Rouge
Loren Shaw, The Mysteries
Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night
David C. Woolard, The Heir Apparent

Outstanding Lighting Design
Christopher Akerlind, Rocky
Jane Cox, Machinal
David Lander, The Civil War
Peter Mumford, King Lear
Brian Tovar, Tamar of the River
Japhy Weideman, Macbeth

Outstanding Projection Design
Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence, Cirkopolis
Sven Ortel, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aaron Rhyne, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Shawn Sagady, All the Way
Austin Switser, Sontag: Reborn
Ben Rubin, Arguendo

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Kai Harada, Fun Home
Peter Hylenski, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Peter Hylenski, Rocky
Brian Ronan , Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Dan Moses Schreier, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Jon Weston, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
M.L. Dogg, The Open House
Katie Down, The Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast, All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier, Act One
Christopher Shutt, Love and Information
Matt Tierney, Machinal

Outstanding Solo Performance
David Barlow, This is My Office
Jim Brochu, Character Man
Hannah Cabell, Grounded
Debra Jo Rupp, Becoming Dr. Ruth
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf

Unique Theatrical Experience
Charlatan
Cirkopolis
Mother Africa
Nothing to Hide
Nutcracker Rouge
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2

Special Awards
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2013-2014, these awards are:

? To Soho Rep.: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.

? To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.

? To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.

? To the ensembles of Off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.

? The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, and Carolyn McCormick

? The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, and Marisa Tomei

PRODUCTIONS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS:

12 - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
9 - The Bridges of Madison County
8 - Fun Home
7 - Aladdin
7 - Rocky
6 - Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
6 - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
5 - All the Way
4 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
3 - After Midnight
3 - Big Fish
3 - Domesticated
3 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3 - London Wall
3 - Love's Labour's Lost
3 - The Glass Menagerie
3 - Twelfth Night*
3 - Violet
2 - A Raisin in the Sun
2 - Cirkopolis
2 - Heathers: The Musical
2 - I Remember Mama
2 - If/Then
2 - Machinal
2 - No Man's Land
2 - Nutcracker Rouge
2 - Of Mice and Men
2 - Outside Mullingar
2 - Tamar of the River
2 - The Cripple of Inishmaan
2 - The Explorers Club
2 - The Model Apartment

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:30am

Cherry was the most surprising snub, but what I really adore here is that they were willing to go far FAR off Broadway to recognize some of these. Play, Actress in a Play, Sets, Costumes...they really spread the love around. Wonderfully.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:31am

Interesting that there's no Michelle Williams or Linda Emond. That's 3 sets of nominations in a row that Linda has been left off of. She was my pick for the Tony this year, but I obviously have to rethink that.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:33am

Interesting that Margo Siebert was nominated for Tamar of the River.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:33am

If/Then was snubbed for score by Big Fish?

[east side story]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

I am still holding out hope that Michelle Williams is nominated on Tuesday.

[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

Really surprised ALADDIN was left out of costumes and, to a lesser extent, scenic and lighting design.

Also, both the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk deemed ALADDIN's score eligible. Hopefully the Tony committee follows suit.

Also, no GLASS MENAGERIE for revival of a play? What?!

Updated On: 4/25/14 at 11:34 AM

[ultraviolet99]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

No Mark Rylance, or Sam Barnett for Twelfth Night. I was shocked when at least Mark wasn't nominated.

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

Good. I liked Big Fish's score better.

But, I'd take Adam Jacobs out and put Michael Cerveris in. He deserved the nod.

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

Glad to see all the recognition Radcliffe is getting in a very competitive year.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:36am

THRILLED for Lauren Worsham. Interesting that she got the Drama Desk nomination and Lisa O'Hare got the OCC nomination. Would love them both to score Tony nods.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:39am

^ I had the same thought about Worsham and O'Hare! I've been hoping that Gentleman's Guide would choose "I've Decided to Marry You" as their Tony performance number, and would imagine a Tony nomination for one of both of those ladies would influence that choice. (Pinkham seems likely to score a nomination for Leading Actor.)

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:39am

Aladdin really is picking up steam, good for them.

I figured Ramin would sneak in for Actor in a Musical, considering their categories have 14 nominees. No Lena Hall or Marin Mazzie for Featured Actress either...

This season has really turned out to be so unexpected. It will be interesting to see how much love/any at all the Tony committee gives to Bridges, Bullets & If/Then.

[jv92]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:39am

OK, what kind of crack were they on when they decided to snub THE GLASS MENAGERIE and give OF MICE AND MEN an nomination? Cherry Jones' snub is enough of a travesty, but the production itself? Clearly they're a demented bunch.

I am happy to see Michael Korie's smart and refreshing lyrics for FAR FROM HEAVEN get recognized.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:42am

Not only a snub for Cherry and the revival itself, but no John Tiffany nomination for directing Glass Menagerie.

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:42am

If Audra gets into the Tony category for Best Actress in a Play, I'd put all of my money on her winning... It seems as though Menagerie's steam has ended due to it being so long ago. Cherry ain't getting that third Tony at this stage I'm afraid

[jbroadway4]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:42am

.Surprised Helene Yorke wasn't nominated.

.I'm glad to see Barrett Wilbert Weed was nominated! She was spectacular in "Heathers" and has a sick voice!

.Surprised "If/Then" isn't getting much love


Updated On: 4/25/14 at 11:42 AM

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:43am

I'm shocked that Linda Emond has not been nominated for an award for Cabaret yet. She gave my favorite female performance in a musical of the entire season. I'm hoping the Tonys recognize her on Tuesday!