Outer Critics Circle Winners Announced; Utopia & Spring Awakening Lead Pack

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for all media covering New York theatre announced today its award winners for the 2006-07 season in 23 categories. Special Achievement Awards will be given to Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes in recognition of their outstanding and distinguished careers in the theater.

This season is the 57^th anniversary of the Outer Critics Circle, an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad. The annual awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 24th (4PM) at the legendary Sardi's Restaurant.

*   *  2006-2007 Award Winners  *    *

Winners are notated in BOLD

Outstanding New Broadway Play
The Coast of Utopia
Coram Boy
Frost/Nixon
Radio Golf

Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Curtains
LoveMusik
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Exits and Entrances
Indian Blood
The Pain and the Itch
The Scene

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
In the Heights
Evil Dead The Musical
Floyd and Clea
Gutenberg! The Musical!

Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off Broadway)
Curtains
In the Heights
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening      

Outstanding Revival of a Play
Inherit the Wind
Journey's End
Talk Radio
The Voysey Inheritance

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
The Apple Tree
A Chorus Line
Company
110 in the Shade

Outstanding Director of a Play (Lucille Lortel Award)
Michael Grandage      Frost/Nixon
David Grindley           Journey's End
Melly Still                 Coram Boy
Jack O'Brien              The Coast of Utopia

Outstanding Director of a Musical
John Doyle                                      Company
Richard Eyre & Matthew Bourne          Mary Poppins
Thomas Kail                                    In the Heights
Michael Mayer                               Spring Awakening

Outstanding Choreography
Rob Ashford                                              Curtains
Andy Blankenbuehler         In the Heights
Matthew Bourne & Stephen Mear                 Mary Poppins
Carol Leavy Joyce & Graciela Daniele            The Pirate Queen

Outstanding Set Design
Bob Crowley & Scott Pask       The Coast of Utopia
Bob Crowley                            Mary Poppins
Ti Green & Melly Still                 Coram Boy
Derek McLane                          The Voysey Inheritance

Outstanding Costume Design
Bob Crowley                   Mary Poppins
Judith Dolan                   LoveMusik
Martin Pakledinaz            The Pirate Queen
Catherine Zuber           The Coast of Utopia

Outstanding Lighting Design
Neil Austin                                                              Frost/Nixon
Paule Constable                                                       Coram Boy
Howard Harrison                                                      Mary Poppins
Brian MacDevitt/ Kenneth Posner/ Natasha Katz     The Coast of Utopia

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Frank Langella                Frost/Nixon
Brian F. O'Byrne                The Coast of Utopia
Christopher Plummer          Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber                  Talk Radio

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Eve Best              A Moon for the Misbegotten
Jennifer Ehle          The Coast of Utopia
Carla Gugino          Suddenly Last Summer
Allison Pill              Blackbird

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Michael Cerveris           LoveMusik
Raul Esparza             Company
Gavin Lee                   Mary Poppins
David Hyde Pierce        Curtains

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Ashley Brown              Mary Poppins
Kristin Chenoweth        The Apple Tree
Audra McDonald          110 in the Shade
Donna Murphy           LoveMusik

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Billy Crudup            The Coast of Utopia
Boyd Gaines         Journey's End
David Greenspan     Some Men
Stephen Kunken     Frost/Nixon

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Robin Bartlett             Prelude to a Kiss
Jill Clayburgh              The Clean House
Martha Plimpton       The Coast of Utopia
Lily Rabe                   Heartbreak House

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Jason Danieley               Curtains
Daniel Jenkins                Mary Poppins
David Pittu                  LoveMusik
Bobby Steggert             110 in the Shade

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Charlotte d'Amboise       A Chorus Line
Rebecca Luker              Mary Poppins
Orfeh                          Legally Blonde
Karen Ziemba             Curtains

Outstanding Solo Performance
Daniel Beaty       Emergence-See
Ed Harris           Wrecks
Jay Johnson       The Two and Only
Nilaja Sun         No Child…

John Gassner Award  (Presented for an American play,preferably by a new playwright)
Daisy Foote          Bhutan
Bob Glaudini         Jack Goes Boating
Bruce Norris         The Pain and the Itch
Nilaja Sun          No Child…

Award Tally for 2 or more: The Coast of Utopia (6); Spring Awakening (3); Company (2)
In the Heights (2) Journey's End (2) LoveMusik (2) No Child (2)

2006-2007 Outer Critics Circle Executive / Nominating Committee
Simon Saltzman (President)
Marjorie Gunner (President Emerita)
Mario Fratti (Vice-President) Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary)
Louis A. Rachow (Treasurer) Glenn Loney (Historian & Member-at-Large)
Rosalind Friedman (Recording Secretary) and Aubrey Reuben & Thomas Gentile (Members-at-Large)

NOTE: The new play "Deuce" was the only Broadway production the Nominating Committee did not get to see prior to the OCC Award cut-off date and therefore will consider the production for next season's award. "GreyGardens" was considered last year for its Off-Broadway production.

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