Clark, Butz, Etc. Present at Outer Critics Ceremony, 5/25

The Outer Critics Circle Awards, previously announced on May 14th, will be presented to recipients on May 25th at Sardi's.

Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Shuler Hensley (Tarzan), Harry Groener, Martin Moran, Steve Kazee and Lauren Kennedy (all of Spamalot), Robert Cuccioli (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well...), Phyllis Newman, Glenn Loney and Marjorie Gunner are slated to present the awards.

The History Boys was judged Oustanding Broadway Play, and Jersey Boys won Outstanding Broadway Musical. Outstanding Off-Broadway Play went to Stuff Happens, and Grey Gardens was selected as Outsanding Off-Broadway Musical. Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Revival of a Musical were awarded to Awake and Sing! and Sweeney Todd, respectively.

Among winners in performance categories were Jersey Boys' John Lloyd Young, Grey Gardens' Christine Ebersole, The History Boys' Richard Griffiths and The Threepenny Opera's Jim Dale.

This season is the 56th 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 list of award winners follows:

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY - The History Boys

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL - Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY - Stuff Happens

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL - Grey Gardens

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY - Awake and Sing!

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL - Sweeney Todd

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY - Nicholas Hytner - The History Boys

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL - John Doyle - Sweeney Todd

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE - Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg
Morrison - The Drowsy Chaperone

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY - Kathleen Marshall -The Pajama Game

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN - David Gallo - The Drowsy Chaperone

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN - Gregg Barnes- The Drowsy Chaperone

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN - Howell Binkley - Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY- Gabriel Byrne - A Touch of the Poet

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY - Lois Smith - The Trip to Bountiful

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL - John Lloyd Young - Jersey Boys

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL - Christine Ebersole - Grey Gardens

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY - Richard Griffiths - The History Boys

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY - Frances de la Tour - The History Boys

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL - Jim Dale - The Threepenny Opera

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL - Beth Leavel - The Drowsy Chaperone

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE - Antony Sher- Primo

JOHN GASSNER AWARD - Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter- In the Continuum