Drama Desk Nominees- What It All Means for the 2015 Tony Awards!

Earlier today, Judith Light and Jessie Mueller announced nominations for the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a chart that illustrates the number of Drama League nominees that were subsequently nominated for Tony Awards. Additionally, we calculated the percentage of eligible nominees that earned Tony Awards in the past eight years (discounting Off-Broadway nominations). Check out the chances that this year's DD nominees have at a Tony nod below!

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Year	Eligible DD Nominees That Earned Tony Nominations	Percentage
2014	60 of 83	72%
2013	50 of 75	67%
2012	46 of 74	62%
2011	52 of 75	69%
2010	51 of 85	60%
2009	52 of 89	58%
2008	49 of 83	59%
2007	55 of 86	64%

Tony Award, and two time Drama Desk winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy,Sound of Music Live, ABC' "Nashville") will return as host of the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.