Poppins and Utopia Lead Outer Critics Circle Nominations

By: Apr. 23, 2007
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Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April 23, 2007) its nominees for the 2006-07 season in 23 categories. Broadway stars and former Outer Critics Circle Award winners Victoria Clark and John Lloyd Young presided over the (11AM) announcement ceremony at Manhattan's historic Algonquin Hotel. 
 
Based on a recommendation by the OCC Executive Committee, Special Achievement Awards will be given to Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes in recognition of their outstanding and distinguished careers in the theater.

Celebrating its 57th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater, the Outer Critics Circle, is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.  The winners of the following categories will be announced on Monday, May 14th and the annual awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 24th (4PM) at the legendary Sardi's Restaurant.

2006-2007 Award Nominations

Outstanding New Broadway PlayThe Coast of Utopia
Coram Boy
Frost/Nixon
Radio Golf
 
Outstanding New Broadway MusicalCurtains
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 MusicalIn 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 MusicalJohn 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
Kristen 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 Beatty    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

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 awards.

Nominations Talley for 3 or more:

Mary Poppins (11) - Coast of Utopia (9) - Curtains (6) – Frost/Nixon  and LoveMusik (5) – Coram Boy  and In the Heights (4) – Spring Awakening, 110 in the Shade, Journey's End  and Company (3)  



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