1987 Drama Desk Awards

Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.

1987 Drama Desk Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Outstanding Actor - Musical	Colm Wilkinson	Les Miserables
Outstanding Actor - Musical	Ed Dixon	Shylock
Outstanding Actor - Musical	Mandy Patinkin	The Knife
Outstanding Actor - Play	Derek Jacobi	Breaking the Code
Outstanding Actor - Play	John Malkovich	Burn This
Outstanding Actor - Play	Morgan Freeman	Driving Miss Daisy
Outstanding Actor - Play	James Earl Jones	Fences
Outstanding Actress - Musical	Patti LuPone	Anything Goes

Outstanding Actress - Play	Kathy Bates	Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Outstanding Actress - Play	E. Katherine Kerr	Laughing Wild

Outstanding Actress - Play	Gordana Rashovich	Shayna Maidel
Outstanding Choreography	Michael Smuin	Anything Goes
Outstanding Costume Design	Tony Walton	Anything Goes
Outstanding Director - Musical	Jerry Zaks	Anything Goes
Outstanding Director - Musical	Harold Prince	Cabaret
Outstanding Ensemble Performance	Oil City Symphony	Oil City Symphony


Outstanding Ensemble Performance	The Day Room	The Day Room
Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Anthony Heald, Bill McCutcheon	Anything Goes
Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Herbert Rawlings	Dreamgirls
Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Robert Westenberg	Into the Woods

Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Joe Grifasi	Boys Next Door
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Michael Gough	Breaking the Code
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Lou Liberatore	Burn This
Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical	Lyn Greene	Flora the Red Menace

Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical	Joanna Gleason	Into the Woods
Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical	Danielle Ferland	Into the Woods
Outstanding Featured Actress - Play	Christine Estabrook	Boys Next Door
Outstanding Lighting Design	Paul Gallo	Anything Goes / Wenceslas Square
Outstanding Lighting Design	Richard Nelson	Into the Woods
Outstanding Lyrics	Stephen Sondheim	Into the Woods

Outstanding Music	David Evans	Birds of Paradise
Outstanding Music	Stephen Sondheim	Into the Woods


Outstanding One Person Show	Barbara Cook	A Concert for the Theatre
Outstanding Orchestration	Michael Gibson	Anything Goes
Outstanding Orchestration	Michael Starobin	Birds of Paradise
Outstanding Revival	Anything Goes	Anything Goes
Outstanding Revival	Cabaret	Cabaret
Outstanding Revival	Dreamgirls	Dreamgirls
Outstanding Revival	Flora the Red Menace	Flora, the Red Menace
Outstanding Set Design	Tony Walton	Anything Goes

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1987 Drama Desk Awards

1987 Drama Desk Awards

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