OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS



OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY
Enchanted April
The Play What I Wrote
Take Me Out WINNER
Vincent in Brixton


OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL
Amour
Hairspray WINNER
Movin' Out
Urban Cowboy

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
The Exonerated WINNER
Kimberly Akimbo
Observe the Sons of Ulster
Marching Towards the Somme
Talking Heads

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Avenue Q
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
A Man of No Importance WINNER
Radiant Baby
Zanna Don't

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg WINNER
Dinner at Eight
Our Town
Tartuffe

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
La Boheme
Gypsy
Man of La Mancha
Nine WINNER

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Michael Engler for Talking Heads
Gerald Gutierrez for Dinner at Eight
Joe Mantello for Take Me Out WINNER
Michael Wilson for Enchanted April

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
David Leveaux for Nine
Baz Luhrmann La Boheme
Sam Mendes for Gypsy
Randal Myler for Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Jack O'Brien for Hairspray WINNER

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Jonathan Butterell for Nine
Robert Longbottom for Flower Drum Song
Jerry Mitchell for Hairspray
Twyla Tharp for Movin' Out WINNER

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

John Lee Beatty for Dinner at Eight
Catherine Martin for La Boheme WINNER
Scott Pask for Nine
David Rockwell for Hairspray
Tony Straiges for Enchanted April

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Jess Goldstein for Enchanted April
William Ivey Long for Hairspray WINNER
Catherine Martin & Angus Strathie for La Boheme
Vicki Mortimer for Nine
Catherine Zuber for Dinner at Eight

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Paul Gallo Man of La Mancha
Nigel Levings for La Boheme WINNER
Brian MacDevitt for Nine
Kenneth Posner for Hairspray
Rui Rita for Enchanted April

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Brian Bedford in Tartuffe
Jochum ten Haaf in Vincent in Brixton
Eddie Izzard in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg WINNER
Howard W. Overshown in Yellowman
Daniel Sunjata in Take Me Out

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Jayne Atkinson in Enchanted April WINNER
Marylouise Burke in Kimberly Akimbo
Christine Ebersole in Dinner at Eight
Victoria Hamilton in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Clare Higgins Vincent in Brixton

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Antonio Banderas in Nine WINNER
Harvey Fierstein in Hairspray
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Man of La Mancha
Jason Petty in Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Roger Rees in A Man of No Importance

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jenn Colella in Urban Cowboy
Melissa Errico in Amour
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Man of La Mancha
Chita Rivera in Nine
Marissa Jaret Winokur in Hairspray WINNER

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Walter Bobbie in Polish Joke
Michael Cumpsty in Enchanted April
Daniel Gerroll in Enchanted April
Denis O'Hare in Take Me Out WINNER
B.D. Wong in Shanghai Moon

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Linda Emond in Life (x) 3 WINNER
Kathryn Meisle in Tartuffe
Marian Seldes in Dinner at Eight
Emily Skinner in Dinner at Eight
J. Smith-Cameron in Tartuffe

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Randall Duk Kim in Flower Drum Song
Mary Beth Peil in Nine
Dick Latessa in Hairspray WINNER
Matthew Morrison in Hairspray
Steven Pasquale in A Man of No Importance
Corey Reynolds in Hairspray

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Laura Benanti in Nine
Kerry Butler in Hairspray
Jane Krakowski in Nine WINNER
Mary Stuart Masterson in Nine
Mary Beth Peil in Nine

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Tovah Feldshuh in Golda's Balcony
Frank Gorshin in Say Goodnight Gracie WINNER
Kate Mulgrew in Tea at Five
Louis Mustillo in Bartenders Street
Charlayne Woodard for In Real Life

JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Matthew Barber for Enchanted April WINNER
Stephen Adly Guirgis for Our Lady of 121st Street
Erik Jensen & Jessica Blank for The Exonerated
Dael Orlandersmith for Yellowman

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Outstanding Ensemble Performance Talking Heads