NOMINEES FOR THE DRAMA LEAGUE'S FOUR MAJOR PRODUCTION AWARD CATEGORIES
DISTINGUISHED PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
The Adding Machine - Book by Jason Loewith, Book and Music by Joshua Schmidt
(Minetta Lane Theatre)
A Catered Affair - Book by Harvey Fierstein, Music and Lyrics by John Bucchino
(Walter Kerr Theatre) WINNER
Cry-Baby - Book by Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell, Lyrics by David Javerbaum,
Music by Adam Schlesinger (Marquis Theatre)
Next To Normal - Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey (Second Stage
Theatre)
Passing Strange - Book and Lyrics by Stew, Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald,
Created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen (The Public Theater/Belasco Theatre)
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island - Libretto by Ben Katchor, Music by Mark Mulcahy (Vineyard Theatre)
Xanadu - Book by Douglas Carter Beane, Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar
(Helen Hayes Theatre)
Young Frankenstein - Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, Music and Lyrics by Mel
Brooks (Hilton Theatre)
DISTINGUISHED PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
August: Osage County - By Tracy Letts (Imperial Theatre/Music Box Theatre)
WINNER
Eurydice - By Sarah Ruhl (Second Stage Theatre)
The Farnsworth Invention - By Aaron Sorkin (Music Box Theatre)
November - By David Mamet (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
Rock 'n' Roll - By Tom Stoppard (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre)
The Seafarer - By Conor McPherson (Booth Theatre)
The 39 Steps -Adapted by Patrick Barlow, Based on a concept by Simon Corble, Nobby
Dimon and the novel by John Buchan (Roundabout Theatre Company/Cort Theatre)
Thurgood - By George Stevens Jr. (Booth Theatre)
DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Black Nativity - Written by Langston Hughes, Adapted by Alfred Preisser (Classical
Theatre of Harlem/The Duke on 42nd Street)
Gypsy - Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
(St. James Theatre)
Seussical - Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Music by Stephen Flaherty,
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (Theatreworks USA/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
South Pacific - Book by Joshua Logan and Oscar Hammerstein II, Music by Richard
Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (Lincoln Center Theatre)
WINNER
Sunday in the Park with George - Book by James Lapine, Music and Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Boeing-Boeing - Written by Marc Camoletti (Longacre Theatre)
A Bronx Tale - Written by Chazz Palminteri (Walter Kerr Theatre)
Gaslight - Written by Patrick Hamilton (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Written by Christopher Hampton, From the novel by
Choderlos de Laclos (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
Macbeth - Written by William Shakespeare (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Lyceum Theatre) WINNER
The Misanthrope - Written by Molière(New York Theatre Workshop)
The Ritz - Written by Terrence McNally (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
Romeo and Juliet - Written by William Shakespeare (The Public Theatre/New York
Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theatre)
The Drama League also pays tribute to the season's best performers by including the nominees of The Distinguished Performance Award on a dais. This season's 70-member dais includes the following performers, one of whom will be honored with the Distinguished Performance Award at the awards ceremony on Friday, May 16:
Lauren Ambrose Romeo and Juliet
Hank Azaria The Farnsworth Invention
Roger Bart Young Frankenstein
Christine Baranski Boeing-Boeing
Laura Benanti Gypsy
Sierra Boggess The Little Mermaid
Daniel Breaker Passing Strange
Ellen Burstyn The Little Flower of East Orange
Charles Busch Die Mommie Die!
Kerry Butler Xanadu
Bill Camp The Misanthrope
Bobby Cannavale Mauritius
Margaret Colin Old Acquaintance
Ben Daniels Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Andre de Shields Black Nativity
Peter Dinklage Things We Want
Deanna Dunagan August: Osage County
Daniel Evans Sunday in the Park with George
Jesse Tyler Ferguson A Midsummer Night's Dream
Laurence Fishburne Thurgood
Sutton Foster Young Frankenstein
Elizabeth Franz The Piano Teacher
Morgan Freeman The Country Girl
Peter Gallagher The Country Girl
David Greenspan The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Harriet Harris Old Acquaintance, Cry-Baby
Jayne Houdyshell The Receptionist, The New Century
Terrence Howard Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cheyenne Jackson Xanadu
Brian d'Arcy James Next To Normal
Francis Jue Yellow Face
Kevin Kline Cyrano de Bergerac
Nathan Lane November
Angela Lansbury Deuce
Hoon Lee Yellow Face
Laura Linney Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Patti LuPone Gypsy WINNER
Elizabeth Marvel Top Girls
Alli Mauzey Cry-Baby
Jefferson Mays Pygmalion
Frances McDormand The Country Girl
S. Epatha Merkerson Come Back, Little Sheba
David Morse The Seafarer
Amy Morton August: Osage County
Jim Norton The Seafarer
Chazz Palminteri A Bronx Tale
Rosie Perez The Ritz
Martha Plimpton A Midsummer's Night Dream, Cymbeline, Top Girls
Faith Prince A Catered Affair
Bill Pullman Peter and Jerry
Dallas Roberts Peter and Jerry
Anika Noni Rose Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mark Rylance Boeing-Boeing
Jenna Russell Sunday in the Park with George
Tobias Segal From Up Here
Marian Seldes Deuce
Jeanine Serralles The Black Eyed, The Misanthrope
Rufus Sewell Rock 'n' Roll
Jimmi Simpson The Farnsworth Invention
Lois Smith 100 Saints You Should Know
James Snyder Cry-Baby
David Staller Gaslight
Bobby Steggert The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Stew Passing Strange
Patrick Stewart Macbeth
Paulo Szot South Pacific
Julie White From Up Here
Dianne Wiest The Seagull
Mare Winningham 10 Million Miles
Tom Wopat A Catered Affair
In addition, seven past recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award will be honored on this dais for their work this season. However, because an individual can only receive the Distinguished Performance Award once in his/her lifetime, they are ineligible for award consideration this year. Those past honorees include:
Norbert Leo Butz Is He Dead?
Kathleen Chalfant A Hard Heart, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Vita and Virginia
Harvey Fierstein A Catered Affair
James Earl Jones Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
John Lithgow Stories By Heart
Ian McKellen King Lear
Mary-Louise Parker Dead Man's Cell Phone