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TONY Eligible Shows & Actors
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BEST PLAY
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo *
Good People *
The Motherfucker with the Hat *
War Horse *
Brief Encounter
Colin Quinn Long Story Short
Elling
A Free Man of Color
Ghetto Klown
High
Jerusalem
Lombardi
The Pee-Wee Herman Show
The Pitmen Painters
BEST MUSICAL
The Book of Mormon *
Catch Me If You Can *
Priscilla Queen of the Desert *
Sister Act *
Baby It’s You!
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Elf
The People in the Picture
Rain
The Scottsboro Boys
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wonderland
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Anything Goes *
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying *
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Arcadia *
Driving Miss Daisy *
The Importance of Being Earnest *
The Normal Heart *
Born Yesterday
The House of Blue Leaves
La Bête
A Life in the Theatre
The Merchant of Venice
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
That Championship Season
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bobby Cannavale, The Motherfucker with the Hat *
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart *
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice *
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem *
Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Jim Belushi, Born Yesterday
Brian Cox, That Championship Season
Santino Fontana, The Importance of Being Earnest
Brendan Fraser, Elling
David Furr, The Importance of Being Earnest
James Earl Jones, Driving Miss Daisy
Dan Lauria, Lombardi
John Leguizamo, Ghetto Klown
Seth Numrich, War Horse
Denis O’Hare, Elling
David Hyde Pierce, La Bête
Colin Quinn, Colin Quinn Long Story Short
Paul Reubens, The Pee-Wee Herman Show
Mark Rylance, La Bête
Patrick Stewart, A Life in the Theatre
Ben Stiller, The House of Blue Leaves
Tristan Sturrock, Brief Encounter
Robin Williams, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo *
Jeffrey Wright, A Free Man of Color
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday *
Cherry Jones, Mrs. Warren’s Profession *
Frances McDormand, Good People *
Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice *
Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy *
Kathleen Turner, High
Hannah Yelland, Brief Encounter
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can *
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon *
Daniel Radcliffe, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying *
Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon *
Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert *
Sebastian Arcelus, Elf
Colin Donnell, Anything Goes
Joshua Henry, The Scottsboro Boys
Will Swenson, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Aaron Tveit, Catch Me If You Can
Benjamin Walker, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Janet Dacal, Wonderland
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes *
Patina Miller, Sister Act *
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture *
Sherie Rene Scott, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown *
Beth Leavel, Baby It’s You!
* - Our predictions for the 2011 Tony Nominees | Predicted winners in Bold
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Outer Critic’s Circle Award Nominees & Predictions
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Good People
The Motherf**ker With the Hat
* War Horse
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
* The Book of Mormon
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Sister Act
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Blood From a Stone
* Kin
Other Desert Cities
The Other Place
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Freckleface Strawberry
In Transit
* The Kid
Tomorrow Morning
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
* The Book of Mormon
Catch Me If You Can
Sister Act
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Born Yesterday
* The Importance of Being Earnest
The Merchant of Venice
The Normal Heart
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
* Anything Goes
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Hello Again
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
* Marianne Elliott & Tom Morris, War Horse
Emma Rice, Brief Encounter
Anna D. Shapiro, The Motherf**cker With the Hat
Daniel Sullivan, Good People
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
* Casey Nicholaw & Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Jerry Zaks, Sister Act
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Ross Coleman, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
* Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest
* Derek McLane, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Neil Murray, Brief Encounter
Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Lez Brotherston, Sister Act
* Tim Chappel & Lizzie Gardiner, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest
Lizz Wolf, Baby It’s You!
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Paule Constable, War Horse
Natasha Katz, Sister Act
David Lander, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
* Malcolm Rippeth, Brief Encounter
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Reed Birney, The Dream of the Burning Boy
Bobby Cannavale, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice
* Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday
Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves
Judith Light, Lombardi
* Frances McDormand, Good People
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Daniel Radcliffe, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
* Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Aaron Tveit, Catch Me If You Can
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
* Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Beth Leavel, Baby It’s You!
Patina Miller, Sister Act
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
* Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Evan Jonigkeit, High
Stacy Keach, Other Desert Cities
Seth Numrich, War Horse
Yul Vázquez, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
* Renée Elise Goldsberry, Good People
Linda Lavin, Other Desert Cities
Estelle Parsons, Good People
Alison Pill, The House of Blue Leaves
Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Colin Donnell, Anything Goes
* Adam Godley, Anything Goes
Chester Gregory, Sister Act
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
John McMartin, Anything Goes
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
* Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Marla Mindelle, Sister Act
Laura Osnes, Anything Goes
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Daniel Beaty, Through the Night
Mike Birbiglia, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
* John Leguizamo, Ghetto Klown
Michael Shannon, Mistakes Were Made
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Amy Herzog, After the Revolution
* Matthew Lopez, The Whipping Man
David West Read, The Dream of the Burning Boy
Kim Rosenstock, Tigers Be Still
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Ellen Barkin for her Outstanding Broadway Debut in The Normal Heart
Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company
Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for
War Horse
The 2011 Outer Cirtic’s Circle Award Winners will be announced on May 16.
Good People/Good Season
BY BROADWAY BUZZ CREATOR PAUL WINKLER
To say it has been good, would be a complete understatement. If I had to describe Manhattan Theatre Club’s current Season I would say it is, “superb.” The not-for-profit theatre company, now in it’s forty-first year, has been fortunate to have hit-after-hit in their 2010-2011 Season. (Included in that group is a very Good show that opened the night before last. More on that later.)
Like most not-for-profits MTC has always been hit-or-miss; hits: Pulitzer prize winner plays Ruined, Rabbit Hole, Doubt; clunkers: To Be or Not To Be, Lovemusik, Drowning Crow (the all-black version of Chekhov’s masterpiece The Seagull). At one point, it was rumored that they were endangered of shutting down. Luckily for theatre goers, and their subscribers, they managed to stay afloat in this harsh economy. It wasn’t until June 2, 2010 however, that I had the good fortune of seeing my first show at MTC.
The performance gained her a 2010 Tony nomination, and she certainly gained my attention. Seeing Linda Lavin in Collected Stories was a very memorable theatrical experience. At times the Donald Margulies revival felt stale, but Lavin kept up the energy, in the role that Uta Hagen played Off-Broadway. Interestingly enough, I felt similarly about the writing of another Margulies drama. In it’s final week I caught the Tony-nominated Best Play Time Stands Still, which started at MTC and was brought back to Broadway commercially this past fall. The story is essentially about love.
When a dedicated photojournalist Sarah Goodwin (Laura Linney) is wounded overseas, her and her husband James (Brian d’Arcy James) reexamine their relationship. While rehabilitating at home she is greeted by her longtime friend, ex and co-worker Richard (Eric Bogosian) and his new much younger, more “fun-er” girlfriend Mandy (Christina Ricci). The show has some nice moments and asks some interesting questions. In one scene Mandy gets emotional while looking at war photos. She exclaims that it’s not right to take pictures of injured civilians. “Why wouldn’t you help them?,” she asks. Linney’s character tells her, “Nobody would share their story without these photos.” This play teeters between being good and bad — but, like Collected Stories, has some fantastically written characters. And every performance in that play was excellent.
The first show I saw of their Season I actually did not care for. Don’t get me wrong, it was an acclaimed play but it just wasn’t for me. The Pitman Painters, by the over-rated book writer and lyricist of Billy Elliot, had an audience and played to that [subscriber] audience. Enough said. The next two shows I saw, however, made for some damn good theatre! My opinion on the topic is completely bias, though.
I’m proud to say my friend, Matthew Lopez, had his Off-Broadway debut as playwright for the new Civil War-era drama The Whipping Man at Manhattan Theatre Club. The play gives three powerful performances, helmed by the always-impressive Doug Hughes. From the moment it starts you get completely transformed to a rainy war-torn South (I must mention the brilliance of John Lee Beatty’s scenic design, Ben Stanton’s lighting and Jill BC DuBoff’s sound design). I’ll let starAndré Braugher do the honors…
The show also stars André Holland and Jay Wilkinson. The limited run has recently been given a third extension through April 10. You’re not gonna want to miss this one! [Buy tickets]
This past Monday, Matthew had the unique opportunity to do a reading of his new play Reverberation, on the set of his current play The Whipping Man. I attended, along with his friends, collages and MTC subscribers. All three cast members did a terrific job, America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Bobby Steggert (Ragtime) and Zachary Booth (“Damages”). The story is about one man’s struggles to move-on after losing his lover. The fully-realized characters take you on a emotional roller coaster full of humor and true sadness. To my knowledge there are no plans for a production at this time, but I certainly could see it playing a healthy run Off-Broadway.
On Thursday, March 3 I went to the Opening Night of David Lindsay-Abarie’s Good People starring Frances McDormand, Tate Donovan, Reneé Elise Goldsberry and Estelle Parsons. The powerhouse drama discusses where we came from, where we belong and where we could have been. Pushing buttons, pushing the limit and stretching the truth, are all the name of the game. McDormand and Donovan, both worthy of a Tony, give two performances of the Season you won’t forget. [Buy tickets]
MTC still has two more shows left that could be potential hits. This summer they will present the World Premiere of Daniel Goldfarb’s The Extinction Method (Directed by the brilliant Sam Buntrock of Sunday in the Park…), as well as a revival of Master Class starring Tyne Daly and Sierra Boggess.
As I conclude, I would like to say, “Thank you” to Manhattan Theatre Club for producing new plays that have become indelible moments in my theatrical life.
For more information about Manhattan Theatre Club, please visit: manhattantheatreclub.com
