Drama Legue 2011 nominations
The nominations for the 2010-11 Drama League Awards were announced today at SD26 Restaurant by Norbert Leo Butz and Kathleen Chalfant.
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon, to be held on the 20 May 20122 in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. The event will be hosted by Kathleen Turner.
The nominations for the Drama League's four major production award categories are:
Distinguished Production of a Play:
By Rajiv Joseph
Richard Rodgers Theatre
By Nikolai Gogol Adapted by David Holman with Neil Armfield & Geoffrey Rush
Brooklyn Academy of Music
By David West Read
Black Box Theatre (Roundabout)
By Kristoffer Diaz
Second Stage Theatre
Created by Elevator Repair Service
The Public Theater
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (MTC)
By Jez Butterworth
Music Box Theatre
By Bathsheba Doran
Playwrights Horizons
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
By Jon Robin Baitz
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (Lincoln Center)
By Emursive
The McKittrick Hotel Punchdrunk)
Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford
Vivian Beaumont Theatre (Lincoln Center)
Distinguished Production of a Musical
- THE BOOK OF MORMON (B'way)
Book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez
Eugene O'Neill Theatre - CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (B'way)
Book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Neil Simon Theatre - ELF (B'way)
Book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin, music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics Chad Beguelin Al Hirschfeld Theatre - IN TRANSIT (Off-B'way)
Book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.
59E59 Theaters (Primary Stages) - THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE (B'way)
Book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler
Studio 54 (Roundabout) - PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (B'way)
By Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott
Palace Theatre - SISTER ACT (B'way)
Book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane, Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater
Broadway Theatre
Distinguished Revival of a Play:
- ANGELS IN AMERICA (Off-B'way)
By Tony Kushner
Peter Norton Space (Signature) - ARCADIA (B'way)
By Tom Stoppard
Ethel Barrymore Theatre - BORN YESTERDAY (B'way)
By Garson Kanin
Cort Theatre - THE COLLECTION and A KIND OF ALASKA (Off-B'way)
By Harold Pinter
Classic Stage Company (Atlantic) - THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (B'way)
By John Guare
Walter Kerr Theatre - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (B'way)
By Oscar Wilde
American Airlines Theatre (Roundabout) - LA BETE (B'way)
By David Hirson
Music Box Theatre - THE LITTLE FOXES (Off-B'way)
By Lillian Hellman
New York Theatre Workshop - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Off-B'way & B'way)
By William Shakespeare
The Public Theater/Broadhurst Theatre - THE NORMAL HEART (B'way)
by Larry Kramer
John Golden Theatre
Distinguished Revival of a Musical
- ANYTHING GOES (B'way)
Original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse. New book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman, Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Stephen Sondheim Theatre (Roundabout) - HELLO AGAIN (Off-B'way)
Words and music by Michael John LaChiusa (suggested by the play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler)
52 Mercer Street (Transport Group) - HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (B'way)
Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Al Hirschfeld 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 dais includes the following performers, one of whom will be honored with the Distinguished Performance Award at the awards ceremony on 21 May 2011.
The Distinguished Performance Award
The list of nominees:
In addition, seven past recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award will be honored on the 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 Catch Me If You Can (B'way)
- Stockard Channing Other Desert Cities
- Cherry Jones Mrs. Warren's Profession (B'way)
- James Earl Jones Driving Miss Daisy (B'way)
- Patti LuPone Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (B'way)
- Brian Stokes Mitchell Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (B'way)
- Geoffrey Rush The Diary of a Madman
In addition, The Drama League will present the following specialty awards.
- The Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing will be presented to Susan Stroman
- The Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award will be presented to Liza Minnelli
- The Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award will go to Whoopi Goldberg
The Drama League was founded in 1916 as an association of theatre professionals and patrons dedicated to encouraging the finest in professional theatre and has since then developed into the theatre's premiere service organization.
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