Outer Critics Circle Awards 2014 nominations

The nominations for the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced by Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams yesterday at the Friars Club. The winners will be announced 12 May 2014 and will be followed by the annual Gala Awards Dinner and presentation on 22 May 2014 at Sardi's.

The Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder leads the pack with eleven nominations, while Disney Theatrical's Aladdin received eight nominations and the musical stage-adaptation of Rocky earned six nominations.

2014 nominations by category are:

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

• Act One
  
• All The Way
  
• Casa Valentina
  
• Outside Mullingar
  
• The Realistic Joneses
  

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

• After Midnight
  
• Aladdin
  
• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• Rocky
  

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

• Appropriate
  
• Choir Boy
  
• The Explorer's Club
  
• The Heir Apparent
  
• Stage Kiss
  

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

• Far From Heaven
  
• Fun Home
  
• Murder For Two
  
• Storyville
  
• What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
  

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Aladdin
  
• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  
• Fun Home
  
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• Rocky
  

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Aladdin
  
• The Bridges of Madison County
  
• Fun Home
  
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• If/Then
  

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• The Cripple of Inishmaan
  
• The Glass Menagerie
  
• Machinal
  
• Twelfth Night
  
• The Winslow Boy
  

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Cabaret
  
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
  
• Les Misérables
  
• Violet
  

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
  
• Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan
  
• Lindsay Posner, The Winslow Boy
  
• Bill Rauch, All The Way
  
• Lyndsey Turner, Machinal
  

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
  
• Laurence Connor and James Powell, Les Misérables
  
• Sam Gold, Fun Home
  
• Alex Timbers, Rocky
  
• Dark Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Bryan Cranston, All The Way
  
• Ian McKellen, No Man's Land
  
• Brían F. O'Byrne, Outside Mullingar
  
• Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night
  
• Tony Shalhoub, Act One
  

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons
  
• Rebecca Hall, Machinal
  
• Jessica Hecht, Stage Kiss
  
• Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie
  
• Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn
  

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
  
• Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  
• Andy Karl, Rocky
  
• Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Sutton Foster, Violet
  
• Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
  
• Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  
• Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County
  
• Michelle Williams, Cabaret
  

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night
  
• Michael Cyril Creighton, Stage Kiss
  
• John McMartin, All The Way
  
• Alessandro Nivola, The Winslow Boy
  
• Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie
  

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Barbara Barrie, I Remember Mama
  
• Andrea Martin, Act One
  
• Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun
  
• Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun
  
• Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina
  

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Danny Burstein, Cabaret
  
• Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway
  
• Joshua Henry, Violet
  
• James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
  
• Jarrod Spector, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Judy Kuhn, Fun Home
  
• Anika Larsen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  
• Sydney Lucas, Fun Home
  
• Marin Mazzie, Bullets Over Broadway
  
• Lisa O'Hare, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Jim Brochu, Character Man
  
• Debra Jo Rupp, Becoming Dr. Ruth
  
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson, How I Learned What I Learned
  
• Alexandra Silber, Arlington
  
• John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf
  

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
  
• Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine, Rocky
  
• Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
  
• Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway
  

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)

• Christopher Barreca, Rocky
  
• Beowulf Boritt, Act One
  
• Bob Crowley, Aladdin
  
• Es Devlin, Machinal
  
• Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)

• Gregg Barnes, Aladdin
  
• Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  
• William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway
  
• Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night
  
• Isabel Toledo, After Midnight
  

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)

• Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  
• Howell Binkley, After Midnight
  
• Paule Constable, Les Misérables
  
• Natasha Katz, Aladdin
  
• Philip S. Rosenberg, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
  

JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

• Scott Z. Burns, The Library
  
• Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster
  
• Madeleine George, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
  
• Steven Levenson, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
  
• Lauren Yee, The Hatmaker's Wife
  

The nominations tally by show for productions that earned three or more nominations:

- A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (11)
- Aladdin (8)
- Fun Home (7)
- Rocky (6)
- After Midnight (5)
- Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (5)
- Twelfth Night (5)
- Act One (4)
- All the Way (4)
- Bullets Over Broadway (4)
- Machinal (4)
- Cabaret (3)
- The Glass Menagerie (3)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3)
- Les Misérables (3)
- Stage Kiss (3)
- Violet (3)
- The Winslow Boy (3)

The 2013-14 Outer Critics Circle Executive/Nominating Committee comprised Simon Saltzman (President), Mario Fratti (Vice-President), Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary), Stanley L. Cohen (Treasurer), Glenn Loney (Historian & Member-at-Large), Rosalind Friedman (Recording Secretary) and Aubrey Reuben and Harry Haun (Members-at-Large).

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