Monday, April 23, 2012

NOMINATIONS: 62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards

Former CORONATION STREET star Tracie Bennett
is nominated for her masterful performance in "End of the Rainbow"
Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe ("The Merchant of Venice," "Seminar") and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas ("The Stendhal Syndrome," "Race," AS THE WORLD TURNS) announced the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Award nominations on Monday at the Friars' Club in Manhattan.

Outer Critics Circle Awards honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway.


The new Gershwin musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" received nine nominations, the most of any production of the season. The new musicals "Newsies" and "Once" each received seven nominations.


Below is a complete list of nominations.  Can you spot the former soap stars?

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
"The Lyons"
"One Man, Two Guvnors"
"Seminar"
"Stick Fly"


OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
"Bonnie & Clyde"
"Newsies"
"Once"
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"


OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
"Blood and Gifts"
"The School for Lies"
"Sons of the Prophet"
"Tribes"

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
"Death Takes a Holiday"
"Lucky Guy"
"Play It Cool"
"Queen of the Mist"

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
"Newsies"
"Nice Work If You Can Get It"
"Once"
"Queen of the Mist"

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
"Bonnie & Clyde"
"Death Takes a Holiday"
"Newsies"
"Queen of the Mist"

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
"The Best Man"
"Death of a Salesman"
"The Lady From Dubuque"
"Private Lives"

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
"Carrie"
"Evita"
"Follies"
"Porgy and Bess"

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Mark Brokaw "The Lyons"
David Cromer "Tribes"
Nicholas Hytner "One Man, Two Guvnors"
Mike Nichols "Death of a Salesman"

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Jeff Calhoun "Newsies"
Michael Grandage "Evita"
Kathleen Marshall "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
John Tiffany "Once"

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Rob Ashford "Evita"
Christopher Gattelli "Newsies"
Steven Hoggett "Once"
Kathleen Marshall "Nice Work If You Can Get It"

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Bob Crowley "Once"
Derek McLane "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Christopher Oram "Evita"
George Tsypin "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Gregg Barnes "Follies"
Eiko Ishioka "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"
William Ivey "Long Don’t Dress for Dinner"
Martin Pakledinaz "Nice Work If You Can Get It"

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Neil Austin "Evita"
Donald Holder "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"
Brian MacDevitt "Death of a Salesman"
Hugh Vanstone "Ghost: The Musical"

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
James Corden "One Man, Two Guvnors"
Santino Fontana "Sons of the Prophet"
Russell Harvard "Tribes"
Philip Seymour Hoffman "Death of a Salesman"
Hamish Linklater "The School for Lies"

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Tracie Bennett "End of the Rainbow"
Tyne Daly "Master Class"
Linda Lavin "The Lyons"
Nicole Ari Parker "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Laila Robins "The Lady From Dubuque"

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein "Follies"
Raúl Esparza "Leap of Faith"
Jeremy Jordan "Newsies"
Steve Kazee "Once"
Norm Lewis "Porgy and Bess"

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jan Maxwell "Follies"
Marin Mazzie "Carrie"
Audra McDonald "Porgy and Bess"
Cristin Milioti "Once"
Kelli O’Hara "Nice Work If You Can Get It"

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Will Brill "Tribes"
Tom Edden "One Man, Two Guvnors"
Andrew Garfield "Death of a Salesman"
James Earl Jones "The Best Man"
Jefferson Mays "Blood and Gifts"

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Joanna Gleason "Sons of the Prophet"
Spencer Kayden "Don’t Dress for Dinner"
Angela Lansbury "The Best Man"
Judith Light "Other Desert Cities"
Daphne Rubin-Vega "A Streetcar Named Desire"

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Phillip Boykin "Porgy and Bess"
Andrew Keenan-Bolger "Newsies"
Michael McGrath "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Patrick Page "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"
Chris Sullivan "Nice Work If You Can Get It"

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jayne Houdyshell "Follies"
Judy Kaye Nice Work "If You Can Get It"
Rebecca Luker "Death Takes a Holiday"
Da’Vine Joy Randolph "Ghost: The Musical"
Melissa Van Der Schyff "Bonnie & Clyde"

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Judy Gold "My Life as a Sitcom"
David Greenspan "The Patsy"
Denis O’Hare "An Iliad"
Stephen Spinella "An Iliad"

JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Robert Askins "Hand to God"
Gabe McKinley "CQ/CX"
Erika Sheffer "Russian Transport"
Jeff Talbott "The Submission"



Nominations total by show: 
9 - "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
7 - "Newsies"
7 - "Once"
5 - "Follies"
5 - "Death of a Salesman"
5 - "Evita"
5 - "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"
4 - "One Man, Two Guvnors"
4 - "Porgy and Bess"
4 - "Tribes"
3 - "The Best Man"
3 - "Bonnie & Clyde"
3 - "Death Takes a Holiday"
3 - "The Lyons"
3 - "Queen of the Mist"
3 - "Sons of the Prophet"

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