Monday, April 28, 2008

Drama Desk Award Nominees

Nominations for the annual Drama Desk awards were announced Monday and some of the nominees have a soap past (see those categories below). Theh Drama Desks are unique in that Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway compete in the same categories.

Outstanding Actor in a Play:

Bill Champion, Intimate Exchanges
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac (ex-Woody, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW)
Bill Pullman, Peter and Jerry
Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Tobias Segal, From Up Here
Rufus Sewell, Rock 'n' Roll

Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
André De Shields, Black Nativity (ex-Marshall, ANOTHER WORLD)
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu
Matthew Morrison, 10 Million Miles (ex-Adam, AS THE WORLD TURNS)
Paulo Szot, South Pacific

Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
Sierra Boggess, The Little Mermaid
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific (ex-Leslie, ALL MY CHILDREN)
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair (ex-Diane, LOVING)
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
John Cullum, The Conscientious Objector (ex-Artie, ONE LIFE TO LIVE)
Conleth Hill, The Seafarer
Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Arian Moayed, Masked
Jeff Perry, August: Osage County
Michael T. Weiss, Scarcity (ex-Mike, DAYS OF OUR LIVES)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
Elizabeth Ashley, Dividing the Estate (ex-Emma, ANOTHER WORLD)
Johanna Day, Peter and Jerry (ex-Marilyn, ALL MY CHILDREN)
Zoe Kazan, 100 Saints You Should Know
Linda Lavin, The New Century
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County
Marisa Tomei, Top Girls (ex-Marcy, AS THE WORLD TURNS)

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:

Danny Burstein, South Pacific
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein
Bobby Steggert, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (ex-Samual, ALL MY CHILDREN)
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair

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