59th Annual Drama Desk Awards - Winners

The Tony Awards are TOMORROW! On that note - I won't be liveblogging like I usually do! I'm assisting in a Tony's party that's fundraising for Suzart Productions, a local Ottawa non-profit community theatre initiative. (Mostly, we just want to hang out with people and watch the Tony's, but might as well raise some money for a great cause.) Check out @OttTonyAwards on Twitter - and if you're in Ottawa, you can pay at the door to get in! Silent auction, coffee station and a fun photobooth! (ottawatonyawards.com)

Anyway. I wanted to share the Drama Desk Awards winners! Let's prep for Broadway's biggest night; I always love to see who gets the Drama Desk Awards.

As always, winners are bolded!

OUTSTANDING PLAY
The Explorers Club - Neil Benjamin
Core Values - Steven Levenson
The Night Alive - Conor McPherson
Regular Singing - Richard Nelson
Domesticated - Bruce Norris
All the Way - Robert Schenkkan
Outside Mullingar - John Patrick Shanley

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Aladdin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Fun Home
Love's Labour's Lost
Rocky
The Bridges of Madison County

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
I Remember Mama
London Wall
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Model Apartment
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production)

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL OR REVUE
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bryan Cranston - All the Way
Hamish Linklater - The Comedy of Errors
Ian McKellen - No Man's Land
David Morse - The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Dumin
Chris O'Dowd - Of Mice and Men
Daniel Radcliffe - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Denzel Washington - A Raisin in the Sun

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Barbara Andres - I Remember Mama
Tyne Daly - Mothers and Sons
Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Laurie Metcalf - Domesticated
J. Smith-Cameron - Juno and the Paycock
Harriet Walter - Julius Caesar

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Neil Patrick Harris - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adam Jacobs - Aladdin
Andy Karl - Rocky
Jefferson Mays - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Pasquale - The Bridges of Madison County
Bryce Pinkham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster - Violet
Idina Menzel - If/Then
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara - The Bridges of Madison County
Margo Seibert - Tamar of the River
Barrett Wilbert Weed - Heathers: The Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Reed Birney - Casa Valentina
Chuck Cooper - Choir Boy
Peter Maloney - Outside Mullingar
Bobby Moreno - Year of the Rooster
Bill Pullman - The Jacksonian
Brian J. Smith - The Glass Menagerie

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Betty Buckley - The Old Friends
Julia Coffey - London Wall
Diane Davis - The Model Apartment
Celia Keenan-Bolger - The Glass Menagerie
Jan Maxwell - The Castle
Sophie Okonedo - A Raisin in the Sun

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein - Cabaret
Nick Cordero - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Joshua Henry - Violet
James Monroe Inglehart - Aladdin
Rory O'Malley - Nobody Loves You
Bobby Steggert - Big Fish

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block - Little Miss Sunshine
Anika Larsen - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox - After Midnight
Sydney Lucas - Fun Home
Laura Osnes - The Threepenny Opera
Jennifer Simard - Disaster!
Lauren Worsham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Joe Calarco - A Christmas Carol
Tim Carroll - Twelfth Night
Thomas Kail - Family Furniture
Bill Rauch - All the Way
Anna D. Shapiro - Domesticated
Julie Taymor - A Midsummer Night's Dream

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Sam Gold - Fun Home
Michael Mayer - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bartlett Sher - The Bridges of Madison County
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Alex Timbers - Rocky
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Steven Hoggett, Kelly Devine - Rocky
Danny Mefford - Love's Labour's Lost
Casey Nicholaw - Aladdin
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Sonya Tayeh - Kung Fu

OUTSTANDING MUSIC
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Andrew Lippa - Big Fish
Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Alan Menken - Aladdin
Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe - Heathers: The Musical
Jeanine Tesori - Fun Home

OUTSTANDING LYRICS
Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Michael Friedman - Love's Labour's Lost
Michael Korie - Far From Home
Lisa Kron - Fun Home

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair - Murder for Two
Lisa Kron - Fun Home
Douglas McGrath - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Marsha Norman - The Bridges of Madison County

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
 John Clancy - Fun Home
Larry Hochman - Big Fish
Steve Sidwell - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Michael Starobin - If/Then
Jonathan Tunick - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

OUTSTANDING MUSIC IN A PLAY
Lewis Flinn - The Tribute Artist
Elliot Goldenthal - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rob Kearns - The Life and Sort Of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan - Almost, Maine
Nico Muhly - The Glass Menagerie
Duncan Sheik - A Man's a Man

OUTSTANDING REVUE
After Midnight
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond
Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
Til Divorce Do Us Part
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Christopher Barreca - Rocky
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Richard Hoover - Small Engine Repair
Santo Loquasto - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Ian MacNeil - A Doll's House
Donyale Werle - The Explorers Club

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Constance Hoffman - A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Ivey Long - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Zane Pihlstrom - Nutcracker Rouge
Loren Shaw - The Mysteries
Jenny Tiramani - Twelfth Night
David C. Woolard - The Heir Apparent

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind - Rocky
Jane Cox - Machinal
David Lander - The Civil War
Peter Mumford - King Lear
Brian Tovar - Tamar of the River
Japhy Wiedeman - Macbeth

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence - Cirkopolis
Sven Ortel - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aaron Rhyne - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Shawn Sagady - All the Way
Austin Switser - Sontag: Reborn
Ben Rubin - Arguendo

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A MUSICAL
Kai Harada - Fun Home
Peter Hylenski - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Peter Hylenski - Rocky
Brian Ronan - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Dan Moses Schreier - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Jon Weston - The Bridges of Madison County

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A PLAY
M.L. Dogg - The Open House
Katie Down - The Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast - All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier - Act One
Christopher Shutt - Love and Information
Matt Tierney - Machinal

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
David Barlow - This Is My Office
Jim Brochu - Character Man
Hannah Cabell - Grounded
Debra Jo Rupp - Becoming Dr Ruth
Ruben Santiago-Hudson - August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
John Douglas Thompson - Satchmo at the Waldorf

UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
Charlatan
Cirkopolis
Mother Africa
Nothing to Hide
Nutcracker Rouge
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2

SPECIAL AWARDS
To SoHo Rep: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.
To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.
To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.
To the ensembles of off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.
             The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, Carolyn McCormick
             The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Marisa Tomei