Trevor Nunn's revival of Oklahoma! topped the roster of winners (with five awards) for the 2002 Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced to members of the theatre community April 28.
The musical, Urinetown, won three awards, including Outstanding Broadway Musical while Edward Albee's The Goat won Outstanding Broadway Play. Oklahoma! was dubbed Oustanding Revival of a Musical (also taking Supporting Actor, Choreography, Lighting and Set honors), and Morning's at Seven won for Outstanding Revival of a Play. Fortune's Fool's pair of choice actors, Alan Bates and Frank Langella, took the prizes for Outstanding Actor and Supporting Actor, respectively, in a play. The Dazzle and tick, tick...BOOM! were named Outstanding Off-Broadway Play and Musical, respectively. Sutton Foster (in her first lead Broadway role) won Outstanding Actress in a Musical for the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie and John Lithgow took Outstanding Actor in a Musical for playing wicked JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success.
The Outer Critics Circle, an organization of over 75 out-of-town critics and writers, whose annual Award nominations unofficially kick off New York's theatrical awards season, cited Topdog/Underdog's Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright for a Special Achievement award for their performances in the just-laureled Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Based on a single public performance in New York (and an invited dress rehearsal), Into the Woods managed to sneak under the wire and collect four nominations (Musical Revival, Director of a Musical, Actress and Featured Actress in a Musical), but won none. Outer Critics Circle Awards honor both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, with shows that opened Off-Broadway during the 2001-2002 season and then transferred to Broadway - such as Topdog, Metamorphoses, and Urinetown - being included in the Broadway categorization.
The awards ceremony will be held May 23 at Sardi's Restaurant. The nominees and winners follow, with winners in boldface. OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY
Fortune's Fool
The Goat
Metamorphoses
Topdog/Underdog
OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown
OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
The Dazzle
Franz Kafka's The Castle
The Matchmaker
36 Views
OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
The Last 5 Years
The Spitfire Grill
Summer of '42
tick, tick...Boom!
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
The Crucible
The Elephant Man
Morning's at Seven
Noises Off
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Into the Woods
Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Jeremy Sams - Noises Off
Scott Schwartz - Franz Kafka's The Castle
Daniel Sullivan - Morning's at Seven
George C. Wolfe - Topdog/Underdog
Mary Zimmerman - Metamorphoses
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
James Lapine - Into the Woods
Michael Mayer - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Trevor Nunn - Oklahoma!
John Rando - Urinetown
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Rob Ashford - Thoroughly Modern Millie
John Carrafa - Urinetown
Susan Stroman - Oklahoma!
Christopher Wheeldon - Sweet Smell of Success
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
John Lee Beatty - Morning's at Seven
Allen Moyer - The Dazzle
Douglas Stein - 36 Views
Anthony Ward - Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Santo Loquasto - The Elephant Man
Isaac Mizrahi - The Women
Martin Pakledinaz - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Anthony Ward - Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
David Hersey - Oklahoma!
Donald Holder - Thoroughly Modern Millie
James F. Ingalls - The Elephant Man
David Weiner - 36 Views
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Alan Bates - Fortune's Fool
Ian McKellan - Dance of Death
Liam Neeson - The Crucible
Bill Pullman - The Goat
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Kate Burton - Hedda Gabler
Laura Linney - The Crucible
Helen Mirren - Dance of Death
Mercedes Ruehl - The Goat
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
John Cullum - Urinetown
Brian d'Arcy James - Sweet Smell of Success
Hunter Foster - Urinetown
John Lithgow - Sweet Smell of Success
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Josefina Gabrielle - Oklahoma!
Kerry O'Malley - Into the Woods
Louise Pitre - Mamma Mia!
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Frank Langella - Fortune's Fool
Joseph McKenna - The Golem
Stephen Tobolowsky - Morning's at Seven
David Warner - Major Barbara
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Katie Finneran - Noises Off
Elizabeth Franz - Morning's at Seven
Julie Hagerty - Morning's at Seven
Dana Ivey - Major Barbara
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Norbert Leo Butz - Thou Shalt Not
Justin Bohon - Oklahoma!
Shuler Hensley - Oklahoma!
Marc Kudisch Thoroughly Modern Millie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Laura Benanti - Into the Woods
Angela Christian - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Spencer Kayden - Urinetown
Andrea Martin - Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Kevin Bacon - An Almost Holy Picture
John Leguizamo - Sexaholix
Charles Nelson Reilly - Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly
Elaine Stritch - Elaine Stritch at Liberty
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play,preferably by a new playwright)
Rebecca Gilman - The Glory of Living
Richard Greenberg - The Dazzle
Naomi Iizuka - 36 Views
Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/Underdog
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright Topdog/Underdog
