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News Tony Awards Offer Tony Nominations Eligibility "Cheat Sheet" In anticipation of the May 1 announcement of the 2012 Tony Awards nominations, the official Tony website has compiled a list of eligible productions/actors in eight different categories.

Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons will announce the Tony nominees May 1 at 8:30 AM ET.

Productions eligible for Best Play, Best Musical, Best Revival of a Play and Best Revival of a Musical follow:

Best Play

Chinglish
Clybourne Park
The Columnist
End of the Rainbow
The Lyons
Magic/Bird
The Mountaintop
One Man, Two Guvnors
Other Desert Cities
Peter and the Starcatcher
Relatively Speaking
Seminar
Stick Fly
Venus in Fur 

Best Musical Bonnie & Clyde
Ghost the Musical
Leap of Faith
Lysistrata Jones
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark 

Best Revival of a Play

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Don't Dress for Dinner
Gore Vidal's The Best Man
Man and Boy
Master Class
Private Lives
The Road to Mecca
A Streetcar Named Desire
Wit

Best Revival of a Musical

Evita
Follies
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Godspell
Jesus Christ Superstar
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Actors eligible in the Leading Role categories in plays and musicals follow:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play*

Tug Coker - Magic/Bird
James Corden - One Man, Two Guvnors
Hugh Dancy - Venus in Fur
Kevin Daniels - Magic/Bird
Paul Gross - Private Lives
Dulé Hill - Stick Fly
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Samuel L. Jackson - The Mountaintop
James Earl Jones - Gore Vidal's The Best Man
Stacy Keach - Other Desert Cities
Frank Langella - Man and Boy
John Larroquette - Gore Vidal's The Best Man
John Lithgow - The Columnist
Eric McCormack - Gore Vidal's The Best Man
Mekhi Phifer - Stick Fly
Alan Rickman - Seminar
Blair Underwood - A Streetcar Named Desire
Gary Wilmes - Chinglish

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play*

Nina Arianda - Venus in Fur
Angela Bassett - The Mountaintop
Tracie Bennett - End of the Rainbow
Kim Cattrall - Private Lives
Stockard Channing - Other Desert Cities
Tyne Daly - Master Class
Rachel Griffiths - Other Desert Cities
Rosemary Harris - The Road to Mecca
Linda Lavin - The Lyons
Jennifer Lim - Chinglish
Cynthia Nixon - Wit
Nicole Ari Parker - A Streetcar Named Desire
Tracie Thoms - Stick Fly

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical*

Matthew Broderick - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Danny Burstein - Follies
Reeve Carney - Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Harry Connick, Jr. - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Raúl Esparza - Leap of Faith
Ben Fankhauser - Newsies
Richard Fleeshman - Ghost the Musical
Jeremy Jordan - Bonnie & Clyde
Jeremy Jordan - Newsies
Steve Kazee - Once
Norm Lewis - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Paul Nolan - Jesus Christ Superstar
Hunter Parrish - Godspell
Ron Raines - Follies
Josh Segarra - Lysistrata Jones

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical*

Jennifer Damiano - Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Caissie Levy -Ghost the Musical
Kara Lindsay - Newsies
Jan Maxwell - Follies
Audra McDonald - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Cristin Milioti - Once
Patti Murin - Lysistrata Jones
Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Clyde
Bernadette Peters - Follies
Elena Roger -Evita

*All other eligible performers will be considered in the Featured Role categories.

The American Theatre Wing's 66th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast June 10 on CBS, with Neil Patrick Harris hosting. The Tonys are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

For more information visit Tonyawards.com. 

 
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