Spring, Utopia and Company Among Drama League Winners
By Andrew Gans
11 May 2007
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Angel Desai and Raϊl Esparza in Company.
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| photo by Paul Kolnik | Winners of the 73rd Annual Drama League Awards were announced May 11 at a luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel hosted by Tony Award winner Gary Beach.
Founded in 1916, the Drama League is an association of theatre professionals and patrons dedicated to "encouraging the finest in professional theatre and has since then developed into the theatre's premiere service organization." The Drama League presents awards in four categories: Distinguished Production of a Musical, Play, Revival of a Musical and Revival of a Play.
Winners included Spring Awakening (Distinguished Production of a Musical), The Coast of Utopia (Distinguished Production of a Play), Company (Distinguished Production of a Revival of a Musical) and Journey's End (Distinguished Production of a Revival of a Play).
The Drama League Awards, according to press notes, also "pay tribute to the season's best performers by honoring the nominees of The Distinguished Performance Award on a dais." This year's winner of the Distinguished Performance Award was Liev Schreiber, for his work in both the Broadway bow of Talk Radio and the Public Theater's summer staging of Macbeth.
The afternoon event also honored Michael Mayer, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and John Kander and the late Fred Ebb with special awards. Kander and Ebb, the composing duo currently represented on Broadway with the new musical Curtains (as well as the long-running Chicago revival), were honored with The Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award. Mayer, director of the acclaimed new musical Spring Awakening, received the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing. And, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's largest industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization, was presented with the Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award.
Nominees for the 73rd Annual Drama League Awards with winners' names in bold follow.
Distinguished Production of a Musical
Curtains
In the Heights
Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway
Legally Blonde
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Mary Poppins
*Spring Awakening
Distinguished Production of a Play
Blackbird
Coram Boy
Frost/Nixon
No Child
Radio Golf
*The Coast of Utopia
The Scene
The Year of Magical Thinking
Distinguished Revival of a Musical
110 in the Shade
A Chorus Line
*Company
Les Misιrables
The Fantasticks
Distinguished Revival of a Play
Inherit the Wind
*Journey's End
Mother Courage and Her Children
Seven Guitars
Talk Radio
The Hairy Ape
The Merchant of Venice
Translations
Distinguished Performance Award
F. Murray Abraham The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice
Heidi Armbruster Tea and Sympathy
Christine Baranski Regrets Only
Gary Beach Les Misιrables
Daniel Beaty Emergence-See!
Eve Best A Moon for the Misbegotten
Stephanie J. Block The Pirate Queen
Justin Bond Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway
Christian Borle Legally Blonde
Ashley Brown Mary Poppins
Laura Bell Bundy Legally Blonde
Kate Burton The Waters Edge
Michael Cerveris King Lear, LoveMusik
Kristin Chenoweth The Apple Tree
Anthony Chisholm Radio Golf
Jill Clayburgh The Clean House, The Busy World Is Hushed
Jennifer Cody Henry and Mudge
Billy Crudup The Coast of Utopia
Michael Cumpsty Richard II
Charlotte D'Amboise A Chorus Line
Hugh Dancy Journey's End
Jeff Daniels Blackbird
Brian Dennehy Inherit the Wind
Gregory Derelian The Hairy Ape
Ensemble Columbinus
Ensemble Coram Boy
Raϊl Esparza Company
Gerald Finnigan The Hairy Ape
John Fugelsang All the Wrong Reasons
Boyd Gaines Journey's End
John Gallagher Jr. Spring Awakening
Alexander Gemignani Les Misιrables
Piper Goodeve Anne of Green Gables
Logan Marshall-Green King Lear, Pig Farm
David Greenspan Some Men
George Grizzard Regrets Only
Jonathan Groff Spring Awakening
Ed Harris Wrecks
Ethan Hawke The Coast of Utopia
Phillip Seymour Hoffman Jack Goes Boating
Jayne Houdyshell The Pain and the Itch
Stephen Kunken A Very Common Procedure, Frost/Nixon
Nathan Lane Butley
Gavin Lee Mary Poppins
Harry Lennix Radio Golf
Norm Lewis Les Misιrables
Hamish Linklater The Busy World Is Hushed
John Mahoney Prelude to a Kiss
Dylan McDermott The Treatment
Audra McDonald 110 in the Shade
Lin-Manuel Miranda In the Heights
Alfred Molina Howard Katz
Debra Monk Curtains
Kate Mulgrew Our Leading Lady
Donna Murphy LoveMusik
Kristine Nielsen Our Leading Lady
Bill Nighy The Vertical Hour
Brian F. O'Byrne Shining City, The Coast of Utopia
Denis O'Hare Inherit the Wind, A Spanish Play
Sandra Oh Satellites
Thaddeus Phillips El Conquistador!
David Hyde Pierce Curtains
Allison Pill Blackbird
Oliver Platt Shining City
Michelle Ragusa Adrift in Macao
Vanessa Redgrave The Year of Magical Thinking
*Liev Schreiber Macbeth, Talk Radio
Pablo Schreiber Dying City
Andrew Scott The Vertical Hour
Michael Sheen Frost/Nixon
Martin Short Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Meryl Streep Mother Courage and Her Children
Michael Stuhlbarg The Voysey Inheritance
Nilaja Sun No Child
Alan Tudyk Prelude to a Kiss
Barbara Walsh Company
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Grey Gardens and The Little Dog Laughed were previously nominated for Drama League Awards during their original Off-Broadway runs and were therefore ineligible this season. Deuce, the new Terrence McNally play, removed itself from consideration for this year's awards and will be considered next season.
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Stark Sands, John Ahlin and Boyd Gaines star in the Broadway Revival of Journey's End.
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| photo by Paul Kolnik |
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