Nominees Announced for Inaugural Off Broadway Alliance Awards

By Andrew Gans
April 15, 2011

The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the nominees for the 1st Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off-Broadway between May 1, 2010, and May 1, 2011.

Winners will be announced April 28.

Awards will be presented in six competitive categories: Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Theatrical Experience, Best Musical Revival, Best Play Revival and Best Long-Running Show. 

With the exception of the Best Long-Running Show category, all winners will be selected by secret ballot by members of the awards committee of the Off Broadway Alliance. Winner of the Best Long-Running Show award will be selected by audience vote by visiting OffBroadwayAlliance.com; voting closes April 25 at 11:59 PM ET.

Six Legend of Off Broadway Awards are being presented for "sustained achievement in the world of Off Broadway." Recipients include Blue Man Group, Charles Busch, Julie Halston, Tom Jones, Everett Quinton and Harvey Schmidt. The 2011 Hall of Fame Awards are being presented posthumously to Romulus Linney, Ellen Stewart and Lanford Wilson.

Nominees follow:

Best New Musical

Dietrich and Chevalier: The Musical

NEWSical the Musical: Full Spin Ahead

The Burnt Part Boys

The Kid

Tomorrow Morning

Best New Play

Devil Boys from Beyond

Freud’s Last Session

Peter and the Starcatcher

The Divine Sister

The Whipping Man

Best Theatrical Experience

 Colin Quinn Long Story Short

Gatz

Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage

Play Dead

Sleep No More

Best Musical Revival

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dear Edwina

Hello Again

Imaginocean

Nunsense

Best Play Revival

Angels in America

Marie and Bruce

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

The Merchant of Venice (Public Theater)

The Three Sisters

Best Long-Running Show

Avenue Q

Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Blue Man Group

Celebrity Autobiography

Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical

Fuerza Bruta

Love, Loss and What I Wore

Naked Boys Singing!

Perfect Crime

Stomp

The Awesome 80s Prom

The Fantasticks

The Gazillion Bubble Show

The Off Broadway Alliance is a non-profit corporation organized by theater professionals dedicated to "supporting, promoting and encouraging the production of Off Broadway theater and to making live theater increasingly accessible to new and diverse audiences."