Keating!, a musical about Down Under politics, won in several categories, including Musical (beating The Boy From Oz). The star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a performer known as iOTA, beat Hugh Jackman of The Boy From Oz as Male Actor in a Musical.
Jefferson Mays, who won the Tony Award for playing multiple roles in I Am My Own Wife, won the Helpmann as Male Actor in a Play for the Aussie bow of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Doug Wright.
Sydney Theatre Company's production of The Lost Echo, an eight-hour epic, won awards in several categories, including Play, Direction of a Play, Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play, Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play and New Australian Work (for collaborators Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright).
2007 Helpmann Award winners included:
Australian Contemporary Concert
Melbourne International Arts Festival and Arts House, Murundak Ballet or Dance Work
Lucy Guerin Company, Structure & Sadness
Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Zero Degrees
Choreography in a Musical
Kelley Abbey and Kenny Ortega, The Boy From Oz
Classical Concert Presentation
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Revolution
Comedy Performer
Adam Hills and Adam Hills, Joymonger
Contemporary Music Festival
Vivian Lees & Ken West, Creative Festival Entertainment, Big Day Out Festival 2007
Costume Design
Tim Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner, Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical
Direction of a Play
Barrie Kosky, The Lost Echo
Direction of an Opera
Douglas Horton, The Hive
Direction of Musical
Neil Armfield, Keating!
Female Actor in a Musical
Laurie Cadevida, Miss Saigon
Female Actor in a Play
Ursula Yovich, Capricornia
Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Colleen Hewett, The Boy From Oz
Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play
Deborah Mailman, The Lost Echo
Female Dancer in a Ballet
Ros Warby, Monumental
Female Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera
Orla Boylan, The Love of the Nightingale
Female Performer in an Opera
Emma Matthews, The Love of the Nightingale
International Contemporary Concert
Michael Coppel, Pink — I'm Not Dead! Tour
Lighting Design
Al Gurdon, Robbie Williams Close Encounters Tour
Male Actor in a Musical
iOTA, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Male Actor in a Play
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife
Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Terry Serio, Keating!
Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play
Paul Capsis, The Lost Echo
Male Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work
Akram Khan, Zero Degrees
Male Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera
James Egglestone, The Love of the Nightingale
Male Performer in an Opera
Jonathan Summers, Rigoletto
Musical
Company B, Keating!
Musical Direction
Richard Mills, The Love of the Nightingale
New Australian Work
Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright, The Lost Echo
Opera
Opera Australia, Rusalka
Original Score
Paul Keelan & Gary Young, Sideshow Alley
Performance in a Classical Concert
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Master Series — Courage Under Fire, Shostakovich Symphony No 7 Leningrad
Performance in an Australian Comtemporary Concert
David Campbell, David Campbell Wild With Style
Play
Sydney Theater Company, The Lost Echo
Presentation for Children
Monkey Baa Theater for Young People, Jackie French's Hitler's Daughter
Regional Touring Production
Ensemble Prods. in association with Christine Dunstan Prods., Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Scenic Design
Brian Thomson, The Boy From Oz
Sound Design
Michael Waters, The Woman in Black
Special Event
DCE Janice Crystal Larry Magid and Face Prods., Billy Crystal 700 Sundays
Visual or Physical Theater
Malthouse Theater and Sydney Opera House, Honour Bound