Nice Work If You Can Get It, Newsies & Once Lead 2012 Outer Critics Circle Nominations

Nominations for the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 23, with the new Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It leading the group with nine nominations. Newsies and Once, both new musicals, received seven nods each. Winners of the Outer Critics Circle Awards will be announced on May 14, with the annual awards ceremony to follow at Sardi’s Restaurant on May 24. The Outer Critics Circle is an organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for various out-of-town media outlets. The Outer Critics Circle will present a special award to the Public Theater in honor of its 50th anniversary offering free performances in Central Park’s Delacorte Theater. Several of this year's high-profile Broadway offerings such as Other Desert Cities, Clybourne Park, Venus in Fur and Peter and the Starcatcher were not eligible for this year's awards as their off-Broadway productions had previously been taken into consideration in past years. Actors not in the original production however were deemed eligible.

Outstanding New Broadway Play
The Lyons
One Man, Two Guvnors
Seminar
Stick Fly

Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Bonnie & Clyde
Newsies
Once
Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Blood and Gifts
The School for Lies
Sons of the Prophet
Tribes

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
Death Takes a Holiday
Lucky Guy
Play It Cool
Queen of the Mist

Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once
Queen of the Mist

Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Bonnie & Clyde
Death Takes a Holiday
Newsies
Queen of the Mist

Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
The Best Man
Death of a Salesman
The Lady From Dubuque
Private Lives

Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Carrie
Evita
Follies
Porgy and Bess

Outstanding Actor in a Play
James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Santino Fontana, Sons of the Prophet
Russell Harvard, Tribes
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Death of a Salesman
Hamish Linklater, The School for Lies

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow
Tyne Daly, Master Class
Linda Lavin, The Lyons
Nicole Ari Parker, A Streetcar Named Desire
Laila Robins, The Lady From Dubuque

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Follies
Raúl Esparza, Leap of Faith
Jeremy Jordan, Newsies
Steve Kazee, Once
Norm Lewis, Porgy and Bess

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Jan Maxwell, Follies
Marin Mazzie, Carrie
Audra McDonald, Porgy and Bess
Cristin Milioti, Once
Kelli O’Hara, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Will Brill, Tribes
Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Andrew Garfield, Death of a Salesman
James Earl Jones, The Best Man
Jefferson Mays, Blood and Gifts

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Joanna Gleason, Sons of the Prophet
Spencer Kayden, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Angela Lansbury, The Best Man
Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
Daphne Rubin-Vega, A Streetcar Named Desire

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Phillip Boykin, Porgy and Bess
Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Newsies
Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Patrick Page, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Chris Sullivan, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Jayne Houdyshell, Follies
Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Rebecca Luker, Death Takes a Holiday
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ghost: The Musical
Melissa Van Der Schyff, Bonnie & Clyde

Outstanding Director of a Play
Mark Brokaw, The Lyons
David Cromer, Tribes
Nicholas Hytner, One Man, Two Guvnors
Mike Nichols, Death of a Salesman

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Jeff Calhoun, Newsies
Michael Grandage, Evita
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
John Tiffany, Once

Outstanding Choreographer
Rob Ashford, Evita
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Steven Hoggett, Once
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical)
Bob Crowley, Once
Derek McLane, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Christopher Oram, Evita
George Tsypin, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)
Gregg Barnes, Follies
Eiko Ishioka, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark
William Ivey Long, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Martin Pakledinaz, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)
Neil Austin, Evita
Donald Holder, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark
Brian MacDevitt, Death of a Salesman
Hugh Vanstone, Ghost: The Musical

Outstanding Solo Performance
Judy Gold, My Life as a Sitcom
David Greenspan, The Patsy
Denis O’Hare, An Iliad
Stephen Spinella, An Iliad

John Gassner Award 
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Robert Askins, Hand to God
Gabe McKinley, CQ/CX
Erika Sheffer, Russian Transport
Jeff Talbot, The Submission
 
Shows with multiple nominations:
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 9
Newsies - 7
Once - 7
Death of a Salesman - 5
Evita - 5
Follies - 5
Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark - 5
One Man, Two Guvnors - 4
Porgy and Bess - 4
Tribes - 4
The Best Man - 3
Bonnie & Clyde - 3
Death Takes a Holiday - 3
The Lyons - 3
Queen of the Mist- 3
Sons of the Prophet - 3
Blood and Gifts - 2
Carrie - 2
Don't Dress for Dinner - 2
Ghost - 2
The Lady From Dubuque - 2
The School for Lies - 2
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2