Neil Patrick Harris, James Monroe Iglehart, Andy Karl and More Nominated for 2014 Astaire Awards

Neil Patrick Harris, James Monroe Iglehart, Andy Karl, Susan Stroman and more have been nominated for Astaire Awards. Choreographer Pat Birch will receive the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award, while dancer and dance instructor Luigi will be awarded with the Outstanding Achievement in the Preservation of Musical Theatre Award.

The Astaire Awards is the only awards show to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film and were first started in 1982 by the late Fred Astaire and the late Douglas Watt. The 32nd Annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards will be held on June 2 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

See below for the full list of nominees.

Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show
Julius Chisholm, After Midnight
Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway
Virgil Gadson, After Midnight
Jared Grimes, After Midnight
Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
Andy Karl, Rocky
Desmond Richardson, After Midnight

Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show
Krystal Joy Brown, Big Fish
Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, After Midnight
Karine Plantadit, After Midnight
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret
Monique Smith, After Midnight
Heléne Yorke, Bullets Over Broadway
Karen Ziemba, Bullets Over Broadway

Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway Show
Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Big Fish & Bullets Over Broadway
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine, Rocky
Josh Prince, Beautiful
Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Rob Marshall, Cabaret