6th Annual Broadway.com Audience Award Nominations Announced

Nominations for the 6th Annual Broadway.com Audience Awards have been revealed. For the first time ever, Broadway.com turned to its readers to choose the best of the Broadway and off-Broadway season in the nomination process. Final voting has now started and will continue through May 25, with winners announced May 27.

Spamalot leads the pack, earning 12 nominations including Favorite New Broadway Musical. Other nods for the popular Monty Python tuner include acting nominations for stars Hank Azaria, Christian Borle, Tim Curry, Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce as well as nominations in several of the special categories that make the Broadway.com Audience Awards unique. Borle and Ramirez were nominated in the Favorite Breakthrough Performance categories, Azaria and Borle were chosen as one of nominators' Favorite Onstage Pairs and Spamalot's "The Song That Goes Like This" and "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" are competing in the brand new category of Favorite New Broadway Song.

Competing against Spamalot as readers' Favorite New Broadway Musical are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels the second most nominated show with nine nods, Little Women, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Light in the Piazza. Little Women and Brooklyn performed well with online nominators, earning seven and six nominations, respectively.

Of Broadway's dramas, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt had the strongest showing with five nominations, including Favorite New Broadway Play. Revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Steel Magnolias and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? tied with four nominations each.

Brooklyn's Eden Espinosa earned four nominations, making her the most nominated star in the 2005 Broadway.com Audience Awards. The Broadway newcomer has been honored with nods in the categories of Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical, Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female, Favorite Diva Performance and Favorite Onstage Pair shared with co-star Ramona Keller. Earning three nominations each were Sweet Charity lead Christina Applegate, Norbert Leo Butz of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Spamalot's Borle and Ramirez.

In addition to new productions, the Broadway.com Audience Awards honor long-running shows and the stars that keep them alive after the original companies have departed. Shoshana Bean Wicked Wayne Brady Chicago, Carolee Carmello Mamma Mia!, Harvey Fierstein Fiddler on the Roof, Barrett Foa The Producers, Andrea Martin Fiddler on the Roof, Joey McIntyre Wicked, Brooke Shields Wonderful Town and Jennifer Laura Thompson Wicked have all been nominated in the replacement categories.

A complete list of 2005 Broadway.com Audience Award nominees follows:

Favorite New Broadway Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Little Women
Spamalot
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Light in the Piazza

Favorite New Broadway Play
Brooklyn Boy
Democracy
Doubt
Gem of the Ocean
The Pillowman

Favorite Broadway Musical Revival
Forever Tango
La Cage aux Folles
Pacific Overtures
Sweet Charity

Favorite Broadway Play Revival
A Streetcar Named Desire
Glengarry Glen Ross
Steel Magnolias
Twelve Angry Men
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical
Altar Boyz
Dessa Rose
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Audience
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!

Favorite New Off-Broadway Play
Doubt
Fat Pig
Jewtopia
Modern Orthodox
Moonlight and Magnolias

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical
Hank Azaria, Spamalot
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Tim Curry, Spamalot
John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
David Hyde Pierce, Spamalot

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Christina Applegate, Sweet Charity
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza
Erin Dilly, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Sutton Foster, Little Women
Sherie Rene Scott, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Christian Borle, Spamalot
Gregory Jbara, Dirty Rotten Scoundels
Marc Kudisch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Matthew Morrison, The Light in the Piazza
Denis O'Hare, Sweet Charity

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Eden Espinosa, Brooklyn
Joanna Gleason, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Maureen McGovern, Little Women
Kelli O'Hara, The Light in the Piazza
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play
Alan Alda, Glengarry Glen Ross
Billy Crudup, The Pillowman
James Earl Jones, On Golden Pond
Brían F. O'Byrne, Doubt
Denzel Washington, Julius Caesar

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play
Cherry Jones, Doubt
Mary-Louise Parker, Reckless
Phylicia Rashad, Gem of the Ocean
Natasha Richardson, A Streetcar Named Desire
Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play
Tom Aldredge, Twelve Angry Men
David Harbour, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Zeljko Ivanek, The Pillowman
Christian Slater, The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wopat, Glengarry Glen Ross

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Play
Delta Burke, Steel Magnolias
Christine Ebersole, Steel Magnolias
Adriane Lenox, Doubt
Amy Ryan, A Streetcar Named Desire
Frances Sternhagen, Steel Magnolias

Favorite Solo Performance
Mario Cantone, Laugh Whore
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays
Whoopi Goldberg, Whoopi: The 20th Anniversary Show
Barry Humphries, Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Love/Life

Favorite Ensemble Cast
Altar Boyz
      Ryan Duncan, David Josefsberg, Andy Karl, Tyler Maynard,
      Scott Porter
Glengarry Glen Ross
      Alan Alda, Gordon Clapp, Jordan Lage, Live Schreiber,
      Jeffrey Tambor, Frederick Weller, Tom Wopat
Shockheaded Peter
      Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Luther Creek, Graeme Gilmour,
      Tamzin Griffin, Ewan Hunter, Paul Kandel, Alison McGowan,
      Kevin Pollard, Rebekah Wild
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
      Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson,
      Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jose Llana,
      Jay Reiss, Sarah Saltzberg
Twelve Angry Men
      Tom Aldredge, Mark Blum, Philip Bosco, Larry Bryggman,
      Robert Clohessy, Peter Friedman, Boyd Gaines, Kevin Geer,
      Michael Mastro, Matte Osian, John Pankow, James Rebhorn,
      Adam Trese

Favorite Breakthrough Performance Male
Christian Borle, Spamalot
Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Danny Gurwin, Little Women
Cheyenne Jackson, All Shook Up
Michael Benjamin Washington, La Cage aux Folles

Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female
Eden Espinosa, Brooklyn
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Ramona Keller, Brooklyn
Jenny Powers, Little Women
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot

Favorite Diva Performance
Christina Applegate, Sweet Charity
Eden Espinosa, Brooklyn
Sutton Foster, Little Women
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot
Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Favorite Onstage Pair
Christina Applegate & Denis O'Hare, Sweet Charity
Hank Azaria & Christian Borle, Spamalot
Norbert Leo Butz & John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Norbert Leo Butz & Sherie Rene Scott, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Eden Espinosa & Ramona Keller, Brooklyn

Favorite New Broadway Song
"Astonishing" – Little Women
"Great Big Stuff" – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Once Upon a Time" – Brooklyn
"The Song That Goes Like This" – Spamalot
"You Won't Succeed on Broadway" – Spamalot

Favorite Replacement Male
Wayne Brady, Chicago
Harvey Fierstein, Fiddler on the Roof
Barrett Foa, Avenue Q
Hunter Foster, The Producers
Joey McIntyre, Wicked

Favorite Replacement Female
Shoshana Bean, Wicked
Carolee Carmello, Mamma Mia!
Andrea Martin, Fiddler on the Roof
Brooke Shields, Wonderful Town
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Wicked

Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show
Avenue Q
Chicago
Hairspray
Rent
Wicked

Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
Blue Man Group
Forbidden Broadway
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Naked Boys Singing!
Stomp

Shows with Multiple Nominations
Spamalot – 12
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – 9
Little Women – 7
Brooklyn – 6
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – 5
Doubt – 5
Sweet Charity – 5
The Light in the Piazza – 4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 4
Glengarry Glen Ross – 4
Steel Magnolias – 4
Wicked – 4
A Streetcar Named Desire – 3
The Pillowman – 3
Twelve Angry Men – 3
Altar Boyz – 2
Avenue Q – 2
Chicago – 2
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – 2
Gem of the Ocean – 2
Fiddler on the Roof – 2
La Cage aux Folles – 2

Performers with Multiple Nominations
Eden Espinosa, Brooklyn - 4
Christina Applegate, Sweet Charity - 3
Christian Borle, Spamalot - 3
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 3
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot – 3
Alan Alda, Glengarry Glen Ross - 2
Tom Aldredge, Twelve Angry Men - 2
Hank Azaria, Spamalot – 2
Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - 2
Sutton Foster, Little Women - 2
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - 2
Ramona Keller, Brooklyn - 2
John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 2
Denis O'Hare, Sweet Charity - 2
Sherie Rene Scott, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – 2
Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 2
Tom Wopat, Glengarry Glen Ross - 2