Fela!, La Cage, Fences, Memphis Top 2010 Tony Award Nominations

Glee star Lea Michele and God of Carnage’s Jeff Daniels announced the nominations for the 2010 Tony Awards on May 4 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Coming out on top of the long list of honorees is the new musical Fela!, which received a whopping 11 nominations including Best Musical. With eight nominations, Memphis was the only other highly recognized new musical of the season. The remaining two Best Musical nominees were American Idiot and Million Dollar Quartet, which received three nods each.

John Logan’s Red, about artist Mark Rothko, received the most overall nominations of all the Best Play nominees. Its seven mentions included acting nominations for its two stars, Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne. The new British import Enron received the second most nominations of the plays with four, but was snubbed in the Best Play race in favor of In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Next Fall and Time Stands Still.

Well-received revivals of August Wilson’s searing drama Fences and the flamboyant musical La Cage aux Folles, two shows that originally played on Broadway alongside one another in the mid-1980s, were the other big nomination-getters of the day. Fences, which stars Denzel Washington, received 10, while La Cage tied Fela! with the most nominations at 11.

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A complete list of nominees follows.

Best Play
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts
Red by John Logan
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

Best Musical
American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis
Million Dollar Quartet

Best Revival of a Play
Fences
Lend Me a Tenor
A View from the Bridge
The Royal Family

Best Revival of a Musical
A Little Night Music
Finian’s Rainbow
La Cage aux Folles
Ragtime

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Jude Law, Hamlet
Alfred Molina, Red
Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge
Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington, Fences

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Viola Davis, Fences
Valerie Harper, Looped
Linda Lavin, Collected Stories
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Kelsey Grammer, La Cage aux Folles
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kate Baldwin, Finian’s Rainbow
Montego Glover, Memphis
Christiane Noll, Ragtime
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
David Alan Grier, Race
Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts
Stephen Kunken, Enron
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences
Eddie Redmayne, Red

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family
Jessica Hecht, A View From the Bridge
Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Robin De Jesus, La Cage aux Folles
Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow
Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet
Bobby Steggert, Ragtime

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music
Karine Plantadit, Come Fly Away
Lillias White, Fela!

Best Director of a Play
Michael Grandage, Red
Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall
Kenny Leon, Fences
Gregory Mosher, A View from the Bridge

Best Director of a Musical
Christopher Ashley, Memphis
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime
Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Bill T. Jones, Fela!

Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles
Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away

Best Book
Joe DiPietro, Memphis
Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, Million Dollar Quartet
Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture

Best Score
David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, Memphis
Adam Cork and Lucy Prebble, Enron
Andrew Lippa, The Addams Family
Branford Marsalis, Fences

Best Costume Design of a Play
Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me A Tenor
Constanza Romero, Fences
David Zinn, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Marina Draghici, Fela!
Santo Loquasto, Ragtime
Paul Tazewell, Memphis
Matthew Wright, La Cage Aux Folles

Best Scenic Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty, The Royal Family
Alexander Dodge, Present Laughter
Santo Loquasto, Fences
Christopher Oram, Red

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Marina Draghici, Fela!
Christine Jones, American Idiot
Derek McLane, Ragtime
Tim Shortall, La Cage Aux Folles

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Neil Austin, Hamlet
Neil Austin, Red
Mark Henderson, Enron
Brian MacDevitt, Fences

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, American Idiot
Donald Holder, Ragtime
Nick Richings, La Cage Aux Folles
Robert Wierzel, Fela!

Best Sound Design of a Play
Acme Sound Partners, Fences
Adam Cork, Enron
Adam Cork, Red
Scott Lehrer, A View From the Bridge

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, La Cage Aux Folles
Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!
Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen, A Little Night Music
Dan Moses Schreier, Sondheim on Sondheim

Best Orchestrations
Jason Carr, La Cage aux Folles
Aaron Johnson, Fela!
Jonathan Tunick, Promises, Promises
Daryl Waters and David Bryan, Memphis

Nomination Totals by Show:
Fela! - 11
La Cage aux Folles - 10
Fences - 9
Memphis - 8
Ragtime - 7
Red - 7
A View from the Bridge - 6
The Royal Family - 5
Enron - 4
A Little Night Music - 4
Promises, Promises - 4
American Idiot - 3
Finian's Rainbow - 3
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play - 3
Lend Me a Tenor - 3
Million Dollar Quartet - 3
The Addams Family - 2
Come Fly Away - 2
Everyday Rapture - 2
Hamlet - 2
Next Fall - 2
Time Stands Still - 2
A Behanding in Spokane - 1
Collected Stories - 1
Looped - 1
Present Laughter - 1
Race - 1
Superior Donuts - 1