Tony Committee Makes Eligibility Rulings on Annie, Edwin Drood & More

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season. The 14 productions discussed include Grace, Cyrano de Bergerac, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Heiress, Annie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Scandalous, A Christmas Story, Dead Accounts, The Anarchist, Golden Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Other Place and Picnic. The committee has made the following determinations:

Patrick Page will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Dan Stevens will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in The Heiress.

Anthony Warlow and Lilla Crawford will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Annie.

Will Chase, Gregg Edelman and Chita Rivera will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

John Bolton, Johnny Rabe and Erin Dilly will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in A Christmas Story, The Musical.

Seth Numrich will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for his performance in Golden Boy.

Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, David Harbour and Richard Schiff will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for their respective performances in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Laurie Metcalf will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for her performance in The Other Place.

Reed Birney, Sebastian Stan, Maggie Grace, Elizabeth Marvel, Mare Winningham and Ellen Burstyn will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Featured Role categories for their respective performances in Picnic.

The Performers, starring Cheyenne Jackson, Henry Winkler, Alicia Silverstone, Ari Graynor, Daniel Breaker and Jenni Barber, did not run long enough to be eligible for Tony Award nominations.

All other eligibility determinations were consistent with the opening night credits.