Hairspray Sweeps 2003 Broadway.com Audience Awards

Each year Broadway.com gives you voting power with our Broadway.com Audience Awards. After over two weeks of voting, Broadway.com has determined the winners of this year's awards. Theater fans around the world cast over 140,000 votes, making the winners the true peoples' choices of the season. The race for the Tonys is still on, but Broadway.com users have their winners: Hairspray won the Favorite Musical category and Take Me Out is the Favorite Play.

Hairspray won a whopping seven awards. Stars Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Dick Latessa all came out on top in their respective categories. Fierstein was also honored in the Favorite Diva Performance category and alongside Latessa for Favorite Onstage Pair. Winokur won a second prize as Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female Nine star Antonio Banderas also took home a Breakthrough prize.

The Broadway.com Audience Awards have created several categories that make them unique. Off-Broadway's Zanna, Don't! and Fucking A were honored as favorite musical and play of the season beyond the Great White Way. The celebrated company of La Bohème won the Favorite Ensemble Award. The audience's favorite replacements of the year were Kevin Richardson Chicago and Sally Field The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?. The long-running shows that online theater fans thnk are tops are Chicago and Forbidden Broadway while their Favorite Special Event was Broadway on Broadway.

A complete list of the Fourth Annual Broadway.com Audience Awards follows. To see a list of previous winners, click here.

Favorite New Broadway Musical
Hairspray

Favorite New Broadway Play
Take Me Out

Favorite Broadway Musical Revival
Gypsy

Favorite Broadway Play Revival
Long Day's Journey Into Night

Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical
Zanna, Don't!

Favorite New Off-Broadway Play
Fucking A

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical
Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Marissa Jaret Winokur, Hairspray

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Dick Latessa, Hairspray

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Jane Krakowski, Nine

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play
Eddie Izzard, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play
Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play
Denis O'Hare, Take Me Out

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Play
Michele Pawk, Hollywood Arms

Favorite Solo Performance
Kate Mulgrew, Tea at Five

Favorite Ensemble Cast
La Bohème

Favorite Onstage Pair
Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa, Hairspray

Favorite Replacement Male
Kevin Richardson, Chicago

Favorite Replacement Female
Sally Field, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?

Favorite Breakthrough Performance Male
Antonio Banderas, Nine

Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female
Marissa Jaret Winokur, Hairspray

Favorite Diva Performance
Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray

Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show
Chicago

Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
Forbidden Broadway

Favorite Special Event
Broadway on Broadway 2002