Doubt, Scoundrels and Spamalot Top 2005 Broadway.com Audience Awards

After a two-week voting period, in which more than 144,000 votes were cast online by theatergoers, Broadway.com has announced the winners of the 6th Annual Broadway.com Audience Awards.

John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, now playing at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, came out on top with four awards. Not only did voters find the show to be their Favorite New Broadway Play, it was also the best thing they saw off-Broadway, taking home the Favorite New Off-Broadway Play for its run earlier in the season at Manhattan Theater Club. Stars Cherry Jones and Brían F. O'Byrne also won as the favorite leading actor and actress in a play. Delta Burke Steel Magnolias and Christian Slater The Glass Menagerie were the favorites in the featured play categories.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was named Favorite New Broadway Musical, one of three categories in which the show came out on top. Leading man Norbert Leo Butz was named voters' Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical and picked up a second award for Favorite Onstage Pair alongside co-star John Lithgow.

Of the other musicals, Spamalot also won three awards for two of its talented newcomers--resident diva Sara Ramirez triumphed as both Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical and Favorite Breakthrough Performance - Female, while Christian Borle took home the honor of Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee won Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical for its pre-Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre, and its company of nine performers was also honored as Favorite Ensemble Cast.

Sutton Foster, who won three Broadway.com Audience Awards in 2002 for her work in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, triumphed in two categories this year. For her performance in the just-closed musical adaptation of Louise May Alcott's Little Women, Foster won in the categories of Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical and Favorite Diva Performance.

Wicked, which was named Favorite New Broadway Musical in 2004, won three awards in this year's competition. The hit tuner was recognized as audiences' Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show and also won prizes for replacement stars Jennifer Laura Thompson, who finishes her run as Glinda this week, and Joey McIntyre, who played Fiyero for six months last year.

Off-Broadway, Forbidden Broadway currently represented by its latest edition, Forbidden Broadway: SVU was named Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show for the sixth straight year.

A complete list of this year's winners follows.

Favorite New Broadway Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Favorite New Broadway Play
Doubt

Favorite Broadway Musical Revival
La Cage aux Folles

Favorite Broadway Play Revival
Twelve Angry Men

Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Favorite New Off-Broadway Play
Doubt

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Sutton Foster, Little Women

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Christian Borle, Spamalot

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot

Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play
Brían F. O'Byrne, Doubt

Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play
Cherry Jones, Doubt

Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play
Christian Slater, The Glass Menagerie

Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Play
Delta Burke, Steel Magnolias

Favorite Solo Performance
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays

Favorite Ensemble Cast
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 and Sarah Saltzberg

Favorite Onstage Pair
Norbert Leo Butz and John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Favorite Replacement - Male
Joey McIntyre, Wicked

Favorite Replacement - Female
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Wicked

Favorite Breakthrough Performance - Male
Cheyenne Jackson, All Shook Up

Favorite Breakthrough Performance - Female
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot

Favorite Diva Performance
Sutton Foster, Little Women

Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show
Wicked

Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
Forbidden Broadway

Favorite New Broadway Song
"Once Upon a Time" from Brooklyn - Music and lyrics by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson

Productions with Multiple Wins
Doubt - 4
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 3
Spamalot - 3
Wicked - 3
Little Women - 2
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - 2

Performers with Multiple Wins
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 2
Sutton Foster, Little Women - 2
Sara Ramirez, Spamalot - 2