"Ghostlight is only a year old," Kurt Deutsch, who runs Ghostlight and the five-year-old label, Sh-K-Boom, told Broadway.com, "and this kind of legitimizes the work that we're doing. It's nice to be recognized and I'm so proud of David Yazbek and Bill Finn. I'm also especially happy about Hair because it's for charity. It's really great that a little label with two employees can do this."
Here are the 2005 nominees:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Billy Straus & David Yazbek, producers
David Yazbek, composer/lyricist
Ghostlight Records
Hair
Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers
Galt MacDermot, composer/James Rado & Gerome Ragni, lyricists
Ghostlight Records
The Light In The Piazza
Steven Epstein, producer
Adam Guettel, composer/lyricist
Nonesuch
Monty Python's Spamalot
John Du Prez & Eric Idle, producers
John Du Prez, composer; Eric Idle, composer/lyricist
Decca Broadway
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers
William Finn, composer/lyricist
Razor & Tie/Ghostlight Records