Tony Administrators Make Final 2007 Eligibility Rulings

The Tony Award Administration Committee met on May 10 for the final time this season to decide the eligibility of 13 Broadway productions for the 2007 awards, to be presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing. The Tony nominations will be announced on May 15 by Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs, and the awards will be presented on June 10 at Radio City Music Hall in a three-hour ceremony televised live on CBS.

The following decisions were announced:

Stephanie J. Block and Hadley Fraser will be considered in the Leading Actress and Actor in a Musical categories for their performances in The Pirate Queen.

Laura Bell Bundy will be considered in the Leading Actress in a Musical category for her performance in Legally Blonde.

Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris will be considered in the Leading Actress and Actor in a Musical categories for their performances in LoveMusik.

John Cullum will be considered in the Featured Actor in a Musical category for his performance in 110 in the Shade. Cullum had been billed above the title with co-stars Audra McDonald and Steve Kazee, both of whom will be considered in the leading categories.

Tonya Pinkins, Anthony Chisholm and John Earl Jelks will be considered in the Featured Actress and Actor in a Play categories for their performances in Radio Golf.

In the Best Original Score category, Adrian Sutton's music for Coram Boy will be eligible. Sutton composed original music for the production that supplemented famous themes by George Frideric Handel.

All other decisions were consistent with the opening night credits, which places Curtains' Debra Monk alongside David Hyde Pierce in the Leading Actress and Actor categories, and all actors from Coram Boy up for consideration in the Featured categories.

The shows considered at the May 10 meeting were Talk Radio, Curtains, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Pirate Queen, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Inherit the Wind, Frost/Nixon, Legally Blonde, Coram Boy, LoveMusik, Deuce, Radio Golf and 110 in the Shade.

The committee previously met on April 12, 2007, on January 18, 2007 and on November 30, 2006 to rule on the shows that opened earlier this season.