Nominees Announced for 2007 Broadway.com Audience Awards: Spring Awakening Tops List
Spring Awakening dominates the list of nominees for the 2007 Broadway.com Audience Awards, earning a record-breaking 21 nominations. Among that large number were a total of 15 nominations for members of the young cast of the musical, who were eligible in multiple categories. Legally Blonde follows with nine nominations. On the drama front, The Coast of Utopia is the most-honored play, earning seven nominations.
The nominees for the 8th Annual Audience Awards were chosen by Broadway.com readers over a two-week period. Five nominees were chosen from each category from a list of candidates. Multiple submissions from the same computer were eliminated from the final tally.
Final voting for the Audience Awards takes place through 11:59PM on Thursday, May 24. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 29. Click here to vote now!
A complete list of this year's nominees follows:
Favorite New Broadway Musical
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Legally Blonde
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Favorite Broadway Musical Revival
110 in the Shade
A Chorus Line
Company
Les Miserables
The Apple Tree
Favorite New Broadway Play
Coram Boy
Frost/Nixon
The Coast of Utopia
The Little Dog Laughed
The Year of Magical Thinking
Favorite Broadway Play Revival
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Inherit the Wind
Journey's End
Prelude to a Kiss
Talk Radio
Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical
Anne of Green Gables
Evil Dead the Musical
Gutenberg! The Musical
In the Heights
Spring Awakening
Favorite New Off-Broadway Play
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Blackbird
Jack Goes Boating
My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy
Some Men
Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical
Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik
Raúl Esparza, Company
Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening
Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins
David Hyde Pierce, Curtains
Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde
Kristin Chenoweth, The Apple Tree
Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens
Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade
Lea Michele, Spring Awakening
Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play
Nathan Lane, Butley
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio
Kevin Spacey, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play
Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Angela Lansbury, Deuce
Julianne Moore, The Vertical Hour
Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking
Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed
Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Skylar Astin, Spring Awakening
Christian Borle, Legally Blonde
John Gallagher, Jr., Spring Awakening
Marc Kudisch, The Apple Tree
Aaron Lazar, Les Miserables
Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Lilli Cooper, Spring Awakening
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Les Miserables
Orfeh, Legally Blonde
Lauren Pritchard, Spring Awakening
Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens
Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play
Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia
Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia
John Mahoney, Prelude to a Kiss
Denis O'Hare, Inherit the Wind
Tom Everett Scott, The Little Dog Laughed
Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Play
Jennifer Ehle, The Coast of Utopia
Beth Fowler, Inherit the Wind
Amy Irving, The Coast of Utopia
Tonya Pinkins, Radio Golf
Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia
Favorite Diva Performance
Stephanie J. Block, The Pirate Queen
Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde
Kristin Chenoweth, The Apple Tree
Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens
Orfeh, Legally Blonde
Favorite Solo Performance
Judy Gold, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Ed Harris, Wrecks
Jay Johnson, The Two and Only
Capathia Jenkins, misUnderstanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story
Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking
Favorite Ensemble Cast
A Chorus Line
Company
Curtains
Spring Awakening
The Coast of Utopia
Favorite Breakthrough Performance Male
Skylar Astin, Spring Awakening
John Gallagher, Jr., Spring Awakening
Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening
Andy Karl, Legally Blonde
Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins
Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female
Lilli Cooper, Spring Awakening
Natalie Cortez, A Chorus Line
Lea Michele, Spring Awakening
Lauren Pritchard, Spring Awakening
Remy Zaken, Spring Awakening
Favorite Onstage Pair
Christian Borle & Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde
Ashley Brown & Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins
Kristin Chenoweth & Brian d'Arcy James, The Apple Tree
Christine Ebersole & Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens
Jonathan Groff & Lea Michele, Spring Awakening
Favorite Replacement Male
Sebastian Arcelus, Wicked
Barrett Foa, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Brian d'Arcy James, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mo Rocca, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
John Tartaglia, Beauty and the Beast
Favorite Replacement Female
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Marin Mazzie, Spamalot
Julia Murney, Wicked
Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago
Lea Salonga, Les Miserables
Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show
Avenue Q
Hairspray
Rent
The Drowsy Chaperone
Wicked
Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
Altar Boyz
Blue Man Group
Forbidden Broadway: SVU
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Stomp
Favorite New Broadway Song
"My Junk", Spring Awakening
"Omigod, You Guys", Legally Blonde
"The Bitch of Living", Spring Awakening
"Totally Fucked", Spring Awakening
"Touch Me", Spring Awakening
Shows receiving more than two nominations are as follows:
Spring Awakening: 21
Legally Blonde: 9
The Coast of Utopia: 7
Grey Gardens: 5
The Apple Tree: 5
Inherit the Wind: 4
Les Miserables: 4
Mary Poppins: 4
A Chorus Line: 3
A Moon for the Misbegotten: 3
Company: 3
Curtains: 3
The Little Dog Laughed: 3
The Year of Magical Thinking: 3
Wicked: 3
110 in the Shade: 2
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: 2
Prelude to a Kiss: 2
Talk Radio: 2
Final voting for the Audience Awards takes place through 11:59PM on Thursday, May 24. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 29. Click here to vote now!
