Spamalot, Twelve Angry Men Top Touring Broadway Awards

Spamalot and Twelve Angry Men took top honors in the eighth annual Touring Broadway Awards, presented by The Broadway League on April 14 at its annual Spring Road Conference in New York. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row with an Audience Choice Award and also took home prizes for Best Musical Score and Best Direction. The Lion King earned recognition for maintaining high quality over its long run.

Established in 2000, the Touring Broadway Awards are the first national awards to recognize Touring Broadway. League presenters representing over 240 markets act as a blue-ribbon panel to select award recipients from their Broadway Series.

The complete list of winners is as follows:

Best New Touring Musical: Monty Python's Spamalot
Producers: Boyett Ostar Productions, The Shubert Organization, Arielle Tepper, Stephanie McClelland/Lawrence Horowitz, Elan V. McAllister/Allan S. Gordon, Independent Presenters Network, Roy Furman, GRS Associates, Jam Theatricals, Concert Productions International, Live Nation

Best Touring Play: Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company

Best Design of a Touring Production: My Fair Lady
Scenic and Costume Design by Anthony Ward; Lighting Design by David Hersey

Best Musical Score of a Touring Production: Wicked
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Best Direction of a Touring Production: Joe Mantello, Wicked

Best Choreography of a Touring Production: Casey Nicholaw, The Drowsy Chaperone

Best Long-Running Touring Musical: The Lion King
Producer: Disney Theatrical Productions

Touring Broadway Achievement Award: Brad Little

Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award: Wicked

The awards were announced in a special ceremony by Chazz Palminteri, writer and star of A Bronx Tale, along with Rondi Reed, Madeleine Martin, and Amy Morton, stars of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County, and Jersey Boys choreographer Sergio Trujillo.

According to the most recent study produced by the League, Touring Broadway productions sold over 17.1 million tickets in the last season, and 22% of national theatergoers went on to attend a Broadway show in New York City.