2009 Drama League Award Nominees Announced
Distinguish Production of a Musical
9 to 5
Billy Elliot
Fela!
Liza’s at the Palace...
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Road Show
Rock of Ages
Shrek the Musical
The Toxic Avenger
This Beautiful City
Distinguished Production of a Play
33 Variations by Moises Kaufman
Black Watch by Gregory Burke
Chair by Edward Bond
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
If You See Something, Say Something by Mike Daisey
Lady by Craig Wright
Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis deRougemont As Told by Himself by Donald Margulies
Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang
Wig Out! by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Distinguished Revival of a Musical
Enter Laughing
Garden of Earthly Delights
Guys and Dolls
Hair
Pal Joey
West Side Story
Distinguished Revival of a Play
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill
Mabou Mines Dollhouse adapted from Henrik Ibsen
Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson
Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Distinguished Performance Award
Jane Alexander, Chasing Manet
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish, Billy Elliot
Kahlil Ashanti, Basic Training
James Barbour, A Tale of Two Cities
David Wilson Barnes, Becky Shaw
Simon Russell Beale, The Cherry Orchard
Annika Boras, An Oresteia
Christian Camargo, Hamlet
Bobby Cannavale, The Gingerbread House
Matt Cavenaugh, West Side Story
Julia Coffey, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Lynn Cohen, Chasing Manet
Chad L. Coleman, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Gavin Creel, Hair
David Cromer, Our Town
Joshua Cruz, Wig Out!
Mike Daisey, If You See Something, Say Something
Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Ruined
Ensemble, Black Watch
Raúl Esparza, Speed-the-Plow
Rupert Everett, Blithe Spirit
Tovah Feldshuh, Irena’s Vow
Jane Fonda, 33 Variations
Sutton Foster, Shrek the Musical
James Gandolfini, God of Carnage
Alexander Gemignani, Road Show
John Glover, Waiting for Godot
Lauren Graham, Guys and Dolls
Nathan Lee Graham, Wig Out!
Josh Grisetti, Enter Laughing
Carla Gugino, Desire Under the Elms
Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage
Megan Hilty, 9 to 5
Danny Hoch, Taking Over
Marin Ireland, Reasons to be Pretty
Bill Irwin, Waiting for Godot
Dana Ivey, The Savannah Disputation
Allison Janney, 9 to 5
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
Constantine Maroulis, Rock of Ages
Elizabeth Marvel, Fifty Words
Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart
Ben Miles, The Norman Conquests
Liza Minnelli, Liza’s at the Palace…
Maude Mitchell, Mabou Mines Dollhouse
Bruce Myers, The Grand Inquisitor
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!
Kristine Nielsen, Why Torture Is Wrong
Cynthia Nixon, Distracted
Denis O’Hare, Uncle Vanya
Karen Olivo, West Side Story
Nancy Opel, The Toxic Avenger
David Pearse, The Cripple of Inishmaan
David Hyde Pierce, Accent on Youth
Martha Plimpton, Pal Joey
Daniel Radcliffe, Equus
Heather Raffo, Palace of the End
Roger Robinson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King
Thomas Sadoski,Reasons to be Pretty
Susan Sarandon, Exit the King
Campbell Scott, The Atheist
Christopher Sieber, Shrek the Musical
Michael Stuhlbarg, Hamlet
Will Swenson, Hair
Kristin Scott Thomas, The Seagull
John Douglas Thompson, Othello
Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart
Patrick Wilson, All My Sons
Nine past recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award will be honored on this dais for their work this season. Because an individual can only receive the Distinguished Performance Award once in his/her lifetime, they are ineligible for award consideration this year. They include Norbert Leo Butz Fifty Words, Stockard Channing Pal Joey, Christine Ebersole Blithe Spirit, Rosemary Harris Oscar and the Pink Lady, Frank Langella A Man for All Seasons, John Lithgow All My Sons, Mary-Louise Parker Hedda Gabler, Stephen Rea Kicking a Dead Horse and Sam Waterston Hamlet.
The Broadway transfers of [title of show], Dividing the Estate and Next to Normal were previously considered for Drama League Awards during their off-Broadway engagements, and are thus ineligible this season.
In addition, Elton John will receive the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award, Arthur Laurents will be honored with the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing, Angela Lansbury will receive the Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award and Broadway producer Herb Blodgett will receive the Drama League’s 75th Anniversary Leadership Award.