Outer Critics Circle Nominations

Outer Critics Circle – 2009-2010 Award Nominations

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

Next Fall
Red
Superior Donuts
Time Stands Still

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

American Idiot
Come Fly Away
Fela!
Memphis
Sondheim on Sondheim

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

Clybourne Park
The Orphans’ Home Cycle
The Pride
The Temperamentals

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
The Scottsboro Boys
Tin Pan Alley Rag
Yank!

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Memphis
The Scottsboro Boys
Yank!

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Fences
Lend Me a Tenor
The Royal Family
A View From the Bridge

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

La Cage aux Folles
Finian’s Rainbow
A Little Night Music
Promises, Promises

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Doug Hughes, The Royal Family
Kenny Leon, Fences
Stanley Tucci, Lend Me a Tenor
Michael Wilson, The Orphans’ Home Cycle

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Christopher Ashley, Memphis
Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Alex Timbers, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Sergio Trujillo, Memphis

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (Play or Musical)

John Lee Beatty, The Royal Family
Beowulf Boritt, Sondheim on Sondheim
Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch, The Addams Family
Donyale Werle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Jane Greenwood, Present Laughter
Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me a Tenor
Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles
Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Kevin Adams, American Idiot
Kevin Adams, The Scottsboro Boys
Ken Billington, Sondheim on Sondheim
Justin Townsend, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Bill Heck, The Orphans’ Home Cycle
Jude Law, Hamlet
Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge
Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington, Fences

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
Laura Benanti, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
Viola Davis, Fences
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Brandon Victor Dixon, The Scottsboro Boys
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Nathan Lane, The Addams Family

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Kate Baldwin, Finian’s Rainbow
Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim
Montego Glover, Memphis
Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

James DeMarse, The Orphans’ Home Cycle
Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts
David Pittu, Equivocation
Noah Robbins, Brighton Beach Memoirs
Reg Rogers, The Royal Family

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Hallie Foote, The Orphans’ Home Cycle
Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family
Marin Ireland, A Lie of the Mind
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor
Alicia Silverstone, Time Stands Still

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow
Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet
Dick Latessa, Promises, Promises
Bobby Steggert, Ragtime

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Carolee Carmello, The Addams Family
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music
Cass Morgan, Memphis
Terri White, Finian’s Rainbow

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Jim Brochu, Zero Hour
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Judith Ivey, The Lady With All the Answers
Anna Deavere Smith, Let Me Down Easy

JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

John Logan, Red
Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
Geoffrey Nauffts, Next Fall
Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park