The 2009 Tony Award Nominations:<\/p>\n
Best Play<\/p>\n
Dividing the Estate<\/span> God of Carnage<\/span> Reasons to Be Pretty<\/span> 33 Variations<\/span> Best Musical<\/p>\n Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span> Next to Normal<\/span> Rock of Ages<\/span> Shrek The Musical<\/span> Best Book of a Musical<\/p>\n Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span><\/span>; Lee Hall Best Original Score (Music and\/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre<\/p>\n Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span> Next to Normal<\/span> 9 to 5: The Musical<\/span> Shrek The Musical<\/span> Best Revival of a Play<\/p>\n Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span> Mary Stuart<\/span> The Norman Conquests<\/span> Waiting for Godot<\/span> Best Revival of a Musical<\/p>\n Guys and Dolls<\/span> Hair<\/span> Pal Joey<\/span> West Side Story<\/span> Best Special Theatrical Event<\/p>\n Liza\u2019s at The Palace<\/span> Slava\u2019s Snowshow<\/span> Soul of Shaolin<\/span> You\u2019re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush<\/span> Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play<\/p>\n Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage<\/span> Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play<\/p>\n Hope Davis, God of Carnage<\/span> Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical<\/p>\n David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish \u2013 Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span> Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical<\/p>\n Stockard Channing, Pal Joey<\/span> Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play<\/p>\n John Glover, Waiting for Godot<\/span> Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play<\/p>\n Hallie Foote, Dividing the Estate<\/span> Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical<\/p>\n David Bologna, Billy Elliot, The Musical <\/span> Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical<\/p>\n Jennifer Damiano, Next to Normal<\/span> Best Scenic Design of a Play<\/p>\n Dale Ferguson, Exit the King<\/span> Best Scenic Design of a Musical<\/p>\n Robert Brill, Guys and Dolls<\/span> Best Costume Design of a Play<\/p>\n Dale Ferguson, Exit the King<\/span> Best Costume Design of a Musical<\/p>\n Gregory Gale, Rock of Ages<\/span> Best Lighting Design of a Play<\/p>\n David Hersey, Equus<\/span> Best Lighting Design of a Musical<\/p>\n Kevin Adams, Hair<\/span> Best Sound Design of a Play<\/p>\n Paul Arditti, Mary Stuart<\/span> Best Sound Design of a Musical<\/p>\n Acme Sound Partners, Hair<\/span> Best Direction of a Play<\/p>\n Phyllida Lloyd, Mary Stuart<\/span> Best Direction of a Musical<\/p>\n Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span> Best Choreography<\/p>\n Karole Armitage, Hair<\/span> Best Orchestrations<\/p>\n Larry Blank, Irving Berlin\u2019s White Christmas<\/span> The 2009 Tony Award Nominations: Best Play Dividing the EstateAuthor: Horton FooteProducers: Lincoln Center Theater, Bernard Gersten, Andr\u00e9 Bishop, Primary Stages God of CarnageAuthor: Yasmina RezaProducers: Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, Jon B. Platt, The Weinstein Company, The Shubert Organization Reasons to Be PrettyAuthor: Neil LaButeProducers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry … Continue reading And they’re off…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1766],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tony-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Author: Horton Foote
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Bernard Gersten, Andr\u00e9 Bishop, Primary Stages<\/p>\n
Author: Yasmina Reza
Producers: Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, Jon B. Platt, The Weinstein Company, The Shubert Organization<\/p>\n
Author: Neil LaBute
Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, MCC Theater, Gary Goddard Entertainment, Ted Snowdon, Doug Nevin\/Erica Lynn Schwartz, Ronald Frankel\/Bat-Barry Productions, Kathleen Seidel, Kelpie Arts, LLC, Jam Theatricals, Rachel Helson\/Heather Provost<\/p>\n
<\/span>Author: Mois\u00e9s Kaufman
Producers: David Binder, Ruth Hendel, Goldberg\/Mills, Latitude Link, Arielle Tepper Madover, Bill Resnick, Eric Schnall, Jayne Baron Sherman, Wills\/True Love Productions, Tectonic Theater Project, Greg Reiner, Dominick Balletta, Jeffrey LaHoste<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions, Weinstein Live Entertainment<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Second Stage Theatre, Carole Rothman, Ellen Richard<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Matthew Weaver, Carl Levin, Jeff Davis, Barry Habib, Scott Prisand, Relativity Media, Corner Store Fund, Janet Billig Rich, Hillary Weaver, Toni Habib, Paula Davis, Simon and Stefany Bergson\/Jennifer Maloney, Charles Rolecek, Susanne Brook, Israel Wolfson, Sara Katz\/Jayson Raitt, Max Gottlieb\/John Butler, David Kaufman\/Jay Franks, Mike Wittlin, Prospect Pictures, Laura Smith\/Bill Bodnar, Happy Walters, Michele Caro, The Araca Group<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Dreamworks Theatricals, Neal Street Productions<\/p>\n
Next to Normal<\/span> -Brian Yorkey
Shrek The Musical<\/span> – David Lindsay-Abaire
[Title of Show]<\/span> – Hunter Bell<\/p>\n
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Lee Hall<\/p>\n
<\/span>Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Brian Yorkey<\/p>\n
<\/span>Music & Lyrics: Dolly Parton<\/p>\n
<\/span>Music: Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Andr\u00e9 Bishop, Bernard Gersten<\/p>\n
<\/span>New Version: Peter Oswald
Producers: Arielle Tepper Madover, Debra Black, Neal Street Productions\/Matthew Byam Shaw, Scott Delman, Barbara Whitman, Jean Doumanian\/Ruth Hendel, David Binder\/CarlWend Productions\/Spring Sirkin, Daryl Roth\/James L. Nederlander\/Chase Mishkin, The Donmar Warehouse<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Dede Harris, Tulchin\/Bartner\/Lauren Doll, Jamie deRoy, Eric Falkenstein, Harriet Newman Leve, Probo Productions, Douglas G. Smith, Michael Filerman\/Jennifer Manocherian, Richard Winkler, Dan Frishwasser, Pam Laudenslager\/Remmel T. Dickinson, Jane Dubin\/True Love Productions, Barbara Manocherian\/Jennifer Isaacson, The Old Vic Theatre Company<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Elizabeth Ireland McCann<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Howard Panter and Ambassador Theatre Group, Tulchin\/Bartner, Bill Kenwright, Northwater Entertainment, Darren Bagert, Tom Gregory, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., David Mirvish, Michael Jenkins\/Dallas Summer Musicals, Independent Presenters Network, Olympus Theatricals, Sonia Friedman Productions<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Andrew D. Hamingson, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Gary Goddard Entertainment, Kathleen K. Johnson, Nederlander Productions, Inc., Fran Kirmser Productions\/Jed Bernstein, Marc Frankel, Broadway Across America, Barbara Manocherian\/Wencarlar Productions, JK Productions\/Terry Schnuck, Andy Sandberg, Jam Theatricals, The Weinstein Company\/Norton Herrick, Jujamcyn Theaters, Joey Parnes, Elizabeth Ireland McCann<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Marc Platt<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller, Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman\/Jill Furman Willis, Freddy DeMann, Robyn Goodman\/Walt Grossman, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller, The Weinstein Company, Broadway Across America<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: John Scher and Metropolitan Talent Presents, LLC; Jubilee Time Productions, LLC<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: David J. Foster, Jared Geller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Marinoff Cohn, John Pinckard<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producers: Nederlander Worldwide Productions, LLC; Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group; China on Broadway<\/p>\n
<\/span>Producer: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Steve Traxler, Home Box Office Inc., Gary Sanchez Productions, Bat-Barry Productions, Ken Davenport, Ergo Entertainment, Ronald Frankel, Jon B. Platt, James D. Stern, The Weinstein Company, Tara Smith\/b. Swibel, Dede Harris\/Sharon Karmazin, Arny Granat<\/p>\n
Ra\u00fal Esparza, Speed-the-Plow<\/span>
James Gandolfini, God of Carnage<\/span>
Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King<\/span>
Thomas Sadoski, Reasons to Be Pretty<\/span><\/p>\n
Jane Fonda, 33 Variations<\/span>
Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage<\/span>
Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart<\/span>
Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n
Gavin Creel, Hair<\/span>
Brian d\u2019Arcy James, Shrek The Musical<\/span>
Constantine Maroulis, Rock of Ages<\/span>
J. Robert Spencer, Next to Normal<\/span><\/p>\n
Sutton Foster, Shrek The Musical<\/span>
Allison Janney, 9 to 5: The Musical<\/span>
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal<\/span>
Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story<\/span><\/p>\n
Zach Grenier, 33 Variations<\/span>
Stephen Mangan, The Norman Conquests<\/span>
Paul Ritter, The Norman Conquests<\/span>
Roger Robinson, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span><\/p>\n
Jessica Hynes, The Norman Conquests<\/span>
Marin Ireland, Reasons to Be Pretty<\/span>
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit<\/span>
Amanda Root, The Norman Conquests<\/span><\/p>\n
Gregory Jbara, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Marc Kudisch, 9 to 5: The Musical<\/span>
Christopher Sieber, Shrek The Musical<\/span>
Will Swenson, Hair<\/span><\/p>\n
Haydn Gwynne, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Karen Olivo, West Side Story<\/span>
Martha Plimpton, Pal Joey<\/span>
Carole Shelley, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span><\/p>\n
Rob Howell, The Norman Conquests<\/span>
Derek McLane, 33 Variations<\/span>
Michael Yeargan, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span><\/p>\n
Ian MacNeil, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Scott Pask, Pal Joey<\/span>
Mark Wendland, Next to Normal<\/span><\/p>\n
Jane Greenwood, Waiting for Godot<\/span>
Martin Pakledinaz, Blithe Spirit<\/span>
Anthony Ward, Mary Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n
Nicky Gillibrand, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Tim Hatley, Shrek The Musical<\/span>
Michael McDonald, Hair<\/span><\/p>\n
David Lander, 33 Variations<\/span>
Brian MacDevitt, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span>
Hugh Vanstone, Mary Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n
Kevin Adams, Next to Normal<\/span>
Howell Binkley, West Side Story<\/span>
Rick Fisher, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span><\/p>\n
Gregory Clarke, Equus<\/span>
Russell Goldsmith, Exit the King<\/span>
Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span><\/p>\n
Paul Arditti, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Peter Hylenski, Rock of Ages<\/span>
Brian Ronan, Next to Normal<\/span><\/p>\n
Bartlett Sher, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/span>
Matthew Warchus, God of Carnage<\/span>
Matthew Warchus, The Norman Conquests<\/span><\/p>\n
Michael Greif, Next to Normal<\/span>
Kristin Hanggi, Rock of Ages<\/span>
Diane Paulus, Hair<\/span><\/p>\n
Andy Blankenbuehler, 9 to 5: The Musical<\/span>
Peter Darling, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Randy Skinner, Irving Berlin\u2019s White Christmas<\/span><\/p>\n
Martin Koch, Billy Elliot, The Musical<\/span>
Michael Starobin and Tom Kitt, Next to Normal<\/span>
Danny Troob and John Clancy, Shrek The Musical<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"