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2011 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
The sixty fifth Tony Awards take place on June 12th and after much anticipation the nominations announcement has finally been made. There were plenty of productions from the 2010/2011 season that will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of 2010's big winners: Red, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis and Fences.
The 2011 Tony Nominations are dominated by The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys, with The Book of Mormon grabbing an impressive 14 nominations, and The Scottsboro Boys with 12. Anything Goes, follows closely behind with 9 nominations, and 8 nominations go to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The Tony Awards set to take place on June 12 at the Beacon Theatre, honour the best in live theatre performance.
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And the Nominations are....
With New York City Theatre you can find a show, book tickets, and check the seating chart for any one of the nominees!
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Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a tale of sailors, true love and blackmail. When the S.S American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes, taking you on a hilariously bumpy ride!
9 nominations :
Best Musical
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Sutton Foster
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Adam Godley
Best Direction of a Musical: Kathleen Marshall
Best Choreography: Kathleen Marshall
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Derek McLane
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Martin Pakledinaz
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Peter Kaczorowski
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Brian Ronan.
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ARCADIA
Set in an elegant English Country estate, Arcadia tells of the story of Thomasina, a gifted pupil, who propses a startling theory. The controversy that surrounds her leads to a quest for the truth more than two hundred years later.
2 nominations :
Best Revival of a Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Billy Crudup
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BABY IT'S YOU
Baby It's You follows one of the greatest girl-groups of all time, The Shirelles, and their founder as they embark on a trailblazing journey from ordinary New Jersey lives to stardum and the creation of Scepter Records.
1 nominations :
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Beth Leavel
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BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGDAD ZOO
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is Rajiv Joseph's ferocious comedy that follows the intertwined lives of a tiger, portrayed by Robin Williams, two American marines and an Iraqi gardener as they roam the streets of Baghdad in search of friendship, redemption and a toilet seat made of gold.
3 nominations :
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play:Arian Moayed
Best Lighting Design of a Play: David Lander
Best Sound Design of a Play: Acme Sound Partners & Cricket S.Myers
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
An audacious mix of historical fact and fiction, redefines America's controversial seventh president - the man who invented the Democratic Party, drove the Indians west, and ultimately doubled the size of our nation - with a raucous blend of outrageous comedy, anarchic theatricality and an infectious emo rock score.
2 nominations :
Best Book of a Musical
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Donyale Werle
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BOOK OF MORMON
From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of South Park comes this hilarious Broadway musical about a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get.
14 nominations :
Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical: Tery Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
Best Original Score (Musica and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre : Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Josh Gad
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Andrew Rannells
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Mucisal: Rory O'Malley
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Nikki M.James
Best Direction of a Musical: Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker
Best Choreography: Casey Nicholaw
Best Orchestrations: Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Scott Pask
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Ann Roth
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Brian MacDevitt
Best Sound Design of a Play: Brian Ronan
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BORN YESTERDAY
Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes (Doubt) directs this timeless and timely story of a not-so-honest businessman and a not-so-dumb blonde out to "capitalize" on everything Washington has to offer.
2 nominations :
Best Revival of a Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Nina Arianda
Best Costume Design of a Play: Catherine Zuber
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER
This breakout hit from London's Kneehigh Theatre updates a classic tale of longing with fresh power and passion. Directed by Emma Rice, Brief Encounter is an imaginative new work that combines elements of the beloved film and the Noel Coward play on which it was based with song, dance and Technicolor displays of emotion.
2 nominations :
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Hannah Yelland
Best Sound Design of a Play: Simon Baker
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
As a teenage runaway from a broken home, Frank ditches high school in pursuit of the American dream. To survive, he masquerades as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer (and cashes millions of dollars in bad checks!) all before the age of 19.
4 nominations :
Best Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Norbert Leo Butz
Best Orchestrations: Marc Shaiman & Larry Blank
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Steve Canyon Kennedy.
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DRIVING MISS DAISY
A timeless American play, which inspired the beloved Academy Award-winning film, Driving Miss Daisy tells the affecting story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur.
1 nomination :
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Vanessa Redgrave
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GOOD PEOPLE
Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo where this month's paycheck covers last month's bills and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job.
2 nominations :
Best Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Frances McDormand
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HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES
Ben Stiller plays Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper who dreams of being a songwriter, and Falco his schizophrenic wife named 'Bananas'.
He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
1 nomination :
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Edie Falco
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Following the advice of a book entitled "How to Succeed in Business" a young window-cleaner, J. Pierrepont Finch, begins a meteoric rise from the mail-room to Vice President of Advertising at the World-Wide Wicket Company. Finch's unorthodox and morally-questionable business practices jeopardize not only his career but also his romance with secretary Rosemary Pilkington.
8 nominations :
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: John Larroquette
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Tammy Blanchard.
Best Direction of a Musical: Rob Ashford
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford
Best Orchestrations: Doug Besterman
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Catherine Zuber
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Howell Binkley
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
A glorious comedy of mistaken identity, the play ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew.
3 nominations :
Best Play
Best Revival of a Play:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Brian Bedford
Best Costume Design of a Play: Desmond Heeley
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JERUSALEM
On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his children want their dad to take them to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to give him a serious kicking and a motley crew of mates want his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.
6 nominations :
Best Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Mark Rylance
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Mackenzie Crook
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Ultz
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Mimi Jordan Sherin
Best Sound Design of a Play: Ian Dickinson for Autograph
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LA BETE
American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, La Bete, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theatre, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself.
2 nominations :
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Joanna Lumley
Best Costume Design of a Play: Mark Thompson
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LOMBARDI
Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi is unquestionably one of the most inspirational and oft-quoted personalities of all time, but who was the person behind the icon; the man behind the legend?
1 nomination :
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Judith Light
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Al Pacino brings his sensational performance as Shylock to the Broadway stage this Fall with the Public Theater's production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
7 nominations :
Best Revival of a Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Al Pacino.
Best Direction of a Play: Daniel Sullivan.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Mark Wendland.
Best Costume Design of a Play: Jess Goldstein.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Kenneth Posner.
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THE MOTHER****** WITH THE HAT
Jackie and Veronica have been in love since the 8th grade. But now, Jackie is on parole and living clean and sober under the guidance of his sponsor, Ralph D, while still living and loving with his volatile soul mate Veronica who is fiercely loving, but far from sober.
6 nominations :
Best Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Bobby Cannavale
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Yul Vazquez
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Elizabeth Rodriguez
Best Direction of a Play: Anna D.Shapiro
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Todd Rosenthal
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NORMAL HEART
The story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller - as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence.
5 nominations :
Best Revival of a Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Joe Mantello
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: John Benjamin Hickey
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Ellen Barkin
Best Direction of a Play: Joel Grey & George C.Wolfe
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PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE
A star of the Yiddish theatre in pre-war Poland, now living in New York, Bubbie must deal with a daughter who runs from the past and a granddaughter who embraces it.
1 nomination :
Best Book of a Musical: Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Donna Murphey.
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PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Based on the Oscar award-winning film, Priscilla tells the story of Tick, Bernadette and Adam, a glamorous Sydney-based performing trio that agree to take their show to the middle of the Australian outback.
2 nominations :
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Music & Lyrics: Tony Sheldon
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Time Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner
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THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
The Scottsboro Boys is the thrilling final collaboration by musical theatre giants John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret). Based on the notorious "Scottsboro" case in the 1930s (in which 9 African-American men were unjustly accused of a terrible crime) this daring and wildly entertaining musical explores a fascinating chapter in American history with brilliant originality.
12 nominations :
Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical: David Thompson
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Music & Lyrics: John Kander and Fred Ebb
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Joshua Henry
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Colman Domingo
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Forrest McClendon
Best Direction of a Musical: Susan Stroman
Best Choreography: Susan Stroman
Best Orchestrations: Larry Hochman
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Beowulf Boritt
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Ken Billington
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Peter Hylenski
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SISTER ACT
Direct from London and based on the hilarious hit film, Sister Act features an original score by 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken.
5 nominations :
Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Glenn Slate
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical:Patina Miller
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:Victoria Clark
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WAR HORSE
At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. he's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land.
5 nominations :
Best Play
Best Direction of a Play: Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Rae Smith.
Best Lighting Design of a Play:Paule Constable.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Christopher Shutt.
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Based on Pedro Almodovar's internationally acclaimed 1988 film, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is set in late 20th-century Madrid and tells the story of the intertwining lives of a group of women whose relationships with men lead to a tumultuous 48 hours of love, confusion and passion.
3 nominations :
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Laura Benanti
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Patti LuPone
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