The Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 10:46am

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Act One
Casa Valentina
All The Way
Outside Mullingar
The Realistic Joneses

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Rocky

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Appropriate
Choir Boy
The Explorer's Club
The Heir Apparent
Stage Kiss


OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Far From Heaven
Fun Home
Murder For Two
Storyville
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Rocky

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Aladdin
The Bridges of Madison County
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
If/Then

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
Machinal
Twelfth Night
The Winslow Boy

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Cabaret
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Les Misérables
Violet

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Lindsay Posner, The Winslow Boy
Bill Rauch, All The Way
Lyndsey Turner, Machinal

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Laurence Connor and James Powell, Les Misérables
Sam Gold, Fun Home
Alex Timbers, Rocky
Dark Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine, Rocky
Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Christopher Barreca, Rocky
Beowulf Boritt, Act One
Bob Crowley, Aladdin
Es Devlin, Machinal
Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Gregg Barnes Aladdin
Linda Cho A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
William Ivey Long Bullets Over Broadway
Jenny Tiramani Twelfth Night
Isabel Toledo After Midnight


OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Kevin Adams Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Howell Binkley After Midnight
Paule Constable Les Misérables
Natasha Katz Aladdin
Philip S. Rosenberg A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bryan Cranston All The Way
Ian McKellen No Man’s Land
Brían F. O’Byrne Outside Mullingar
Mark Rylance Twelfth Night
Tony Shaloub Act One

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Tyne Daly Mothers and Sons
Rebecca Hall Machinal
Jessica Hecht Stage Kiss
Cherry Jones The Glass Menagerie
Estelle Parsons The Velocity of Autumn

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Michael Cerveris Fun Home
Neil Patrick Harris Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Andy Karl Rocky
Jefferson Mays A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster Violet
Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Jessie Mueller Beautiful The Carole King Musical
Kelli O’Hara The Bridges of Madison County
Michelle Williams Cabaret

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Paul Chahidi Twelfth Night
Michael Cyril Creighton Stage Kiss
John McMartin All the Way
Alessandro Nivola The Winslow Boy
Brian J. Smith The Glass Menagerie

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Barbara Barrie I Remember Mama
Andrea Martin Act One
Sophie Okonedo A Raisin in the Sun
Anika Noni Rose A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham Casa Valentina

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein Cabaret
Nick Cordero Bullets Over Broadway
Joshua Henry Violet
James Monroe Iglehart Aladdin
Jarrod Specter Beautiful The Carole King Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Judy Kuhn Fun Home
Anika Larsen Beautiful The Carole King Musical
Sydney Lucas Fun Home
Marin Mazzie Bullets Over Broadway
Lisa O’Hare A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Jim Brochu Character Man
Debra Jo Rupp Becoming Dr. Ruth
Ruben Santiago-Hudson How I Learned What I Learned
Alexandra Silber Arlington
John Douglas Thompson Satchmo at the Waldorf

JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Scott Z. Burns The Library
Eric Dufault Year of the Rooster
Madeleine George The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
Steven Levenson The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
Lauren Yee The Hatmaker’s Wife

Updated On: 4/22/14 at 10:46 AM

[jbroadway4]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 10:50am

What time are they going to be announced?

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 10:54am

11 am

[jbroadway4]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 10:55am

Thanks!

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:20am

They sure won't predict the Tonys this year-the best work was done off-Broadway, so that eliminates that possibility.

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:20am

Given that last year 26 of the 40 acting nominees ended up getting Tony nods, I'd say these do reflect the Tony nominations quite a bit (especially when you consider the Outer Critics include performances from off-Broadway shows, meaning many of the other 14 nominees weren't eligible for the Tonys).

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:26am

I disagree. I don't believe an ANY way do they reflect Tony winners.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:28am

Are these the ones that are totally bizarre with left field nominations?

Or are those the Drama Desks? I always get them confused.

Updated On: 4/22/14 at 11:28 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:29am

There aren't really any valid precursor awards for the Tonys, since the majority of the other awards also honor off-Broadway and thus skew things.

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:31am

They're never an exact match for the Tonys, but last year's winners were Kinky Boots, Pippin, Vanya/Sonia, and Virginia Woolf. Showing up here (Broadway only, of course) isn't a guarantee for Tony attention, but it's a very good sign.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:33am

11:33....any word?

ETA: the reception is from 11:00am until 12:30am so I'm thinking it'll be a little while longer before they're read.

Updated On: 4/22/14 at 11:33 AM

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:35am

One Man, Two Guvnors was their favorite the year before too. We know how much Tony love that got.

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:35am

^ Yes it got a Best Actor Tony for James Corden.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:36am

^ and not even nominated for Best Play, the award the OCC gave it.

So, you know, selective hearing hears only what it selects.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:38am

Remember the year Shrek was their big winner?!

Or the year Chitty Chitty Bang Bang topped their nominations?!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:38am

Struggling shows will gladly take any lifelines thrown their way. It is like chicken soup - it can't hurt.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:40am

Remember the year Shrek was their big winner?!

Or the year Chitty Chitty Bang Bang topped their nominations?!

No, that can't happen because they are virtually the same as the Tonys!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:41am

^ and not even nominated for Best Play, the award the OCC gave it.

So, you know, selective hearing hears only what it selects.

Though, to be fair, the three Tony frontrunners that year for Best Play (Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, and Venus is Fur) weren't eligible because they had been nominated or were eligible in the off-Broadway category previously.

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:46am

And the year Shrek won three awards, it matched the Tony's on one and the other two Tony's were won by people not eligible at the OCC's. Best Actor (the Billys weren't jointly eligible) and Actress (Ripley wasn't eligible b/c it had been off-broadway). Again--it's not consistent, but it's very, very often very close. Look back through.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:47am

Remember the year Shrek was their big winner?!

Shrek won 4... Best Actor (the Billy boys weren't eligible for the OCC, and had they been not eligible for the Tony, BDJ probably would have won that too), Best Actress (Sutton tied with Scaglione for WSS due to Alice Ripley's ineligibility since Next to Normal was eligible the year before...both were nominated for Tonys), Best Costumes (it won the Tony for that), and Best Scenic Design (the only award it won that didn't line up with the Tonys).

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:47am

Beat me to it Sauja.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:49am

I don't care whether they serve as augers or even semi-augers for the tony's or not. If anything, the theater awards season is more interesting when the different honoring organizations show at least some degree of independence.

But I am interested in what contributions they will recognize.

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:49am

No prob, bjh--you were more accurate. I missed set design!

In general, I don't think there's an argument to be had. Sometimes things get wacky with them, and then there's the fact that they include off-Broadway which throws things out of wack, but looking back through the years, I was surprised by how much lined up! http://outercritics.org/awards/

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:50am

John Johnson ?@jfj4 46s

Congrats to @GentlemansGuide for receiving 11 Outer Critics Circle Nominations this morning!!! #GGLAM

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 11:54am

And this too!

Showbiz 411 ?@showbiz411 14m
#broadway Hollywood stars don't make OCC nominations except Michelle Williams. Idina Menzel frozen out

If that's true, that's a big snub.