It was refreshing to hear during Tuesday’s Tony Award nominations that the Nominations Committee had not only looked at the biggest acts on Broadway, but also some of the lesser-known. And from the nominations list this year, there are no clear frontrunners. Here’s the full list of this year’s Tony Awards nominees:
Best Play: Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, Peter and the Starcatcher, Venus if Fur
Best Musical: Leap of Faith, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once
Best Book of a Musical: Lysistrata Jones, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once
Best Original Score Written for the Theatre: Bonnie & Clyde, Newsies, One Man, Two Guvnors, Peter and the Starcatcher
Best Revival of a Play: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Master Class, Wit
Best Revival of a Musical: Evita, Follies, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Performance by an Actor in Leading Role in a Play: James Corden for One Man, Two Guvnors; Philip Seymour Hoffman for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; James Earl Joes for Gore Vidal’s The Best Man; Frank Langella for Man and Boy; John Lithgow for The Columnist
Best Performance by an Actress in Leading Role in a Play: Nina Arianda for Venus in Fur; Tracie Bennett for End of the Rainbow; Stockard Channing for Other Desert Cities; Linda Lavin for The Lyons; Cynthia Nixon for Wit
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Danny Burnstein for Follies; Jeremy Jordan for Newsies; Steve Kazee for Once; Norm Lewis for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Ron Raines for Follies.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Jan Maxwell for Follies; Audra McDonald for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Cristin Milioti for Once; Kelli O’Hara for Nice Work If You Can Get It; Laura Osnes for Bonnie & Clyde
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Christian Borle for Peter and the Starcatcher; Michael Cumpsty for End of the Rainbow; Tom Edden for One Man, Two Guvnors; Andrew Garfield for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Jeremy Shamos for Clybourne Park
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Linda Emond for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Spencer Kayden for Don’t Dress for Dinner; Celia Keenan-Bolger for Peter and the Starcatcher; Judith Light for Other Desert Cities; Condola Rashad for Stick Fly
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Phillip Boykin for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Michael Cerveris for Evita; David Alan Grier for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Michael McGrath for Nice Work If You Can Get It; Josh Young for Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Elizabeth A. Davis for Once; Jayne Houdyshell for Follies; Judy Kaye for Nice Work If You Can Get It; Jessie Mueller for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Da’Vine Joy Randolph for Ghost the Musical
The 66th Annual Tony Awards will be held on Sunday June 10, 2012 and a live telecast will be presented both on the East and West coasts so make sure to watch to see who wins!
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