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Award record

1996-1997 award record

Categories
6
Honoured
6
Nominated
22

6 awards were given across 6 categories, chosen from 22 nominated entries listed below. The entries have been checked line by line against published records.

An empty stage against an exposed brick side wall, three beams from a lighting rig above cutting through haze, with the light reflecting off the stage floor.
Brick, haze and three beams: the stage as the design categories began splitting. Photographs on these record pages illustrate the period; they do not depict the productions listed.

Outstanding Choreography

Winner

  • Ann Reinking Chicago

Also nominated

  • Dein Perry Tap Dogs
  • Susan Stroman Steel Pier

Outstanding Costume Design

Winner

  • Howard Crabtree When Pigs Fly

Also nominated

  • Ann Roth Present Laughter
  • G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass
  • Marina Draghici The Skriker
  • Martin Pakledinaz The Life
  • Michael Krass The Rehearsal

Outstanding Lighting Design

Winner

  • Ken Billington Chicago

Also nominated

  • Donald Holder Juan Darien
  • Jean Kalman The Waste Land
  • Kevin Adams Henry VI
  • Richard Pilbrow The Life

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Robin Phillips Jekyll & Hyde

Also nominated

  • Clarke Dunham Candide
  • G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass
  • James Morgan No Way to Treat a Lady
  • Tony Walton Steel Pier
  • Wendall K. Harrington Steel Pier

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play

Winner

  • David Gallo and Jan Hartley Bunny Bunny

Also nominated

  • Derek McLane Present Laughter
  • James Noone The Gin Game
  • Marina Draghici The Skriker
  • Robert Brill The Rehearsal

Outstanding Sound Design

Winner

  • John Gromada The Skriker

Also nominated

  • Dan Moses Schreier God's Heart
  • Marc Anthony Thompson A Huey P. Newton Story

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

20 of the 26 names on this page appear in at least one other season held here. Reading a person as a run rather than a single entry is the point of an index like this one. A designer's work shows up under two or three different category names as the headings were renamed.

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