Cutoff dates for show eligibility for 2006-2007 Drama Desk Award consideration

2006-2007 Drama Desk Award Nominations to be announced at New York Friars Club at 10AM

Please note: This is a Black Tie preferred event.

5:15 – 745 PM – Pre-ceremony VIP Reception for Nominees and Presenters at The Russian Tea Room, 150 West 57th Street, between Seventh and Sixth Avenues, co-hosted by Christine

Ebersole and the Grey Gardens” cast with Robert R. Blume, Drama Desk Awards Executive Producer.

5:15 – 6:15 PM – Red Carpet Arrivals at Russian Tea Room

8:00 to 8:45 PM –Red Carpet Arrivals of Presenters and Nominees at Awards Ceremony. They through LaGuardia Concert Hall door on West 65th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues.

9:00 – 11:30 pm – Drama Desk Awards Ceremony. VIP guests include Kevin Spacey, Audra McDonald, Ashley Brown and the kids from Mary Poppins; Martin Short, Jim Dale; Tommy Tune;

Phylicia Rashad, Marsha Mason, Lea Salonga, Raul Esparza, Lea Michele, and nominees including Vanessa Redgrave, Frank Langella, Liev Schreiber, Brian F. O’Byrne, Philip Seymour

Hoffman, Eve Best, Meryl Streep, Annie Parisse, Jonathan Grof, Donna Murphy, Michael Cerveris, Jan Maxwell, Martha Plimpton, Gavin Lee, Billy Crudup, Boyd Gaines, Debra Monk,

Karen Ziemba, Barbara Walsh, Orfeh, Jack O’Brien, Hal Prince, Michael Mayer, John Doyle, Patricia Birch, Jerry Mitchell, Matthew Bourne, John Kander, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julian

Fellowes, Rupert Holmes, Alfred Uhry, Jonathan Tunick, William Ivey Long, Santo Loquasto, Carpathia Jenkins, Austin Pendleton and more.

11:30 PM – Post-Awards Ceremony Reception at China Grill, 60 West 53rd Street, between Sixth and Fifth Avenues.

The Drama Desk Awards receptions were sponsored by Wines selected by Lubov Galleries, Grey Goose Vodkas, Peroni Beer, The Russian Tea Room, China Grill and Arte Café.

Awards webcast live on www.theatermania.com