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50 th ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED!!!

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT WITH 12 NOMINATIONS HEADS LIST
FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA WITH 11
AND DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS WITH 10

ALTAR BOYZ GARNERS 7 NOMINATIONS, AND PLAY WITHOUT WORDS FOLLOWS WITH 6; DESSA ROSE, DOUBT AND THE 25 TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE GET 5 NOMINATIONS EACH

New York, NY, April 28, 2005 – Nominations for the 50 th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today and, in a close race between three of Broadway’s newest musicals, Monty Python’s Spamalot won 12 nominations, edging out The Light in the Piazza and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which received 11 and 10 nominations, respectively. They were followed by Altar Boyz with seven nominations and Play Without Words with six. Winning five nominations each were Dessa Rose, Doubt and The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

The nominations were announced at the New York Friars Club by actors
Lynn Redgrave, currently rehearsing for The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Constant Wife, and Robert Goulet, who recently joined the Broadway cast of La Cage aux Folles. They were introduced by Drama Desk President William Wolf of Wolfentertainmentguide.com and Drama Desk Special Events Director Randie Levine-Miller.

Other New York theatrical productions that won multiple Drama Desk nominations were: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Frankenstein, Hurlyburly, The Pillowmanand Sweet Charity with four each; The Audience, Glengarry Glen Ross, La Cage aux Folles, Little Women and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with three each; and Belle Epoque, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, The Immigrant, The Mysteries, Newsical, On Second Avenue, Orange Flower Water, Outward Bound, Sailor’s Song and Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) with two each.

The Drama Desk also voted to present two ensemble awards this year. The full casts of Glengarry Glen Rossand The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
will be honored at the awards ceremony on Sunday, May 22, for their exceptional ensemble performances.

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt and Sailor’s Song were nominated in the Outstanding Play category, as were Michael Frayn’s Democracy, David Edgar’s Pentecost, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman and Michael Murphy’s Sin (A Cardinal Deposed). Outstanding Play Revival nominations went to Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hurlyburly, Glengarry Glen Ross, Outward Bound, Pullman Car Hiawatha and Twelve Angry Men.

Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, La Cage aux Folles, On Second Avenue and Sweet Charity received nominations for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Nominations for Outstanding Revue were given to Absolutely Fascinating, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit and Newsical.

The current New York theater season has featured a number of one-person shows and the Drama Desk gave nominations to the following six Outstanding Solo Performances: Billy Crystal (700 Sundays), Jackie Mason (Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed), Dave Gorman (Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack! Adventure), Barry Humphries (Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance), Tim Miller (Us) and James Urbaniak (Thom Pain (based on nothing)). Nominations for Unique Theatrical Experience went to all wear bowlers, Belle Epoque, The Mysteries, Play Without Words, Slava’s Snowshow and Typo.

Monty Python’s Spamalot, based on the 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, garnered a Drama Desk nomination as Outstanding Musical, as well as nominations for Eric Idle, who wrote book and lyrics; director Mike Nichols and four
of its cast members: David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Michael McGrath and Christian Borle.

The Lincoln Center Theater production of The Light in the Piazza was nominated for Outstanding Musical, and won individual nominations for director Bartlett Sher, composer Adam Guettel, and co-stars Victoria Clark for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Matthew Morrison for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Sarah Uriarte Berry for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.

Among its ten nominations, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was nominated as Outstanding Musical and also received nominations for composer/lyricist David Yazbek; cast members Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Rene Scott, Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara; and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, who also was nominated for his choreography of La Cage aux Folles. Other productions competing in the Outstanding Musical category are Altar Boyz, The Audience and The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Other performers in musicals who received Drama Desk nominations are Mike Burstyn(On Second Avenue) and Bill Thompson(God Hates the Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny) both of whom are in the Outstanding Actor in a Musical category.

Actresses Christina Applegate(Sweet Charity), Sutton Foster(Little Women), as well as LaChanze and Rachel York (both appearing in Dessa Rose) received Outstanding Actress in a Musical nominations.

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nominations also went to Norm Lewis(Dessa Rose), Tyler Maynard(Altar Boyz), and Denis O’Hare(Sweet Charity). Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical nominations were garnered by Kecia Lewis(Dessa Rose), Jan Maxwell(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Maureen McGovern(Little Women), and Jennifer Simard (Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit).

Outstanding Actor in a Play nominees include Adam Arkin (Brooklyn Boy),
JohnCullum (Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)), Bill Irwin (Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Brían F. O’Byrne (Doubt), Jeremy Piven (Fat Pig) and John Turturro (Souls of Naples).

Nominees as Outstanding Actress in a Play include Veanne Cox (Last Easter), Cherry Jones (Doubt), Judy Kaye (Souvenir), Laura Linney (Sight Unseen), Frances Sternhagen (Echoes of the War) and Kathleen Turner (Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

Nominated as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play were Philip Bosco (Twelve Angry Men), Larry Bryggman (Romance), Jeff Goldblum (The Pillowman), Josh Hamilton (Hurlyburly), Paul Sparks (Orange Flower Water) and Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman).

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play nominees are Julie Halston (White Chocolate), Adriane Lenox (Doubt), Portia (McReele), Lily Rabe (Steel Magnolias), Lee Roy Rogers (Orson’s Shadow) and Mary Testa (String of Pearls).

Nominated as Outstanding Director of a Play were Joshua Carlebach (Frankenstein), Scott Elliott (Hurlyburly), Scott Ellis (Twelve Angry Men), Edward Hall (Rose Rage), Doug Hughes (Doubt) and Joe Mantello (Glengarry Glen Ross).

In the musical category, Outstanding Director nominees are Matthew Bourne (Play Without Words), Jack Cummings III (The Audience), Mark Dornford-May (The Mysteries), James Lapine (The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Mike Nichols (Monty Python’s Spamalot) and Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza).

Outstanding Choreography nominations were garnered by Matthew Bourne (Play Without Words), Christopher Gattelli (Altar Boyz), Barry McNabb (Sailor’s Song), Jerry Mitchell for both Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Cage aux Folles, and Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python’s Spamalot).

Nominations for Outstanding Music went to Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker (Altar Boyz), Terry Davies (Play Without Words), William Finn (The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Stephen Flaherty (Dessa Rose), Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) and David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

Nominations for Outstanding Lyrics were given to Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker (Altar Boyz), Douglas J. Cohen (Children’s Letters to God), Rick Crom (Newsical), William Finn (The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Spamalot) and David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

Nominations for Outstanding Book of a Musical were bestowed on Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe (Cam Jensen), Kevin Del Aguila (Altar Boyz), Mark Harelik (The Immigrant), Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Jeffrey Lane(Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and Rachel Sheinkin (The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee).

The nominees for Outstanding Orchestrations are Steven M. Alper (The Immigrant); Larry Hochman (Monty Python’s Spamalot); Doug Katsaros and Lynne Shankel (Altar Boyz); Kim Scharnberg (Little Women); Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel and Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza); and Harold Wheeler (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

The Outstanding Costume nominations were given to Lez Brotherston (Play Without Words), Tim Hatley (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Jeff Mahshie (Hurlyburly), William Ivey Long (La Cage aux Folles), Anthony Ward (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Catherine Zuber (The Light in the Piazza).

Nominees for Outstanding Set Design for a Play are Robert Brill (A Streetcar Named Desire), Marisa Frantz (Frankenstein), Nathan Heverin (Outward Bound),Richard Hoover (After the Fall), David Korins (Orange Flower Water) and Santo Loquasto (Glengarry Glen Ross). The nominees for Outstanding Set Design for a Musical are Lez Brotherston (Play Without Words), Tim Hatley (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Scott Pask (Sweet Charity), David Rockwell (All Shook Up), Anthony Ward (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Michael Yeargan (The Light in the Piazza).

Nominations for Outstanding Lighting were given to Christopher Akerlind for The Light in the Piazza and Belle Epoque, Mark Henderson (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Donald Holder (Gem of the Ocean), R. Lee Kennedy (The Audience) and James Japhy Weideman (Frankenstein). Outstanding Sound Design nominees are ACME Sound Partners (The Light in the Piazza), Jill B.C. DuBoff for both Miss Julie and Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It), Jeff Lorenz (Frankenstein), Paul Arditti (The Pillowman) and Darron L. West (Hot ‘n’ Throbbing).

Special Awards will be presented to Julie Harris and to Keen Company. In addition, in honor of the 50 th anniversary of the Drama Desk Awards this year, the organization previously announced that it would present a Special Award to The Public Theater “for its 50 years of exceptional contributions to the theater.”

The 2004–2005 Drama Desk Nominating Committee consists of Barbara Siegel, TheaterMania.com and Siegel Entertainment Syndicate, chairperson; William Wolf, WolfEntertainmentGuide.com, Drama Desk President; Andy Buck, Playbill; Michael Buckley, Playbill On-Line; Christopher Byrne, Gay City News; Andrew Propst, American Theater Web; and Richard Ridge, Broadway Beat TV.

The Board of Directors of the Drama Desk is composed of William Wolf, President; Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vice President; Charles Wright, Treasurer and Second Vice President; Joyce Hauser, Secretary; and Michael Bracken, David Kaufman, Ellis Nassour, Sam Norkin, Barbara Siegel and Elyse Sommer.

The 50 th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 22, at9:00 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The awards show, hosted by Harvey Fierstein, will be Webcast live by Theatermania.com, A two-hour taped special of the ceremony will be televised on NYC TV Channel 25 on Wednesday, May 25, and Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM. Thirteen/WNET will also broadcast the show on Sunday, May 29, at 12 noon. In addition, the special will be broadcast on numerous PBS stations across the nation, including WHYY/ Philadelphia, WQED/Pittsburgh, KQED/San Francisco, WEAO TV ( Akron, Ohio), WNEO TV Alliance ( Ohio), and WKNO TV Memphis (TN).

The Drama Desk Awards will also enlist personal sketches from this year’s nominated performers and creative talent for its Art*Kive program, created three years ago by Associate Producer Sarah Galvin. This annual program -- unique to the Drama Desk Awards -- invites the nominees to render a sketch that is relevant to the role or stage production that helped them achieve their nomination. The sketches will be displayed at the awards ceremony.

A limited number of tickets are available to the public by calling 212/352-3101 or visiting the TheaterMania.com Web site at http://www.theatermania.co m.

To become a Friend of the Drama Desk and to find out more about the organization and this year’s awards show, visit http://www.dramadesk.com.

Robert R. Blume is Executive Producer of the 50 th Annual Drama Desk Awards. TheaterMania.com is the Associate Presenter. Lauren Class Schneider is producer and Jeff Kalpak, the director. Associate Producers are Corine Dana Cohen, Jackie Barlia-Florin, Jae French, Sarah Galvin and Les Schecter, who is also Director of Publicity. Felicia M. Lopes is General Manager. Randie Levine-Miller
is Director of Special Events for the Drama Desk. The Drama Desk Awards is a TheatreSport Limited ( www.TheatreSport.org) production in association with TheaterMania.com. Roy A. Somlyo is Executive Consultant to the Drama Desk Awards.

The 50 th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony is made possible by the following: Benefactors: David S. Stone, Esq., Boies Schiller and Flexner LLP New Jersey Office ; Lynn & Lewis Pell; Richard I. Kandel; Ted Snowden; Jackie Barlia-Florin. Major Sponsors: TheNew York Times; GSD Productions, Inc.; Hit Show Club, Variety; Anheuser-Busch; Additional Sponsors: International Barter Network; Manhattan Bride Magazine; Back Stage; Wine Spectator Magazine. Scholarship sponsors: The Smart Family Foundation; Jamie deRoy & friends; TheaterMania.com; Daryl Roth Productions; Stewart F. Lane. Related VIP Event Sponsors:Arte Cafe; Compass Restaurant; Typhoon Restaurant & Bar; The NY Friars Club. Food & Beverage Sponsors: Michelob Ultra; Grey Goose; Charley O’s; Link; Cademartori’s Imports of Italy. Transportation Sponsors: Excalibur Extravaganza Limousine Company; Gray Line NY Sightseeing. Drama Desk Web site sponsor: VisionMix Creative Solutions. Contributors: Lawrence Fraiberg; Chase Mishkin; Barbara Freitag; Robert L. Schutzenbach Shalik, Morris & Company, LLP; Ruth G. and Harold S. Sommers; Phyllis & Alvin L. Arnold; Annette Jaffe.

Shows with Multiple Nominations:  

Monty Python’s Spamalot (12)
The Light in the Piazza (11)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (10)
Altar Boyz (7)
Play Without Words (6)
Dessa Rose (5)
Doubt (5)
The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (5)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (4)
Frankenstein (4)
Hurlyburly (4)
The Pillowman (4)
Sweet Charity (4)
The Audience (3)
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (3)
Glengarry Glen Ross (3)
La Cage aux Folles (3)
Little Women (3)
Twelve Angry Men (3)
Belle Epoque (2)
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit (2)
The Immigrant (2)
The Mysteries (2)
Newsical (2)
On Second Avenue (2)
Orange Flower Water (2)
Outward Bound (2)
Sailor’s Song (2)
Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) (2)

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DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS 2004–2005

Outstanding Play :
Democracy (Michael Frayn)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Pentecost (David Edgar)
The Pillowman
(Martin McDonagh)
Sailor’s Song (John Patrick Shanley)
Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) (Michael Murphy)

Outstanding Musical :
Altar Boyz
The Audience
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
Monty Python’s Spamalot
The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Outstanding Revival of a Play :
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Glengarry Glen Ross
Hurlyburly
Outward Bound
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Twelve Angry Men

Outstanding Revival of a Musical :
Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death
La Cage aux Folles
On Second Avenue
Sweet Charity

Outstanding Revue :
Absolutely Fascinating
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
Newsical

Outstanding Actor in a Play :
Adam Arkin, Brooklyn Boy
John Cullum, Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)
Bill Irwin, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Brían F. O’Byrne, Doubt
Jeremy Piven, Fat Pig
John Turturro, Souls of Naples

Outstanding Actress in a Play :
Veanne Cox, Last Easter
Cherry Jones, Doubt
Judy Kaye, Souvenir
Laura Linney, Sight Unseen
Frances Sternhagen, Echoes of the War
Kathleen Turner, Edward Albee’sWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Outstanding Actor in a Musical :
Hank Azaria, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Mike Burstyn, On Second Avenue
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Matthew Morrison, The Light in the Piazza
David Hyde Pierce, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Bill Thompson, God Hates the Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny

Outstanding Actress in a Musical :
Christina Applegate, Sweet Charity
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza
Sutton Foster, Little Women
LaChanze, Dessa Rose
Sherie Rene Scott, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rachel York, Dessa Rose

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play :
Philip Bosco, Twelve Angry Men
Larry Bryggman, Romance
Jeff Goldblum, The Pillowman
Josh Hamilton, Hurlyburly
Paul Sparks, Orange Flower Water
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play :
Julie Halston, White Chocolate
Adriane Lenox, Doubt
Portia, McReele
Lily Rabe, Steel Magnolias
Lee Roy Rogers, Orson’s Shadow
Mary Testa, String of Pearls

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical :
Christian Borle, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Gregory Jbara, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Norm Lewis, Dessa Rose
Tyler Maynard, Altar Boyz
Michael McGrath, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Denis O’Hare, Sweet Charity

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical :
Sarah Uriarte Berry, The Light in the Piazza
Joanna Gleason, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Kecia Lewis, Dessa Rose
Jan Maxwell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Maureen McGovern, Little Women
Jennifer Simard, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit

Outstanding Director of a Play :
Joshua Carlebach, Frankenstein
Scott Elliott, Hurlyburly
Scott Ellis, Twelve Angry Men
Edward Hall, Rose Rage
Doug Hughes, Doubt
Joe Mantello, Glengarry Glen Ross

Outstanding Director of a Musical :
Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words
Jack Cummings III, The Audience
Mark Dornford-May, The Mysteries
James Lapine, The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Mike Nichols, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Bartlett Sher, The Light in the Piazza

Outstanding Choreography :
Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words
Christopher Gattelli, Altar Boyz
Barry McNabb, Sailor’s Song
Jerry Mitchell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Jerry Mitchell, La Cage aux Folles
Casey Nicholaw, Monty Python’s Spamalot

Outstanding Music :
Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker, Altar Boyz
Terry Davies, Play Without Words
William Finn, The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Stephen Flaherty, Dessa Rose
Adam Guettel, The Light in the Piazza
David Yazbek, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Outstanding Lyrics :
Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker, Altar Boyz
Douglas J. Cohen, Children’s Letters to God
Rick Crom, Newsical
William Finn, The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Eric Idle, Monty Python’s Spamalot
David Yazbek, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Outstanding Book of a Musical :
Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe, Cam Jensen
Kevin Del Aguila, Altar Boyz
Mark Harelik, The Immigrant
Eric Idle, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Jeffrey Lane , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rachel Sheinkin, The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Outstanding Orchestrations :
Steven M. Alper, The Immigrant
Larry Hochman, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Doug Katsaros & Lynne Shankel, Altar Boyz
Kim Scharnberg, Little Women
Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel, Bruce Coughlin, The Light in the Piazza
Harold Wheeler, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Outstanding Set Design of a Play :
Robert Brill, A Streetcar Named Desire
Marisa Frantz, Frankenstein
Nathan Heverin, Outward Bound
Richard Hoover, After the Fall
David Korins, Orange Flower Water
Santo Loquasto, Glengarry Glen Ross

Outstanding Set Design of a Musical :
Lez Brotherston, Play Without Words
Tim Hatley, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Scott Pask, Sweet Charity
David Rockwell, All Shook Up
Anthony Ward, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Michael Yeargan, The Light in the Piazza

Outstanding Costume Design :
Lez Brotherston, Play Without Words
Tim Hatley, Monty Python’s Spamalot
William Ivey Long, La Cage aux Folles
Jeff Mahshie, Hurlyburly
Anthony Ward, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Catherine Zuber, The Light in the Piazza

Outstanding Lighting Design :
Christopher Akerlind, Belle Epoque
Christopher Akerlind, The Light in the Piazza
Mark Henderson, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Donald Holder, Gem of the Ocean
R. Lee Kennedy, The Audience
James Japhy Weideman, Frankenstein

Outstanding Sound Design :
ACME Sound Partners, The Light in the Piazza
Paul Arditti, The Pillowman
Jill B.C. DuBoff, Miss Julie
Jill B.C. DuBoff, Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)
Jeff Lorenz, Frankenstein
Darron L. West, Hot ‘n’ Throbbing

Outstanding Solo Performance :
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays
Dave Gorman, Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack! Adventure
Barry Humphries, Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance
Jackie Mason, Jackie Mason:Freshly Squeezed
Tim Miller, Us
James Urbaniak, Thom Pain (based on nothing)

Unique Theatrical Experience :
all wear bowlers
Belle Epoque
The Mysteries
Play Without Words
Slava’s Snowshow
Typo

The following noncompetitive awards will be presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony:

Outstanding Ensemble Performances:
The cast of Glengarry Glen Ross
The cast of The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

A Career Achievement Award to Julie Harris for her commitment to excellence in the theater.

To Keen Company, a Special Award for moving and enlightening audiences with plays that build upon our theatrical heritage.

In celebration of the 50 th anniversary of the Drama Desk Awards, a Special Award to The Public Theater for its 50 years of exceptional contributions to the theater.

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