2006-2007 nominations award announcement — April 26, 2007 (press047)
This is the nominations issued for the 2006-2007 season, dated April 26, 2007, for the 52nd annual awards. It is held at its original address because other sites cite it directly. The entries themselves are not repeated here — they are on the 2006-2007 record, so there is one place to correct if anything in them turns out to be wrong.
Six headings were carried that season, with 29 nominated entries standing behind six awards. Five of the six hold exactly six entries each; lighting design holds five, the only uneven heading on the season.
The Coast of Utopia took three of the six awards: costume design, lighting design and scenic design of a play. Bob Crowley, credited on the play's scenic win jointly with Scott Pask, also wins scenic design of a musical solo for Mary Poppins — the only person to appear in two of the season's winning credits.
The lighting award went to a three-way shared credit, Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz, and the scenic-play award to a two-way credit, Bob Crowley and Scott Pask. A heading naming more than one designer records collaboration, not a tie between rivals.
No heading appears for the first time this season. Scenic design had already divided into musical and play categories eleven seasons earlier, and sound design still ran as one undivided heading — it would not split for another three seasons.
Of the 35 people and firms named across the season, 25 appear in at least one other season held here. Catherine Zuber's costume award for The Coast of Utopia is one of fourteen appearances she makes across this record, the most of anyone honoured this season.
A separate announcement, issued 24 days later on 20 May 2007, covered the winners of this same season and is held at its own address on this site. This document announced the nominations only; the two are separate papers, each keeping the address it was cited at.
Andy Blankenbuehler's choreography win for In the Heights is one of five appearances he makes across the whole record, and Gregory Clarke's sound design win for Journey's End is one of three. Neither production repeats elsewhere among this season's six awards, the same pattern as The Coast of Utopia's three wins standing apart from three separate single-award shows.
LoveMusik leads the nominated field with five nods across the craft categories this record tracks, though it converts none of them into a win. That is a narrower count than the show's full nomination tally across every category the awards judged that season, since this record holds only the design and craft headings, not the acting and writing ones.
Twenty-one of the twenty-nine distinct nominees that season, beyond the six eventual winners, recur in at least one other season held here — a higher rate than several nearby seasons. LoveMusik's five nominations sit inside that wider field without adding a single win to the tally announced a month later.
Every entry recorded for the 2006-2007 season is cross-checked against a published external source rather than resting on this announcement alone, the standard this record applies from the mid-1970s onward. Where that check is not possible, the affected entries are marked as archive rather than silently held to a lower standard than the rest of the record. Nothing on this record is left unstated in that respect.
That standard holds here exactly as it does everywhere else on the record.
Outstanding Costume Design is one of 4 design and art-direction headings carried this season. How the design categories developed →
Questions about this announcement
Which edition of the awards does this document announce?
The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, with nominations announced 26 April 2007 for the 2006-2007 season. Six design and craft headings were carried, with 29 nominated entries behind six awards. The winners were announced separately, 24 days later, in a different document held at its own address here.
How many awards did The Coast of Utopia take?
Three of the season's six awards: costume design, lighting design and scenic design of a play. Bob Crowley is the only person credited on two of them, solo for Mary Poppins and jointly with Scott Pask for The Coast of Utopia's scenic-play win.
Why do two of the awards credit more than one designer?
Because the work was shared. Lighting design went to Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz together, and scenic design of a play to Bob Crowley and Scott Pask together — both are single awards with joint credits, not two awards and not a tie between separate designers.
Which heading has fewer nominated entries than the others?
Lighting design, with five entries where the other five headings each carry six. It is the only uneven heading on the season. Nothing in the surviving record explains the shorter field; a smaller nominee pool is simply what this document announced for that one award.
Had sound design split into musical and play categories by this point?
No — sound design still ran as a single undivided heading in 2006-2007, with six entries recorded under it, the same shape as the four other unsplit crafts that season. The split into sound design of a musical and sound design of a play did not arrive for another three seasons, in 2009-2010.