2005-2006 winners award announcement — May 21, 2006 (press041)
This is the winners issued for the 2005-2006 season, dated May 21, 2006, for the 51st 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 awards index, so there is one place to correct if anything in them turns out to be wrong.
Six awards were given that season, to six different people across five productions. The Drowsy Chaperone is the only production to take two of them, for costume design and for scenic design of a musical. Nothing swept: the other four awards went to four separate shows.
The two scenic awards went to different designers on different kinds of production, which is what the split heading exists for. David Gallo took scenic design of a musical for The Drowsy Chaperone; Michael Yeargan took scenic design of a play for Awake and Sing!
Five of the six winners appear in at least one other season held here. David Gallo appears in nine others, the widest spread of anyone honoured this season, and Gregg Barnes takes four awards in total across the record from five appearances.
The exception is Richard G. Jones, whose lighting award for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is his only entry anywhere on this record. A single appearance is not a small career; it is what one season of surviving paperwork happens to hold.
This document followed the nominations by 24 days. The nominations themselves were announced on 27 April 2006 and are held at their own address on this site, because the two are separate papers and each was cited separately.
The awards are recorded here by heading rather than by production, which is how the announcements of the time were written. Reading them by production instead is what shows a show like The Drowsy Chaperone taking two crafts in one season.
Kathleen Marshall's choreography win for The Pajama Game is one of seven appearances she makes under that heading across the whole record, three of them wins. Steve Canyon Kennedy's sound design win for Jersey Boys is one of four appearances he makes across the record, more than Jones's single entry but well short of Gallo's ten.
The nominations behind these six winners, covered separately at their own address, named twenty-nine people across the same six headings. Comparing the two documents side by side is what shows a season's actual shape: a flat field of nominees narrowing down to six winners spread across five different productions rather than one show sweeping the result.
The same is true of the winners recorded here: every entry for the 2005-2006 season is cross-checked against a published external source, not just transcribed from the announcement that named them, the standard held to across every season this record covers from the mid-1970s forward.
That check runs against secondary sources where they survive, and is stated as archive-only where they do not, rather than left ambiguous for a reader trying to judge how much weight a given entry can carry.
Nothing about that process changes for a document with fewer surviving sources to check against.
A reader citing this page can therefore check the same claim independently, against the same published source, without taking either this page's word for it or the original announcement's, which is the whole point of doing the check at all.
Of the 6 headings on record here, 4 are design and art-direction categories — including Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical. How the design categories developed →
Questions about this announcement
What was announced in this document?
The winners of the 2005-2006 season, issued on 21 May 2006 for the 51st annual awards. Six awards were given across six design and craft headings. The nominations behind them had been announced 24 days earlier, in a separate document held at its own address here.
Which production took more than one award?
The Drowsy Chaperone, with two: costume design to Gregg Barnes and scenic design of a musical to David Gallo. It is the only production honoured twice that season. The remaining four awards went to four different shows, so no production dominated the results.
Did the two scenic design awards go to the same designer?
No, and that is the point of the split. David Gallo won scenic design of a musical for The Drowsy Chaperone, and Michael Yeargan won scenic design of a play for Awake and Sing! A set built for a musical is judged separately from one built for a play.
Do these winners appear elsewhere on the record?
Five of the six do. David Gallo appears in nine other seasons, the widest spread of anyone honoured here, and Gregg Barnes takes four awards in total. Richard G. Jones is the exception: this lighting award is his only entry anywhere on this record.
How long after the nominations were the winners announced?
Twenty-four days. The nominations for the 2005-2006 season were announced 27 April 2006, and this document, the winners, followed on 21 May 2006. The two are separate papers, each held at its own address, because that is where other sites cited them.