New York : The 2007 Drama Desk Awards will be handed out tonight at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. Kristin Chenoweth is hosting the ceremony.
Leading all nominees this year is Manhattan Theatre Club's LoveMusik with 12 nominations. Four other productions garnered 10 nominations including Curtains, Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening , and The Coast of Utopia . Two high-profile shows were not considered for this year's nominations. They include Grey Gardens , eligible last season, which could only be considered for any new elements in the subsequent Broadway production, and Deuce , which did not invite nominators to see the play before the Drama Desk cut-off date, will be eligible next season.
The complete list of nominations are as follows:
Outstanding Ensemble Performances:
Special Awards:
• John Kander and Fred Ebb for 42 years of excellence in advancing the art of the musical theater.
• Austin Pendleton - actor, director, playwright, teacher - a Renaissance man of the American theater.
• Transport Group for its breadth of vision and its presentation of challenging productions.
• National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene for preserving for 92 consecutive seasons the cultural legacy of Yiddish speaking theater in America.
Outstanding Play:
Outstanding Musical:
Outstanding Revival of a Play:
Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
Outstanding Actor in a Play:
Outstanding Actress in a Play:
Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:
Outstanding Director of a Play:
Outstanding Director of a Musical:
Outstanding Choreography:
Outstanding Music:
Outstanding Lyrics:
Outstanding Book of a Musical:
Outstanding Music for a Play:
Outstanding Orchestrations:
Outstanding Set Design of a Play:
Outstanding Set Design of a Musical:
Outstanding Costume Design:
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Outstanding Sound Design:
Outstanding Solo Performance:
Unique Theatrical Experience:
The Drama Desk Awards honor the best of New York theater, Off-Off-Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Broadway.
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