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Tony Award Nominations Announced
14th May 2008
Here is a complete list of this year's
nominees:
Best Play
The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
Best Musical
Cry-Baby
In the Heights
Passing Strange
Xanadu
Best Revival of a Play
Boeing-Boeing
The Homecoming
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Macbeth
Best Revival of a Musical
Grease
Gypsy
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George
Best Performance by a Leading
Actor in a Play
Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons
Dangereuses
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Rufus Sewell, Rock 'n' Roll
Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Best Performance by a Leading
Actress in a Play
Eve Best, The Homecoming
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage
County
Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth
S. Epatha Merkerson, Come Back,
Little Sheba
Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Performance by a Leading
Actor in a Musical
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park
with George
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Stew, Passing Strange
Paulo Szot, South Pacific
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Best Performance by a Leading
Actress in a Musical
Kerry Butler, Xanadu
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park
with George
Best Performance by a
Featured Actor in a Play
Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius
Raul Esparza, The Homecoming
Conleth Hill, The Seafarer
Jim Norton, The Seafarer
David Pittu, Is He Dead?
Best Performance by a
Featured Actress in a Play
Sinead Cusack, Rock 'n' Roll
Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing
Laurie Metcalf, November
Martha Plimpton, Top Girls
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County
Best Performance by a
Featured Actor in a Musical
Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
Danny Burstein, South Pacific
Robin De Jesus, In the Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young
Frankenstein
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Best Performance by a
Featured Actress in a Musical
de'Adre Aziza, Passing Strange
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Andrea Martin, Young Frankenstein
Olga Merediz, In the Heights
Loretta Ables Sayre, South Pacific
Best Direction of a Play
Maria Aitken, The 39 Steps
Conor McPherson, The Seafarer
Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage
County
Matthew Warchus, Boeing-Boeing
Best Direction of a Musical
Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park
with George
Thomas Kail, In the Heights
Arthur Laurents, Gypsy
Bartlett Sher, South Pacific
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Christopher Gattelli, South Pacific
Dan Knechtges, Xanadu
Best Book of a Musical
Cry-Baby - Thomas Meehan & Mark
O'Donnell
In the Heights - Quiara Alegria
Hudes
Passing Strange - Stew
Xanadu - Douglas Carter Beane
Best Original Score (Music
and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Cry-Baby - Music and Lyrics by
David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger
In the Heights - Music and Lyrics
by Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Little Mermaid - Music by Alan
Menkin; Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
Passing Strange - Music by Stew and
Heidi Rodewald; Lyrics by Stew
Best Orchestrations
A Catered Affair - Jonathan Tunick
In the Heights - Alex Lacamoire and
Bill Sherman
Passing Strange - Stew and Heidi
Rodewald
Sunday in the Park with George -
Jason Carr
Best Scenic Design of a Play
The 39 Steps - Peter McKintosh
August: Osage County - Todd
Rosenthal
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Scott
Pask
Macbeth - Anthony Ward
Best Scenic Design of a
Musical
In the Heights - Anna Louizos
South Pacific - Michael Yeargan
Sunday in the Park with George -
David Farley, Tim Bird and The Knifedge Creative Network
Young Frankenstein - Robin Wagner
Best Costume Design of a Play
The 39 Steps - Peter McKintosh
Boeing-Boeing - Rob Howell
Cyrano de Bergerac - Gregory Gale
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Katrina
Lindsay
Best Costume Design of a
Musical
Gypsy - Martin Pakledinaz
In the Heights - Paul Tazewell
South Pacific - Catherine Zuber
Sunday in the Park with George -
David Farley
Best Lighting Design of a
Play
The 39 Steps - Kevin Adams
August: Osage County - Ann G.
Wrightson
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Donald
Holder
Macbeth - Howard Harrison
Best Lighting Design of a
Musical
In the Heights - Howell Binkley
The Little Mermaid - Natasha Katz
Passing Strange - Kevin Adams
Sunday in the Park with George -
Ken Billington
Best Sound Design of a Play
The 39 Steps - Mic Pool
Boeing-Boeing - Simon Baker
Macbeth - Adam Cork
Rock 'n' Roll - Ian Dickinson
Best Sound Design of a
Musical
Gypsy - Dan Moses Schreier
In the Heights - Acme Sound
Partners
South Pacific - Scott Lehrer
Sunday in the Park with George -
Sebastian Frost
Regional Theater Tony Award
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Special Tony Award
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981),
in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical
theater in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway
this season by South Pacific
Special Tony Award for
Lifetime Achievement in the Theater
Stephen Sondheim
Tony Nominations by
Production
In the Heights - 13
South Pacific - 11
Sunday in the Park with George - 9
August: Osage County - 7
Gypsy - 7
Passing Strange - 7
Boeing-Boeing - 6
Macbeth - 6
The 39 Steps - 6
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - 5
Cry-Baby - 4
Rock 'n' Roll - 4
The Seafarer - 4
Xanadu - 4
A Catered Affair - 3
The Homecoming - 3
Young Frankenstein - 3
The Little Mermaid - 2
Come Back, Little Sheba - 1
Cyrano de Bergerac - 1
Grease - 1
Is He Dead? - 1
Mauritius - 1
November - 1
Thurgood - 1
Top Girls - 1
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