A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder had the most nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, followed by The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin and Rocky. Winners will be announced June 1 at The Town Hall. The nominations are:

Outstanding Play

Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club

Steven Levenson, Core Values

Conor McPherson, The Night Alive

Richard Nelson, Regular Singing

Bruce Norris, Domesticated

Robert Schenkkan, All the Way

John Patrick Shanley, Outside Mullingar

Outstanding Musical

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Aladdin

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Fun Home

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Rocky

The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Revival of a Play

I Remember Mama

London Wall

No Man’s Land

Of Mice and Men

The Cripple of Inishmaan

The Model Apartment

Twelfth Night – Shakespeare’s Globe Production

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

LES MISERABLES

Violet

Outstanding Actor in a Play

Bryan Cranston, All the Way

Hamish Linklater, The Comedy of Errors

Ian McKellen, No Man’s Land

David Morse, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin

Chris O’Dowd, Of Mice and Men

Daniel Radcliffe, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Denzel Washington, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Actress in a Play

Barbara Andres, I Remember Mama

Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons

Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Laurie Metcalf, Domesticated

J. Smith-Cameron, Juno and the Paycock

Harriet Walter, Julius Caesar

Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adam Jacobs, Aladdin

Andy Karl, Rocky

Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Steven Pasquale, The Bridges of Madison County

Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Sutton Foster, Violet

Idina Menzel, If/Then

Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Kelli O’Hara, The Bridges of Madison County

Margo Seibert, Tamar of the River

Barrett Wilbert Weed, Heathers: The Musical

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Reed Birney, Casa Valentina

Chuck Cooper, Choir Boy

Peter Maloney, Outside Mullingar

Bobby Moreno, Year of the Rooster

Bill Pullman, The Jacksonian

Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Betty Buckley, The Old Friends

Julia Coffey, London Wall

Diane Davis, The Model Apartment

Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie

Jan Maxwell, The Castle

Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Danny Burstein, Cabaret

Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Joshua Henry, Violet

James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin

Rory O’Malley, Nobody Loves You

Bobby Steggert, Big Fish

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Stephanie J. Block, Little Miss Sunshine

Anika Larsen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Adriane Lenox, After Midnight

Sydney Lucas, Fun Home

Laura Osnes, The Threepenny Opera

Jennifer Simard, Disaster!

Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Director of a Play

Joe Calarco, A Christmas Carol

Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night

Thomas Kail, Family Furniture

Bill Rauch, All the Way

Anna D. Shapiro, Domesticated

Julie Taymor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Outstanding Director of a Musical

Sam Gold, Fun Home

Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Bartlett Sher, The Bridges of Madison County

Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Alex Timbers, Rocky

Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Choreography

Warren Carlyle, After Midnight

Steven Hoggett, Kelly Devine, Rocky

Danny Mefford, Love’s Labour’s Lost

Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin

Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Sonya Tayeh, Kung Fu

Outstanding Music

Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County

Andrew Lippa, Big Fish

Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Alan Menken, Aladdin

Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, Heathers: The Musical

Jeanine Tesori, Fun Home

Outstanding Lyrics

Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Chad Beguelin, Aladdin

Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County

Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Michael Friedman, Love’s Labour’s Lost

Michael Korie, Far from Heaven

Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Chad Beguelin, Aladdin

Robert L. Freedman, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Joe Kinosian, Murder for Two

Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Douglas McGrath, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Marsha Norman, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Orchestrations

Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County

John Clancy, Fun Home

Larry Hochman, Big Fish

Steve Sidwell, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Michael Starobin, If/Then

Jonathan Tunick, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Music in a Play

Lewis Flinn, The Tribute Artist

Elliot Goldenthal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Rob Kearns, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle

Tom Kochan, Almost, Maine

Nico Muhly, The Glass Menagerie

Duncan Sheik, A Man’s a Man

Outstanding Revue

After Midnight

I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond

Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz

Til Divorce Do Us Part

What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Outstanding Set Design

Christopher Barreca, Rocky

Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Richard Hoover, Small Engine Repair

Santo Loquasto, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Ian MacNeil, A Doll’s House

Donyale Werle, The Explorers Club

Outstanding Costume Design

Constance Hoffman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Zane Pihlstrom, Nutcracker Rouge

Loren Shaw, The Mysteries

Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night

David C. Woolard, The Heir Apparent

Outstanding Lighting Design

Christopher Akerlind, Rocky

Jane Cox, Machinal

David Lander, The Civil War

Peter Mumford, King Lear

Brian Tovar, Tamar of the River

Japhy Weideman, Macbeth

Outstanding Projection Design

Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence, Cirkopolis

Sven Ortel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Aaron Rhyne, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Shawn Sagady, All the Way

Austin Switser, Sontag: Reborn

Ben Rubin, Arguendo

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

Kai Harada, Fun Home

Peter Hylenski, Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

Peter Hylenski, Rocky

Brian Ronan , Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Dan Moses Schreier, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Jon Weston, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

M.L. Dogg, The Open House

Katie Down, The Golden Dragon

Paul James Prendergast, All the Way

Dan Moses Schreier, Act One

Christopher Shutt, Love and Information

Matt Tierney, Machinal

Outstanding Solo Performance

David Barlow, This is My Office

Jim Brochu, Character Man

Hannah Cabell, Grounded

Debra Jo Rupp, Becoming Dr. Ruth

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned

John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf

Unique Theatrical Experience

Charlatan

Cirkopolis

Mother Africa

Nothing to Hide

Nutcracker Rouge

The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill Vol. 2

Special Awards

Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2013-2014, these awards are:

? To Soho Rep.: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.

? To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season’s The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.

? To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season’s The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.

? To the ensembles of Off-Broadway’s The Open House and Broadway’s The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.

? The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, and Carolyn McCormick

? The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, and Marisa Tomei

PRODUCTIONS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS:

12 – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

9 – The Bridges of Madison County

8 – Fun Home

7 – Aladdin

7 – Rocky

6 – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

6 – Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

5 – All the Way

4 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3 – After Midnight

3 – Big Fish

3 – Domesticated

3 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

3 – London Wall

3 – Love’s Labour’s Lost

3 – The Glass Menagerie

3 – Twelfth Night*

3 – Violet

2 – A Raisin in the Sun

2 – Cirkopolis

2 – Heathers: The Musical

2 – I Remember Mama

2 – If/Then

2 – Machinal

2 – No Man’s Land

2 – Nutcracker Rouge

2 – Of Mice and Men

2 – Outside Mullingar

2 – Tamar of the River

2 – The Cripple of Inishmaan

2 – The Explorers Club

2 – The Model Apartment

The winner of the Sam Norkin Off Broadway Award will receive a $1,000 honorarium, a gift from Mrs. Francie Norkin.

The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway compete against each other in the same category. Formed in 1949 by a group of New York theater critics, editors, reporters, and publishers, the organization was born out of the desire to educate the community on vital issues concerning the theater.

Here are last year’s Drama Desk Awards nominees and winners. The 2013-2014 Drama Desk nominating committee is composed of Barbara Siegel, chairperson; Morgan Jenness; Samuel L. Leiter; Chad McArver; Martha Wade Steketee; and James Wilson.

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