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Editor’s Notes: And the winners are............
Although not without controversy (Choosing The Ferryman Best Play
over Mockingbird
which continues to be hugely successful while being snubbed by the Tonys and
Drama Desk: rewarding Best Orchestrations to the surgically reduced “orchestra”
diminishing the glory of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma) The remaining choices mostly reflect the popular opinion. We will have Brian Cranston if not Jeff Daniels, and home town favorite Elaine May over Britain’s theater royalty Glenda Jackson. Awarding Best Musical Revival to the Yiddish Fiddler, defuses
the rivalry between Kiss Me
Kate and
Oklahoma. It warms my heart that the uniquely brilliant Hadestown Best New Musical) and its Star, veteran Andre de Shields (Feature actor Hadestown) got the recognition they deserve.
Bravo Tutti!
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERS
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theatre, announced today its award winners for the 2018-19 season in 27 categories. Stage favorites Jenn Colella, Tina Fey, Montego Glover, Hamish Linklater, Lindsay Mendez, and Lily Rabe will serve as gala award presenters at the upcoming 69th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony on Thursday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant. Celebrating its 69th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theatre, Outer Critics Circle, is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.
(Winners names are in bold preceded by an asterisk.*)
Outer Critics Circle 2018-2019 Award Nominations
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY *The Ferryman Ink Network To Kill a Mockingbird What the Constitution Means to Me
Andre De Shields, Hadestown
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL Be More Chill *Hadestown Head Over Heels The Prom Tootsie
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY Fairview The House That Will Not Stand Lewiston / Clarkston The Light *White Noise
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL The Beast in the Jungle Black Light *Girl from the North Country The Hello Girls Midnight at the Never Get
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) *Robert Horn Tootsie Conor McPherson Girl from the North Country Peter Mills and Cara Reichel The Hello Girls Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown Jeff Whitty and James Magruder Head Over Heels
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (THE MARJORIE GUNNER AWARD) (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin The Prom Joe Iconis Be More Chill Peter Mills The Hello Girls *Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown David Yazbek Tootsie
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway) *All My Sons By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Juno and the Paycock Our Lady of 121st Street The Waverly Gallery
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Carmen Jones *Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) Kiss Me, Kate Oklahoma! Smokey Joe’s Café
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY (THE LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD) Rupert Goold Ink *Sam Mendes The Ferryman Jack O’Brien All My Sons Bartlett Sher To Kill a Mockingbird Logan Vaughn The Light
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL *Rachel Chavkin Hadestown Scott Ellis Tootsie Daniel Fish Oklahoma! Joel Grey Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) Cara Reichel The Hello Girls
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER *Warren Carlyle Kiss Me, Kate Christopher Gattelli The Cher Show Denis Jones Tootsie David Neumann Hadestown Sergio Trujillo Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN (Play or Musical) Beowulf Boritt Bernhardt/Hamlet Bunny Christie Ink Rachel Hauck Hadestown Rob Howell The Ferryman *David Korins Beetlejuice
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical) Rob Howell The Ferryman *Bob Mackie The Cher Show William Ivey Long Beetlejuice William Ivey Long Tootsie Arianne Phillips Head Over Heels
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical) Neil Austin Ink Stacey Derosier Lewiston / Clarkston *Bradley King Hadestown Jason Lyons Sugar in Our Wounds Peter Mumford King Kong
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN (Play or Musical) *Peter England King Kong Alex Basco Koch Be More Chill Peter Nigrini Beetlejuice Jeff Sugg All My Sons Tal Yarden Network
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (Play or Musical) John Gromada All My Sons *Peter Hylenski King Kong Drew Levy Oklahoma! Eric Sleichim Network Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz Hadestown
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose Hadestown Simon Hale Girl from the North Country Joseph Joubert Carmen Jones *Daniel Kluger Oklahoma! Harold Wheeler Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY McKinley Belcher III The Light *Bryan Cranston Network Daveed Diggs White Noise Bill Irwin On Beckett Jeremy Pope Choir Boy
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Glenn Close Mother of the Maid Edie Falco The True Glenda Jackson King Lear Mandi Masden The Light *Elaine May The Waverly Gallery
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Brooks Ashmanskas The Prom Reeve Carney Hadestown Damon Daunno Oklahoma! *Santino Fontana Tootsie Steven Skybell Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL *Stephanie J. Block The Cher Show Kelli O’Hara Kiss Me, Kate Beth Leavel The Prom Anika Noni Rose Carmen Jones Mare Winningham Girl from the North Country
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY Bertie Carvel Ink John Clay III Choir Boy Hugh Dancy Apologia John Procaccino Downstairs *Benjamin Walker All My Sons
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY Joan Allen The Waverly Gallery Stephanie Berry Sugar in Our Wounds Fionnula Flanagan The Ferryman Harriett D. Foy The House That Will Not Stand *Celia Keenan-Bolger To Kill a Mockingbird
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL John Behlmann Tootsie *André De Shields Hadestown Reg Rogers Tootsie George Salazar Be More Chill Ephraim Sykes Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
Amber Gray, Hadestown
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL *Amber Gray Hadestown Leslie Kritzer Beetlejuice Bonnie Milligan Head Over Heels Sarah Stiles Tootsie Ali Stroker Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE *Mike Birbiglia The New One Maddie Corman Accidentally Brave Jake Gyllenhaal A Life Carey Mulligan Girls & Boys Renée Taylor My Life on a Diet
JOHN GASSNER PLAYWRITING AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Jeremy O. Harris Slave Play *Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell The Lifespan of a Fact Donja R. Love Sugar in Our Wounds Ming Peiffer Usual Girls Charly Evon Simpson Behind the Sheet
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS The Executive Committee voted and decided upon the presentation of Special Achievement Awards to: The Puppetry Team That Created and Operates
King Kong * Puppet designer and builder Sonny Tilders and the Creature Technology Company * Scenic designer Peter England, who collaborated on the aesthetics of the puppet * Aerial and movement director Gavin Robins * The members of the King’s Company, who move Kong on stage: Mike Baerga, Rhaamell Burke-Missouri, Jōvan Dansberry, Casey Garvin, Gabriel Hyman, Marty Lawson, Roberto Olvera, Khadija Tariyan, Lauren Yalango-Grant, David Yijae, Christopher Hampton Grant, Jena VanEslander, Scott Webber, Warren Yang, James Retter Duncan, Jonathan MacMillan, and Leigh-Ann Vizer. * Kong’s Voodoo Operators, who control his facial expressions: Jon Hoche, Danny Miller, and Jacob Williams.
The York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Evans Haile, Executive Director 
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