Here are the 2012 Tony Awards nominations. Watch the announcement video and see the 66th annual Tony Award nominees list, made public on Tues. May 1. Broadway musical “Once” leads with 11 nods — including Best Musical, Director, Actor and Actress — followed by “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It” with 10 nods each and “Peter and the Starcatcher” with 9 nods. Winners will be revealed in a ceremony broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, June 10 from the Beacon Theatre in New York City starting at 8 p.m. ET with Neil Patrick Harris as host.
As announced by Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center, the complete list of the American Theatre Wing’s 66th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award nominees, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, is below, after the jump.
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2012 Tony Awards Nominees – Complete List of 66th annual nominees is below followed by highlights video of some of the nominees.
BEST PLAY
Clybourne Park (Author: Bruce Norris) ;Other Desert Cities (Author: Jon Robin Baitz); Peter and the Starcatcher (Author: Rick Elice); Venus in Fur (Author: David Ives)
BEST MUSICAL
Leap of Faith; Newsies; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Once
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Lysistrata Jones (Douglas Carter Beane); Newsies (Harvey Fierstein); Nice Work If You Can Get It (Joe DiPietro); Once (Enda Walsh)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Bonnie & Clyde (Music: Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics: Don Black); Newsies (Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Jack Feldman:; One Man, Two Guvnors (Music & Lyrics: Grant Olding); Peter and the Starcatcher (Music: Wayne Barker, Lyrics: Rick Elice)
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Gore Vidal’s The Best Man; Master Class; Wit
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Evita; Follies; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Jesus Christ Superstar
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors); Philip Seymour Hoffman (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); James Earl Jones (Gore Vidal’s The Best Man); Frank Langella (Man and Boy); John Lithgow (The Columnist)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur); Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow); Stockard Channing (Other Desert Cities); Linda Lavin (The Lyons); Cynthia Nixon (Wit)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein (Follies); Jeremy Jordan (Newsies); Steve Kazee (Once); Norm Lewis (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Ron Raines (Follies)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Jan Maxwell (Follies); Audra McDonald (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Cristin Milioti (Once); Kelli O’Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Laura Osnes (Bonnie & Clyde)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Christian Borle (Peter and the Starcatcher); Michael Cumpsty (End of the Rainbow); Tom Edden (One Man, Two Guvnors); Andrew Garfield (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Linda Emond (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); Spencer Kayden (Don’t Dress for Dinner); Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher); Judith Light (Other Desert Cities); Condola Rashad (Stick Fly)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Phillip Boykin (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Michael Cerveris (Evita); David Alan Grier (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Michael McGrath (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Josh Young (Jesus Christ Superstar)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Elizabeth A. Davis (Once); Jayne Houdyshell (Follies); Judy Kaye (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Jessie Mueller (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever); Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Ghost the Musical)
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Nicholas Hytner (One Man, Two Guvnors); Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park); Mike Nichols (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); Roger Rees and Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher)
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Jeff Calhoun (Newsies); Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Diane Paulus (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); John Tiffany (Once)
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Rob Ashford (Evita); Christopher Gattelli (Newsies); Steven Hoggett (Once); Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Bill Elliott (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Martin Lowe (Once); Danny Troob (Newsies)
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
John Lee Beatty (Other Desert Cities); Daniel Ostling (Clybourne Park); Mark Thompson (One Man, Two Guvnors); Donyale Werle (Peter and the Starcatcher)
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Bob Crowley (Once); Rob Howell and Jon Driscoll (Ghost the Musical); Tobin Ost and Sven Ortel (Newsies); George Tsypin (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
William Ivey Long (Don’t Dress for Dinner); Paul Tazewell (A Streetcar Named Desire); Mark Thompson (One Man, Two Guvnors); Paloma Young (Peter and the Starcatcher)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Gregg Barnes (Follies); ESosa (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Eiko Ishioka (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark); Martin Pakledinaz (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Jeff Croiter (Peter and the Starcatcher); Peter Kaczorowski (The Road to Mecca); Brian MacDevitt (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); Kenneth Posner (Other Desert Cities)
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Christopher Akerlind (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Natasha Katz (Follies); Natasha Katz (Once); Hugh Vanstone (Ghost the Musical)
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Paul Arditti (One Man, Two Guvnors); Scott Lehrer (Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman); Gareth Owen (End of the Rainbow); Darron L. West (Peter and the Starcatcher)
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Acme Sound Partners (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess); Clive Goodwin (Once); Kai Harada (Follies); Brian Ronan (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
SPECIAL TONY AWARD® FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE
Emanuel Azenberg
REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD
The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD
Bernadette Peters
SPECIAL TONY AWARD
Actors’ Equity Association, Hugh Jackman
TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE
Freddie Gershon, Artie Siccardi, TDF Open Doors
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More details including pictures and biography at the official Tony Awards Web site. Watch highlights video below.
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