'Guide' Tops Drama Desk Nominations

The Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder has topped the Drama Desk nominations, just announced. Other multi-nominated musicals include Rock, The Bridges of Madison County and Alladin.

Each year the Drama Desk — an organization made up of critics, writers and scholars — also gives out special awards. This year that list includes the ensemble casts of “The Open House” and “The Realistic Joneses,” two plays by Will Eno, plus actress Veanne Cox and director Ed Sylvanus Iskander.

The Drama Desk awards will be handed out in a June 1 ceremony at Town Hall.

Here is a complete list nominations:

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 Misérables
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 

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