Saturday, May 25, 2013

Pippin, Kinky Boots Take Outer Critics Honors

Pippin and Kinky Boots seem to be the big musical winners on Broadway this year.
And so far, Pippin has copped the most awards.
Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike has taken all the honors announced so for new play and the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has scored for best revival.
The widely-heralded revival of Pippin won seven 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Kinky Boots was named Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won Outstanding New Broadway Play. The awards are presented by an organization of theater writers and commentators.

A complete list of winners follows:

Outstanding New Broadway Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Outstanding New Broadway Musical: Kinky Boots

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play: My Name Is Asher Lev

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: Here Lies Love

Outstanding Book of a Musical: Matilda

Outstanding New Score: Kinky Boots

Outstanding Revival of a Play: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Pippin

Outstanding Actor in a Play: Nathan Lane, The Nance

Outstanding Actress in a Play: Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Outstanding Actor in a Musical Billy Porter, Kinky Boots

Outstanding Actress in a Musial: Patina Miller, Pippin

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Tom Sturridge, Orphans

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Terrence Mann, Pippin

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Andrea Martin, Pippin

Outstanding Solo Performance: Holland Taylor, Ann

Outstanding Director of a Play: Jack O’Brien, The Nance

Outstanding Director of a Musical: Diane Paulus, Pippin

Outstanding Choreographer: Chet Walker, Pippin

Outstanding Set Design: Rob Howell, Matilda

Outstanding Costume Design: William Ivey Long, Cinderella

Outstanding Lighting Design: Kenneth Posner, Pippin

John Gassner Award for an American Play: Aaron Posner, My Name Is Asher Lev

Special Achievement Award: Irish Repertory Theatre

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