Today the American Theater Wing announced 2008 TONY nominations. Leading the pack are "In The Heights" with 13, "Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific" with 11 and "Sunday in the Park with George" at 9.
Best Play
August: Osage County Author: Tracy Letts Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company Rock ‘n’ Roll Author: Tom Stoppard Producers: Bob Boyett & Sonia Friedman Productions, Ostar Productions, Roger Berlind, Tulchin/Bartner, Douglas G. Smith, Dancap Productions, Jam Theatricals, The Weinstein Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The Royal Court Theatre London The Seafarer Author: Conor McPherson Producers: Ostar Productions, Bob Boyett, Roy Furman, Lawrence Horowitz, Jam Theatricals, Bill Rollnick/Nancy Ellison Rollnick, James D’Orta, Thomas S. Murphy, Ralph Guild/Jon Avnet, Philip Geier/Keough Partners, Eric Falkenstein/Max OnStage, The National Theatre of Great Britain The 39 Steps Author: Patrick Barlow Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Harriet Newman Leve/Ron Nicynski, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Manocherian Golden Prods., Olympus Theatricals/Douglas Denoff, Marek J. Cantor/Pat Addiss, Huntington Theatre Company/Nicholas Martin/Michael Maso, Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd.
Best Musical Cry-Baby Producer: Adam Epstein, Allan S. Gordon, �lan V. McAllister, Brian Grazer, James P. MacGilvray, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Anne Caruso, Adam S. Gordon, Latitude Link, The Pelican Group, Philip Morgaman, Andrew Farber/Richard Mishaan In The Heights Producers: Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, Sander Jacobs, Goodman/Grossman, Peter Fine, Everett/Skipper Passing Strange Producers: The Shubert Organization, Elizabeth Ireland McCann LLC, Bill Kenwright, Chase Mishkin, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Broadway Across America, Emily Fisher Landau, Peter May, Boyett Ostar, Larry Hirschhorn, Janet Pailet/Steve Klein, Elie Hirschfeld/Jed Bernstein, Spring Sirkin/Ruth Hendel, Vasi Laurence/Pat Flicker Addiss, Wendy Federman/Jackie Barlia Florin, Joey Parnes, The Public Theater, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre Xanadu Producers: Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel, Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith
Best Book of a Musical
Cry-Baby Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan In The Heights Quiara Alegr�a Hudes Passing Strange Stew Xanadu Douglas Carter Beane Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Cry-Baby Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger In The Heights Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda The Little Mermaid Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater Passing Strange Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew
Best Revival of a Play Boeing-Boeing Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Boyett, Act Productions, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company, Susan Gallin/Mary Lu Roffe, Broadway Across America, Tulchin/Jenkins/DSM, The Araca Group The Homecoming Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Ergo Entertainment, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Michael Gardner, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Terry E. Schnuck, Harold Thau, Michael Filerman/Lynne Peyser, Ronald Frankel/David Jaroslawicz, Love Bunny Entertainment Les Liaisons Dangereuses Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy Macbeth Producers: Duncan C. Weldon & Paul Elliott, Jeffrey Archer, Bill Ballard, Terri & Timothy Childs, Rodger Hess, David Mirvish, Adriana Mnuchin, Emanuel Azenberg, BAM, The Chichester Festival Theatre Best Revival of a Musical Grease Producers: Paul Nicholas and David Ian, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Terry Allen Kramer, Robert Stigwood Gypsy Producers: Roger Berlind, The Routh-Frankel-Baruch-Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin, Jack Viertel Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Andr� Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Bob Boyett Sunday in the Park with George Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Debra Black, Jam Theatricals, Stephanie P. McClelland, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Barbara Manocherian/Jennifer Manocherian, Ostar Productions, The Menier Chocolate Factory/David Babani Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing Rufus Sewell, Rock ‘n’ Roll Patrick Stewart, Macbeth Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Eve Best, The Homecoming Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth S. Epatha Merkerson, Come Back, Little Sheba Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights Stew, Passing Strange Paulo Szot, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Kerry Butler, Xanadu Patti LuPone, Gypsy Kelli O’Hara, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Faith Prince, A Catered Affair Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius Ra�l Esparza, The Homecoming Conleth Hill, The Seafarer Jim Norton, The Seafarer David Pittu, Is He Dead?
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Sinead Cusack, Rock ‘n’ Roll Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing Laurie Metcalf, November Martha Plimpton, Top Girls Rondi Reed, August: Osage County Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange Danny Burstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Robin De Jesus, In The Heights Christopher Fitzgerald, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein Boyd Gaines, Gypsy Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical de’Adre Aziza, Passing Strange Laura Benanti, Gypsy Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein Olga Merediz, In The Heights Loretta Ables Sayre, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Best Scenic Design of a Play Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps Scott Pask, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County Anthony Ward, Macbeth Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park with George Anna Louizos, In The Heights Robin Wagner, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein Michael Yeargan, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Best Costume Design of a Play Gregory Gale, Cyrano de Bergerac Rob Howell, Boeing-Boeing Katrina Lindsay, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps
Best Costume Design of a Musical David Farley, Sunday in the Park with George Martin Pakledinaz, Gypsy Paul Tazewell, In The Heights Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Best Lighting Design of a Play Kevin Adams, The 39 Steps Howard Harrison, Macbeth Donald Holder, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Ann G. Wrightson, August: Osage County
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George Howell Binkley, In The Heights Donald Holder, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Natasha Katz, The Little Mermaid Best Sound Design of a Play Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing Adam Cork, Macbeth Ian Dickinson, Rock ‘n’ Roll Mic Pool, The 39 Steps
Best Sound Design of a Musical Acme Sound Partners, In The Heights Sebastian Frost, Sunday in the Park with George Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Dan Moses Schreier, Gypsy Best Direction of a Play Maria Aitken, The 39 Steps Conor McPherson, The Seafarer Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County Matthew Warchus, Boeing-Boeing
Best Direction of a Musical Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park with George Thomas Kail, In The Heights Arthur Laurents, Gypsy Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights Christopher Gattelli, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Dan Knechtges, Xanadu
Best Orchestrations Jason Carr, Sunday in the Park with George Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman, In The Heights Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair * * * Regional Theatre Tony Award Chicago Shakespeare Theater Special Tony Award Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Stephen Sondheim * * * Tony Nominations by Production In The Heights – 13 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific – 11 Sunday in the Park with George – 9 August: Osage County – 7 Gypsy – 7 Passing Strange – 7 Boeing-Boeing – 6 Macbeth – 6 The 39 Steps – 6 Les Liaisons Dangereuses – 5 Cry-Baby – 4 Rock ‘n’ Roll – 4 The Seafarer – 4 Xanadu – 4 A Catered Affair – 3 The Homecoming – 3 The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein – 3 The Little Mermaid – 2 Come Back, Little Sheba – 1 Cyrano de Bergerac – 1 Grease – 1 Is He Dead? – 1 Mauritius – 1 November – 1 Thurgood – 1 Top Girls – 1