List of nominees
Nominations for the 2010 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.
Best Play: “In the Next Room [or the vibrator play],” “Next Fall,” “Red,” “Time Stands Still.”
Best Musical: “American Idiot,” “Fela!” “Memphis,” “Million Dollar Quartet.”
Best Book of a Musical: “Everyday Rapture,” “Fela!” “Memphis,” “Million Dollar Quartet.”
Best Original Score: “The Addams Family,” “Enron,” “Fences,” “Memphis.”
Best Revival of a Play: “Fences,” “Lend Me a Tenor,” “The Royal Family,” “A View From the Bridge.”
Best Revival of a Musical: “Finian’s Rainbow,” “La Cage aux Folles,” “A Little Night Music,” “Ragtime.”
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play: Jude Law, “Hamlet”; Alfred Molina, “Red”; Liev Schreiber, “A View From the Bridge”; Christopher Walken, “A Behanding in Spokane”; Denzel Washington, “Fences.”
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play: Viola Davis, “Fences”; Valerie Harper, “Looped”; Linda Lavin, “Collected Stories”; Laura Linney, “Time Stands Still”; Jan Maxwell, “The Royal Family.”
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical: Kelsey Grammer, “La Cage aux Folles”; Sean Hayes, “Promises, Promises”; Douglas Hodge, “La Cage aux Folles”; Chad Kimball, “Memphis”; Sahr Ngujah, “Fela!”
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Kate Baldwin, “Finian’s Rainbow”; Montego Glover, “Memphis”; Christiane Noll, “Ragtime”; Sherie Rene Scott, “Everyday Rapture”; Catherine Zeta-Jones, “A Little Night Music.”
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play: David Alan Grier, “Race”; Stephen McKinley Henderson, “Fences”; Jon Michael Hill, “Superior Donuts”; Stephen Kunken, “Enron”; Eddie Redmayne, “Red.”
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play: Maria Dizzia, “In the Next Room [or the vibrator play]”; Rosemary Harris, “The Royal Family”; Jessica Hecht, “A View From the Bridge”; Scarlett Johansson, “A View From the Bridge,” Jan Maxwell, “Lend Me a Tenor.”
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Kevin Chamberlin, “The Addams Family”; Robin De Jesus, “La Cage aux Folles”; Christopher Fitzgerald, “Finian’s Rainbow”; Levi Kreis, “Million Dollar Quartet”; Bobby Steggert, “Ragtime.”
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical: Barbara Cook, “Sondheim on Sondheim”; Katie Finneran, “Promises, Promises”; Angela Lansbury, “A Little Night Music”; Karine Plantadit, “Come Fly Away”; Lillias White, “Fela!”
Best Direction of a Play: Michael Grandage, “Red”; Sheryl Kaller, “Next Fall”; Kenny Leon, “Fences”; Gregory Mosher, “A View From the Bridge.”
Best Direction of a Musical: Christopher Ashley, “Memphis”; Marcia Milgrom Dodge, “Ragtime”; Terry Johnson, “La Cage aux Folles”; Bill T. Jones, “Fela!”
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford, “Promises, Promises”; Bill T. Jones, “Fela!”; Lynne Page, “La Cage aux Folles”; Twyla Tharp, “Come Fly Away.”
Lifetime Achievement: Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes.
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