The Tony Awards, 2007-2008 Season

The 62nd Annual American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards will be presented on June 15th. The show will be broadcast live on CBS starting at 8pm. Whoopi Goldberg was recently announced as this year's host.

This morning, the nominations for the Tony Awards were announced. The new musical In the Heights brought in the most nominations (13) and looks likely to win Best Musical. The second most-nom'd production is the hit Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, which is likely to sweep in a large number of the 11 categories in which it is nominated including Best Musical Revival, Best Direction of a Musical, and Best Actor in a Musical, and more than possibly, Best Actress in a Musical. South Pacific is also likely to see Tonys in the design categories. Sunday In the Park With George, another acclaimed musical revival received nine nominations, though it looks likely to lose in most categories, and Gypsy, the third acclaimed musical revival, tied the most-nominated new play, August: Osage County, with 7 noms. All three of Gypsy's leading players, Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti, and Boyd Gaines were nominated. This marks LuPone's fifth nomination for a Tony. She previously won twenty-eight years ago for Evita, but most recently lost in 2006 for her Mrs. Lovett in the John Doyle revival of Sweeney Todd to The Color Purple's LaChanze (the only award TCP received). Three of August: Osage County's players, Deanna Dunagan (a favorite to win), Amy Morton, and Rondi Reed were nominated.

The complete list of nominations is as follows:

Best Play:

August: Osage County
Rock 'n' Roll

The Seafarer

The 39 Steps

Best Musical:

Cry-Baby

In the Heights

Passing Strange

Xanadu

Best Book of a Musical:

Cry-Baby, Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan

In the Heights, Quiara Alegria Hudes

Passing Strange, Stew

Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane

Best Original Score:

Cry-Baby, Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger
In The Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Little Mermaid, Music: Alan Menken and Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater

Passing Strange, Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew

Best Revival of a Play:
Boeing-Boeing

The Homecoming

Les Liaisons Dangereueses

Macbeth

Best Revival of a Musical:
Grease

Gypsy

South Pacific

Sunday in the Park With George

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, 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, 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

Raúl 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, South Pacific

Robin De Jesús, In The Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein

Boyd Gaines, Gypsy

Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical:

de'Adre Aziza, Passing Strange

Laura Benanti, Gypsy

Andrea Martin, Young Frankenstein

Olga Merediz, In The Heights

Loretta Ables Sayre, South Pacific

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, South Pacific

Best Choreography:

Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby

Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights

Christopher Gattelli, 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

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, Young Frankenstein

Michael Yeargan, 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, 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, South Pacific

Natasha Katz, The Little Mermaid

Best Sound Design of a Play:

Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing

Adam Cork, Macbeth

Ian Dickson, 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, South Pacific

Dan Moses Schreier, Gypsy

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre:

Stephen Sondheim

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 South Pacific