NEW YORK, NEW YORK, SOME LIKE IT HOT, LEOPOLDSTADT Lead 2023 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations
It’s officially awards season, folks. The Outer Critics Circle have revealed their favorites of the 2021-2022 season. Leading the pack are Broadway musicals New York, New York and Some Like It Hot with twelve and ten nominations, respectively. Off-Broadway's Downstate and Broadway's Leopoldstadt lead the plays with six nods each.
The winners will be announced May 16, with an in-person ceremony honoring the recipients May 25 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Among the night’s biggest honors: for Outstanding New Broadway Musical, the nominees are & Juliet, A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical, New York, New York, Shucked, and Some Like It Hot. Nominated for Outstanding New Broadway Play are Good Night, Oscar by Doug Wright, Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard, Life of Pi by Lolita Chakrabarti, Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and Summer, 1976 by David Auburn.
Elsewhere, the nominees for Outstanding Score are Between the Lines (Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel), Shucked (Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally), New York, New York (John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Lin-Manuel Miranda), The Bedwetter (Adam Schlesinger and Sarah Silverman), and Some Like It Hot (Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman). There are 24 more categories in which the best and brightest of the season will compete. For a full list of nominees, see below.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical
& Juliet
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
New York, New York
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Outstanding New Broadway Play
Good Night, Oscar
Leopoldstadt
Life of Pi
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Summer, 1976
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
The Bedwetter
Between the Lines
The Harder They Come
Only Gold
Without You
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Becomes a Woman
A Case for the Existence of God
Chester Bailey
Downstate
Letters from Max, a ritual
John Gassner Award for New American Play (Preferably by a New Playwright)
Dark Disabled Stories by Ryan J. Haddad
Epiphany by Brian Watkins
Fat Ham by James Ijames
Wolf Play by Hansol Jung
You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz
Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Death of a Salesman
Endgame
Ohio State Murders
Topdog/Underdog
Wedding Band
Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
A Man of No Importance
Into the Woods
Merrily We Roll Along
Parade
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical
Micaela Diamond – Parade
J. Harrison Ghee – Some Like It Hot
Caroline Innerbichler – Shucked
Colton Ryan – New York, New York
Anna Uzele – New York, New York
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical
Kevin Del Aguila – Some Like It Hot
Julia Lester – Into the Woods
Alex Newell – Shucked
NaTasha Yvette Williams – Some Like It Hot
Betsy Wolfe - & Juliet
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play
Hiran Abeysekera – Life of Pi
Jessica Chastain – A Doll's House
Corey Hawkins – Topdog/Underdog
Sean Hayes – Good Night, Oscar
Audra McDonald – Ohio State Murders
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play
Danielle Brooks – The Piano Lesson
Sharon D Clarke – Death of a Salesman
Michael Potts – The Piano Lesson
Brandon Uranowitz – Leopoldstadt
David Zayas – Cost of Living
Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Ephraim Birney – Chester Bailey
Brittany Bradford – Wedding Band
Marylouise Burke - Epiphany
Bill Irwin – Endgame
Emma Pfitzer Price – Becomes a Woman
Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Veanne Cox – Wedding Band
Glenn Davis – Downstate
K. Todd Freeman – Downstate
Francis Guinan - Downstate
Susanna Guzman - Downstate
Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Nicholas Barasch – The Butcher Boy
Callum Francis – Kinky Boots
Jonathan Groff – Merrily We Roll Along
Natey Jones – The Harder They Come
Marla Mindelle – Titanique
Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Vicki Lewis – Between the Lines
Lindsay Mendez – Merrily We Roll Along
Daniel Radcliffe – Merrily We Roll Along
A.J. Shively – A Man of No Importance
Mare Winningham – A Man of No Importance
Outstanding Solo Performance
Mike Birbiglia – The Old Man & the Pool
Jodie Comer – Prima Facie
Jefferson Mays – A Christmas Carol
Sam Morrison – Sugar Daddy
Anthony Rapp – Without You
Outstanding New Score
Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel – Between the Lines
Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally – Shucked
John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Lin-Manuel Miranda – New York, New York
Adam Schlesinger and Sarah Silverman – The Bedwetter
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman – Some Like It Hot
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli - Titanique
Robert Horn – Shucked
Matthew López and Amber Ruffin – Some Like it Hot
Suzan-Lori Parks – The Harder They Come
David West Read - & Juliet
Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical)
Jason Ardizzone-West – Wedding Band
John Lee Beatty - Epiphany
Beowulf Boritt – New York, New York
Mimi Lien – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Simon Scullion – Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)
Dede Ayite – Topdog/Underdog
Gregg Barnes – Some Like it Hot
Brigitte Reiffenstuel – Leopoldstadt
Paloma Young - & Juliet
Donna Zakowska – New York, New York
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)
Neil Austin – Leopoldstadt
Ken Billington – New York, New York
Ben Stanton – A Christmas Carol
Natasha Katz – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Lutkin – Life of Pi
Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)
John Gromada - Jasper
Kai Harada – New York, New York
Daniel Kluger – Epiphany
André Pluess – Good Night, Oscar
Joshua D. Reid – A Christmas Carol
Outstanding Video or Projection Design (Play or Musical)
Christopher Ash and Beowulf Boritt – New York, New York
Andrzej Goulding – Life of Pi
Lucy Mackinnon – A Christmas Carol
Isaac Madge - Leopoldstadt
Sven Ortel – Parade
Outstanding Orchestrations
Bryan Carter and Charlie Rosen – Some Like It Hot
Sam Davis and Daryl Waters – New York, New York
Jason Howland – Shucked
Bill Sherman and Dominic Fallacaro - & Juliet
Jonathan Tunick – Merrily We Roll Along
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Michael Arden – Parade
Maria Friedman – Merrily We Roll Along
Casey Nicholaw – Some Like It Hot
Jack O'Brien – Shucked
Susan Stroman – New York, New York
Outstanding Choreography
Andy Blankenbuehler – Only Gold
Edgar Godineaux – The Harder They Come
Casey Nicholaw – Some Like It Hot
Susan Stroman – New York, New York
Jennifer Weber - & Juliet
Outstanding Director of a Play
Kenny Leon – Topdog/Underdog
Pam MacKinnon – Downstate
Patrick Marber - Leopoldstadt
Adam Meggido – Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Max Webster – Life of Pi
In addition to the nominees, a special achievement award will be presented to B.H. Barry, one of the world's foremost fight directors, in recognition of a distinguished six-decade career capped off with Camelot at Lincoln Center.
