2019 Outer Critics Circle Awards

That's right theatre fans. Awards season has officially started. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced. Leading the pack were Hadestown with six wins including Best Musical of the Year. Now on to the rest of this years winners.

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

*The Ferryman

Ink

Network

To Kill A Mockingbird

What The Constitution Means To Me

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

Be More Chill

*Hadestown

Head Over Heels

The Prom

Tootsie

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

Fairview

The House That Will Not Stand

Lewiston / Clarkston

The Light

*White Noise

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

The Beast in the Jungle

Black Light

*Girl from the North Country

The Hello Girls

Midnight at the Never Get

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

*Robert Horn Tootsie

Conor McPherson Girl from the North Country

Peter Mills and Cara Reichel The Hello Girls

Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown

Jeff Whitty and James Magruder Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (THE MARJORIE GUNNER AWARD)

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Matthew Sklar and Chad BeguelinThe Prom

Joe Iconis  Be More Chill

Peter Mills The Hello Girls

*Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown

david Yazbeck Tootsie

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

*All My Sons

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Juno and the Paycock

Our Lady of 121^st Street

The Waverly Gallery

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Carmen Jones

*Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

Kiss Me Kate

Oklahoma!

Smokey Joe’s Café

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY (THE LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD)

Rupert GooldInk

*Same Mendes The Ferryman

Jack O’Brien All My Sons

Bartlett Sher To Kill a Mockingbird

Logan Vaughn The Light

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

*Rachel Chavkin Hadestown

Scott Ellis Tootsie

Daniel Fish Oklahoma!

Joel Grey Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

Cara Reichel The Hello Girls

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

*Warren Caryle  Kiss Me, Kate

Christopher Gattelli  The Cher Show

Denis Jones  Tootsie

David Neumann Hadestown

Sergio Trujillo  Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Beowulf Boritt Bernhardt/Hamlet

Bunny Christie Ink

Rachel Hauck Hadestown

Rob Howell The Ferryman

*David Korins Beetlejuice

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Rob Howell The Ferryman

*Bob Mackie The Cher Show

William Ivey Long Beetlejuice

William Ivey Long Tootsie

Arianne Phillips Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Neil Austin Ink

Stacey Derosier Lewiston / Clarkston

*Bradley King Hadestown

Jason Lyons Sugar in Our Wounds

Peter Mumford King Kong

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

*Peter England King Kong

Alex Basco Koch Be More Chill

Peter Nigrini Beetlejuice

Jeff Sugg All My Sons

Tal Yarden Network

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

John Gromada All My Sons

*Peter Hylenski King Kong

Drew Levy Oklahoma!

Eric Sleichim Network

Nevin Steinberg  and Jessica Paz Hadestown

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS

Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose Hadestown

Simon Hale Girl from the North Country

Joseph Joubert Carmen Jones

*Daniel Kluger Oklahoma!

Harold Wheeler Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

McKinley Belcher III The Light

*Bryan Cranston Network

Daveed Diggs White Noise

Bill Irwin On Beckett

Jeremy Pope Choir Boy

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Glenn Close Mother of the Maid

Edie Falco The True

Glenda Jackson King Lear

Mandi Masden The Light

*Elaine May The Waverly Gallery

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Brooks Ashmanskas The Prom

Reeve Carney Hadestown

Damon Daunno Oklahoma!

*Santion Fontana Tootsie

Steven Skybell Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

*Stephanie J. Block The Cher Show

Kelli O’Hara Kiss Me, Kate

Beth Leavel  The Prom

Anika Noni Rose  Carmen Jones

Mare Winningham Girl from the North Country

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Bertie Carvel Ink

John Clay III Choir Boy

Hugh Dancy Apologia

John Procaccino Downstairs

*Benjamin Walker  All My Sons

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Joan Allen The Waverly Gallery

Stephanie Berry Sugar in Our Wounds

Fionnula Flanagan The Ferryman

Harriett D. Foy The House That Will Not Stand

*Celia Keenan-Bolger  To Kill a Mockingbird

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

John Behlmann Tootsie

*André De Shields Hadestown

Reg Rogers Tootsie

George Salazar Be More Chill

Ephraim Sykes Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

*Amber Gray Hadestown

Leskie Kritzer Beetlejuice

Bonnie Milligan Head Over Heels

Sarah Stiles Tootsie

Ali Stroker Oklahoma!

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

*Mike Birbiglia The New One

Maddie Corman Accidentally Brave

Jake Gyllenhaal A Life

Carey Mulligan Girls & Boys

Renée Taylor My Life on a Diet

 PRODUCTIONS WITH MULTIPLE AWARDS

HADESTOWN: 6

ALL MY SONS: 2

THE CHER SHOW: 2

THE FERRYMAN: 2

KING KONG: 2 (plus a special award)

TOOTSIE: 2

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Arthur Miler's All My Sons Now In Previews

In 1997, I interviewed for an internship at the Roundabout Theatre Company. At the time, they were located at the Criterion Theatre on West 45th Street, which is now a Gap/Old Navy. Just what Times Square needs right? Playing in their Off-Broadway theatre was a revival of All My Sons starring two-time Tony Award winner and John Cullum and Tony Award nominee Michael Hayden.

Now here we are twenty-two years later, and the Roundabout Theatre Company is bringing back this award winning play to Broadway. Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien (The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray), and starring two-time Tony Award actor and playwright Tracy Letts (August:Osage County, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), and Academy Award nominee Annette Bening (American Beauty, The Kid's Are All Right), All My Sons is set to open at the American Airlines Theatre on April 22, and play thru June 23.

Oh and did I mention that we are selling tickets for the show? Well we are. Plus if you call right now, you can get tickets to see this gripping World War II drama at some amazing prices. Be advised that while this "Special Offer" is god thru April 28, it is for select seats only, and as always subject to availability. Get your tickets to see All My Sons on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre. Until next time theatre fans.

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All My Sons Comes to Broadway-Applause Theatre Service in New York City Has Amazing Seats

I love the Broadway Theatre and had the privilege of seeing Arthur Miller's second Broadway play, All My Sons, at New York City's Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. I was lucky enough to be sitting in the 4th row center at the early Tuesday night 7pm performance. And what excellent theater it was my friends.

All My Sons may have been only Mr. Miller's second Broadway play but it was his first play writing success. He won the 1947 Tony Award along with the shows director Elia Kazan in the "first ever Tony Awards ceremony honoring excellence in the Broadway theater". This great play was then made into a movie in 1948 starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson.

The original production on Broadway ran for 328 performances with Karl Malden and Ed Begley in the lead roles.

The current production stars one of my favorite all time theater, television and film actors, John Lithgow (in the role of Joe Keller). Mr. Lithgow has played in many Broadway shows including The Changing Room and Sweet Smell of Success. He has also won four Emmy Awards (three for his role of Dick Solomon on the hit television comedy series 3rd Rock From the Sun). In addition he has received "back to back" Oscar nominations for the films The World According To Garp and Terms of Endearment. Mr. Lithgow is the proud author of many "bestselling" children's books as well.

Although another one of my favorite stage and screen actors, Diane Wiest did not perform at the performance I attended, her understudy, Lizbeth MacKay did a wonderful job in the role of Kate Keller.

The role of Chris Keller is played by Patrick Wilson, who I saw on Broadway recently in Neil Simon's comedy Barefoot in the Park. Mr. Wilson has been seen on Broadway in The Full Monty, Oklahoma! and Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm. He has played in several Off Broadway shows and has starred in many films as well.

Rounding out the all star cast is the charming and very talented Katie Holmes. Ms. Holmes is making her Broadway debut in All My Sons. She became more than a "household name" by creating the role of Joey in the hit television series Dawson's Creek of some years back. She has since appeared in many films including Disturbing Behavior, Go, Wonder Boys, Abandon, Pieces of April, The Singing Detective, First Daughter, Thank You for Smoking,Batman Begins and Mad Money. She has magnificent stage presence and does a very capable job as the love interest of the Keller's surviving son Chris.

This production of All My Sons is a "shoe-in" to win Best Direction of a Play for the amazing work and creativity of Simon McBurney. His use of staging, sound, lighting, film and having the actors all working together "in sync" keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. He is truly a remarkable stage director indeed.

All My Sons is based on a true story about a successful businessman (Joe Keller) who knowingly manufactured and sold the government defective airplane parts during World War II. This unfortunately led to a great tragedy. A big secret is kept for years after the war. Joe and Kate have lost their younger son to war although Kate cannot give up hope that he may still be alive as his body was never found. Complicating matters is the intertwining relationship of Joe Keller's former business partner's daughter Ann, (played by Ms. Holmes). Ann returns to her hometown years later to visit Chris with hopes of marrying him. Although Kate is against Ann marrying Chris (as she always thought Ann would wait for and marry her older son), Chris tries desperately to convince him mom that he loves Ann and wants to spend his life with her. Kate simply cannot accept that her older son is gone and feels it would be wrong to allow Ann and Chris to be together.

Ann's brother then comes to town and the plot thickens as they both reveal the "secret" that tears the entire family apart, yet at the same time yearns to heal everyone at the same time.

The acting, staging, and direction are indeed a real theater lovers delight. You should consider getting a ticket or two to see this production of All My Sons, one of the all-time classic dramas of our time. And with an "all-star" cast as I had the pleasure to see.

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