The Book of Mormon, War Horse and Anything Goes took top honors at the 2010-2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which were announced on May 16 and will be presented on May 26 at Sardi’s. The three productions won four awards each, with The Normal Heart taking two prizes. A complete list of winners follows:
Outstanding New Broadway Play: War Horse
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: The Book of Mormon
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play: Other Desert Cities
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: The Kid
Outstanding Actor in a Play: Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
Outstanding Actress in a Play: Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday and Frances McDormand, Good People (tie)
Outstanding Actor in a Musical: Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Adam Godley, Anything Goes
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Outstanding Solo Performance: John Leguizamo, Ghetto Klown
John Gassner Award for New American Play: Matthew Lopez, The Whipping Man
Outstanding New Score: The Book of Mormon
Outstanding Revival of a Play: The Normal Heart
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Anything Goes
Outstanding Director of a Play: Marianne Elliott & Tom Morris, War Horse
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Casey Nicholaw & Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Outstanding Choreographer: Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Outstanding Set Design: Neil Murray, Brief Encounter
Outstanding Lighting Design: Paule Constable, War Horse
Special Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut: Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart
Special Award: Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones for Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction, War Horse
The Outer Critics Circle, is an association with members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and television stations and theater publications in America and abroad.