Cast of [title of show] to Host Drama Desk Awards Ceremony

The cast of the Broadway-bound musical [title of show]—Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff—will host the 53rd annual Drama Desk Awards on May 18. The ceremony will be held in the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. Nominations for the 2008 awards will be announced by Bebe Neuwirth and Len Cariou on April 28 at the New York Friars Club.

The Drama Desk is an organization of theater journalists that honors excellence in all areas of New York theater, including Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and not-for-profit theater. The group recently made headlines when a dismissed member of the nominating committee aired grievances through Michael Riedel's column in The New York Post. The nominating committee, which includes chairperson Barbara Siegel, Dan Bacalzo, Robert Cashill, Celia Ipiotis, Gerard Raymond and Richard Ridge, was defended by the group's president, William Wolf, and a variety of past winners.

[title of show] will kick off the coming season when it begins preview at the Lyceum Theatre on July 5, directed by Michael Berresse. The musical will open on July 17.