Broadway.com readers have revealed their nominations for 9th Annual Broadway.com Audience Awards, the only theatrical award that honors the best of the season as chosen by regular theatergoers. The nominations were determined after a week of online voting, in which readers were asked to choose from complete lists of eligible shows and performers.
Winners will be determined after a second round of voting, with all previous votes wiped clean. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 30 and honored at a private reception on Tuesday, June 3. For a list of past winners, click here.
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Some highlights:
— Young Frankenstein topped the list of nominated shows with 10 nods in various categories including Favorite New Broadway Musical. Five of the show's stars were honored with nominations, including two for featured player Sutton Foster, who has already won five Audience Awards in the past.
— Other past Audience Award winners honored again this year with nominations include Harvey Fierstein who won three awards in 2003 for Hairspray, Raul Esparza who won two awards in 2002, for tick, tick…BOOM! and Cabaret, Nathan Lane a two-trophy winner for The Producers and Patti LuPone half of 2006's Favorite Onstage Pair for Sweeney Todd.
— In the Heights, which won the Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical trophy last year, received six nominations this year, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.
— Is He Dead? star and two-time past winner Norbert Leo Butz received two nominations, including Best Diva Performance, joining four female nominees. Two men have won the diva category since the award's inception: Harvey Fierstein for Hairspray and Gary Beach for The Producers.
A complete list of this year's nominees:
Favorite New Broadway Musical
A Catered Affair
In the Heights
The Little Mermaid
Xanadu
Young Frankenstein
Favorite New Broadway Play
August: Osage County
Is He Dead?
November
Rock 'n' Roll
The 39 Steps
Favorite Broadway Musical Revival
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Grease
Gypsy
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George
Favorite Broadway Play Revival
Boeing-Boeing
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cyrano de Bergerac
Macbeth
The Ritz
Adding Machine
Frankenstein
Make Me a Song
Next to Normal
Walmartopia
Favorite New Off-Broadway Play
Dead Man's Cell Phone
My First Time
The Receptionist
Secrets of a Soccer Mom
Speech & Debate
Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Musical
Roger Bart, Young Frankenstein
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Sierra Boggess, The Little Mermaid
Kerry Butler, Xanadu
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George
Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Tituss Burgess, The Little Mermaid
Robin De Jesus, In the Heights
Harvey Fierstein, A Catered Affair
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Sutton Foster, Young Frankenstein
Andrea Martin, Young Frankenstein
Megan Mullally, Young Frankenstein
Sherie Rene Scott, The Little Mermaid
Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play
Norbert Leo Butz, Is He Dead?
James Earl Jones, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac
Nathan Lane, November
Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play
Claire Danes, Pygmalion
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
Jennifer Garner, Cyrano de Bergerac
Laura Linney, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Anika Noni Rose, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play
F. Murray Abraham, Mauritius
Brooks Ashmanskas, The Ritz
Raul Esparza, The Homecoming
David Morse, The Seafarer
Seth Rudetsky, The Ritz
Favorite Featured Actress in a Broadway Play
Christine Baranski, Boeing-Boeing
Laurie Metcalf, November
Rosie Perez, The Ritz
Phylicia Rashad, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Marisa Tomei, Top Girls
Favorite Solo Performance
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
Stephen Lang, Beyond Glory
Jackie Mason, The Ultimate Jew
Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale
April Yvette Thompson, Liberty City
Favorite Diva Performance
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Norbert Leo Butz, Is He Dead?
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Megan Mullally, Young Frankenstein
Sherie Rene Scott, The Little Mermaid
Favorite Ensemble Cast
August: Osage County
Grease
Is He Dead?
In the Heights
The 39 Steps
Favorite Breakthrough Performance Male
Clay Aiken, Spamalot
Max Crumm, Grease
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Paulo Szot, South Pacific
Favorite Breakthough Performance Female
Sierra Boggess, The Little Mermaid
Claire Danes, Pygmalion
Jennifer Garner, Cyrano de Bergerac
Laura Osnes, Grease
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George
Favorite Onstage Pair
Roger Bart & Sutton Foster, Young Frankenstein
Laura Benanti & Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kerry Butler & Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu
Max Crumm & Laura Osnes, Grease
Jackie Hoffman & Mary Testa, Xanadu
Favorite Replacement Male
Clay Aiken, Spamalot
Blake Bashoff, Spring Awakening
Matt Doyle, Spring Awakening
Mario Lopez, A Chorus Line
Bob Saget, The Drowsy Chaperone
Favorite Replacement Female
Annaleigh Ashford, Wicked
Stephanie J. Block, Wicked
Tamyra Gray, Rent
Judy Kuhn, Les Miserables
Hannah Waddingham, Spamalot
Favorite Long-Running Broadway Show
Hairspray
Rent
Spamalot
Spring Awakening
Wicked
Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
Altar Boyz
Blue Man Group
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Stomp
Favorite New Broadway Song
"If Only" - The Little Mermaid
"In the Heights" - In the Heights
"Please Don't Touch Me" - Young Frankenstein
"Roll in the Hay" - Young Frankenstein
"She's In Love" - The Little Mermaid
Shows with Multiple Nominations:
Young Frankenstein - 10
The Little Mermaid - 8
Gypsy - 7
In the Heights - 6
Grease - 5
Sunday in the Park with George - 5
Xanadu - 5
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 4
Cyrano de Bergerac - 4
Is He Dead? - 4
Spamalot - 4
The Ritz - 4
A Catered Affair - 3
August: Osage County - 3
November - 3
South Pacific - 3
Spring Awakening - 3
Wicked - 3
Boeing-Boeing - 2
Macbeth - 2
Pygmalion - 2
Rent - 2
The 39 Steps - 2
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