‘A Catered Affair’ Leads Drama Desk Noms
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“A Catered Affair,” a musical about one family’s complicated wedding plans, received on Monday a leading 12 Drama Desk nominations, honoring the best of the 2007-08 New York theater season.
It was followed by “The Adding Machine,” an adaptation of Elmer Rice’s expressionistic drama, with nine nods, and the lavish Lincoln Center Theater revival of “South Pacific,” along with Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein,” both with eight.
Besides “A Catered Affair” and “The Adding Machine,” shows nominated for best musical by the organization of theater journalists and critics were “Passing Strange,” “The Glorious Ones,” “The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island,” and “Xanadu.”
Best-play nominations went to “August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts, “Intimate Exchanges” by Alan Ayckbourn, “Horizon” by Rinde Eckert, “From Up Here” by Liz Flahive, “Dividing the Estate” by Horton Foote, and “Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Tom Stoppard.
Faith Prince, who plays the mother of the bride in “A Catered Affair,” received a nomination for outstanding actress in a musical. She will compete against Sierra Boggess, “The Little Mermaid”; Patti LuPone, “Gypsy”; Kelli O’Hara, “South Pacific”; Alice Ripley, “Next to Normal”, and Jenna Russell, “Sunday in the Park With George.”
For outstanding actor in a musical, the nominees were Daniel Breaker, “Passing Strange”; André De Shields, “Black Nativity”; Daniel Evans, “Sunday in the Park With George”; Cheyenne Jackson, “Xanadu”; Matthew Morrison, “10 Million Miles”, and Paulo Szot, “South Pacific.”
Nominated for outstanding actor in a play were Bill Champion, “Intimate Exchanges”; Kevin Kline, “Cyrano de Bergerac”; Bill Pullman, “Peter and Jerry”; Mark Rylance, “Boeing-Boeing”; Tobias Segal, “From Up Here”, and Rufus Sewell, “Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Receiving outstanding actress in a play nods were Sinead Cusack, “Rock ‘n’ Roll”; Deanna Dunagan, “August: Osage County”; Frances McDormand, “The Country Girl”; “Amy Morton, “August: Osage County”; Fiona Shaw, “Happy Days,” and Julie White, “From Up Here.”
The awards show will take place May 18 at the F.H. La Guardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.
