BROADWAY SCRAPBOOK

BROADWAY SCRAPBOOK: Awards Hopping

By Jeannie

Drama Desk Awards

A mini Tony event held at Town Hall where all the nominees are in the audience, waiting for their names to be called as winners, an after awards buffet party at a disco.

Richard Kind The Big Knife
(All photos by Jeanne Lieberman)

Lin-Manuel Miranda Bring It On The Musical

Marilyn Sokol of Old Jews Telling Jokes still telling them

The cast of Working

Keith Carradine Hands on a Hardbody

Gretchen Noll nominated for Chaplin …smiling in the rain

Outer Critic Circle Awards

An intimate affair where only the winners are invited to pre-curtain dinner at Sardi’s. Less formal, more relaxing with winners able to riff on anything and mingle with each other and the members.

Dale Badway & Michael A. Alden, happy Pippin producers

The silent Penn of P & T talks to me

Patina Miller doing Fosse Jazz Hands from Pippin

Duo Award Winners William Ivey Long and Harvey Fierstein

Kristine Nielsen incredulous as she won as Sonia in Durang's play

Public Theater’s Oskar Eustis accepting award for Here Lies Love

Andrea Martin listening to her very complimentary intro
by former co-star Michael McGrath

Fran & Barry Weissler – Pippin’s multi-award winning producers

Chet Walker Pippin Choreographer

Cicely Tyson – who waited 28 years for her part in Trip to Bountiful

Terrence Mann who confessed he throws knives at his
real life wife in Pippin every night

LCT’s André Bishop – still humble after all these years - picking
up award for The Nance. LCT has theaters everywhere: three at
Lincoln Center, one on Broadway.

Patina Miller – Pippin –“My life is a dream.”

Tom Sturridge still in character as intellectually challenged
but sweet in Orphans

The Beautiful Donna Murphy, presenter
and nominee for Into the Woods

Nathan Lane – Best Actor, The Nance - suggesting his
table was the best

Presenter Audra McDonald sitting at same table where
Nathan Lane suggested everyone was doing jello shots

Chris Durang – author of the Durang Harangue in Vanya and
Sasha and Masha and Spike – a sweet gentlemen whose
ability to skewer everything belies he gentlemanly shy demeanor

Kinky Boots’ Cyndi Lauper – new to the Broadway game –
took the mike again because she forgot to thank someone

Drama League Awards

An elegant affair resembling the old Hollywood studio parties at posh Marquis Hotel where all the nominees are seated in alphabetical order on the three-tiered dais onstage and each gives a brief comment before the winner is announced and the audience was served dinner seated around large round tables. Expensive but worth it.

Tommy Tune elegant as ever

Robert McClure - title role of Chaplin

Billy Porter Kinky Boots

Laura Osnes - Wouldn’t tell me how she changes her dress
onstage in Cinderella

Valisia LeKae - Diana Ross in Motown

Anthony Warlow (Daddy Warbucks in Annie)

Radio City Rockettes

Vanessa Williams – Trip To Bountiful

Constantine Maroulis - Jekyll & Hyde

Harvey Fierstein & Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots collaborators