My recap thus far of the 2018-2019 theatre season:
Today: Musical Categories!
This is as good a time as any to note that I feel no obligation to fill out each category with the conventional number of “nominees”; rather, I prefer to include ALL work that I consider the best of the season’s best. Often, there are more than five per category! Sometimes, fewer (par exemple: sincerest apologies to the supporting musical gents this year); why should the subpar enter the historical record — er…my historical record — as “award-worthy” due simply to a lack of competition?
ACTRESS
- Yngvild Aspeli, Chambre Noire
- Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
- Nikki M. James, Twelfth Night
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Jess Watkins, Ryan Raftery: The Obsession of Calvin Klein
- Carmen Cusack, Lempicka
- Renée Fleming, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
ACTOR
- Taylor Mac, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Gideon Irving, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- Ryan Raftery, Ryan Raftery: The Obsession of Calvin Klein
- Andrew R. Butler, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
- Eric Berryman, The B-Side
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Machine Dazzle, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Andrew Kober, Twelfth Night
BOOK
- Taylor Mac, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Ryan Raftery, Ryan Raftery: The Obsession of Calvin Klein
- Gideon Irving, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- William Burke, Variations on the Main
- Will Eno & Nathaniel Lawlor, Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical
- Andrew R. Butler, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
- Bryan Doerries, Antigone in Ferguson
- Kwame Kwei-Armah & Shaina Taub, Twelfth Night
- Dave Malloy, Octet
CHOREOGRAPHY
- Savion Glover, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
- Third Rail Projects, Confection
- Jerry Mitchell, My Very Own British Invasion
- Karla Puno Garcia, Gone Missing
COSTUMES
- Machine Dazzle, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Sylvia Denais, Chambre Noire
- Andrea Hood, Twelfth Night
DIRECTION
- Yngvild Aspeli & Paola Rizza, Chambre Noire
- Taylor Mac & Niegel Smith, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Nicholas A. Cotz & Gideon Irving, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- Oskar Eustis & Kwame Kwei-Armah, Twelfth Night
- William Burke & Bryn Herdrich, Variations on the Main
- Annie Tippe, Octet
All directorial collaborations save one! What’re the odds!
LIGHTING
- Xavier Lescat & Alix Weugue, Chambre Noire
- Stephen Terry, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- JAX Messenger, Peter Pan
- Anthony Doran, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
- Barbara Samuels, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
- Brittany Shemuga, Confection
ORCHESTRATIONS
- Matt Ray, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
- Gideon Irving, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- Andrew R. Butler & Co., Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
SCORE
- Dave Malloy, Octet
- Shaina Taub, Twelfth Night
- The Civilians, The Lobby Project
- Catherine Brookman, Variations on the Main
- The Bengsons, Anything That Gives Off Light
- Gideon Irving, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- Andrew R. Butler, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
- Ryan Raftery, Ryan Raftery: The Obsession of Calvin Klein
- Remixes are not covers!!! Thus, it should qualify as an original(ish) score.
- Sean Hagerty, Confection
SET
- Silovsky Studios, My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually
- Amy Rubin & Brittany Vasta, Octet
- Megan Lang, Variations on the Main
SOUND
- Donato Wharton, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
- Eric Sluyter, The B-Side
- Antony Aubert, Chambre Noire
- Hidenori Nakajo, Octet
