Once, Tribes Lead 2012 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations
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The nominations for the 2012 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on May 6 at NYU Skirball Center.
The musical Once, which premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in December, has received seven nominations, including one for Outstanding Musical. Among the other nominations for the show, which has since transferred to Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, are ones for for its director John Tiffany, choreographer Steven Hoggett, and for Cristin Milioti, nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress category.
The other shows nominated in the Outstanding Musical category are Queen of the Mist, SILENCE! The Musical, The Blue Flower, and The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World.
The most highly nominated play is Nina Raine’s Tribes, which has received six nominations, including nods for director David Cromer, lead actor Russell Harvard, featured actor Jeff Perry, and featured actress Mare Winningham.
The works nominated for Outstanding Play are J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts, Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, Dan Le Franc’s The Big Meal, and David Ives’ The School for Lies.
Actresses Molly Ranson and Marin Mazzie have both been nominated for their work in Carrie, in leading and featured actress categories, respectively.
The other nominated performers are David Wilson Barnes (The Big Meal), Adam Driver (Look Back in Anger), Alvin Epstein (The Cherry Orchard), Santino Fontana (Sons of the Prophet), Anita Gillette (The Big Meal), Kimberly Hébert Gregory (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), Peter Francis James (The Lady From Dubuque) Hamish Linklater (The School for Lies), Sanaa Lathan (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), Jefferson Mays (Blood and Gifts), Carey Mulligan (Through a Glass Darkly), Tonya Pinkins (Milk Like Sugar), Jay O. Sanders (Titus Andronicus), and Mary Testa (Queen of the Mist).
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