Tony Award Administration Committee Announces Final 2010 Eligibility Decisions

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced its rulings on the eligibility of the final 13 Broadway productions of the season: Come Fly Away; Red; Lend Me a Tenor; The Addams Family; Million Dollar Quartet; La Cage Aux Folles; American Idiot; Sondheim on Sondheim; Promises, Promises; Fences; Enron; Collected Stories, and Everyday Rapture.

John Gallagher, Jr. will be eligible in the Leading Actor in a Musical category for his performance in American Idiot, with all other actors in the show eligible in featured categories. Green Day’s score for the musical, drawn from their 2004 album of the same name, as well as other songs by the band, will not be eligible.

In other musical decisions, Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat will all be considered eligible in the Featured Actress/Actor categories respectively for their performances in Sondheim on Sondheim, as will be the rest of the eight-person cast.

Viola Davis will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Fences, while Anthony LaPaglia will be considered eligible in the Featured Actor category for Lend Me a Tenor.

The two-person play Red will have Alfred Molina eligible in the leading actor category and Eddie Redmayne in the featured category. Similarly, Linda Lavin will be eligible in the leading actress category, while Sarah Paulson will be featured. In addition, Collected Stories, which was first presented Off-Broadway in 1997 by Manhattan Theatre Club, will be eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

Norbert Leo Butz will be considered eligible in the Leading Actor in Play category for his performance in Enron, while all other members of the cast will be eligible in the featured categories. In addition, Adam Cork (Music) and Lucy Prebble (Lyrics) will be considered eligible in the Best Score category for that play.

In addition, Branford Marsalis’ original score for Fences is eligible in the Best Score category.

All other decisions were consistent with the opening night program credits.

As previously announced, Jeff Daniels and Lea Michele will announce the nominations for the 2010 Tony Awards, on May 4. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 13.

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