2005 Drama League Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 71st Annual Drama League Awards were announced today during a ceremony held at the Broadway Ballroom of the Marriot Marquis Hotel.

In addition to the Distinguished Production awards and a Distinguished Performance award to Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the Drama League honored Mike Nichols with the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing; the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center with the Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award; and the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop with the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award.

The ceremony was hosted by Tony Award winner Cherry Jones. Here is a complete list of this year’s nominees, with the winners marked in bold:

Distinguished Production of a Play:
The Day Emily Married
Death and the Ploughman
Doubt
A Number
Orson’s Shadow
The Pillowman
Svejk

Distinguished Production of a Musical:
Altar Boyz
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Frogs
Ghetto Superstar
The Light in the Piazza
The Musical of Musicals!
Monty Python’s Spamalot
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Distinguished Revival of a Play:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Hurlyburly
Reckless
Rose Rage
Twelve Angry Men
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Distinguished Revival of a Musical:
La Cage Aux Folles
Pacific Overtures
Shockheaded Peter

Distinguished Performance of the Year:
Alan Alda, Glengarry Glen Ross
Ensemble, Altar Boyz
Roger Bart , The Frogs
Gary Beach, La Cage Aux Folles
Matthew Broderick, The Foreigner
Larry Bryggman, Romance
Norbert Leo Butz , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays
Kieran Culkin, After Ashley
Jim Dale, Address Unknown
Lea DeLaria, Happy Days
Peter Dinklage, Richard III
Alvin Epstein, Endgame
Eve Ensler, The Good Body
Eden Espinosa, Brooklyn
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Cameron Folmar, Five By Tenn
Sutton Foster, Little Women: The Musical
Whoopi Goldberg, Whoopi
Jeff Goldblum, The Pillowman
Heather Goldenhersh, Doubt
Julie Halston, White Chocolate
Ethan Hawke, Hurlyburly
Geraldine Hughes, Belfast Blues
Bill Irwin, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Judith Ivey, Dirty Tricks
Cheyenne Jackson, All Shook Up
Judy Kaye, Souvenir
T.R. Knight, Boy
Nathan Lane, The Frogs
Jessica Lange, The Glass Menagerie
Laura Linney, Sight Unseen
Anthony Mackie, McReele
Bebe Neuwirth, Here Lies Jenny
Brian F. O’Byrne, Doubt
Ensemble, Orson’s Shadow
Estelle Parsons, The Daily Emily Married
Jeremy Piven, Fat Pig
Martha Plimpton, The False Servant
Billy Porter, Ghetto Superstar
Heather Raffo, 9 Parts of Desire
Sara Ramirez, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Phylicia Rashad, Gem of the Ocean
Dallas Roberts, A Number
Ensemble, Rose Rage
Adam Rothenberg, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
John Rubinstein, Counsellor at Law
Mercedes Ruehl, Woman Before A Glass
Liev Schreiber, Glengarry Glen Ross
Sherie Rene Scott, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Stephen Spinella, Svejk
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman
Kathleen Turner, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ensemble, Twelve Angry Men
Leslie Uggams, On Golden Pond
Eamonn Walker, Julius Caesar
Denzel Washington, Julius Caesar
Fritz Weaver, Trying
Julie White, Fiction
B.D. Wong, Pacific Overtures
Rachel York, Dessa Rose