Denham, Durning, Foote, Smith, Wilmot, et al. Win 2006 Lucille Lortel Awards

The Signature Theatre Company’s revival of The Trip to Bountiful and the New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Will Power’s musical The Seven were the big winners at the 2006 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The annual honors were presented on Monday, May 1 at New World Stages.

The event was hosted by Judy Gold and Brían F. O’Byrne. It featured appearances by Dominic Chianese, Margaret Colin, Veanne Cox, Michael Cumpsty, Josh Hamilton, Doug Hughes, Carol Kane, Stephen Lang, Craig Lucas, Wendie Malick, Logan Marshall-Green, Mark Moses, Bebe Neuwirth, Keith Nobbs, Paul Rudd, Daniel Sunjata, David Zayas, Liza Colon-Zayas, and the cast of Altar Boyz. In addition, members of the casts of the four nominated musicals performed, and Joan Allen and Peter Friedman read the final scene from the late Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles.

The Trip to Bountiful took home four awards, including Outstanding Revival, Director, and Lead Actress (Lois Smith). The Seven won three awards, including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Choreography (Bill T. Jones). Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore was named Outstanding Play, and its star David Wilmot tied for Outstanding Lead Actor with Red Light Winter‘s Christopher Denham.

A Lifetime Achievement award was given posthumously to Wasserstein. Other special honors went to John Patrick Shanley (Playwrights’ Sidewalk inductee), theater historian Betty Corwin (Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence), and the Atlantic Theater Company (Outstanding Body of Work). A complete list of nominees in the competitive award categories follows, with the winners’ names listed in bold:

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OUTSTANDING PLAY
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Paris Letter
Red Light Winter
The Ruby Sunrise

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
Bernarda Alba
Grey Gardens
See What I Wanna See

The Seven

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL
Abigail’s Party
Celebration and The Room
Funnyhouse of a Negro
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
The Trip to Bountiful

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Billie Allen, Funnyhouse of a Negro
Scott Elliott, Abigail’s Party
Scott Ellis, The Little Dog Laughed
Wilson Milam, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Harris Yulin, The Trip to Bountiful

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Michael Berresse, [title of show]
Graciela Daniele, Bernarda Alba
Bill T. Jones, The Seven

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
Christopher Denham, Red Light Winter
Conor Donovan, Privilege
John Glover, The Paris Letter
Michael Stuhlbarg, Measure for Pleasure
David Wilmot, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Abigail’s Party
S. Epatha Merkerson, Birdie Blue
Lois Smith, The Trip to Bountiful

Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed
Dianne Wiest, Third

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR
Charles Durning, Third

Domhnall Gleeson, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Darren Goldstein, Abigail’s Party
Logan Marshall-Green, Dog Sees God
David Pittu, Celebration and The Room

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS
Meghan Andrews, The Trip to Bountiful
Helena Carroll, Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Lisa Emery, Abigail’s Party
Hallie Foote, The Trip to Bountiful

Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
Beowulf Boritt, The Other Side
David Korins, Swimming in the Shallows
Eugene Lee, The Ruby Sunrise

Derek McLane, Abigail’s Party
Allen Moyer, Grey Gardens

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Eric Becker, Abigail’s Party

William Ivey Long, Grey Gardens
Deborah Newhall, The Ruby Sunrise
Martin Pakledinaz, The Trip to Bountiful
Anita Yavich, The Wooden Breeks

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Aaron Black, Funnyhouse of a Negro

Jane Cox, Apparition
John McKernon, The Trip to Bountiful

Stpehen Strawbridge, Bernarda Alba
David Weiner, The Seven

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Scott Killian, A Picasso
Brian Ronan, Grey Gardens
Ken Travis, Abigail’s Party
Darron L. West, Apparition
Darron L. West, The Seven