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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on May 1 to discuss eligibility for the final 17 Broadway productions of the season. The Tony Award nominations will be announced at 8:30am on Tuesday, May 5. The awards will be presented at 8pm on Sunday, June 7 at Radio City Music Hall and aired live on CBS-TV.

On the musical front Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, and Megan Hilty will all be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical category for their work in 9 to 5, while Marc Kudisch will be in the Featured Actor category. Bruce Coughlin, Stephen Oremus and Alex Lacamoire will be considered jointly eligible for Best Orchestrations for 9 to 5.

Additional musical rulings include Matt Cavenaugh and Josefina Scaglione to be considered as Leading Actor and Actress in West Side Story; Gavin Creel eligible in the Leading Actor category for Hair, while Will Swenson stays in the Featured Actor category; and Constantine Maroulis and Amy Spanger will be considered as Leading Actor and Actress for their performances in Rock of Ages. As per opening night credits, Alice Ripley and J. Robert Spencer will be eligible as Leading Actress and Actor for their work in Next to Normal, while the rest of the six-person cast, including Aaron Tveit and Jennifer Damiano, will be eligible in the Featured Category.

Among the play rulings, it was decided that the three parts that make up The Norman Conquests will be eligible as a single play in the Best Revival of a Play category.

On the acting side Thomas Sadoski will be eligible as a Leading Actor in a Play for reasons to be pretty, while Marin Ireland, Piper Perabo, and Steven Pasquale will all be place in the Featured category; Brian Dennehy will be considered eligible as a Featured Actor for Desire Under the Elms, while Pablo Schreiber and Carla Gugino are eligible as Leading Actor and Actress; and David Hyde Pierce will be considered in the Leading Actor category for Accent on Youth, with the remainder of the cast eligible in the Featured category.

In addition, Matthew Broderick and Anna Madeley will be Leading Actor and Actress, while Jonathan Cake and Steven Weber will be in the Best Featured Actor category for The Philanthropist, and Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin will be eligible for Leading Actor, while John Goodman and John Glover will be considered eligible in the Featured Actor category for Waiting for Godot.

All other decisions were consistent with opening night credits.

For more information, visit www.TonyAwards.com.