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Doubt and Monty Python’s Spamalot Head List of Outer Critics Circle Award Winners

New York City
The Outer Critics Circle, which honors theatrical excellence on and Off-Broadway, has announced its award winners for the 2004-2005 season. Doubt and Monty Python’s Spamalot lead the pack with four awards each. Here is a complete list of the winners:

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY:
Doubt

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL:
Monty Python’s Spamalot

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY: (tie)
Fat Pig
Going to St. Ives

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL:
Altar Boyz

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY:
Twelve Angry Men

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL:
La Cage aux Folles

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY:
Doug Hughes, Doubt

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL:
Mike Nichols, Monty Python’s Spamalot

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY:
Jerry Mitchell, La Cage aux Folles

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN:
Anthony Ward, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN:
Tim Hatley, Monty Python’s Spamalot

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN:
Christopher Akerlind, The Light in the Piazza

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY:
Brian F. O’Byrne, Doubt

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY:
Cherry Jones, Doubt

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL:
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL:
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY:
Jeff Goldblum, The Pillowman

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY:
Amy Ryan, A Streetcar Named Desire

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL:
Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL:
Sara Ramirez, Monty Python’s Spamalot

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE:
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays

JOHN GASSNER AWARD:
Ron Hutchinson, Moonlight and Magnolias

SPECIAL AWARD:
To Marjorie Gunner for 25 years as the president of the Outer Critics Circle

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The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 26 at Sardi’s Restaurant, beginning at 4pm. This season marks the 55th anniversary of the Outer Critics Circle, an association whose members are affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and theater publications in America and abroad. To access TheaterMania’s April 24 news item containing a complete list of this year’s nominess, click here.