Survey Results Tomorrow - Awards Tonight

Some minor computer problems are in the way, but I should have the results of our informal survey by tomorrow evening. In the meantime, here's are the results of Broadway's Drama Desk Awards - sort of a preview of the Tonys. Here's the story from our pals with the Associated Press:

South Pacific wins 5 prizes at Drama Desk Awards

By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
AP Drama Writer

South Pacific, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, was the big winner Sunday at the Drama Desk Awards, picking up five prizes including best musical revival.

August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' tale of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, was chosen best play of the New York theater season, and Mark Rylance, who portrays a hapless visitor to Paris, won the actor-play prize.

Deanna Dunagan, who plays the cantankerous matriarch in August: Osage County, received the actress-play award and the production's director, Anna D. Shapiro, also won.

Other featured performer winners were Linda Lavin in Paul Rudnick's comedy The New Century and Conleth Hill in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer.

Stew, who stars in Passing Strange, also won for lyrics and for the show's music, which he co-wrote with Heidi Rodewald. Douglas Carter Beane's book for the musical Xanadu also was honored.

The prize for solo performance went to Laurence Fishburne for his portrayal of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in Thurgood, while The 39 Steps took the award for unique theatrical experience.

Rob Ashford won the choreography prize for Cry-Baby, while Katrina Lindsay received the costume-design award for Les Liaison Dangereuses. Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening was named best revue.

The Drama Desk, which was founded in 1949, honors both Broadway and off-Broadway productions.

The awards show took place at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.


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