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Drama
League to present the 68th Annual Drama League Awards Luncheon on May
10th.
John Lithgow
(Sweet Smell of Success) to Serve as Master of Ceremonies
Kathleen Chalfant and Marian Seldes to Serve as Honorary Co-Chairmen
Julia Hansen to Receive The Unique Contribution to Theatre Award
Elaine Stritch to Receive The 2002 Distinguished Achievement in Musical
Theatre
Nominations To Be Announced April 23rd And Posted on Website www.dramaleague.org
Over 60 Stars From Broadway And Off-Broadway To Line The Dais
The Drama
League announced today that John Lithgow, star of Sweet Smell of Success,
would be Master of Ceremonies at the 68th Annual Awards Luncheon to be
held on Friday, May 10 at 1PM at the Grand Hyatt, 42nd Street and Park
Avenue. Kathleen Chalfant and Marian Seldes will serve as Honorary
Co-chairmen of the event.
The Drama League also announced today the following awards:
The Unique
Contribution to Theatre Award will be given to Julia Hansen, recently
named Chairman of The Drama League, after having served as its President
for 21 years. Mrs. Hansen is being honored for her extraordinary
stewardship of the organization, which grew nationwide and tenfold during
her tenure, and for her founding of The Drama League Directors Project,
the nation’s preeminent training program for emerging directors, whose
alumni include Christopher Ashley, Mark Brokaw, Michael Mayer, Diane
Paulus and John Rando.
The 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award in Musical Theatre will be
presented to Elaine Stritch, now starring in her one-woman show, Elaine
Stritch at Liberty, which was brought from The Public Theatre to Broadway
this season by overwhelming critical acclaim and public demand. Ms.
Stritch is being honored both for her work creating and performing this
autobiographical evening, and for the career it explores and explains,
including her many signature performances on Broadway and in London’s
West End, in such productions as Pal Joey, Sail Away, Company and Show
Boat.
The Drama
League’s Distinguished Performance Award will be announced at the event.
It is the nation’s oldest acting honor, first presented in 1935,
predating the Tony® Awards by twelve years. In recent years, The Drama
League has added annual awards for distinguished new productions (play,
musical, revival) and for career achievement in the theatre. They will
also be announced that day.
The Drama League’s
national membership votes for the performance and production awards in the
days preceding the event. This year’s winner of the Distinguished
Performance Award will join many past recipients of that award and a dais
lined with actors who have created the season’s most memorable
performances on and Off-Broadway. All of the stars on the dais will be
given the chance to speak during the luncheon.
Proceeds from the Annual Awards Luncheon support The Drama League
Directors Project. The
Drama League is devoted to supporting and strengthening theatre in
America: by broadening and stimulating the audience for quality theatre
and by developing emerging talents for careers in the theatre.
Details from Talkinbroadway
17 April, 2002
Complete
List of Drama League Nominees :
Alan Alda,
QED
Kevin Bacon, An Almost Holy Picture
David Aaron Baker, The Glory Of Living/Hobson's Choice
Jason Biggs, The Graduate
Kate Burton, Hedda Gabler/The Elephant Man
Norbert Leo Butz, The Last Five Years/Thou Shalt Not
Liz Callaway, The Spitfire Grill
Simon Callow, The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Don Cheadle, Topdog/Underdog
Billy Crudup, The Elephant Man
John Cullum, Urinetown
Mos Def, Topdog/Underdog
Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives
Molly Ephraim, Into The Woods
Raul Esparza, tick...tick...BOOM!
Katie Finneran, Noises Off
Hallie Foote, The Carpetbagger's Children
Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Elizabeth Franz, Morning's At Seven
Peter Frechette, The Dazzle
Peter Gallagher, Noises Off
Rupert Graves, The Elephant Man
Doug Hara, Metamorphoses
Harriet Harris, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Shuler
Hensley, Oklahoma!
Dana Ivey, Major
Barbara
Brian d'Arcy James, Sweet Smell of Success
Spencer Kayden, Urinetown
Alan King, Mr. Goldwyn
Kevin Kline, The Seagull
John Leguizamo, Sexaholix...A Love Story
Judith Light ,Sorrows and Rejoicings
Laura Linney, The Crucible
Garrett Long, The Spitfire Grill
Patti LuPone, Noises Off
Kristin Maloney, The Streets of New York
Andrea Martin, Oklahoma!
John McMartin, Into The Woods
Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
Donna Murphy, Helen
Brian Murray, The Crucible
Liam Neeson, The Crucible
Cynthia Nixon, The Women
Sarah Jessica Parker, Wonder of the World
Louise Pitre, Mamma Mia!
Faith Prince, Noises Off
Bill Pullman, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Alan Rickman, Private Lives
Reg Rogers, The Dazzle
Paul Rudd, The Shape of Things
Mercedes Ruehl, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Liev Schreiber, Othello
Sherie Rene Scott, The Last Five Years
Marian Seldes, 45 Seconds From Broadway
Claudia Shear, The Smell of the Kill
Meryl Streep, The Seagull
Lisa Tejero, Metamorphoses
Stephen Tobolowsky, Morning's At Seven
Kathleen Turner, The Graduate
David Warner, Major Barbara
Fritz Weaver, A Life
Laurie Williams, True Love
Vanessa Williams, Into The Woods
Patrick Wilson, Oklahoma!
Jeffrey Wright, Topdog/Underdog
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