2012 BroadwayWorld Award Winners Announced - NEWSIES Leads Pack With 10! PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, GODSPELL, WICKED, SALESMAN & More!

The results are in! Voting opened on May 3, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards, and ran through June 4, 2012.

This year, we shattered all previous site records, by more than DOUBLE, as hundreds of thousands of theatregoers and fans weighed in on their favorites of th 2011-12 theatre season on Broadway, Off-Broadway and beyond.  

The BroadwayWorld.com Awards are by far the largest and most popular online Broadway polling event of its kind, open to all and with fully visible and audited results. 

And the winners are...

Best Book of a Musical
Harvey Fierstein - Newsies

Best Choreography
Christopher Gatelli - Newsies

Best Costume Design
Gregg Barnes - Follies

Best Direction of a Musical
Jeff Calhoun - Newsies

Best Direction of a Play
Roger Rees & Alex Timbers - Peter and the Starcatcher 

Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Andrew Keenan-Bolger - Newsies

Best Featured Actor in a Play
Christian Borle - Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle - Godspell

Best Featured Actress in a Play
Celia Keenan-Bolger - Peter and the Starcatcher 

Best Leading Actor in a Musical
Jeremy Jordan - Newsies 

Best Leading Actor in a Play
Alan Rickman - Seminar 

Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Audra McDonald - Porgy and Bess 

Best Leading Actress in a Play
Tracie Bennett - End of the Rainbow 

Best Lighting Design
Hugh Vanstone - Ghost 

Best Long-Running Broadway Show
Wicked 

Best Musical
Newsies

Best Off-Broadway Musical
Rent

Best Off-Broadway Play
Sons of the Prophet

Best Orchestrations
Danny Troob - Newsies 

Best Play
Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Revival of a Musical
Godspell

Best Revival of a Play
Death of a Salesman

Best Scenic Design
Tobin Ost - Newsies

Best Score
Alan Menken and Jack Feldman - Newsies

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Ken Travis - Newsies

Best Sound Design of a Play
Darron L. West - Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Touring Production
Wicked