2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Scenic Design Of A Musical'
By: Charlie Piane May. 07, 2009
Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. To view the complete list of nominees, click here.
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
The American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2009 (8-11pm, live EST, PT time delay) on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.
BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees:
'Best Scenic Design of a Musical'
Robert Brill (Guys and Dolls)
Broadway: Assassins (Tony nomination), Cabaret, The Story of My Life, A Streetcar Named Desire, Laugh Whore, The Good Body, Anna in the Tropics, Design for Living, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Buried Child, The Rehearsal. Credits include Sinatra (Radio City), On the Record (Disney), Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), The Wiz (La Jolla), A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf) and The Laramie Project. He is a founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre and recipient of the 2004 Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration.
Ian MacNeil has designed for theatre, opera, dance, film and pop music. His most notable designs include An Inspector Calls (National Theatre/West End and Broadway), Machinal (National Theatre), Ariodante (English National Opera.) and Festen (Almeida/West End). Other designs include Afore Night Comes for the Young Vic and A Number, Plasticine and Far Away for The Royal Court. He has staged various world tours for the Pet Shop Boys. Recent designs include Tin Tin (Barbican and Young Vic) and Vernon God Little (Young Vic). He has won numerous awards including two Oliviers (An Inspector Calls and Ariodante), Two Critic's Circle Awards (Machinal and An Inspector Calls), and two Evening Standard Awards (A Number/Plasticine and Festen).
Scott Pask (Pal Joey)
Selected B'way: Hair, Impressionism, Pal Joey, Speed-the-Plow, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nom., Drama Desk Award), November, Cry-Baby, The Ritz, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, DD, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes awards), The Vertical Hour, The Pillowman (Tony Award), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin Short: Fame..., Take Me Out (London, NYSF), Nine, Sweet Charity, La Cage..., Little Shop..., Amour, Urinetown. Off-B'way: Hair (NYSF), Blackbird (MTC), bash. London: Love Song, On an Average Day, Tales From Hollywood (Donmar), National Theatre, Almeida, Opera North. Peter Grimes (Met Opera, 2008). Multiple DD, OCC, Hewes, and Lortel noms.
Mark Wendland (next to normal)
Broadway: Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: Boys' Life, next to normal, Some Men (Second Stage); Distracted (Roundabout); Unconditional (LAByrinth); Richard III, Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (CSC); Satellites, f-ing A, Pericles, A Dybbuk (Public Theater); Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, (Public Theater at the Delacorte); Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC); Hot 'n' Throbbing (Signature Theatre); Eight Days Backwards, Brutal Imagination (Vineyard Theatre). 2008 Henry Hewes Design Award.
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