2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Sound 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 Sound Design of a Musical'
ACME Sound Partners (Hair)
Broadway: Irving Berlin's White Christmas, In the Heights (Tony nomination), The Country Girl, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, A Chorus Line (2006), Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hot Feet, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula the Musical, Twentieth Century, Fiddler on the Roof, Never Gonna Dance, The Boy From Oz, Avenue Q, Gypsy, La Bohème (Drama Desk Award), Flower Drum Song, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, Bells Are Ringing, A Class Act. Numerous international, Off-Broadway and regional productions, plus theatrical concerts and special events with renowned orchestras at world-famous venues indoors and out. For Hair, partners Tom Clark, Mark Menard and Nevin Steinberg are joined by Sten Severson.
Paul Arditti (Billy Elliot)
Recent designs in New York include The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's Tale (BAM), Billy Elliot (Broadway, Melbourne, Sydney, London - 2006 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Roundabout), The Year of Magical Thinking, Festen (Evening Standard Award 2005, Olivier Award nomination), The Pillowman (Drama Desk Award 2005, Olivier Award nomination), Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (BAM), Far Away (NYTW, Lucille Lortel Award nomination). Olivier Award 2008 for Saint Joan (National Theatre, London).
Peter Hylenski (Rock of Ages)
Broadway: Shrek, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Little Women, Brooklyn, Laughing Room Only. Other credits include Le Reve, Wynn Las Vegas; Ragtime (West End, Olivier Award nomination); Walking With Dinosaurs; Mame (Kennedy Center); Opening Doors (Carnegie Hall); Applause (Encores!); Annie; Children's Letters to God; Go, Diego, Go!; Dora the Explorer; Spoleto Festival (1999-2002). Film: re-recording mixer on Search for Life, SonicVision, Cosmic Collisions.
Brian Ronan (next to normal)
Brian's Broadway designs include Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Pajama Game, All Shook Up, Twelve Angry Men, The Look of Love, "Master Harold"...and the boys, The Boys From Syracuse, Fortune's Fool, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Rainmaker, Little Me, ...Charlie Brown, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, 1776 and State Fair. Off-Broadway, Brian has designed Saved and Bug, for which he won an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award.
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