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Drama Desk Nominees- What It All Means for the 2015 Tony Awards!
By: BWW Staff Apr. 23, 2015
Earlier today, Judith Light and Jessie Mueller announced nominations for the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a chart that illustrates the number of Drama League nominees that were subsequently nominated for Tony Awards. Additionally, we calculated the percentage of eligible nominees that earned Tony Awards in the past eight years (discounting Off-Broadway nominations). Check out the chances that this year's DD nominees have at a Tony nod below!
Click here for a full list of the 2015 nominees.
| Year | Eligible DD Nominees That Earned Tony Nominations |
Percentage |
| 2014 | 60 of 83 | 72% |
| 2013 | 50 of 75 | 67% |
| 2012 | 46 of 74 | 62% |
| 2011 | 52 of 75 | 69% |
| 2010 | 51 of 85 | 60% |
| 2009 | 52 of 89 | 58% |
| 2008 | 49 of 83 | 59% |
| 2007 | 55 of 86 | 64% |
Tony Award, and two time Drama Desk winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy,Sound of Music Live, ABC' "Nashville") will return as host of the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.
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