NEW YORK, NEW YORK; SOME LIKE IT HOT; & More Lead Nominations for Outer Critics Circle Awards

Outer Critics Circle Awards winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

By: Nicole Rosky Apr. 26, 2023

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The Outer Critics Circle has announced the nominees for the 72nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2022-2023 Broadway and Off-Broadway season.

Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway musical New York, New York, with twelve nominations, followed by Some Like It Hot with ten nods, and Shucked with seven. The most recognized plays of the season are the Off-Broadway production of Downstate and the Broadway production of Leopoldstadt with six nominations each.

Nominees for the annual John Gassner Award - for a new American play, preferably by a new playwright - are Noah Diaz for You Will Get Sick, Ryan J. Haddad for Dark Disabled Stories, James Ijames for Fat Ham, Hansol Jung for Wolf Play, and Brian Watkins for Epiphany.

A Special Achievement Award will be presented to B.H. Barry, one of the world's foremost fight directors, in recognition of a distinguished six-decade career capped off with Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater.

As previously announced, this is the first season with newly reconstructed acting categories, which have removed gender specifications, and been expanded to separately include off-Broadway performers. In the previous configuration, actors in Broadway and off-Broadway productions had been nominated together in the same category.

Winners of the 72nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards will be announced on Tuesday, May 16, and the awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 25 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for The Performing Arts (111 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC).

Founded during the 1949-50 Broadway season by respected theater journalist John Gassner, The Outer Critics Circle is an esteemed association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, broadcast stations, and online news organizations, in America and abroad. Led by its current president David Gordon, the OCC Board of Directors also includes Vice President Richard Ridge, Recording Secretary Joseph Cervelli, Corresponding Secretary Patrick Hoffman, Treasurer David Roberts, Harry Haun, Cynthia Allen, Janice Simpson and Doug Strassler. Simon Saltzman is President Emeritus & Board Member (Non-nominating) and Stanley L. Cohen serves as Financial Consultant & Board Member (Non-nominating).

Outstanding New Broadway Musical

& Juliet

A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical

New York, New York

Shucked

Some Like It Hot

Outstanding New Broadway Play

Good Night, Oscar

Leopoldstadt

Life of Pi

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Summer, 1976

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

The Bedwetter

Between the Lines

The Harder They Come

Only Gold

Without You

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

Becomes a Woman

A Case for the Existence of God

Chester Bailey

Downstate

Letters from Max, a ritual

John Gassner Award for New American Play (Preferably by a New Playwright)

Dark Disabled Stories by Ryan J. Haddad

Epiphany by Brian Watkins

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Wolf Play by Hansol Jung

You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz

Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Death of a Salesman

Endgame

Ohio State Murders

Topdog/Underdog

Wedding Band

Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

A Man of No Importance

Into the Woods

Merrily We Roll Along

Parade

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical

Micaela Diamond - Parade

J. Harrison Ghee - Some Like It Hot

Caroline Innerbichler - Shucked

Colton Ryan - New York, New York

Anna Uzele - New York, New York

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical

Kevin Del Aguila - Some Like It Hot

Julia Lester - Into the Woods

Alex Newell - Shucked

NaTasha Yvette Williams - Some Like It Hot

Betsy Wolfe - & Juliet

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play

Hiran Abeysekera - Life of Pi

Jessica Chastain - A Doll's House

Corey Hawkins - Topdog/Underdog

Sean Hayes - Good Night, Oscar

Audra McDonald - Ohio State Murders

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play

Danielle Brooks - The Piano Lesson

Sharon D Clarke - Death of a Salesman

Michael Potts - The Piano Lesson

Brandon Uranowitz - Leopoldstadt

David Zayas - Cost of Living

Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play

Ephraim Birney - Chester Bailey

Brittany Bradford - Wedding Band

Marylouise Burke - Epiphany

Bill Irwin - Endgame
Emma Pfitzer Price - Becomes a Woman

Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play

Veanne Cox - Wedding Band

Glenn Davis - Downstate

K. Todd Freeman - Downstate

Francis Guinan - Downstate

Susanna Guzman - Downstate

Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical

Nicholas Barasch - The Butcher Boy

Callum Francis - Kinky Boots

Jonathan Groff - Merrily We Roll Along

Natey Jones - The Harder They Come

Marla Mindelle - Titanique

Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical

Vicki Lewis - Between the Lines

Lindsay Mendez - Merrily We Roll Along

Daniel Radcliffe - Merrily We Roll Along

A.J. Shively - A Man of No Importance

Mare Winningham - A Man of No Importance

Outstanding Solo Performance

Mike Birbiglia - The Old Man & the Pool

Jodie Comer - Prima Facie

Jefferson Mays - A Christmas Carol

Sam Morrison - Sugar Daddy

Anthony Rapp - Without You

Outstanding New Score

Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel - Between the Lines

Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally - Shucked

John Kander, Fred Ebb and Lin-Manuel Miranda - New York, New York

Adam Schlesinger and Sarah Silverman - The Bedwetter

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman - Some Like It Hot

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli - Titanique

Robert Horn - Shucked

Matthew López and Amber Ruffin - Some Like it Hot

Suzan-Lori Parks - The Harder They Come

David West Read - & Juliet

Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical)

Jason Ardizzone-West - Wedding Band

John Lee Beatty - Epiphany

Beowulf Boritt - New York, New York

Mimi Lien - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Simon Scullion - Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)

Dede Ayite - Topdog/Underdog

Gregg Barnes - Some Like it Hot

Brigitte Reiffenstuel - Leopoldstadt

Paloma Young - & Juliet

Donna Zakowska - New York, New York

Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)

Neil Austin - Leopoldstadt

Ken Billington - New York, New York

Ken Elliott and Ben Stanton - A Christmas Carol

Natasha Katz - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Lutkin - Life of Pi

Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)

John Gromada - Jasper

Kai Harada - New York, New York

Daniel Kluger - Epiphany

André Pluess - Good Night, Oscar

Joshua D. Reid - A Christmas Carol

Outstanding Video or Projection Design (Play or Musical)

Christopher Ash and Beowulf Boritt - New York, New York

Andrzej Goulding - Life of Pi

Lucy Mackinnon - A Christmas Carol

Isaac Madge - Leopoldstadt

Sven Ortel - Parade

Outstanding Orchestrations

Bryan Carter and Charlie Rosen - Some Like It Hot

Sam Davis and Daryl Waters - New York, New York

Jason Howland - Shucked

Bill Sherman and Dominic Fallacaro - & Juliet

Jonathan Tunick - Merrily We Roll Along

Outstanding Director of a Musical

Michael Arden - Parade

Maria Friedman - Merrily We Roll Along

Casey Nicholaw - Some Like It Hot

Jack O'Brien - Shucked

Susan Stroman - New York, New York

Outstanding Choreography

Andy Blankenbuehler - Only Gold

Edgar Godineaux - The Harder They Come