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Photo Coverage: Drama Desk Reception Drawing Table
By: Walter McBride May. 04, 2007
A cocktail reception for this year's Drama Desk Award nominees was held at Arte Cafe Restaurant on May 1st. During the evening, the nominees each were given paper and drawing utensils to create illustrations for their shows.
Nominations for the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced April 26th at The New York Friars Club by previous winners James Naughton and Beth Leavel. The awards will be presented on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 9:00 PM, at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, 100 Amsterdam Avenue.
Past Drama Desk winner Kristin Chenoweth—currently nominated for her performance in The Apple Tree—will host the ceremony, which will also be taped for television and subsequently broadcast nationwide as a two-hour special on PBS stations. In New York, the program will be shown on Thirteen/WNET on Sunday, May 27, from 12:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. NYC TV 25 will broadcast the awards twice: Thursday May 24, at 8:00 PM and Saturday May 26, at 10:00 PM. For the fifth year in a row, the awards will be webcast live by TheaterMania.com. The awards ceremony will also be broadcast live -- for the first time -- by XM Satellite Radio's theater channel – XM-28 On Broadway. In keeping with the Drama Desk's unique mission, the nominators considered theatrical events that opened on Broadway, off Broadway and off-off Broadway during the 2006/2007 season in the same competitive categories. Deliberations by the nominators culminated in a marathon weekend session at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which ended Monday afternoon, April 23.
Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
Christian Borle (Legally Blonde)
Martha Plimpton (The Coast of Utopia)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights)
Kristin Chenoweth and Michael Mayer
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth and Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde)
Kristin Chenoweth and Laura Bell Bundy
Raul Esparza and Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Lea Michele (Spring Awakening)
Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele and John Gallagher Jr.
Lea Michele, John Gallagher Jr. and Jonathan Groff
Lea Michele, John Gallagher, Jr. and Jonathan Groff
Frederic Weller
Frederic Weller
Kevin Spacey (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
Michael Cerveris' LoveMusik illustration
Journey's End illustration
Gavin Lee's Mary Poppins illustration
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