"Xanadu," "Young Frankenstein" nab NY stage awards
Newly House of York (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Aug: Osage County" and musicals "Whitney Moore Young Jr. Frankenstein" and "Xanadu" nabbed the top Outer Critics Round awards on Monday in advance of U.S. theater's top honors, the Tonys.
Anna D. Shapiro, wHO directed "Aug: Osage River County," picked up the honor for outstanding theater director of a play and the production's Deanna Dunagan won outstanding actress in a play.
The represent, which north Korean won source Tracy Lett the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama, tells the fib of the Westons, a large extended kin group that comes together at their OK homestead when the lush patriarch disappears. It opened on Broadway on Apr 29 after a strike lam in Chicago.
"Xanadu," based on the 1980 moving-picture show washout of the lapp name starring Olivia Newton John, and Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein's monster" tied for the outstanding new musical awarding, whipping "A Catered Affair" and "Crybaby The Musical."
The Outer Critics Circle is made up of journalists application Freshly House of York dramaturgy for U.S. and foreign media. They voted for 23 awards, to be presented on May 22, which are sometimes an early on indication of how the Tonys volition go on June 15.
Tony nominations are due to be announced on Tues.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Due south Pacific Ocean" picked up quartet Outer Critics Circuit awards -- outstanding revival of a musical theater, outstanding director of a musical comedy for Bartlett Sher, outstanding actor in a musical comedy for Paulo Szot and outstanding featured player in a musical theater for Danny Burstein.
The outstanding actress in a musical theater prize was north Korean won by Patti LuPone for "Romany" and the outstanding resurgence of a play award went to "The Homecoming."
Among the Hollywood stars awarded for their microscope stage work in New York were Oscar winner Kevin Kline, wHO picked up the award for outstanding doer in a play for his lead function in "Cyrano de Bergerac" opposite word Jennifer Gather.
