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Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy winner Jim Parsons announced the nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards May 1 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center.
The Tony Awards, celebrating excellence in Broadway theatre in the 2011-12 season, will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from the Beacon Theatre on the CBS television network June 10. Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris will again host.
The production of Jesus Christ Superstar that originated at the Stratford Festival last year earned two nominations--one in the category Best Revival of a Musical and one for American Josh Young, who plays Judas Iscariot, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
In the first category, Jesus Christ Superstar is up against revivals of Evita, Follies and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. In the second category Josh Young competes with Phillip Boykin in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Michael Cerveris in Evita, David Alan Grier in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and Michael McGrath in Nice Work If You Can Get It.
The rock opera also earned two Drama Desk Award nominations last week – one for Best Revival of Musical and one for Best Sound Design for Steve Canyon Kennedy. The Drama Desk Awards will take place on June 3.
Photo: Josh Young. ©2012 Joan Marcus.
2012-05-01
New York: “Jesus Christ Superstar” earns two 2012 Tony Awards noms and two Drama Desk noms