The 2006-2007 season Drama Desk awards have been announced. Nominations enthusiasm for LoveMusik was decisively checkmated at the event, with the dreary show, up for 12 awards, only winning two, one for its star Donna Murphy (and they were both co-wins, reflecting a distinct split of opinion over its merits; happily, 110 in the Shade's Audra McDonald got in there, too). I only liked the first third of The Coast of Utopia (pictured), and would have been happier to see Blackbird take best play, but Tom Stoppard's triptych had an early lock on the classy, good-for-you spectacle vote and its wins in the technical categories were no surprise. Company and Journey's End, the latter soon to close, were apt winners, as was Spring Awakening.
As usual, the nominees spread the wealth throughout New York's theater scene, but the winners were almost wholly Great White Way; only Edward Scissorhands, which stopped over in Brooklyn, and the saccharine Off Broadway musical In the Heights, a puzzling winner, previously announced, for outstanding ensemble, received honors at last night's ceremony. I was disappointed that Nilaja Sun's moving No Child..., which I saw under the voting wire last Thursday night, was left behind in its bid to win outstanding solo performance, but the received wisdom is that an Off or Off Off Broadway show getting a nomination is a win in and of itself. And Sun will be touring her show once its near year-long run at the Barrow Street Theatre ends June 3.
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