“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” Leads 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees

The Outer Critics Circle – an organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway – announced its nominees for the 2013-14 season in 24 categories.

Celebrating its 64^th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater, the Outer Critics Circle is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.

Leading the list with 11 nominations is “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” Followed by eight for “Aladdin,” seven for “Fun Home” and six for “Rocky.” 

A brief look at A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder:

The following is the complete list of the 2013-2014 nominations:

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

Act One

All the Way

Casa Valentina

Outside Mullingar

The Realistic Joneses

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

After Midnight

Aladdin

Beautiful  The Carole King Musical

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Rocky

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

Appropriate

Choir Boy

The Explorer’s Club

The Heir Apparent

Stage Kiss

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

Far From Heaven

Fun Home

Murder For Two

Storyville

What’s It All About?  Bacharach Reimagined

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Aladdin

Beautiful  The Carole King Musical

Fun Home

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Rocky

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Aladdin

The Bridges of Madison County

Fun Home

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

If / Then

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

The Cripple of Inishmaan

The Glass Menagerie

Machinal

Twelfth Night

The Winslow Boy

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Cabaret

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Les Misérables

Violet

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Tim Carroll – Twelfth Night

Michael Grandage – The Cripple of Inishmaan

Lindsay Posner – The Winslow Boy

Bill Rauch – All the Way

Lyndsey Turner – Machinal

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Warren Carlyle – After Midnight

Laurence Connor & James Powell – Les Misérables

Sam Gold – Fun Home

Alex Timbers – Rocky

Darko Tresnjak – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

Warren Carlyle – After Midnight

Peggy Hickey – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine – Rocky

Casey Nicholaw – Aladdin

Susan Stroman – Bullets Over Broadway

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Christopher Barreca – Rocky

Beowulf Boritt – Act One

Bob Crowley – Aladdin

Es Devlin – Machinal

Alexander Dodge – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Gregg Barnes – Aladdin

Linda Cho – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

William Ivey Long – Bullets Over Broadway

Jenny Tiramani – Twelfth Night

Isabel Toledo – After Midnight

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Kevin Adams – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Howell Binkley – After Midnight

Paule Constable – Les Misérables

Natasha Katz – Aladdin

Philip S. Rosenberg – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Bryan Cranston – All the Way

Ian McKellen – No Man’s Land

Brían F. O’Byrne – Outside Mullingar

Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night

Tony Shaloub – Act One

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Tyne Daly – Mothers and Sons

Rebecca Hall – Machinal

Jessica Hecht – Stage Kiss

Cherry Jones – The Glass Menagerie

Estelle Parsons – The Velocity of Autumn

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Michael Cerveris – Fun Home

Neil Patrick Harris – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Andy Karl – Rocky

Jefferson Mays – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Bryce Pinkham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Sutton Foster – Violet

Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Jessie Mueller – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Kelli O’Hara – The Bridges of Madison County

Michelle Williams – Cabaret

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Paul Chahidi – Twelfth Night

Michael Cyril Creighton – Stage Kiss

John McMartin – All the Way

Alessandro Nivola – The Winslow Boy

Brian J. Smith – The Glass Menagerie

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Barbara Barrie – I Remember Mama

Andrea Martin – Act One

Sophie Okonedo – A Raisin in the Sun

Anika Noni Rose – A Raisin in the Sun

Mare Winningham – Casa Valentina

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Danny Burstein – Cabaret

Nick Cordero – Bullets Over Broadway

Joshua Henry – Violet

James Monroe Iglehart – Aladdin

Jarrod Specter – Beautiful  The Carole King Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Judy Kuhn – Fun Home

Anika Larsen – Beautiful  The Carole King Musical

Sydney Lucas – Fun Home

Marin Mazzie – Bullets Over Broadway

Lisa O’Hare – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Jim Brochu – Character Man

Debra Jo Rupp – Becoming Dr. Ruth

Ruben Santiago-Hudson – How I Learned What I Learned

Alexandra Silber – Arlington

John Douglas Thompson – Satchmo at the Waldorf

JOHN GASSNER AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Scott Z. Burns – The Library

Eric Dufault – Year of the Rooster

Madeleine George – The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence

Steven Levenson – The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin

Lauren Yee – The Hatmaker’s Wife

The winners of the above categories will be announced on Monday, May 12th and the annual awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22^nd  (4PM) at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant.