2010 Drama Desk Award Winners – Memphis and La Cage Aux Folles Take Home the Big Prizes

The 2010 Drama Desk Award ceremony took place tonight. Thanks for joining us for the live-update. This year’s winners for the categories whose nominees included musicals are below:

Outstanding Musical
Memphis

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
La Cage Aux Folles

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Montego Glover, Memphis
AND
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Douglas Hodge, La Cage Aux Folles

Outstanding Musical Revue
Sondheim on Sondheim

Outstanding Set Design
Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch, Basil Twist, The Addams Family

Outstanding Sound Design
Acme Sound Partners, Ragtime

Outstanding Lighting Design
Neil Austin, Red

Outstanding Costume Design
Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow

Special Drama Desk Award
Jerry Herman (for more than half a century of exuberant music and heartfelt lyrics)

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Michael Mayer, American Idiot

Outstanding Choreography
Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away

Outstanding Orchestrations
Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Alex Timbers, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Outstanding Lyrics
John Kander & Fred Ebb, The Scottsboro Boys

Oustanding Musical Score
David Bryan, Memphis


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