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In full: Tony Awards 2014 nominations

By Nick Levine

Here is the full list of nominations for this year’s Tony Awards, which were announced earlier today (April 29) by Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu at an event in New York.

Best Play
Act One
All the Way
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar

Best Musical
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Best Revival of a Play
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night

Best Revival of a Musical
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Samuel Barnett – Twelfth Night
Bryan Cranston – All the Way
Chris O’Dowd – Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance – Richard III
Tony Shalhoub – Act One

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Tyne Daly – Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson – A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones – The Glass Menagerie
Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Estelle Parsons – The Velocity of Autumn

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Neil Patrick Harris – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ramin Karimloo – Les Miserables
Andy Karl – Rocky
Jefferson Mays – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Bryce Pinkham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Mary Bridget Davies – A Night with Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster – Violet
Idina Menzel – If/Then
Jesse Mueller – Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Kelly O’Hara – The Bridges of Madison County

Best Book of a Musical
Chad Beguelin – Aladdin
Douglas McGrath – Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Woody Allen – Bullets Over Broadway
Robert L. Friedman – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater
Aladdin (Music: Alan Menkin; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Begeulin)
The Bridges of Madison County (Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Music: Steven Lutvak; Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak)
If/Then (Music: Tom Kitt; Lyrics: Brian Yorkey)

Best Choreography
Warren Carlyle – After Midnight
Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine – Rocky
Casey Nicholaw – Aladdin
Susan Stroman – Bullets Over Broadway

Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman – Bullets Over Broadway
Jason Robert Brown – The Bridges of Madison County
Steve Sidwell – Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Jonathan Tunick – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Beowulf Boritt – Act One
Bob Crowley – The Glass Menagerie
Es Devlin – Machinal
Christopher Oram – The Cripple of Inishmaan

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Christopher Barreca – Rocky
Julian Crouch – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alexander Dodge – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Santo Loquasto – Bullets Over Broadway

Best Costume Design of a Play
Jane Greenwood – Act One
Michael Krass – Machinal
Rita Ryack – Casa Valentina
Jenny Tiramani – Twelfth Night

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Linda Cho – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
William Ivey Long – Bullets Over Broadway
Arianne Philips – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isabel Toledo – After Midnight

Best Sound Design of a Play
Alex Baranowski – The Cripple of Inishmaan
Steve Canyon Kennedy – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Dan Moses Schreier – Act One
Matt Tierney – Machinal

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski – After Midnight
Tim O’Heir – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mick Potter – Les Miserables
Brian Ronan – Beautiful – The Carole King Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable – The Cripple of Inishmaan
Jane Cox – Machinal
Natasha Katz – The Glass Menagerie
Japhy Wideman – Of Mice and Men

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Christopher Akerlind – Rocky
Howell Binkley – After Midnight
Donald Holder – The Bridges of Madison County

Best Direction of a Play
Tim Carroll – Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage – The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kenny Leon – A Raisin in the Sun
John Tiffany – The Glass Menagerie

Best Direction of a Musical
Warren Carlyle – After Midnight
Michael Mayer – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman – Violet
Darko Tresnjak – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

This year’s Tony Awards – the 68th – will take place on June 8 in New York, hosted by Hugh Jackman.