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By DAVID LEFKOWITZ
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Published May 6 2006 |
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Betrayed, Adding Machine and Dai were winners for Outstanding Play, Musical and Solo show at the 23rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards, held last night at off-Broadway's Union Square Theater. Hosted by The Little Dog Laughed's Julie White, and produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theaters and Producers by arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Lortels honor excellence in off-Broadway theater. Adding Machine, a musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's influential dark satire of modern life, proved the biggest winner this season, taking four Lortels for Musical, Director (David Cromer), lead actor (Joel Hatch) and lighting (Keith Parham). (Last year's big winner, Stuff Happens, also won four, including Best Play.) Other notable victors included Theater for a New Audience, which won Outstanding Revival for Ohio State Murders Circle in the Square maven Theodore Mann, who earned the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence, and Primary Stages, which garnered a trophy for Oustanding Body of Work. The Lortel Awards are named after Lucille Wadler, an actress whose marriage to a wealthy industrialist pushed her off the stage but allowed her to become a behind-the-scenes impresario, first building Westport, CT's White Barn Theater and then the Theater de Lys (renamed the Lortel in 1981) in Greenwich Village. Dubbed The Queen of off-Broadway," Lortel died in 1998 at the age of 98. The annual nominees' cocktail party took place April 21 in the Penthouse of Broadway's American Airlines Theater. Winners of the 2008 Lucille Lortel Awards are below: Outstanding Play Betrayed
by George Packer
Produced by The Culture Project Outstanding Musical Adding Machine Original Music by Joshua Schmidt, Libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt Produced by Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter, and Margaret Cotter Outstanding Solo Show Dai (enough) Written and Performed by Iris Bahr Produced by Bernie Kukoff, Jonathan Pollard, Jon Cutler in association with Highbrow Entertainment Outstanding Revival Ohio State Murders Written by Adrienne Kennedy Produced by Theatre for a New Audience Outstanding Director David Cromer, Adding Machine Outstanding Choreographer Peter Pucci, Queens Boulevard (the musical) Outstanding Lead Actor Joel Hatch, Adding Machine Outstanding Lead Actress Elizabeth Franz, The Piano Teacher Outstanding Featured Actor Francis Jue, Yellow Face Outstanding Featured Actress Mare Winningham, 10 Million Miles Outstanding Scenic Design Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (or the Friends of Dr. Rushower) Outstanding Costume Design Michael Bottari & Ronald Case, and Jessica Jahn, Die Mommie Die! Outstanding Lighting Design Keith Parham, Adding Machine Outstanding Sound Design Jorge Cousineau, Opus Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence Theodore Mann Outstanding Body of Work Primary Stages Unique Theatrical Experience Horizon, Produced by New York Theatre Workshop
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