Friday, April 30, 2010

Final Eligibility Rulings

The Tony Administration Committee met for the fourth and final time today to make their final round of decisions about the 2009-2010 Broadway season.  They made decisions about the final thirteen productions of the season: Come Fly Away, Red, Lend Me a Tenor, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, La Cage aux Folles, American Idiot, Sondheim on Sondheim, Promises, Promises, Fences, Enron, Collected Stories and Everyday Rapture.  The decisions were as follows:


Eddie Redmayne will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in Red.

Anthony LaPaglia will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category for his performance in Lend Me a Tenor.

John Gallagher Jr. will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical category for his performance inAmerican Idiot.

Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Featured Actress/Actor in a Musical categories respectively for their performances in Sondheim on Sondheim.

Viola Davis will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Fences.

Norbert Leo Butz will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in Play category for his performance in Enron.

Adam Cork (music) and Lucy Prebble (lyrics) will be considered eligible in the Best Score (music and/or lyrics written for the theater) category for Enron.

Collected Stories will be eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

Linda Lavin will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Collected Stories.

All other decisions were consistent with opening night credits.

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