Audience Awards

Every year for about 10 years, Broadway.com has given its readers the opportunity to nominate shows in all the usual Tony categories (plus some new ones of their own) from a list of every eligible nominee and then vote for the winners.  They have just released this year's nominations and, while some of them are ones that we would have expected, others are not.  The nominees are:

Favorite New Musical:
The Addams Family
American Idiot
Everyday Rapture
Memphis
Sondheim on Sondheim

Favorite Broadway Musical Revival:
A Little Night Music
Finian's Rainbow
La Cage Aux Folles
Promises, Promises
Ragtime

Favorite New Broadway Play:
Enron
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Next Fall
Race
Red

Favorite Broadway Play Revival:
A View From the Bridge
Fences
Hamlet
Lend Me A Tenor
Miracle Worker

Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical:
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Imaginocean
Ordinary Days
Scottsboro Boys
Yank!

Favorite New Off-Broadway Play:
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Mr. and Mrs. Fitch
The Orphan's Home Cycle
The Tempramentals
The Understudy

Favorite Performance by A Leading Actor in A Broadway Musical:
John Gallagher, Jr., American Idiot
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Cheyenne Jackson, Finian's Rainbow
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Nathan Lane, The Addams Family

Favorite Performance by A Leading Actress in A Broadway Musical:
Kristin Chenoweth, Promises, Promises
Montego Glover, Memphis
Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Favorite Performance by A Featured Actor in A Broadway Musical:
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Robin De Jesus, La Cage Aux Folles
Michael Esper, American Idiot
Stark Sands, American Idiot
Tony Vinccent, American Idiot

Favorite Performance by A Featured Actress in A Broadway Musical:
Katie Fineran, Promises, Promises
Jackie Hoffman, The Addams Family
Rebecca Naomi Jones, American Idiot
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music
Krysta Rodriguez, The Addams Family

Favorite Performance by A Leading Actor in A Broadway Play:
Norbert Leo Butz, Enron
Hugh Jackman, A Steady Rain
Jude Law, Hamlet
Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge
Denzel Washington, Fences

Favorite Performance by A Leading Actress in A Broadway Play:
Laura Benanti, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Abigail Breslin, Miracle Worker
Viola Davis, Fences
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Alison Pill, Miracle Worker

Favorite Performance by A Featured Actor in A Broadway Play:
Sean Dugan, Next Fall
David Alan Grier, Race
Patrick Heusinger, Next Fall
Brian D'Arcy James, Time Stands Still
Anthony LaPaglia, Lent Me A Tenor

Favorite Performance by A Featured Actress in A Broadway Play:
Ana Gasteyer, The Royal Family
Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me A Tenor
Alicia Silverstone, Time Stands Still
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Lend Me A Tenor

Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male):
Justin Bartha, Next Fall
Daniel Craig, A Steady Rain
Quentin Earl Darrington, Ragtime
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Douglas Hodge, La Cage Aux Folles

Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Female):
Kate Baldwin, Finian's Rainbow
Montego Glover, Memphis
Abigail Breslin, Miracle Worker
Krysta Rodriguez, The Addams Family
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Favorite Replacement (Male):
Corbin Bleu, In the Heights
Andy Karl, Wicked
Kyle Dean Massey, Next to Normal
Kyle Riabko, Hair
Ace Young, Hiar

Favorite Replacement (Female):
Annaleigh Ashford, Hair
Kerry Butler, Rock of Ages
Diana DeGarmo, Hair
Mandy Gonzalez, Wicked
Beth Leavel, Mamma Mia!

Favorite Diva Performance:
Kristin Chenoweth, Promises, Promises
Montego Glover, Memphis
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Vanessa Williams, Sondheim On Sondheim
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

Favorite Solo Performance:
Colman Domingo, A Boy and His Soul
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Judith Ivey, The Woman With All the Answers
Lynn Redgrave, Nightingale
Anna Deavere Smith, Let Me Down Easy

Favorite Onstage Pair:
Kate Baladwin and Cheyenne Jackson, Finian's Rainbow
Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
John Gallagher, Jr. and Rebecca Naomi Jones, American Idiot
Montego Glover and Chad Kimball, Memphis
Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family

Favorite Ensemble Cast:
American Idiot
Come Fly Away
Fela!
Lend Me A Tenor
Sondhim On Sondheim

Favorite Long Running Broadway Show:
Billy Elliot
Hair
In the Heights
Next to Normal
Wicked

Favorite Long Running Off-Broadway Show:
Blue Man Group
The Fantasticks
Naked Boys Singing
Our Town
Stomp

Favorite New Broadway Song:
"Memphis Lives In Me", Memphis
"The Music of My Soul", Memphis
"Pulled", The Addams Family
"Steal Your Rock 'n' Roll", Memphis
"When You're An Addams", The Addams Family