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On Broadway, It Looks Like 'Spring'

Posted May 15, 07 12:27 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – The rock musical Spring Awakening scored 11 Tony Award nominations today, including best musical, best book, and best original score for Steven Sater and pop musician Duncan Sheik. Tom Stoppard's 9-hour trilogy The Coast of Utopia (a best play competitor) and the musical Grey Gardens scored 10 nods apiece. The winners will be announced June 10.

Notable snubs included the omission of Legally Blonde from the best musical category and Kevin Spacey's absence from the list of best actor in a play nominees. The Moon for the Misbegotten star is in good company, though: He's on the sidelines with Brian Dennehy (whose Inherit the Wind costar Christopher Plummer did score a nomination) and Nathan Lane.

Source Baltimore Sun

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Actors Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs are introduced before they read the list of nominees for the 61st annual Tony Awards for Broadway shows, in New York Tuesday May 15, 2007. The 2007 awards are to...   (Associated Press)
A spring 2006 photo supplied by Jeffrey Richards Associates shows Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, right, authors of "Spring Awakening, '' in Sheik's New York loft. Their rock musical might be in line...   (Associated Press)
In this file photo originally provided by Jeffrey Richards Associates, Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff play a scene from the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening." The Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater rock musical,...   (Associated Press)
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