1998 Theatre Awards - Part III (updated 6/15)
© Steven M. Alper
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This is where we stick categories and awards that don't fit nicely into our chart. For instance, it's impossible to shoehorn the Obie and Theatre World Awards into the charts as they exist. Some of these awards don't have nominations and winners, per se, just winners. So that's what you'll find below.
ASTAIRE AWARD (THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND)
Best Female Dancer
Bebe Neuwirth and Anne Reinking
Best Choreographer
Anne Reinking
GENIE AWARDS
Presented by The Genesius Guild for "ground-breaking work" in theatre.
Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner, Side Show
Douglas Carter Beane, artistic director of The Drama Dept.
Director Julie Taymor and the cast of The Lion King
PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
Runners Up: Richard Greenberg, Three Days of Rain; and Amy Freed,
Freedomland
Also note that after 66 years what was considered one of the greatest wrongdoings of Pulitzer Prize history has at last been righted. In 1932 the very first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical was given to Of Thee I Sing, its playwrights, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, and lyricist, Ira Gershwin, omitting its composer, George Gershwin. On April 14 a special Pulitzer was awarded George for "distinguished contribution to American music." Small consolation to the composer, though.
VILLAGE VOICE OBIE AWARDS
No nominees; all winners.
Performance
Lea DeLaria, On The Town
Mary Testa, On The Town and From Above
Tim Hopper, More Stately Mansions
David Patrick Kelly, for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Joseph Wiseman, I Can't Remember Anything
Heather Gillespie, Mamba's Daughters
Kate Valk, for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Matthew Maguire, I Don't Know Who He Was and I Don't Know What He
Said
Yvette Freeman, Dinah Was
Adriane Lenox, Dinah Was
Elizabeth Marvel, Therese Raquin and Misalliance
J. Smith Cameron, As Bees In Honey Drown
Brian Murray, for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Joan MacIntosh, More Stately Mansions
Direction
Ivo van Hove, More Stately Mansions
David Esbjornson, Therese Raquin
Jo Bonney, for Sustained Excellence of Direction
Special Citations
Target Margin Theater, Mamba's Daughters
David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David
Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mark Bennett, for Sustained Excellence of Sound Design
Alan Johnson, for Sustained Excellence of Musical Direction and Pianism
Karen Finley, The American Chestnut
For the creators of 70 Hill Lane: Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson,
Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, Steve Tiplady
Buzz Cohen, for Distinguished Stage Management
Distinguished Design
Darron L. West, for his Soundscape for Bob
Mimi Jordan Sherin, for her Lighting Design for Bob
Sustained Achievement
Jennifer Tipton
Best Play(s)
Richard Foreman, Pearls for Pigs and Benita Canova
