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Lucille Lortel Award Nominations Announced; Once and Tribes Lead the Pack

By Adam Hetrick 29 Mar 2012

The acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of the drama Tribes and the new musical Once lead the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award nominations, which were announced March 29.

Once premiered in late 2011 at New York Theatre Workshop and has since moved to Broadway. Tribes is currently playing at the Barrow Street Theatre.

The 27th annual Lortel Awards, celebrating Off-Broadway work, will be presented May 6 at the 7 PM at the Skirball Center.

Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors' Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, in addition to theatre journalists and academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Lortel Voting Committee. The Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony is produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation.

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Outstanding Play Blood and Gifts Produced by Lincoln Center Theater; Written by J. T. Rogers Milk Like Sugar Produced by Playwrights Horizons and Women's Project Theater; Written by Kirsten Greenidge Sons of the Prophet Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company; Written by Stephen Karam The Big Meal Produced by Playwrights Horizons; Written by Dan LeFranc The School For Lies Produced by Classic Stage Company; Written by David Ives

Outstanding Musical Once Produced by New York Theatre Workshop; Book by Enda Walsh, Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markta Irglov Queen of the Mist Produced by Transport Group; Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa SILENCE! The Musical Produced by Victoria Lang, Rich Affannato, Donna Trinkoff in association with Scott Kirschenbaum, Theater Mogul, Kitefliers Studio and Terry Schnuck; Music and Lyrics by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, Book by Hunter Bell, Adapted from the screenplay Silence! The Musical by Jon and Al Kaplan The Blue Flower Produced by Second Stage Theatre; By Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World Produced by Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop; Book by Joy Gregory, Music by Gunnar Madsen, Lyrics by Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen, Story by Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen, and John Langs

Outstanding Revival Blood Knot Produced by Signature Theatre; Written by Athol Fugard The Lady from Dubuque Produced by Signature Theatre; Written by Edward Albee Look Back in Anger Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company; Written by John Osborne The Cherry Orchard Produced by Classic Stage Company; Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by John Christopher Jones The Maids Produced by Red Bull Theater; Written by Jean Genet, Translated by Bernard Frechtman

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Lucille Lortel Award Nominations Announced; Once and Tribes Lead the Pack