The Goodman Theatre, with a grand total of 34, and Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre, with 15, head the list of Chicago area theaters receiving nominations for the 1994 Joseph Jefferson Awards.
The Goodman’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” and “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” along with Court Theatre’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “The Triumph of Love,” and Wisdom Bridge Theatre’s revival of “Kabuki Medea” are nominated for overall production of a play.
Marriott’s “Windy City” and “42nd Street,” Candlelight Dinner Playhouse’s “Mame,” Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace’s “West Side Story” and the Goodman’s “A Little Night Music” are up for production of a musical.
About 130 nominations are set in 25 categories for the awards, which will be bestowed Nov. 14 at Drury Lake Oakbrook Terrace.
Here is a list of the nominees:
Production, play: “Dancing at Lughnasa,” the Goodman Theatre; “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Court Theatre; “Kabuki Medea,” Wisdom Bridge Theatre; “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” Goodman; “The Triumph of Love,” Court.
Production, musical: “42nd Street,” Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre; “A Little Night Music,” Goodman; “Mame,” Candlelight Dinner Playhouse; “West Side Story,” Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace; “Windy City,” Marriott’s Lincolnshire.
Production, revue: “Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Mellow?” Second City; “Blues in the Night,” Northlight Theatre; “Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate,” Victory Gardens Theater; “Whitewater for Chocolate,” Second City E.T.C.
Director, play: Kyle Donnelly, “Dancing at Lughnasa”; Barbara Gaines, “The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare Repertory; Michael Maggio, “The Brutality of Fact,” Goodman; Charles Newell, “The Triumph of Love”; Shozo Sato, “Kabuki Medea”; Mary Zimmerman, “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.”
Director, musical: Dyanne Earley, “Windy City”; Gary Griffin, “City of Angels,” Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, and “West Side Story” (two nominations); Michael Maggio, “A Little Night Music”; Dennis Zacek, “Get Ready,” Victory Gardens.
Director, revue: Jim Corti, “Blues in the Night,” Northlight; Michael Gellman, “Information Highway to Hell, Or CD Rom Wasn’t Built in a Day,” Second City Northwest; Tom Gianas, “Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Mellow?”; Peter Glazer, “Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate”; Ron West, “Whitewater for Chocolate.”
Actress in a principal role, play: Shanesia Davis, “The Ties That Bind,” Goodman; Lisa Dodson, “Messiah,” National Jewish Theater; Cherry Jones, “The Night of the Iguana,” Goodman; Barbara Robertson, “Kabuki Medea”; Hynden Walch, “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice,” Steppenwolf Theatre.
Actor in a principal role, play: B.J. Jones, “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me,” Northlight; David New and Nicholas Pennell, both for “Not About Heroes,” Apple Tree Theatre Company; William Petersen, “Night of the Iguana”; Scott Wentworth, “Taming of the Shrew.”
Actress in a supporting role, play: Kate Buddeke, “Dancing at Lughnasa”; Denise du Maurier, “The Importance of Being Earnest”; Laurie Metcalf, “Libra”; Kathy Santen, “Kabuki Medea”; Laura Whyte, “A Delicate Balance.”
Actor in a supporting role, play: John Berczeller, “The Substance of Fire,” Apple Tree; Lawrence McCauley, “It Runs in the Family,” Candlelight’s Forum Theatre; Darryl Alan Reed, “The Ties That Bind”; Craig Spidle, “Sight Unseen,” National Jewish Theater; Paul White, “Dogtown,” Eclipse Theatre Company.
Actress in a principal role, musical: Jamie Dawn Gangi, “Phantom of the Country Palace,” Marriott’s Lincolnshire; Jennifer Rosin, “West Side Story”; Kathy Santen, “The Goodbye Girl”; Paula Scrofano, “A Little Night Music” and “Mame” (two nominations); Laura Walls, “Get Ready.”
Actor in a principal role, musical: Stephen R. Buntrock, “Oklahoma!”; Will Chase, “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?” Candlelight; James Fitzgerald, “The Goodbye Girl”; Ross Lehman, “Sugar,” Apple Tree; Peter Siragusa, “Zorba,” Apple Tree; Mark Zimmerman, “A Little Night Music.”
Actress in a supporting role, musical: Michelle Duffy, “West Side Story”; Felicia P. Fields, “The Goodbye Girl”; Suzanne Petri, “Zorba”; Hollis Resnik, “A Little Night Music”; Mary Robin Roth, “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?”
Actor in a supporting role, musical: Guy Adkins, “Oklahoma!” and “Windy City” (two nominations); Joel Hatch, “Windy City”; Robert D. Mammana, “Sugar,” Apple Tree; Scott Mikita, “Phantom of the Country Palace.”
Actress in a revue: Seraiah Carol and Michelle Duffy, both for “Blues in the Night”; Jackie Hoffman, “Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Mellow?”; Jenna Jolovitz and Nia Vardalos, both for “Whitewater for Chocolate.”
Actor in a revue: Scott Adsit and Jimmy Doyle, both for “Whitewater for Chocolate”; Steven Carell, “Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Mellow?”; Michael Smith, “Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate”; John Thies, “Information Highway to Hell.”
Ensemble: “Dogtown,” Eclipse Theatre; “The Master and Margarita,” Lookingglass Theatre Company; “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”; “Pill Hill,” Chicago Theater Company; “Whitewater for Chocolate.”
Set design: Loy Arcenas, “Night of the Iguana”; Scott Bradley, “Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”; Linda Buchanan, “Dancing at Lughnasa”; Russell Metheny, “Richard II,” Goodman; Michael Philippi, “Underground,” National Jewish Theater.
Costume design: Virgil Johnson, “Importance of Being Earnest” and “A Little Night Music” (two nominations); Karin Kopischke, “The Tale of Cymbeline,” Shakespeare Repertory; Nancy Missimi, “42nd Street”; Nan Zabriskie, “Taming of the Shrew.”
Lighting design: John Culbert, “The Triumph of Love”; T.J. Gerckens, “Tale of Cymbeline”; James F. Ingalls, “Night of the Iguana” and “Richard II” (two nominations); Rita Pietraszek, “Dancing at Lughnasa.”
Sound design: Michael Bodeen, “Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” and “The Ties That Bind” (two nominations); Bodeen again, with Rob Milburn, “I Am a Man,” Goodman; Joe Cerqua, “An Uncertain Hour,” Bailiwick Repertory; the “Dogs” ensemble, “Dogtown”; Robert Neuhaus, “Messiah”; Richard Woodbury and Jeff Muscovin, “Night of the Iguana.”
New work/adaptation: Cheri Coons, Michael Duff, Sean Grennan and Kathy Santen, “Phantom of the Country Palace”; Nicholas A. Patricca, “An Uncertain Hour”; Joe Plummer and Jaye Stewart, “Get Ready”; Keith Reddin, “Brutality of Fact”; Michael Smith and Peter Glazer, “Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate”; Mary Zimmerman, “Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.”
Original music: Charles Berigan, “Triumph of Love”; Olu Dara, “I Am a Man”; Michael Smith, “Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate”; Miriam Sturm and Michael Bodeen, “Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”; Sturm and Rob Milburn, “Richard II.”
Choreography: Rudy Hogenmiller and James Harms, “Mame”; Kenny Ingram, “42nd Street”; Maria Lampert, “Sugar” and “Zorba” (two nominations); Nancy Teinowitz, “West Side Story.”
Musical direction: Tom Murray, “West Side Story”; Malcolm Ruhl, “Blues in the Night”; William Schwarz, “Evelyn and the Polka King,” Steppenwolf Theatre; Tom Sivak, “City of Angels”; Bradley Vieth, “A Little Night Music.”
