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Our theater critics dreamt up their own theater award categories for the year, including a prize for the worst mom on Broadway.
This week, both the Drama Desk Awards and the Tonys dropped their nominees, with the Alicia Keys bio-musical Hell’s Kitchen and Fleetwood Mac–inspired Stereophonic leading the list for the latter — each of those shows has 13 nominations, while The Outsiders comes in close behind with 12. It’s a crowded field: Sarah Paulson in Appropriate, Jessica Lange in Mother Play, Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!, Shoshana Bean in Hell’s Kitchen, Kelli O’Hara in Days of Wine and Roses … But the only reason I’m going with Illinoise instead of Dead Outlaw — a great show that was at the Minetta Lane Theatre until a couple weeks ago — is a technicality: Despite the fact that most of the story is based in and around Oklahoma, the one who does the wild, one-man Busby Berkeley dance I’m thinking of, Thom Sesma, is actually playing the L.A. County coroner.
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