The set of "The Connector," which received seven nominations
‘Stereophonic,’ ‘Dead Outlaw,’ ‘The Connector’ Lead 2024 Outer Critics Circle Nominations
By Anna Breuer on 25 April 2024
The 2024 Outer Critics Circle award nominations were announced Tuesday, and for the first time ever, the event took place at the Museum of Broadway.
The nominees were announced by the stars of the Stephen Sondheim musical, “Merrily We Roll Along,” Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez.
“Stereophonic,” a new play that follows a fictional 1970s rock band on the cusp of superstardom as they struggle through recording their new album, led in garnering the most nominations of any Broadway production including Outstanding New Broadway Play and Outstanding Featured Performer in a New Broadway Play.
The stars of the Stephen Sondheim musical, “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, and Daniel Radcliffe, who announced the nominees
“Dead Outlaw,” an off-Broadway musical inspired by the life of American outlaw Elmer J. McCurdy, received nine nominations, while “The Connector,” an off-Broadway play that follows the rise and fall of an ambitious journalist, Ethan Dobson, and the career of an assistant copy editor, Robin Martinez, at the vaunted fictional magazine, The Connector, received seven.
Productions nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Musical include “Cabaret,” “Here Lies Love,” “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” and “The Who’s Tommy,” while those nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Play include “An Enemy of the People,” “Appropriate,” “Doubt: A Parable,” “Mary Jane,” “Philadelphia, Here I Come!”, and “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch.”
The original 1966 set from “Cabaret” in the Museum of Broadway
Winners will be announced on May 13, 2024, and the awards will be presented on May 23 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
The Outer Critics Circle is an organization of writers covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media beyond Broadway.
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