GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics kicked off Pride Month on June 1 by announcing the group’s fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards. Voted on by GALECA’s theater wing, the awards recognize excellence on Broadway and Off-Broadway in productions that range in subject matter, including but not limited to LGBTQ+ stories.
“Schmigadoon!” claimed Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding Book of a Musical for writer Cinco Paul. “The Balusters” and “Giant” tied for Outstanding Broadway Play. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, secured Outstanding Broadway Play Revival. “Ragtime” took home the trophy for Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival.
David Lindsay-Abaire won Outstanding Script of a Broadway Play for “The Balusters” while “Giant” star John Lithgow took home Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play.
In addition to its win in the musical revival category, “Ragtime” topped the Broadway field with victories for Outstanding Broadway Ensemble and Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical for Joshua Henry. The production led Broadway’s winners with three wins.
“The Rocky Horror Show,” helmed by Sam Pinkleton, was awarded Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production, an honor recognizing theatrical work that spotlights LGBTQ stories and themes.
Voters also recognized past Off-Broadway productions making their marks on Broadway. Though “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” and “Titaníque” were ineligible for top production categories after winning Outstanding Off-Broadway Production in prior seasons, their Broadway runs received other accolades: “Titaníque” featured actor Layton Williams, new to the Main Stem production, won Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical. “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” received The Broadway Showstopper Award for the musical number “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat,” a vogueing performance led by Emma Sofia.
Special honors focused heavily on major community figures and activists. Qween Jean was named LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season for her costume design work on “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Liberation,” “Saturday Church,” “Angry Alan” and “Oh Happy Day!” Junior LaBeija, who currently plays Gus the Theatre Cat in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” received the LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award for his lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.
A full list of winners can be found below, in bold and preceded by an asterisk.
Outstanding Broadway Musical
“The Lost Boys”
*“Schmigadoon!”
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”
Outstanding Broadway Play
*“The Balusters”
*“Giant”
“Little Bear Ridge Road”
“Punch”
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
“Chess”
*“Ragtime”
“Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show”
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
*“Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
“Becky Shaw”
“Fallen Angels”
“Marjorie Prime”
“Oedipus”
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
“Little Bear Ridge Road”
*“The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
“The Lost Boys”
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Sara Chase (“Schmigadoon!”)
Kristin Chenoweth (“The Queen of Versailles”)
Nicholas Christopher (“Chess”)
Luke Evans (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
*Joshua Henry (“Ragtime”)
Stephanie Hsu (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
Caissie Levy (“Ragtime”)
Sam Tutty (“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”)
Brandon Uranowitz (“Ragtime”)
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Rose Byrne (“Fallen Angels”)
Carrie Coon (“Bug”)
Will Harrison (“Punch”)
Nathan Lane (“Death of a Salesman”)
*John Lithgow (“Giant”)
Lesley Manville (“Oedipus”)
Laurie Metcalf (“Little Bear Ridge Road”)
Kelli O'Hara (“Fallen Angels”)
Daniel Radcliffe (“Every Brilliant Thing”)
Mark Strong (“Oedipus”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Melissa Barrera (“Titaníque”)
Shoshana Bean (“The Lost Boys”)
Ali Louis Bourzgui (“The Lost Boys”)
Max Clayton (“Schmigadoon!”)
Rachel Dratch (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
Ana Gasteyer (“Schmigadoon!”)
Leiomy (“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”)
Ben Levi Ross (“Ragtime”)
Benjamin Pajak (“The Lost Boys”)
*Layton Williams (“Titaníque”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play
Christopher Abbott (“Death of a Salesman”)
Marylouise Burke (“The Balusters”)
Danny Burstein (“Marjorie Prime”)
*Alden Ehrenreich (“Becky Shaw”)
Linda Emond (“Becky Shaw”)
Jessica Hecht (“Dog Day Afternoon”)
Laurie Metcalf (“Death of a Salesman”)
Cynthia Nixon (“Marjorie Prime”)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (“Joe Turner's Come and Gone”)
June Squibb (“Marjorie Prime”)
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
“Death of a Salesman”
“The Balusters”
*“Ragtime”
“The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
Outstanding Original Score of a Broadway Production
“Death of a Salesman” by Caroline Shaw
*“The Lost Boys” by The Rescues
“Schmigadoon!” by Cinco Paul
“The Queen of Versailles” by Stephen Schwartz
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” by Jim Barne & Kit Buchan
Outstanding Book of a Broadway Musical
“The Lost Boys” by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch
*“Schmigadoon!” by Cinco Paul
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” by Jim Barne & Kit Buchan
Outstanding Script of a Broadway Play
*“The Balusters” by David Lindsay-Abaire
“Giant” by Mark Rosenblatt
“Little Bear Ridge Road” by Samuel D. Hunter
“Punch” by James Graham
Outstanding Design of a Broadway Production
“Bug”
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
*“The Lost Boys”
“The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
The Broadway Showstopper Award
(To a standout production number or scene)
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Memory” (“Tempress” Chasity Moore)
*“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” (Emma Sofia)
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Songs of the Jellicles and the Jellicle Ball” (company)
“Chess” — “Anthem” (Nicholas Christopher)
“Titaníque” — “River Deep, Mountain High” (Layton Williams)
Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
“Beau: The Musical”
“The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse”
*“Mexodus”
“Saturday Church”
“The Seat of Our Pants”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
“Are the Bennett Girls Ok?”
“Bowl EP”
“Cold War Choir Practice”
“Meet the Cartozians”
*“Prince F*ggot”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Revival
“Bat Boy”
*“Heathers” (tie)
“Oratorio for Living Things”
“Twelfth Night” (Shakespeare in the Park)
*“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (tie)
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
“Beau”
“Becoming Eve”
“Bowl EP”
*“Prince F*ggot”
“Saturday Church”
“ta-da!”
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Bryson Battle (“Saturday Church”)
*Quincy Tyler Bernstine (“Well, I’ll Let You Go”) (tie)
Alana Raquel Bowers (“Cold War Choir Practice”)
Will Brill (“Kramer/Fauci”)
Tommy Dorfman (“Becoming Eve”)
David Greenspan (“I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan”)
Ryan J. Haddad (“Hold Me in the Water”)
Marin Ireland (“Queens”)
*John McCrea (“Prince F*ggot”) (tie)
Matt Rodin (“Beau”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Caroline Aaron (“The Reservoir”)
Sierra Boggess (“Prosperous Fools”)
Justin Cooley (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”)
K. Todd Freeman (“Prince F*ggot”)
*J. Harrison Ghee (“Saturday Church”)
*David Greenspan (“Prince F*ggot”)
Judy Kuhn (“The Baker’s Wife”)
McKenzie Kurtz (“Heathers”)
Casey Likes (“Heathers”)
Deirdre O’Connell (“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.”)
Jasmine Amy Rogers (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”)
David Turner (“Mother Russia”)
Outstanding Writing for an Off-Broadway Production
“Becoming Eve” by Emil Weinstein
“Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan
“Caroline” by Preston Max Allen
“Cold War Choir Practice” by Ro Reddick
“Practice” by Nazareth Hassan
*“Prince F*ggot” by Jordan Tannahill
Outstanding Design for an Off-Broadway Production
“Beau”
“Bowl EP”
“Cold War Choir Practice”
*“Masquerade”
“Prince F*ggot”
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
Michael Arden
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Luke Evans
*Qween Jean
Constantine Rousouli
Brandon Uranowitz
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer
(For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity)
Michael Arden
*Junior LaBeija
Nathan Lane
Joe Mantello
Sam Pinkleton
Shows with Multiple Wins
6 — “Prince F*ggot”
3 — “Ragtime”
2 — “The Balusters”
2 — “Giant”
2 — “The Lost Boys”
2 — “Schmigadoon!”
