Presenters included , , , and .
As previously reported, the new musical won four awards, the most of any production of the season. The musical comedy was honored with prizes for Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding Book of a Musical (), Outstanding Director of a Musical () and Outstanding Actor in a Musical ().
, the new musical based on the film of the same name, and the critically acclaimed revival of ' each won three awards apiece. Based on recommendations by the OCC Executive Committee, a Special Achievement Award will be given to animal rescuer, trainer and coach of Bill Berloni Theatrical Animals in recognition of this season's outstanding performances by his dogs in , The Open House, , Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day as well as for the 300 dogs he has found in homeless shelters and made into theatre stars over his career.
Celebrating its 64th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theatre, the Outer Critics Circle is an association with members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.
Winners of the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards follow (winners names are in bold preceded by an asterisk):
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
*
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
*A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Appropriate
Choir Boy
*The Explorer's Club
The Heir Apparent
Stage Kiss
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Far From Heaven
*Fun Home
Murder For Two
Storyville
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Musical
Fun Home
*Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Rocky
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Aladdin
* -
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
If/Then
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
*The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
*
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
*, Twelfth Night
, The Cripple of Inishmaan
, The Winslow Boy
, All The Way
, Machinal
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
, After Midnight
and James Powell, Les Misérables
, Fun Home
, Rocky
*Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
*Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
and , Rocky
, Aladdin
, Bullets Over Broadway
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
*Christopher Barreca, Rocky
, Act One
, Aladdin
Es Devlin, Machinal
, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
, Aladdin
, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
*, Bullets Over Broadway
Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night
, After Midnight
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
*, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
, After Midnight
, Les Misérables
, Aladdin
Philip S. Rosenberg, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
*, All The Way
, No Man’s Land
BrÃan F. O’Byrne, Outside Mullingar
, Twelfth Night
, Act One
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
,
, Machinal
, Stage Kiss
*, The Glass Menagerie
, The Velocity of Autumn
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
, Fun Home
, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
, Rocky
*Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
, Violet
*, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Kelli O’Hara, The Bridges of Madison County
, Cabaret
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
, Twelfth Night
Michael Cyril Creighton, Stage Kiss
, All The Way
, The Winslow Boy
*, The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY (Tie Vote)
,
*Andrea Martin, Act One
,
, A in the Sun
*, Casa Valentina
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
, Cabaret
*, Bullets Over Broadway
, Violet
, Aladdin
, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
, Fun Home
, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
, Fun Home
*, Bullets Over Broadway
Lisa O’Hare, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
, Character Man
, Becoming Dr. Ruth
, How I Learned What I Learned
, Arlington
*, Satchmo at the Waldorf
AWARD (Triple Tie Vote)
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Scott Z. Burns, The Library
*Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster
*Madeleine George, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
*Steven Levenson, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
Lauren Yee, The Hatmaker’s Wife
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
*Bill Berloni
*
Winners talley for two or more awards: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, 4; Bullets Over Broadway, 3; The Glass Menagerie, 3; All the Way, 2; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2.
The 2013-14 Outer Critics Circle Executive/Nominating Committee comprised Simon Saltzman (President), (Vice-President), Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary), L. Cohen (Treasurer), Glenn Loney (Historian & Member-at-Large), Rosalind Friedman (Recording Secretary) and Aubrey Reuben and Harry Haun (Members-at-Large).
