LoveMusik Nominated In Every Drama Desk Design Category

The 52nd Drama Desk Award nominations were announced today, with the new musical, LoveMusik, garnering the most nominations—a total of 12—including every appropriate design category. Close behind is The Coast of Utopia with 10 nominations, including all design categories for a play. The Drama Desk Awards will be presented on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 9:00pm, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, 100 Amsterdam Avenue.

Live Design Honors Award recipient Harold Prince was nominated as Outstanding Director of a Musical for LoveMusik.

Outstanding Set Design of a Play:

Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, The Coast of Utopia
David Gallo, Radio Golf
David Korins, Essential Self-Defense
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
Garin Marschall, Hell House
Scott Pask, Blackbird

Outstanding Set Design of a Musical:

Beowulf Boritt, LoveMusik
Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins
Anna Louizos, Curtains
Anna Louizos, In the Heights
David Rockwell, Legally Blonde
Kris Stone, Brundibar/But the Giraffe

Outstanding Costume Design:

Mara Blumenfeld, Lookingglass Alice
Judith Dolan, LoveMusik
William Ivey Long, Curtains
Santo Loquasto, Suddenly Last Summer
Robert Morgan, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia

Outstanding Lighting Design:
Howell Binkley LoveMusik
Maruti Evans, Blindness
Paul Gallo, Blackbird
Mark Jonathan, Prometheus Bound
Kenneth Posner, Brian MacDevitt, Natasha Katz, The Coast of Utopia
Japhy Weideman, Jack Goes Boating

Outstanding Sound Design:

Acme Sound Partners, In the Heights
Mark Bennett, The Coast of Utopia
Gregory Clarke, Journey's End
Duncan Robert Edwards, LoveMusik
Frank Gaeta, Dai (enough)
Richard Woodbury, Talk Radio

More information on the 2007 Drama Desk Award nominations can be found here.