--Hello everyone thank you for joining us my name is Paul Wontorek. I'm the
editor-in-chief of Broadway.com, and we are here to announce the nominees
for the 19th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the only major
theater award chosen by you, the fans! To make our announcement today people more
exciting than me, two of our favorites, and yours, who both won Broadway.com
Audience Choice Awards in 2009. She West Side Story, he for Next to Normal
Please welcome, oh I forgot to tell you the best part of all, they are now going
to star in Moulin Rouge the musical. I know you're all dying to see it and so
are we. So please welcome Karen Olivo and Aaron
Tveit
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--Hi y'all --Hello
--Was like two months ago?
--No --Oh, right it was nine years ago
cool. All right let's start us off with favorite leading actress in a
musical Erika Henningsen Mean Girls Hayley Kilgore Once on this Island Caissie
Levy Frozen Taylor Louderman Mean Girls Patti Maurin Frozen
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--Favorite leading
actor in a play Andrew Garfield Angels in America Joshua Jackson Children of a
Lesser God John Leguizamo Latin history for Morons
Jamie Parker Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Denzel Washington The Iceman
Cometh
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--Favorite musical revival Carousel My Fair Lady
Once on this Island
--Favorite on stage pair Jelani Alladin and Patti Murin
frozen Anthony Boyle and San Clemmett Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Lilli
Cooper and Ethan Slater Spongebob Squarepants, Grey Henson and Barrett
Wilbert Weed Mean Girls Caissie Levy and Patti Murin Frozen
--Favorite Featured Actress in a play Laura Benanti Meteor Shower
Noma Dumezweni Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Poppy Miller Harry
Potter and the Cursed Child Philippa Soo the Parisian Woman Olivia Wilde 1984 hmm
Cursed Child --Did I say cursed, too?
--I said cursed. Cursed Child.
-- I think I might have
said cursed -- I think cursed sounds fancy
But it's not right --It does, but that's not right cool
Favorite featured actor in a play Anthony Boyle Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child, Michael Cera Lobby Hero Sam Clemmett Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child Chris Evans Lobby hero Nathan Lane Angels in America
--Favorite tour: The Book
of Mormon Hamilton Les Miserables Waitress Wicked
--Favorite diva performance Ariana
DuBose Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Caissis Levy Frozen Taylor Louderman Mean
Girls Alex Newell Once on this Island Lea Salonga Once on this Island
--Favorite
play revival Angels in America, Children of a Lesser God, Lobby Hero, M. Butterfly
Three Tall Women
--Favorite breakthrough performance male
Jelani Aladdin Frozen Anthony Boyle
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Grey Henson Mean Girls Alex Newell Once on
this Island Ethan Slater SpongeBob SquarePants
--Favorite breakthrough performance female Noma Dumezweni Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child Erika Henningsen Mean Girls
Jai'len Christine Li Josey SpongeBob
SquarePants Hailey Kilgore Once on this Island
Britney Pollack Carousel
--Favorite leading actress in a play Glenda Jackson
Three Tall Women, Condola Rashad Saint Joan Lauren Ridloff Children of a Lesser
God Amy Schumer Meteor Shower Uma Thurman The Parisian Woman
--Favorite
leading actor in a musical Harry Hayden Patton My Fair Lady Joshua
Henry Carousel Paul Alexander Nolan Escape to Margaritaville Tony Shalhoub
The Band's Visit Ethan Slater SpongeBob SquarePants
--Favorite new play 1984, The Children, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Meteor
Shower, The Parisian Woman
--Favorite replacement, female Phoenix Best Dear
Evan Hansen, Kara Lindsey Beautiful the Carole King Musical Katharine Mcphee
Waitress Bernadette Peters Hello, Dolly! Betsey Wolfe Waitress
--Favorite
replacement male Daniel Breaker Hamilton Noah Galvin Dear Evan Hansen Norm Lewis
Once on this Island Taylor Trensch Dear Evan Hansen Brendon
Urie Kinky Boots
--Favorite long-running show Anastasia Dear Evan Hansen Hamilton Waitress
--Favorite Featured Actress in a musical Kerry Butler Mean Girls Lilli Cooper
SpongeBob SquarePants Ashley Park Mean Girls Lea Salonga Once
on this Island Barrett Wilbert Weed Mean Girls
--Favourite featured actor in a musical Jelani Alladin Frozen Norbert Leo Butz My
Fair Lady Grey Henson Mean Girls Gavin Lee SpongeBob SquarePants
Alex Newell Once on this Island
--Favorite funny performance Laura Benanti
Meteor Shower Anthony Boyle Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Kerry Butler Mean
Girls Grey Henson Mean Girls Barrett Wilbert Weed Mean Girls
--Favorite
new song Bikini Bottom Day from SpongeBob SquarePants
Hero Is My Middle Name from SpongeBob SquarePants Just a Simple Sponge from
SpongeBob SquarePants I'd Rather Be Me from Mean Girls Monster from Frozen
--Favorite new musical The Band's Visit Frozen Mean Girls Prince of Broadway
SpongeBob SquarePants
--Congratulations to all this year's nominees. To vote for winners, visit
Broadway.com and cast your ballot beginning right now Monday May 14th
at 11:59 p.m. until then.
--Please come and see us in Moulin Rouge the Musical at
the historic Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston from June 27th through August 5th.
--That's right. This summer. Boston. Check us out.