2010-2011 nominations award announcement — April 29, 2011 (press111)
This is the nominations issued for the 2010-2011 season, dated April 29, 2011. It is held at its original address because other sites cite it directly. The entries themselves are not repeated here — they are on the awards index, so there is one place to correct if anything in them turns out to be wrong.
Six headings were carried that season, with 29 nominated entries standing behind six awards. Five of the six hold exactly six entries each, one award and five nominations; sound design of a musical holds five, and is the only uneven heading on the season.
Sound design runs here as two headings, one for musicals and one for plays, while lighting and set design each run undivided. Two seasons earlier it was the other way round, with lighting divided and sound whole. The splits arrived craft by craft rather than all at once.
Two of the six awards are shared credits rather than single names: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner take costume design together, and Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers take sound design of a play. A heading naming two designers is recording collaboration, not a tie.
No heading appears for the first time this season, and no individual is honoured or nominated more than once. Against the seasons either side of it, the field is unusually flat: six headings, six awards, and no name repeating anywhere on it.
Of the 33 people and firms named across the season, 21 appear in at least one other season held here. Kathleen Marshall's choreography award is the third she takes on this record, after the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 seasons.
Two further announcements covering this same season are held at their own addresses on this site. They are separate documents rather than copies, which is why each keeps the address other sites cited rather than being folded into one page.
By production rather than by name, the season is far less flat: Anything Goes takes half the six awards outright — choreography to Kathleen Marshall, set design to Derek McLane, and sound design of a musical to Brian Ronan — with Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo taking two more. Only one of the season's six awards, costume design, goes to a production that wins nothing else.
The Book of Mormon leads the nominated field with three nods in the craft categories this record tracks — choreography, costume design and sound design of a musical — without converting any of them into a win. All six of the season's actual awards go to other productions, Anything Goes and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo chief among them.
Nineteen of the season's twenty-nine distinct nominees, beyond the winners already covered, recur in at least one other season held here. The Book of Mormon's three nominations, the widest field any production reaches this season, converts none of them — the same pattern as 9 to 5's five nominations two seasons earlier.
Every entry recorded for the 2010-2011 season is cross-checked against a published external source, the same standard this record applies to every season from the mid-1970s onward, this one included. That standard applies whether the surviving material makes the check easy or not — a season with fewer sources gets recorded as archive-only rather than exempted from the requirement altogether. The distinction is stated plainly rather than left implicit.
That standard holds here exactly as it does everywhere else on the record.
Outstanding Set Design is one of 3 design and art-direction headings carried this season. The design categories in full →
Questions about this announcement
What did the April 2011 announcement cover?
The nominations for the 2010-2011 season, issued on 29 April 2011. Six design and craft headings were carried, with 29 nominated entries behind six awards. Two other announcements covering the same season are held separately on this site, each at the address other sites cited.
Why is sound design split in two but lighting is not?
Because the headings divided craft by craft rather than together. This season sound design runs as two awards, one for musicals and one for plays, while lighting and set design each run as a single heading. Two seasons earlier lighting was the divided one instead.
Which heading has fewer entries than the others?
Sound design of a musical, with five entries where the other five headings each carry six. It is the only uneven heading on the season. Nothing in the surviving record explains it; a shorter field is simply what was announced for that one award.
Why do two awards name two people each?
Because the work was credited jointly. Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner share the costume design award, and Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers share sound design of a play. Both are single awards with two credited designers, not two awards and not a tie between rivals.
Is this Kathleen Marshall's first choreography award on this record?
No — it is her third. She also won the heading for the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 seasons, and this 2010-2011 win is one of seven appearances she makes under choreography across the whole record, a span running from 1995-1996 to 2019-2020, three of them awards and four nominations.