Outer Critics Circle Award Winners – Broadway’s Best and More!
The stars came out to Sardi’s to accept their Awards from the Outer Critics Circle 67th Annual Award Gala on May 25 . . . they already knew they were winners so the pressure was off!
Over a delicious luncheon the journalists, critics, writers, press agents and guests mixed and mingled including: Bette Midler, Jerry Zaks, Warren Carlyle, Rebecca Taichman, Todd Haimes, David Yazbek, Itamar Moses, Bradley King, Mimi Lien, Christopher Ashley, Laura Linney, Catherine Zuber, Irene Sankoff & David Hein, Cynthia Nixon, Laura Linney, Bess Wohl, Larry Hochman, Ian Eisendrath, Steven Levenson, JT Rogers and many more!
Presenters included: Christopher Fitzgerald, Katie Finneran and Danny Burstein. Always a warm and delightful event that featured a Red Carpet and some really funny acceptance speeches, especially from the Divine Miss M!
Watch Bette Midler and the team behind HELLO, DOLLY! accept their awards
Sandi Durell is Publisher/Editor of www.theaterpizzazz.com/
and has been writing, reviewing, producing, having a voice in the theater, cabaret and entertainment communities for over 25+ years. She is a Voting Member of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards; member of the American Theatre Critics Association.
Sandi is a producer of Broadway & Hollywood Live! Revues (www.ShaRellProductions.com); has produced numerous Songwriter Events for the American Popular Song Society (APSS – formerly New York Sheet Music Society on which she is a Board member); the benefit CD “Our Heart Sings;” is a producer on the Award winning film “Broadway the Golden Age” (with Rick McKay) and has produced a variety of entertainment events for most of her career.
She is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU – Advisory Board),100+ year old Dutch Treat Club, The Lambs; an occasional theater “angel” and has had a career as a vocalist-performer.
Her column can also be found at www.theaterlife.com