Outstanding Music
John Kander, Curtains
Paul Leschen, Twist: Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?
Peter Melnick, Adrift in Macao
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde
Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening

Outstanding Lyrics
Fred Ebb with added lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes, Curtains
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde
Steven Sater, Spring Awakening
Bill Strauss, Elaina Newport and Mark Eaton, Capitol Steps
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Scott Brown and Anthony King, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Julian Fellowes, Mary Poppins
Heather Hach, Legally Blonde
Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone, Curtains
Steven Sater, Spring Awakening
Alfred Uhry, LoveMusik

Outstanding Music for a Play
Mark Bennett, The Coast of Utopia
Adam Cork, Frost/Nixon
Gerard McBurney, Oliver Twist
The Propeller Company
, The Taming of the Shrew
Ray Rizzo, Adam Rapp and Lucas Papaelias, Essential Self-Defense
David Van Tieghem, Inherit the Wind

Outstanding Orchestrations TIE
William David Brohn, Curtains
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Company
Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening
Jonathan Tunick, The Apple Tree
Jonathan Tunick, 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

Outstanding Solo Performance
Iris Bahr, Dai (enough)
Ed Harris, Wrecks
Capathia Jenkins, (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story
Anna Manahan, Sisters
Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking
Nilaja Sun, No Child…

Unique Theatrical Experience
Absinthe
Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise
Be
Brundibar/But the Giraffe
Edward Scissorhands
Hell House

The following awards were voted by the nominating committee and will be presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony:

Outstanding Ensemble Performances
The cast of In the Heights
The cast of Lebensraum

Special Awards
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater.

John Kander and Fred Ebb for 42 years of excellence in advancing the art of the musical theater

Austin Pendleton - actor, director, playwright, teacher - a Renaissance man of the American theater

Transport Group for its breadth of vision and its presentation of challenging productions.

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene for preserving for 92 consecutive seasons the cultural legacy of Yiddish speaking theater in America.

Shows With Multiple Wins
The Coast of Utopia 7 wins of 10 nominations
Spring Awakening 4 wins of 10 nominations
Journey's End 3 wins of 3 nominations
Company 3 wins of 5 nominations
LoveMusik 2 wins of 12 nominations
Mary Poppins 2 wins of 6 nominations
Curtains 2 wins of 10 nominations
In the Heights 2 wins of 9 nominations

Shows With Multiple Nominations
12 LoveMusik
10 The Coast of Utopia
10 Curtains
10 Legally Blonde
10 Spring Awakening
9 In the Heights
6 Mary Poppins
5 Company
4 Frost/Nixon
4 Jack Goes Boating
3 The Apple Tree
3 Blackbird
3 Essential Self-Defense
3 Inherit the Wind
3 Journey's End
3 Les Miserables
3 Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
3 Radio Golf
3 Talk Radio
2 The Accomplices
2 Adrift in Macao
2 Brundlbar/But the Giraffe
2 Coram Boy
2 Dai (enough)
2 Edward Scissorhands
2 Gutenberg! The Musical!
2 The Hairy Ape
2 Hell House
2 A Moon for the Misbegotten
2 110 in the Shade
2 Some Men
2 Suddenly Last Summer
2 The Taming of the Shrew
2 Woyzeck

Eligibility and Nominations
Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows that opened in the Drama Desk 2006/2007 year which the nominating committee was able to see by the cutoff deadline of April 22, 2007, were eligible for awards.