Drama Desk Award Nominees

Nominations for the annual Drama Desk awards were announced Monday and some of the nominees have a soap past (see those categories below). Theh Drama Desks are unique in that Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway compete in the same categories. Outstanding Actor in a Play: Bill Champion, Intimate Exchanges Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac (ex-Woody, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW) Bill Pullman, Peter and Jerry Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing Tobias Segal, From Up Here Rufus Sewell, Rock 'n' Roll Outstanding Actor in a Musical: Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange André De Shields, Black Nativity (ex-Marshall, ANOTHER WORLD) Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu Matthew Morrison, 10 Million Miles (ex-Adam, AS THE WORLD TURNS) Paulo Szot, South Pacific Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Sierra Boggess, The Little Mermaid Patti LuPone, Gypsy Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific (ex-Leslie, ALL MY CHILDREN) Faith Prince, A Catered Affair (ex-Diane, LOVING) Alice Ripley, Next to Normal Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: John Cullum, The Conscientious Objector (ex-Artie, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) Conleth Hill, The Seafarer Francis Jue, Yellow Face Arian Moayed, Masked Jeff Perry, August: Osage County Michael T. Weiss, Scarcity (ex-Mike, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Elizabeth Ashley, Dividing the Estate (ex-Emma, ANOTHER WORLD) Johanna Day, Peter and Jerry (ex-Marilyn, ALL MY CHILDREN) Zoe Kazan, 100 Saints You Should Know Linda Lavin, The New Century Rondi Reed, August: Osage County Marisa Tomei, Top Girls (ex-Marcy, AS THE WORLD TURNS) Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Danny Burstein, South Pacific Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein Boyd Gaines, Gypsy Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein Bobby Steggert, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (ex-Samual, ALL MY CHILDREN) Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair

Ripa and Consuelos join TLC

TLC will strengthen its programming roster with a pair of celebrity hubby-wife teams. Former ALL MY CHILDREN co-stars Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos have joined the TLC team to develop a number of scripted series, one of which will star Ripa. The TLC announcements came at Discovery Communications’ upfront presentation to advertisers here Wednesday afternoon a Jazz at Lincoln Center.

InTurn Season 3 Episode #4 The Second Callback

It's the dreaded Callback time again, and the InTurns file in to face their doom. Tensions mount in the callback room when Chris Goutman gives the group his signature review.