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James Corden, who won for best actor in the play, beating out Philip Seyour Hoffman (“Death of a Salesman”) told us “it’s ridiculous really to be on a list with such incredible people, so I’m absolutely thrilled. It’s lovely,” he said, to be recognized by the critics. “I’m from a small town outside London, so to be recognized in such a way is almost too much for me to take in.”

Our favorite actor on the awards circuit is Tracie Bennett, who won a Drama Desk Award for best actress in a play for her portrayal of Judy Garland in her later life. Probably no one is having more fun this awards season than the bubbly, English actress, who looked terrific in a Rubin Singer lime, tulle strapless gown and silvery platform heels that hurt her so much her publicist said she wanted to sit during the interview. She’s now performed as Judy Garland for a year and half, after a run in the London’s West End, three months on tour and then over a month at the Guthrie before heading to Broadway. Does she ever find it hard to leave her character?

“No, not at all,” she said. “It is when you’re rehearsing, when you’re a bit obsessed, you know, with your homework. But you have to learn to take that wig off and get on with it otherwise you’d go schizophrenic wouldn’t you?” she said. “You’d go a bit mad. I’ve seen people do it. But when the wig comes off straight back to Tracie.” And then the down-to-earth actress, who looked like she was having a ball, moved on to her next interview.

The Tonys are June 10 at the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The complete list of winners (asterisk) and nominees are below:

OUTSTANDING PLAY

David Henry Hwang, Chinglish

Dan LeFranc, The Big Meal:

Members of the Plastic Theatre, Unnatural Acts

Itamar Moses, Completeness

Lynn Nottage, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

*Nina Raine, Tribes

Nicky Silver, The Lyons:

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL

Bonnie & Clyde

Death Takes a Holiday

Leap of Faith

Newsies The Musical

Nice Work If You Can Get It

*Once

Queen of the Mist

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

A Little Journey

*Death of a Salesman

Edward Albee’s "The Lady from Dubuque

Gore Vidal’s The Best Man

Lost in Yonkers

Richard III

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

Carrie

Evita

*Follies

Jesus Christ Superstar

"The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

The Threepenny Opera

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

*James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Hugh Dancy, Venus in Fur

Claybourne Elder, One Arm

Santino Fontana, Sons of the Prophet

Joseph Franchini, The Navigator

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Death of a Salesman

Kevin Spacey, Richard III

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

*Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow

Sanaa Lathan, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Linda Lavin, The Lyons

Jennifer Lim, Chinglish

Kim Martin-Cotten, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Carey Mulligan, Through a Glass Darkly

Joely Richardson, Side Effects

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

*Danny Burstein, Follies

Kevin Earley, Death Takes a Holiday

Raúl Esparza, Leap of Faith

Jeremy Jordan, Newsies The Musical

Norm Lewis, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Ricky Martin, Evita

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Miche Braden, The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith

Jan Maxwell, Follies

*Audra McDonald, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Kelli O'Hara, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Bernadette Peters, Follies

Molly Ranson, Carrie

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Bill Camp, Death of a Salesman

Jim Dale, The Road to Mecca

*Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Bill Irwin, King Lear

Jefferson Mays, Blood and Gifts

Will Rogers, Unnatural Acts

Morgan Spector, Russian Transport

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Stephanie J. Block, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Anna Camp, All New People

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Lisa Joyce, The Ugly One

Joaquina Kalukango, Hurt Village

Angela Lansbury, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man

*Judith Light, Other Desert Cities

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Matt Cavenaugh, Death Takes a Holiday

Michael Cerveris, Evita

*Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Patrick Page, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

Andrew Samonsky, Queen of the Mist

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