Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 21, 2006.
| Outstanding Play | The History Boys |
| Outstanding Musical | The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Outstanding Musical Revival | Sweeney Todd |
| Outstanding Play Revival | Awake and Sing! |
| Best Actor in a Play | Richard Griffiths, The History Boys |
| Best Actress in a Play | Lois Smith, The Trip to Bountiful |
| Best Featured Actor in a Play | Samuel Barnett, The History Boys |
| Best Featured Actress in a Play | Frances de la Tour, The History Boys |
| Best Actor in a Musical | John Lloyd Young. Jersey Boys |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens |
| Best Featured Actor in a Musical | Jim Dale, The Threepenny Opera |
| Best Featured Actress in a Musical | Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Best Director of a Play | Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys |
| Best Director of a Musical | John Doyle, Sweeney Todd |
| Best Choreography | Kathleen Marshall, The Pajama Game |
| Best Book of a Musical | Bob Martin and Don McKellar, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Best Music | Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Best Lyrics | Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Sarah Travis, Sweeney Todd |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Michael Yeargan, Awake and Sing! |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Musical | David Gallo, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Gregg Barnes, The Drowsy Chaperone |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard G. Jones, Sweeney Todd |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Steve Canyon Kennedy, Jersey Boys |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Antony Sher, Primo |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Christine Jorgensen Reveals |
| Outstanding Ensemble Performances | Cast of Stuff Happensand cast of Awake and Sing! |
| Lifetime Achievement | Horton Foote for his bountiful body of work that sensitively explores the human condition. |
| Special Awards | BMI—Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop for nurturing, developing and promoting new talent for the musical theater. |
| The York Theatre Company for its vital contributions to theater by developing and presenting new musicals. | |
| Sh-K-Boom and its label Ghostlight Records for dedication to the preservation of musical theater through cast recordings. |
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