‘Woods,’ ‘Phantom,’ ‘Anything’ Top N.Y. Drama Desk Nominations

“Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim’s collection of fairy tales without fairy-tale endings, topped the musical division with 13 nominations Sunday in the Drama Desk picks for the best of this season’s New York theater.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” and the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” each received 11 nominations from the seven-member committee of the organization of drama critics, editors and reporters.

“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” August Wilson’s look at black life in the early part of the century, topped nominations in the play category with seven.

The awards will be announced May 25 and presented June 2.

For outstanding new play, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” “M. Butterfly” by David Henry Hwang and “Speed-the-Plow” by David Mamet were nominated from Broadway and “Boys’ Life” by Howard Korder, “The Road to Mecca” by Athol Fugard and “Woman in Mind” by Alan Ayckbourn were nominated from off-Broadway.

Actors nominated from musicals were David Carroll for “Chess,” Michael Crawford for “Phantom,” Joel Grey for “Cabaret,” Howard McGillin for “Anything Goes” and George Merritt for the off-Broadway “Lost in the Stars.”

Musical actresses nominated were Sarah Brightman of “Phantom,” Judy Kuhn of “Chess,” Patti LuPone of “Anything Goes,” and Bernadette Peters of “Into the Woods.”

Actors nominated were Derek Jacobi for “Breaking the Code,” Delroy Lindo for “Joe Turner,” John Lithgow for “M. Butterfly,” John Malkovich for “Burn This” and Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver for “Speed-the-Plow,” all Broadway performances.

All the actresses nominated, except Glenda Jackson for her role as Lady Macbeth, were for off-Broadway performances. Other nominees were Kathy Bates for “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” Stockard Channing for “Woman in Mind,” Amy Irving for “Road to Mecca,” E. Katherine Kerr for “Laughing Wild” and Gordana Rashovich for “A Shayna Maidel.”