52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards Announced

ASCAP members were among the winners of the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Established in 1955, the Awards recognize shows produced off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, in legitimate not-for-profit theaters, in addition to Broadway productions.

ASCAP congratulates our winners and nominees.

The winners are bolded in red below.

OUTSTANDING MUSIC
Peter Melnick - Adrift in Macao
Lin-Manuel Miranda - In the Heights
Laurence O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin - Legally Blonde

OUTSTANDING LYRICS
Lin-Manuel Miranda - In the Heights
Laurence O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin - Legally Blonde
Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman - Fame Becomes Me

OUTSTANDING MUSIC FOR A PLAY
Adam Rapp - Essential Self-Defense
David Van Tieghem - Inherit the Wind

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
William David Brohn - Curtains
Jonathan Tunick - The Apple Tree
Jonathan Tunick - LoveMusik

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
In The Heights
Legally Blonde
LoveMusik

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
110 In The Shade
Company
Les Miserables

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Rupert Holmes - Curtains