‘Spamalot’ leads with 14 Tony nominations

“Spamalot,” the musical comedy billed as “lovingly ripped off” from the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” won 14 Tony nominations Tuesday in the race for Broadway’s top honor. “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” another musical based on a film, and “The Light in the Piazza,” with a score by the grandson of Broadway great Richard Rodgers, each received 11 nominations.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on June 5.

“Doubt,” John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tale about suspected child abuse at a Catholic school in 1964, led in the nonmusical play categories with eight nominations, followed by Martin McDonough’s “The Pillowman” with six.

At the top of the revivals pack were Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” each with six nods.

Hollywood was well represented with James Earl Jones, Kathleen Turner, Alan Alda, John Lithgow, Billy Crudup, Hank Azaria, Mary-Louise Parker, Laura Linney, last-year Tony winner Phylicia Rashad and Christina Applegate receiving nominations.

In addition to Azaria, Tim Curry, Sara Ramirez, Michael McGrath and Christopher Sieber received acting nods for “Spamalot,” but David Hyde Pierce was overlooked.

San Diego’s Old Globe artistic director Jack O’Brien and Joe Mantello, who won the two directing Tonys in 2003 and 2004, are again nominated. O’Brien is in the running for “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” which he first staged at the Old Globe last fall, and Mantello for “Glengarry.”

The nominees:

Play

“Democracy,” “Doubt,” “Gem of the Ocean,” “The Pillowman”

Musical

“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” “The Light in the Piazza,” “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”

Revival, play

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “On Golden Pond,” “Twelve Angry Men”

Revival, musical

“La Cage aux Folles,” “Pacific Overtures,” “Sweet Charity”

Special event

“Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance!,” “Laugh Whore,” “700 Sundays,” “Whoopi, the 20th Anniversary Show”

Original score

David Yazbek, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Adam Guettel, “The Light in the Piazza”; John Du Prez and Eric Idle, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; William Finn, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”

Musical book

Jeffrey Lane, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Craig Lucas, “The Light in the Piazza”; Eric Idle, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Rachel Sheinkin, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”

Leading actor, play

Philip Bosco, “Twelve Angry Men”; Billy Crudup, “The Pillowman”; Bill Irwin, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; James Earl Jones, “On Golden Pond”; Brian F. O’Byrne, “Doubt”

Leading actress, play

Cherry Jones, “Doubt”; Laura Linney, “Sight Unseen”; Mary-Louise Parker, “Reckless”; Phylicia Rashad, “Gem of the Ocean”; Kathleen Turner, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Leading actor, musical

Hank Azaria, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Gary Beach, “La Cage aux Folles”; Norbert Leo Butz, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Tim Curry, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; John Lithgow, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”

Leading actress, musical

Christina Applegate, “Sweet Charity”; Victoria Clark, “The Light in the Piazza”; Erin Dilly, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”; Sutton Foster, “Little Women”; Sherie Rene Scott, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”

Featured actor, play

Alan Alda, “Glengarry Glen Ross”; Gordon Clapp, “Glengarry Glen Ross”; David Harbour, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; Liev Schreiber, “Glengarry Glen Ross”; Michael Stuhlbarg, “The Pillowman”

Featured actress, play

Mireille Enos, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; Heather Goldenhersh, “Doubt”; Dana Ivey, “The Rivals”; Adriane Lenox, “Doubt”; Amy Ryan, “A Streetcar Named Desire”

Featured actor, musical

Dan Fogler, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”; Marc Kudisch, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”; Michael McGrath, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Matthew Morrison, “The Light in the Piazza”; Christopher Sieber, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Featured actress, musical

Joanna Gleason, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Celia Keenan-Bolger, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”; Jan Maxwell, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”; Kelli O’Hara, “The Light in the Piazza”; Sara Ramirez, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Director, play

John Crowley, “The Pillowman”; Scott Ellis, “Twelve Angry Men”; Doug Hughes, “Doubt”; Joe Mantello, “Glengarry Glen Ross”

Director, musical

James Lapine, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”; Mike Nichols, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Jack O’Brien, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Bartlett Sher, “The Light in the Piazza”

Choreographer

Wayne Cilento, “Sweet Charity”; Jerry Mitchell, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Jerry Mitchell, “La Cage aux Folles”; Casey Nicholaw, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Orchestrations

Larry Hochman, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel and Bruce Coughlin, “The Light in the Piazza”; Jonathan Tunick, “Pacific Overtures”; Harold Wheeler, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”

Scenic design, play

John Lee Beatty, “Doubt”; David Gallo, “Gem of the Ocean”; Santo Loquasto, “Glengarry Glen Ross”; Scott Pask, “The Pillowman”

Scenic design, musical

Tim Hatley, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Rumi Matsui, “Pacific Overtures”; Anthony Ward, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”; Michael Yeargan, “The Light in the Piazza”

Costume design, play

Jess Goldstein, “The Rivals”; Jane Greenwood, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; William Ivey Long, “A Streetcar Named Desire”; Constanza Romero, “Gem of the Ocean”

Costume design, musical

Tim Hatley, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Junko Koshino, “Pacific Overtures”; William Ivey Long, “La Cage aux Folles”; Catherine Zuber, “The Light in the Piazza”

Lighting design, play

Pat Collins, “Doubt”; Donald Holder, “Gem of the Ocean”; Donald Holder, “A Streetcar Named Desire”; Brian MacDevitt, “The Pillowman”

Lighting design, musical

Christopher Akerlind, “The Light in the Piazza”; Mark Henderson, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”; Kenneth Posner, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; Hugh Vanstone, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Special award winners

Regional Theatre

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis

Lifetime Achievement

Edward Albee