Pictures 2012 Tony Award Nominations May 1, 2012 / 10:40 AM CDT / CBS News (credit: Fernando Leon/Getty Images) Best Play -- Venus In Fur (credit: D Dipasupil/Getty Images) Best Play -- Peter And The Starcatcher (credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Best Play -- Other Desert Cities (credit: D Dipasupil/Getty Images) Best Play -- Clybourne Park (credit: Robin Marchant/Getty Images) Best Musical -- Once (credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images) Best Musical -- Leap Of Faith (credit: Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images) Best Musical -- Newsies (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Best Musical -- Nice Work If You Can Get It (credit: Simon Russell/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play -- Philip Seymour Hoffman (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play -- John Lithgow (credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play -- James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors (credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play -- James Earl Jones (credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play -- Frank Langella (credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stella Cafe) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Steve Kazee, Once (credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Jeremy Jordan (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Ron Raines, Follies (credit: Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Norm Lewis (credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Danny Burstein, Follies (credit: Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play -- Tracie Bennett (credit: Fernando Leon/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play -- Stockard Channing (credit: D Dipasupil/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play -- Nina Arianda (credit: D Dipasupil/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play -- Linda Lavin (credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play -- Cynthia Nixon, Wit (credit: Craig Barritt/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Laura Osnes (credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Cristin Milioti, Once (credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Kelli O'Hara (credit: Simon Russell/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Jan Maxwell (credit: Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical -- Audra McDonald, The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess (credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre -- One Man, Two Guvnors (credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images) Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre -- Newsies (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre -- Bonnie & Clyde (credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images) Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre -- Peter And The Starcatcher (credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Best Book of a Musical -- Joe DiPietro, Nice Work If You Can Get It (credit: Simon Russell/Getty Images) Best Book of a Musical -- Enda Walsh, Once (credit: LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images) Best Book of a Musical -- Harvey Fierstein, Newsies (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Best Book of a Musical -- Douglas Carter Beane, Lysistrata Jones (credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
