Cranston, McDonald, NPH and Mays win Drama Desk Awards

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the name of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

There were no real shockers at Sunday's Drama Desk Awards -- though Neil Patrick Harris, a general favorite this theater awards season for his performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, did have to share his prize here.

Harris tied in the outstanding actor in a musical category with Jefferson Mays, the star of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which earned six awards in all -- more than any other this production this season -- including outstanding musical. (The acclaimed romp is also up for the most Tonys next Sunday, with a total of 10 nominations.)

Other winners included Bryan Cranston, who earned outstanding actor in a play for All the Way, also voted outstanding play; Audra McDonald, for outstanding actress in a play (Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill) and Jessie Mueller, who bested beloved vets Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara and Idina Menzel to earn outstanding actress in a musical, for her portrait of the title character in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

The Glass Menagerie and Hedwig were respectively awarded outstanding revival of a play and musical, with Menagerie's Celia-Keenan Bolger winning outstanding featured actress in a play. Other productions that grabbed multiple awards included Beautiful, Rocky, After Midnight, The Bridges Of Madison County and a U.K.-based staging of Twelfth Night.

The Drama Desk Awards honor Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions.