Drama Desk Awards for 'Hamilton,' 'Curious'

The celebrated, Broadway-bound musical Hamilton scooped up another bunch of honors Sunday, as did the U.K.-based Broadway play The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time.

The shows were among a few multiple winners at this year's Drama Desk Awards, announced at a ceremony at New York's Town Hall. Hamilton, which premiered off-Broadway at the Public Theater, collected seven awards, including outstanding musical, music, lyrics and book of a musical. The last three went to show's creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Curious Incident's six awards included outstanding play and actor in a play. In the latter category, recent Juilliard graduate Alex Sharp beat such accomplished fellow nominees as beloved theater vet Stephen McKinley Henderson and movie star Bradley Cooper.

The production of The Elephant Man that starred Cooper did win outstanding revival of a play, with Lincoln Center Theater's staging of The King And I taking the prize for outstanding revival of a musical.

Musical theater star Kristin Chenoweth was named outstanding actress for her performance in another acclaimed Broadway revival, On the Twentieth Century. Helen Mirren was given the honor for actress in a play, for her latest portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, in The Audience.

Another big winner was the new Broadway musical An American in Paris, based on the classic film of the same name. Among the recipients of its four awards: star choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and New York City Ballet principal dancer Robert Fairchild, both Broadway newbies.

Drama Desk nominators considered Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions for the same categories, in keeping with tradition.