Best Musical: the members agreed that the Broadway musical In the
Heights could not be considered this year, as it was eligible last year
in its Off-Broadway run.
On the first ballot, Passing Strange won 11 votes, just under a majority
but won on the third ballot, earning 43 points to Adding Machine's 37.
Best Musical, third ballot:
Hilton Als:
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
Poetics: A Ballet Brut
Clive Barnes :
A Catered Affair
Young Frankenstein
Adding Machine
Melissa Rose Bernardo:
Next to Normal
Make Me a Song
Adding Machine
David Cote:
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
Gone Missing
Joe Dziemianowicz:
Passing Strange
Gone Missing
Xanadu
Michael Feingold:
Passing Strange
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Adding Machine
Robert Feldberg:
Passing Strange
Next to Normal
Cry-Baby
Adam Feldman:
Adding Machine
Gone Missing
Passing Strange
Elysa Gardner:
Passing Strange
Next to Normal
A Catered Affair
Eric Grode:
Gone Missing
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
John Heilpern:
Adding Machine
Cry-Baby
Xanadu
Michael Kuchwara:
Adding Machine
A Catered Affair
Xanadu
Jacques le Sourd:
Passing Strange
Xanadu
Next to Normal
Jeremy McCarter:
Passing Strange
The/King/Operetta
Adding Machine
David Rooney:
Adding Machine
Passing Strange
Xanadu
Frank Scheck:
Adding Machine
A Catered Affair
Passing Strange
David Sheward:
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
Cry-Baby
John Simon:
Adding Machine
Xanadu
Adrift in Macao
Michael Sommers:
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
Xanadu
Terry Teachout:
Adding Machine
Passing Strange
Cry-Baby
Linda Winer:
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Richard Zoglin:
The Little Mermaid
Passing Strange
Adding Machine
