1999 Drama Desk Awards

The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 9, 1999.

Outstanding Play	Wit
Outstanding Musical	Parade
Outstanding Musical Revival	Your a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Outstanding Play Revival	Death of a Salesman
	The Iceman Cometh
Outstanding One-Person Show	David Hare, Via Dolorosa
Unique Theatrical Experience
Best Actor in a Play	Brian Dennehy, Death of a Salesman
Best Actress in a Play	Kathleen Chalfant, Wit
Best Featured Actor in a Play	Kevin Anderson, Death of a Salesman
Best Featured Actress in a Play	Anna Friel, Closer
Best Actor in a Musical	Brent Carver, Parade
Best Actress in a Musical (tie)	Carolee Carmello, Parade
	Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun
Best Featured Actor in a Musical	Roger Bart, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Kristen Chenoweth, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Best Director of a Play	Trevor Nunn, Not about Nightingales
Best Director of a Musical	Matthew Bourne, Swan Lake
Best Choreography	Matthew Bourne, Swan Lake
Best Music	Jason Robert Brown, Parade
Best Lyrics	Gerard Alessandrini, Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its
Outstanding Book of a Musica	Alfred Uhry, Parade
Outstanding Orchestrations	Don Sebesky, Parade
Outstanding Set Design of a Play	Richard Hoover, Not about Nightingales
Outstanding Set Design of a Musical	Lez Brotherson, Swan Lake
Special Awards	Al Hirschfeld (lifetime achievement)
	Sony Classical (for its Columbia Broadway Masterworks Series)
	The Actor's Fund