VANESSA WILLIAMS
TO HOST THE 12TH ANNUAL
Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
KICKS OFF EVENT
SUTTON FOSTER, GAVIN CREEL,
KAREN OLIVO AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
JOIN AS PRESENTERS OF THE CEREMONY ON
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
(New York, NY – May 10, 2011) Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards announced today that Vanessa Williams will host this year’s 12th annual awards ceremony at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center – The Allen Room on Sunday, May 15. Daniel Radcliffe, a past winner of Favorite Actor in a Play and Favorite Breakthrough Performance for his role in Equus, will kick off the first-ever live Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony. Additional past winners Sutton Foster, Gavin Creel, Karen Olivo and Lin-Manuel Miranda join the ceremony as presenters. A complete list of presenters will be announced soon.
The Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards is the only major theatrical prize awarded solely by votes cast online by audience members. To vote for your favorites visit www.Broadway.com/AudienceChoiceAwards/
Broadway.com, owned and operated by Key Brand Entertainment Inc. (John Gore, CEO; Thomas B. McGrath, Chairman), is the premier theater website for news, exclusive content and ticket sales. The site contains the most complete editorial coverage of theater on the web, including the latest news, interviews with actors and playwrights, opening night coverage and original video features. Broadway.com features online theater ticketing and phone sales through 1.800.BROADWAY for every Broadway show, most off-Broadway shows and shows in London’s West End. The website also offers hotel and restaurant packaging, as well as consumer and corporate gift certificates. Broadway.com's ticketing services target both traveling consumers and New York area theater patrons.
The 2011 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards are proudly sponsored by Magnolia Bakery, Flatotel, and Stonekelly Florist.
www.Broadway.com/AudienceChoiceAwards/
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