'Elliot' cleans up at Outer Critics awards

NEW YORK, May 11 (UPI) -- "Billy Elliot the Musical" won the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Broadway musical Monday.

The show about a young boy from a working-class community who pursues a dance career against all odds also won the prizes for outstanding new score, choreography, lighting design, director of a musical for Stephen Daldry, featured actress in a musical for Haydn Gwynne and featured actor in a musical for Gregory Jbara.

"Hair" garnered the outstanding revival of a musical honor and "The Toxic Avenger" the prize for outstanding new off-Broadway musical.

"Shrek the Musical" star Brian d'Arcy James took home the trophy for outstanding actor in a musical while co-star Sutton Foster shared the outstanding actress in a musical title with Josefina Scaglione of "West Side Story."

"Shrek" also earned the gongs for outstanding costume and set design.