3 Mark Taper Forum-Bred Plays Win Top Tony Nods : Awards: ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ ‘The Kentucky Cycle’ and ‘Angels in America: Perestroika’ are among the four best play contenders.

The Mark Taper Forum co-produced three of the four productions nominated for best play in this year’s Tony Award competition. Nominations for the annual Broadway awards were announced in New York Monday.

“Angels in America: Perestroika,” “The Kentucky Cycle” and “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” all went to Broadway after successful productions at the Taper. The fourth nominee in that category is Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass.”

The new Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, “Passion,” received 10 nominations--the most garnered by any one show. “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” and “She Loves Me” placed second in total number of awards, with nine each.

“Angels in America: Perestroika” received six nominations. “The Kentucky Cycle” got three, while “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” won two.

In three categories, the Tony nomination committee unanimously requested a reduction in the number of nominees from the standard four, but in two of those categories the request was denied by the Tony Administration Subcommittee.

The awards will be presented June 12.

The complete list of nominees:

* Play: “Angels in America: Perestroika” by Tony Kushner; “Broken Glass” by Arthur Miller; “The Kentucky Cycle” by Robert Schenkkan; “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” by Anna Deavere Smith.

* Musical: “A Grand Night for Singing”; “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”; “Cyrano--The Musical”; “Passion.”

* Revival/Play: “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” “An Inspector Calls,” “Medea,” “Timon of Athens.”

* Revival/Musical: “Carousel,” “Damn Yankees,” “Grease,” “She Loves Me.”

* Book of a Musical: Walter Bobbie, “A Grand Night for Sining”; Linda Woolverton, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”; Koen Van Dijk, “Cyrano--The Musical”; James Lapine, “Passion.”

* Original Score: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”; Ad Van Dijk, Koen Van Dijk, Peter Reeves, Sheldon Harnick, “Cyrano--The Musical”; Stephen Sondheim, “Passion.”

* Director/Musical: Scott Ellis, “She Loves Me”; Nicholas Hytner, “Carousel”; James Lapine, “Passion”; Robert Jess Roth, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

* Director/Play: Stephen Daldry, “An Inspector Calls”; Gerald Gutierrez, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois”; Michael Langham, “Timon of Athens”; George C. Wolfe, “Angels in America: Perestroika.”

* Leading Actor/Play: Brian Bedford, “Timon of Athens”; Christopher Plummer, “No Man’s Land”; Stephen Spinella, “Angels in America: Perestroika”; Sam Waterston, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.”

* Leading Actress/Play: Nancy Marchand, “Black Comedy”; Diana Rigg, “Medea”; Joan Rivers, “Sally Marr . . . and her escorts”; Anna Deavere Smith, “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”

* Leading Actor/Musical: Boyd Gaines, “She Loves Me”; Victor Garber, “Damn Yankees”; Terrence Mann, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”; Jere Shea, “Passion.”

* Leading Actress/Musical: Susan Egan, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”; Dee Hoty, “The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public”; Judy Kuhn, “She Loves Me”; Donna Murphy, “Passion.”

* Featured Actor/Play: Larry Bryggman, “Picnic”; David Marshall Grant, “Angels in America: Perestroika”; Gregory Itzin, “The Kentucky Cycle”; Jeffrey Wright, “Angels in America: Perestroika.”

* Featured Actress/Play: Jane Adams, “An Inspector Calls”; Debra Monk, “Picnic”; Jeanne Paulsen, “The Kentucky Cycle”; Anne Pitoniak, “Picnic.”

* Featured Actor/Musical: Tom Aldredge, “Passion”; Gary Beach, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”; Jarrod Emick, “Damn Yankees”; Jonathan Freeman, “She Loves Me.”

* Featured Actress/Musical: Marcia Lewis, “Grease”; Sally Mayes, “She Loves Me”; Marin Mazzie, “Passion”; Audra Ann McDonald, “Carousel.”

* Scenic Design: Bob Crowley, “Carousel”; Peter J. Davison, “Medea”; Ian MacNeil, “An Inspector Calls”; Tony Walton, “She Loves Me.”

* Costume Design: David Charles and Jane Greenwood, “She Loves Me”; Jane Greenwood, “Passion”; Ann Hould-Ward, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”; Yan Tax, “Cyrano--The Musical.”

* Lighting Design: Beverly Emmons, “Passion”; Jules Fisher, “Angels in America: Perestroika”; Rick Fisher, “An Inspector Calls”; Natasha Katz, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.”

* Choreography: Jeff Calhoun, “Grease”; Sir Kenneth MacMillan, “Carousel”; Rob Marshall, “Damn Yankees”; Rob Marshall, “She Loves Me.”