Hands on a Hardbody received 15 major award nominations for the 2013 season. Hands on!

TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
- Best Original Score: Trey Anastasio & Amanda Green
- Best Featured Actor: Keith Carradine
- Best Featured Actress: Keala Settle
DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS
- Outstanding Musical
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Keith Carradine
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Keala Settle
- Outstanding Choreography: Sergio Trujillo
- Outstanding Music: Trey Anastasio & Amanda Green
- Outstanding Lyrics: Amanda Green
- Outstanding Book of a Musical: Dough Wright
- Outstanding Orchestrations: Trey Anastasio & Don Hart
- Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Steve Canyon Kennedy
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINATIONS
- Outstanding New Broadway Musical
- Outstanding New Score
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Keala Settle

The cast of Hands on a Hardbody
Inspired by true events and based on the acclaimed 1997 documentary of the same name that was created by S.R. Bindler and produced by Bindler and Kevin Morris, the musical features a book by Doug Wright (Pulitzer Prize winner, I Am My Own Wife), lyrics by Amanda Green (Bring It On: The Musical), music by Trey Anastasio (Phish) and Amanda Green, direction by Neil Pepe (Broadway’s Speed-The-Plow), and musical staging by Sergio Trujillo (Memphis, Jersey Boys).
For ten hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they’ll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand new truck in order to win it. In the hilarious, hard-fought contest that is HANDS ON A HARDBODY only one winner can drive away with the American Dream.