 The show was nominated for Best Set Design at the Off West End Awards and both Bart Lambert (Nathan) and Jack Reitman (Richard) won Best Male Performance in a Musical.It is 1958 at Joliet Prison, Illinois, where Nathan "Babe" Leopold faces the Parole Board for the fifth time.He tells them the facts of the "crime of the century" that sent him to prison thirty-five years earlier ("Why").