Two musicals received five awards, Camelot by 2nd Star Productions and Ragtime by Kensington Arts Theatre. Two plays received four awards, The Pillowman by Silver Spring Stage and Red by the Elden Street Players. Kensington Arts Theatre received the most awards, a total of seven for their productions of Ragtime and Next to Normal. Colonial Players was the only theater company to receive awards for three separate productions, 1776, Shipwrecked and Trying.

• 2nd Star Productions
• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

Winners for outstanding technical achievements.

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical (TIE)

• Jared Davis, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage
• Jane B. Wingard, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• John Downing and Bill Glikbarg, Twentieth Century, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Hector Lorenzini, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• Richard Gilpin and Zachary Ball, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Jane B. Wingard, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Mary Speed and Brian Garrison, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Jane B. Wingard and Gail Bagaria, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Paul Hennesy and Mike Mattheisen, Is He Dead?, Providence Players of Fairfax

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Joanne D. Wilson, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Susan d. Garvey, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Tommy Scott, Fiddler on the Roof, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• Ken and Patti Crowley, 33 Variations, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Kevin DeMine, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Sean Doyle, Shiloh Rules, Port City Playhouse

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Linda Swann, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Mary Wakefield, The Tempest, Rockville Little Theatre

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Shemika Berry, The Wiz, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Sally Cusenza, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Beverly Hill van Joolen, 1776, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Rachel Royall, Life with Father, Aldersgate Churtch Community Theatre

Outstanding Special Effects

• Joshua McKerrow, Kat McKerrow, Maya Wilcox, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Laurel Mill Playhouse

Winners for outstanding performances by an actor or actress.

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Lydia Kivrak as ‘Grandma Tzeitel’, Fiddler on the Roof, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Jeffrey Gangwisch as ‘James’, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Laurel Mill Playhouse

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Eben K. Logan as ‘Sarah’, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Ryan Burke as ‘Dan’, Next to Normal, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Christina Enoch Kemmerer as ‘Player #1’, Shipwrecked, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding featured actor in a play (TIE)

• Chris Daileader as ‘Michal’, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage
• Robert Tucker as ‘Player #2’, Shipwrecked, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Emily Zickler as ‘Diana’, Next to Normal, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Sayne-Kharyi Lewis as ‘Colehouse Walker’, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actress in a play (TIE)

• Karen Grim as ‘Sarah Schorr’, Trying, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Mary-Anne Sullivan as ‘Dr. Katherine Brandt’, 33 Variations, Reston Community Players

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Chad W. Fornwalt as ‘Katurian’, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Winners for outstanding achievement in overall production.

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• William T. Fleming, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Outstanding Choreography

• Darnell Morris and Eben K. Logan, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Music Direction

• Mayumi B. Griffie, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Evan Hoffmann, Caroline or Change, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Gloria DuGan, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Musical

• Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Play

• Red, Elden Street Players

Wins sorted by theatre and show.

2nd Star Productions

• Camelot
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Linda Swann
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Joanne D. Wilson
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard and Gail Bagaria
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard

Aldersgate Church Community Theatre

• Life with Father
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Rachel Royall

Colonial Players

• 1776
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Beverly Hill van Joolen
• Shipwrecked
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Robert Tucker as “Player #2”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Christina Enoch Kremmerer as “Player #1”
• Trying
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Karen Grim as “Sarah Schorr”

Dominion Stage

• Avenue Q
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Hector Lorenzini
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Jared Davis
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin DeMine

Elden Street Players

• Caroline or Change
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Evan Hoffmann
• Red
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Gloria DuGan
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Susan d. Garvey
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Mary Speed

Kensington Arts Theatre

• Next to Normal
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Ryan Burke as “Dan”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Emily Zickler as “Diana”
• Ragtime
  • Outstanding Choreography, Darnell Morris & Eben K. Logan
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Eben K. Logan as “Sarah”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Sayne-Kharyi Lewis as “Colehouse Walker”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Mayumi B. Griffie
  • Outstanding Musical

Laurel Mill Playhouse

• The Lieutenant of Inishmore
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Jeffrey Gangwisch as “James”
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Joshua McKerrow et al

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

• 33 Variations
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
• Twentieth Century
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John Downing & Bill Glikbarg

Port City Playhouse

• Shiloh Rules
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Sean Doyle

Port Tobacco Players

• Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Richard Gilpin & Zachary Ball
• Fiddler on the Roof
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Lydia Kivrak as “Grandma Tzeitel”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Tommy Scott

Providence Players

• Is He Dead?
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Paul Hennesy & Mike Mattheisen

Reston Community Players

• 33 Variations
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Mary-Anne Sullivan as “Dr. Katherine Brandt”

Rockville Little Theatre

• The Tempest
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Mary Wakefield

Silver Spring Stage

• The Pillowman
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Chris Daileader as “Michal”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Chad W. Fornwalt as “Katurian”
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Sally Cusenza
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, William T. Fleming

Tantallon Community Theatre

• The Wiz
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Shemika Berry

Beautiful souls search for the meaning of life when the means to ply their art is taken from them by time and senility. In a retirement home for aging musicians and opera singers, the play shows what happens to those huge personalities when they are permanently exiled from the stage. The madness and mayhem this show displays is both wonderfully exciting, and dramatically realistic.

Director Charla Rowe lovingly adapted the script so that a cast of 16 could take over all the zany characters initially only mentioned in the original script. The ensemble brought the retirement home to life, making the most of every opportunity to leave a hilarious impression.

The main cast of the “quartet” mentioned in the title of the play is Reggie, Wilf, Cissy and Jean. Each has their tale of the glory days in the spotlight, but none more so than Jean, who has just checked into the retirement home. Jean, played by the commanding Lauren Bloom, seems to be the most alone, after being the most famous in the past. As Cissy and Wilf try to cheer her up, Jean only retreats further into her diva persona, trying to keep them at an arm’s length. Meanwhile, Wilf, played by Lance Adell, is trying to get over the death of his wife by attempting to seduce any and all women who cross his path. His hilariously over the top antics are a source of constant laughs.

The one who really steals the show, however, was Cissy, played by Vicki Cline. She is a sweet opera singer who has gone completely loopy in her old age. Her attempts to patch the growing rifts between the other members of the quartet are both adorable and sympathetic.

The set was lovely and old-fashioned, with multiple doors and two lovely staircases. One could really believe that it was a retirement home, and the baby grand piano placed dead center of the stage showed the prominence of music in the lives of the retirees. The costumes, while eclectic, showed each character’s personality via their sense of dated style.

All in all, the show was well put together. Though the plot slowed and sagged a little in places, the actors always held it together, and smoothed the wrinkles with their energy and vivacity. The addition of some songs in the second act made the show feel completely rounded, as you got to see the way music mattered to these characters and how they each dealt with their loss of prowess.

The final product was a show with all the mania and heart that one could stand in an evening, and the audience left with a sweet feeling that art could be just as true in the twilight years of an artist’s life.

Director’s Note

This play about aging opera singers appeals to me on several levels. I am not in love with opera, but I found that some of the world’s most during music comes from the incredibly arduous traditions of learning to sing and perform its demanding roles. The first times I heard the aria “Un bel di” from Madama Butterfly and the flower duet from Lakme I was moved to tears. My husband’s musical tastes usually run to Jim Croce and Livingston Taylor, yet he called me from Warsaw at 4 a.m., my time, to marvel after hearing “Nessun Dorma” for the first time when he attended a performance of Turandot in 1991.

Quartet especially resonates with me because it relates so deeply to the lives of all aging (and aged) musicians. I empathize greatly with Wilf, Reginald, Cissy and Jean who have spent their lives in music and now are in a retirement home for musicians. In fact, I thought about taking one of the parts myself — but that was more irony that I can stand at my age.

There are somewhat stark differences between the written play and the brilliant movie resulting from the collaboration of the play’s author, Sir Ronald Harwood, and Dustin Hoffman, the director of the recent film version. I was enthralled by how talented the “real” retired musicians were as they took various small roles in the screen version. I particularly loved the credit sequence as it reveals the music backgrounds of many of the players. Howard’s work with Hoffman fully developed the strength of the play’s dialogue and underlying meanings about aging and art; my directors vision stays faithful to the original version while hopefully emphasizing the humanity and joy of Hoffman’s film realization.

The latter stages of a performing career must be especially difficult for a Joan Sutherland, a Beverly Sills, or a Maria Callas. In their later years, opera stars inevitably lose the vocal quality to hit the same time gymnastics that would meet the strangest stringent expectations of opera boss and unforgiving music critics. Imagine the courage it takes to face those listeners was with each performance as you reach and pass your peak years.

It is far easier to be an actor or cabaret singer. Just reflect on the careers of Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Frank Sinatra, and Rosemary Clooney. But in all the genres, art at all ages illuminates your life and the lives of others. If you want to perform, give it your best shot! Channel Betty White! As Dylan Thomas said, “do not go gentle into that good night,… rage rage against the dying of the light.”

Director Charla Rowe

Cast

• Wilf: Lance Adell
• Cissy: Vicki Cline
• Reggie: Kurt Anderson Vie
• Jean Horton: Lauren Bloom
• Bobby Swanson: Doug Graupman
• Doctor Coggin: Zaneta Walthour
• Cedric Livingston: Robert Rausch
• Matron: Nan Reiner
• Vivian: Carol Scheer
• Lillian: Patti Farmer
• Frank: John Scheer
• Angelique: Kitty Harger
• Il Duce: Larry Carbaugh
• Harold: Art Greene
• Ann: Amira Young
• Tony Talbot: LeVar Betts

Crew

• Director: Charla Rowe
• Producer: Rikki Howe
• Stage Manager: Sheryl Fry
• Crew: Ian Jenkins, Angelo Cline
• Music Consultant: LaVar Betts
• Set Design: Charla Rowe
• Lighting Design: Sheryl Fry
• Sound Design: Ron Rowe
• Costumes: Linda Swann
• Hair/Makeup: Shemika Berry

Disclaimer: Tantallon Community Players provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

Fifteen companies received awards this year. The Arlington Players‘ production of A Little Night Music received the most awards of the musicals, with five, including Outstanding Musical. Fauquier Community Theatre received four awards for Into the Woods, as did Kensington Arts Theatre for Sunday in the Park with George. Providence Players received the most awards, with two plays (Side Man and You Can’t Take it With You) each receiving four awards. The Colonial Players production Going to St. Ives received three awards, including Outstanding Play. Fifteen companies received awards this year.

ShowBizRadio followed the ceremony live, the archive is available.

Winners for outstanding technical achievement

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Eleanor Dicks, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Bette Williams, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical: Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Richard Perryman & Peter Fakoury, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Ryan Mudd, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical: Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Nancy Daugherty, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard, Bloody Murder, 2nd Star Productions
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kevin Garrett, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Special Effects: Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Winners for outstanding performance by an actor or actress

• Outstanding cameo in a musical (TIE): Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company AND Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Outstanding cameo in a play: Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Outstanding featured actress in a musical: Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding featured actor in a musical: Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”, Ragtime, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Outstanding featured actress in a play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”, The Dixie Swim Club, Port City Playhouse
• Outstanding featured actor in a play: John Shackelford as “Max Levene”, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding lead actress in a musical: Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding lead actor in a musical: Fred Nelson as “Tevye”, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Outstanding lead actress in a play: Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding lead actor in a play: Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players

Winners for outstanding achievement in overall production

• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Outstanding Choreography: Taurean Maray Barber, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical (TIE): Christopher Dykton, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players AND Craig Petinatti, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Edd Miller, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding Musical: A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Play: Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Winners sorted by theatre and show

2nd Star Productions

• Bloody Murder
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Jane B. Wingard
• Fiddler on the Roof
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Fred Nelson as “Tevye”

Arlington Players

• A Little Night Music
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Christopher Dykton
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Bette Williams
  • Outstanding Music Direction, John-Michael d’Haviland
  • Outstanding Musical

Colonial Players

• Going to St. Ives
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Edd Miller
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”
  • Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”

Elden Street Players

• Flowers for Algernon
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”

Fauquier Community Theatre

• Into the Woods
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Tim Kirk
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Richard Perryman & Peter Fakoury
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Tim Kirk
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Nancy Daugherty

Kensington Arts Theatre

• Night of the Living Dead, The Musical
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Kevin Boyce
• Sunday in the Park with George
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Eleanor Dicks
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Craig Pettinati
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin Garrett
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim

Laurel Mill Playhouse

• Ragtime
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

• Heaven Can Wait
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, John Shackelford as “Max Levene”
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Downing
• Sweeney Todd
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”

McLean Community Players

• Deathtrap
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Carl Brandt Long

Port City Playhouse

• The Dixie Swim Club
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”

Port Tobacco Players

• The Sound of Music
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Ryan Mudd
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson

Providence Players

• Side Man
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Susan Kaplan
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog
• You Can’t Take it With You
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Robbie Snow
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog

Reston Community Players

• August Osage County
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”

Tantallon Community Theatre

• The Color Purple
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Taurean Maray Barber

• 2nd Star Productions
• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

The nominations are provided by category and then by theater.

The Award Presentation will be held on March 17th at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Tickets can be purchased for $15.50 at the Birchmere Box Office or through Ticketmaster (additional fees will apply). Last year the ceremony sold out, so order your tickets early!

In each of the thirty-eight categories, five nominees were selected based on the average scores of eight judges. In some categories, due to score ties, more than five nominees are announced. Nominations are provided in alphabetical order by nominee.

Nominations for outstanding technical achievements

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical

• Bill Brown & Chad Wheeler, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Matt Karner, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Russell Kopp, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• John Coscia, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Downing, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Jane B. Wingard, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Matt Karner & Joel Richon, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Kirk Noé, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Jim Korte & Bill Rippey, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Ryan Mudd, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Joe Stine & John Merritt, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• John Coscia, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Downing, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Chip Gertzog et al, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Bernie Gmiter, Bob Schroth, Bill Glikbarg, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Timothy Hinton & David Johnson, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• John Merritt, To Kill A Mockingbird, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Nancy Daugherty et al, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Jill Hanger, Rhonna Johnson, Betsy Stevens, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Ronna Johnson, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Jane B. Wingard, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Jane B. Wingard, Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Erin Cumbo et al, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Port City Playhouse
• Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Mary Hutzler, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jane B. Wingard, Bloody Murder, 2nd Star Productions
• Jane B. Wingard et al, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Sheila Draper, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Lindsey Hays, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Ronna Johnson, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Maria Littlefield, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Edd Miller, Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Kathy White, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Dinnie Whitson, Cathy Farnsworth, Christine Whitson, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Jane B. Wingard et al, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Avery Burns, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Terri Fortney-Beinert, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Maria Littlefield, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Richard Perryman et al, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Joanne D. Wilson, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Emily Besuden, Jerry Gideon, Dick La Porte, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Mary Jo Ford & Alexandra Lee, August Osage County, Reston Community Theatre
• Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Susan Kaplan, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Robbie Snow et al, Sleuth, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Joanne D. Wilson, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Garret R. Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Ben Levine, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• B. Keith Ryder, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Tommy Scott, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• Ken & Patti Crowley, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Ken & Patti Crowley, Cantorial, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Frank Florentine & Shirley Panek, Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Bob Zeigler, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Keith Bell, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Kevin Garrett, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Matt Rowe, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Gerhard Straub, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Chris Alpiar, Equus, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jamie Coupar, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Silver Spring Stage
• Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Stan Harris, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Janice Rivera, Cantorial, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Pat Brennan, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Pat Brennan, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Eleanor Dicks, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Grant Kevin Lane, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Susan Noé & Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Patricia Kratzer et al, Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Robbie Snow, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Linda Swann, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions
• Beth Terranova, Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Beth Terranova, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Heather Bauer & Kaitelyn Bauer, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Kristina Friedgen, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Eric Jones, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Rebecca Carver, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Larissa Norris, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Laurie T. Freed & Cast, Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Beth Harrison, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Sheila Hyman & Shemika Berry, The Taming of the Shrew, Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Sue Pinkman, Lend Me A Tenor, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Shemika Berry, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Kristina Friedgen, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Malca Giblin, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Malca Giblin, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Bette Williams, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chanukan Jane Lilburne, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Robin Parker & Hannah Wolf, All the King’s Women, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Gina Quaye, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Arthur Rodger, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Bette Williams, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Special Effects

• John Decker & Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Keith Linville, Joe Stine, John Merritt, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Nominations for outstanding performances by an actor or actress

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Joseph Aquilina as “Kyle,” Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes,” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company
• Karen Batra as “Marge MacDougall,” Promises, Promises, The Arlington Players
• Erica Drezek as “Berthe,” Pippin, Greenbelt Arts Center
• Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Katherine Bisulca as “Sales Girl,” Red Scare on Sunset, Prince William Little Theatre
• Bob Burnett as “Beverly Carlton,” The Man Who Came to Dinner, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Carleigh Jones as “Doris,” The Hollow, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Stuart Orloff as “Teen Charlie,” Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Yvonne Paretzky as “Addie,” The Little Foxes, Rockville Little Theatre
• Shelley Rochester as “Mrs. Winsley,” Stop Kiss, Silver Spring Stage
• Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Amy Dolan as “The Mother Abbess,” The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Annie Ermlick as “Sister Mary Amnesia,” Nunsense, The Alliance Theatre
• Shanice Jones as “Sofia,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Molly Hicks Larson as “Paulette Buonofuonte,” Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Anne Marie Pinto as “Petra,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Stephen Deininger as “Tateh,” Ragtime, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Michael J. Galizia as “Jud Fry,” Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions
• Malcolm Lee as “Jimmy Early,” Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Gary Saddon as “Ali Hakim,” Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions
• Stephen Yednock as “Nicely-Nicely Johnson,” Guys and Dolls, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Monica Garcia as “Mother McGee,” Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Lorraine Magee as “Virginia,” Clean House, Elden Street Players
• Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Mattie Fae Aiken,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms,” The Dixie Swim Club, Port City Playhouse
• Shelley Rochester as “Costanza,” Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Lois A. Stanziani as “Helga ten Dorp,” Deathtrap, McLean Community Players

Outstanding featured actor in a play

• Chuck Dluhy as “Roma,” Glengary Glen Ross, Elden Street Players
• Michael Kharfen as “Levene,” Glengary Glen Ross, Elden Street Players
• Stuart Rick as “Benjamin Hubbard,” The Little Foxes, Rockville Little Theatre
• John Shackelford as “Max Levene,” Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Kevin Wallace as “Victor Fleming,” Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Madeline Botteri as “Monica,” Rooms, A Rock Romance, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Shawnee Louise Coleman-Lining as “Effie Melody White,” Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Andrea Gerald as “Cellie,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett,” Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Farrell Parker as “Dot/Marie,” Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Ryan Burke as “Georges/George,” Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Eric Jones as “Ian,” Rooms, A Rock Romance, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Fred Nelson as “Tevye,” Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Gabriel T. Potter as “Freddy Benson,” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company
• Brent Stone as “Fredrik Egerman,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding lead actress in a play

• Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame,” Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Heather Quinn as “Dr. Cora Gage,” Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Lee Slivka as “Barbara Fordham,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Mary Suib as “Violet Weston,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Jo Sullivan as “Jennie Malone,” Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Dann Alagna as “Zed,” Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon,” Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Phil Hosford as “Ralph Wantage,” Frozen, Rockville Little Theatre
• Sandy Irving as “Richard Nixon,” Frost/Nixon, Greenbelt Arts Center
• Ryan Manning as “Max Levene,” Lend Me A Tenor, Reston Community Players

Nominations for outstanding achievement in overall production

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• Steve Lada, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Steve Lada, Equus, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Carl Brandt Long, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Carl Brandt Long, Man of La Mancha, McLean Community Players
• Kevin Robertson, The Taming of the Shrew, Castaways Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Choreography

• Richelle “Rikki” Howie, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Taurean Maray Barber, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Vincent Musgrave, A Chorus Line, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Corinne Shumaker, The Music Man, Fauquier Community Theatre

Outstanding Music Direction

• LaVar Betts, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• John-Michael d’Haviland, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• John-Michael d’Haviland, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• John-Michael d’Haviland, Spring Awakening, Dominion Stage
• David Rohde, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Brian Douglas, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Christopher Dykton, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Craig Petinatti, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Joshua Redford, Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Charla Rowe, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Gloria DuGan, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Jimmy Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Ron Giddings, Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Edd Miller, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Andrew JM Regiec, August Osage County, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Musical

• A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Play

• August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax

Nominations sorted by theatre and show

2nd Star Productions

4 productions received 14 nominations total

Bloody Murder

• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard

Fiddler on the Roof

• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Brian Douglas
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Fred Nelson as “Tevye”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Garret R. Hyde
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Joanne D. Wilson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jane B. Wingard

Oklahoma

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Michael J. Galizia as “Jud Fry”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Gary Saddon as “Ali Hakim”
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jane B. Wingard

The Lion in Winter

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Linda Swann
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Joanne D. Wilson
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Jane B. Wingard et al
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Jane B. Wingard
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard et al

Alliance Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

Nunsense

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Annie Ermlick as “Sister Mary Amnesia”

Arlington Players

2 productions received 14 nominations total

A Little Night Music

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Grant Kevin Lane
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Christopher Dykton
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Anne Marie Pinto as “Petra”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Bette Williams
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Brent Stone as “Fredrik Egerman”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: B. Keith Ryder
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Avery Burns
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Lindsey Hays
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Russell Kopp
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Keith Bell

Promises, Promises

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Karen Batra as “Marge MacDougall”

Castaways Repertory Theatre

1 production received 2 nominations

The Taming of the Shrew

• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Sheila Hyman & Shemika Berry
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Kevin Robertson

Colonial Players

4 productions received 15 nominations total

Chapter Two

• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Jo Sullivan as “Jennie Malone”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Frank Florentine & Shirley Panek
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Edd Miller

Cinderella Waltz

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Beth Terranova
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Monica Garcia as “Mother McGee”
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Dann Alagna as “Zed”

Going to St. Ives

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Beth Terranova
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Edd Miller
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Gina Quaye
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Heather Quinn as “Dr. Cora Gage”
• Outstanding Play

Moonlight and Magnolias

• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Ron Giddings
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Kevin Wallace as “Victor Fleming”
• Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

2 productions received 6 nominations total

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Gabriel T. Potter as “Freddy Benson”

Meet Me in St. Louis

• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Maria Littlefield
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Jim Korte & Bill Rippey
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Maria Littlefield
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Bill Brown & Chad Wheeler

Dominion Stage

2 productions received 8 nominations total

Dreamgirls

• Outstanding Choreography: Richelle “Rikki” Howie
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Malcolm Lee as “Jimmy Early”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Malca Giblin
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Shawnee Louise Coleman-Lining as “Effie Melody White”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Larissa Norris
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland
• Outstanding Musical

Spring Awakening

• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland

Elden Street Players

4 productions received 10 nominations total

Clean House

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Lorraine Magee as “Virginia”

Flowers for Algernon

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Stuart Orloff as “Teen Charlie”
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Gloria DuGan
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Arthur Rodger
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Stan Harris

Glengary Glen Ross

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Chuck Dluhy as “Roma”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Michael Kharfen as “Levene”

Rooms, A Rock Romance

• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: James Villarubia

Fauquier Community Theatre

3 productions received 13 nominations total

Into the Woods

• Outstanding Choreography: Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Susan Noe & Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Rebecca Carver
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Richard Perryman et al
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Kirk Noe
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Nancy Daugherty et al
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Special Effects: Tim Kirk

The Man Who Came to Dinner

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Bob Burnett as “Beverly Carlton”

The Music Man

• Outstanding Choreography: Corinne Shumaker

Greenbelt Arts Center

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Frost/Nixon

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Sandy Irving as “Richard Nixon”

Pippin

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Erica Drezek as “Berthe”

Kensington Arts Theatre

3 productions received 18 nominations total

Night of the Living Dead, The Musical

• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Kevin Boyce
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Matt Rowe
• Outstanding Special Effects: John Decker & Kevin Boyce

Rooms, A Rock Romance

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Eric Jones as “Ian”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Madeline Botteri as “Monica”

Sunday in the Park with George

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Eleanor Dicks
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Craig Pettinati
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Malca Giblin
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Ryan Burke as “Georges/George”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Farrell Parker as “Dot/Marie”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Ben Levine
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Eric Jones
• Outstanding Music Direction: David Rohde
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Matt Karner & Joel Richon
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Matt Karner
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kevin Garrett
• Outstanding Special Effects: Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim

Laurel Mill Playhouse

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Ragtime

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”

The Hollow

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Carleigh Jones as “Doris”

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

5 productions received 15 nominations total

All the King’s Women

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Robin Parker & Hannah Wolf

Cantorial

• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Ken & Patti Crowley
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Janice Rivera

Heaven Can Wait

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: John Shackelford as “Max Levene”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Chanukan Jane Lilburne
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Mary Hutzler

Sweeney Todd

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Kristina Friedgen
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Kristina Friedgen

Witness for the Prosecution

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Bette Williams
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Downing

Mclean Community Players

2 productions received 7 nominations total

Deathtrap

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Lois A. Stanziani as “Helga ten Dorp”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Bob Zeigler
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Emily Besuden, Jerry Gideon, Dick La Porte
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Bernie Gmiter, Bob Schroth, Bill Glikbarg
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Dinnie Whitson, Cathy Farnsworth, Christine Whitson
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long

Man of La Mancha

• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long

Port City Playhouse

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Erin Cumbo, et al

The Dixie Swim Club

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”

Port Tobacco Players

3 productions received 17 nominations total

The Sound of Music

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Pat Brennan
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Amy Dolan as “The Mother Abbess”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Tommy Scott
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Terri Fortney-Beinert
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Ryan Mudd
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Sheila Draper
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jill Hanger, Rhonna Johnson, Betsy Stevens

The Wizard of Oz

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Pat Brennan
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Heather Bauer & Kaitelyn Bauer
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Joe Stine & John Merritt
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Ronna Johnson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Ronna Johnson
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Gerhard Straub
• Outstanding Special Effects: Keith Linville, Joe Stine, John Merritt

To Kill A Mockingbird

• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Merritt

Prince William Little Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

Red Scare on Sunset

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Katherine Bisulca as “Sales Girl”

Providence Players

3 productions received 19 nominations total

Side Man

• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Jimmy Gertzog
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Chip Gertzog et al
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Kathy White
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog

Sleuth

• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Robbie Snow et al

You Can’t Take it With You

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Coscia
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Coscia
• Outstanding Special Effects: Chip Gertzog

Reston Community Players

3 productions received 15 nominations total

August Osage County

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Andrew JM Regiec
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Mattie Fae Aiken”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Lee Slivka as “Barbara Fordham”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Mary Suib as “Violet Weston”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Ken & Patti Crowley
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Mary Jo Ford & Alexandra lee
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Timothy Hinton & David Johnson
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Steve Lada

Legally Blonde

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Joseph Aquilina as “Kyle”
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Joshua Redford
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Molly Hicks Larson as “Paulette Buonofuonte”

Lend Me A Tenor

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Ryan Manning as “Max Levene”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Sue Pinkman

Rockville Little Theatre

2 productions received 3 nominations total

Frozen

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Phil Hosford as “Ralph Wantage”

The Little Foxes

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Yvonne Paretzky as “Addie”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Stuart Rick as “Benjamin Hubbard”

Rockville Musical Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

A Chorus Line

• Outstanding Choreography: Vincent Musgrave

Silver Spring Stage

3 productions received 5 nominations total

Beauty Queen of Leenane

• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jamie Coupar

Enchanted April

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Patricia Kratzer et al
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Shelley Rochester as “Costanza”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Laurie T. Freed & Cast

Stop Kiss

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Shelley Rochester as “Mrs. Winsley”

Taking Flight Theatre Company

1 production received 2 nominations

Equus

• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Chris Alpiar
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Steve Lada

Tantallon Community Theatre

2 productions received 9 nominations total

Guys and Dolls

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Stephen Yednock as “Nicely-Nicely Johnson”

The Color Purple

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”
• Outstanding Choreography: Taurean Maray Barber
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Charla Rowe
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Shanice Jones as “Sofia”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Shemika Berry
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Andrea Gerald as “Cellie”
• Outstanding Music Direction: LaVar Betts
• Outstanding Musical

Tantallon Community Players have poured their passion, love and vision together to bring the Color Purple to life. The audiences have loved it — the show has already sold out two performances on opening weekend — and they know what they love. The main cast is energetic and strong, the supporting cast help carry the story through and the music is fantastic.

Andrea Gerald plays a warm and sympathetic Celie, who starts as a poor girl with an abusive father who gets her pregnant and then foists her off on an abusive husband. As Celie grows, her only confidant, her sister Nettie (the vivacious Adhana Reid, played by understudy Tonya Mayo on Friday) is taken away from her by the cruelties of the men around her. As she continues to strive to find her place in the world, the Lord works in mysterious ways, and brings a succession of strong women into her life to show her the path to love and life.

One such strong, independent woman was Sofia, played pitch perfect by Shanice Jones, who was undoubtedly the sassiest, funniest, brightest person on the stage. She stole the show as she showed her onstage husband Harpo (played by Jonathan Randale) that if he lay a hand on her, she’d lay it right back on him. The show was stolen again as the indefatigable Rikki Howie inhabited the role of Shug Avery, the woman of the world whose singing brought her fame but no fulfillment. An uncommon attraction between Shug and Celie forms, and the two women find in each other the love they had missed in the rest of the world.

The set, conceived by Marilyn Weaver, was brilliantly simple. Gorgeous paintings of a field of purple flowers and a weeping willow tree brought both sweetness and weight to the stage, and served as the backdrop for every scene. The open space of the stage was utilized to its fullest by choreographer Taurean Maray Barber, whose moves filled the stage with energy and atmosphere. Only in the makeup and costuming areas did the show suffer from a lack of manpower, as the makeup ideas were good but poorly executed, and the costumes less than fitted to the actors needs in certain scenes.

Nonetheless, the cast sold the story. Each and every person was engaging and exciting to watch. The talent and commitment were obvious, and the interpretation a true inspiration.

Note: The show I saw had all three understudies performing. Also, the director’s notes give away some of the plot, which I happily did not read before watching the show.

Director’s notes

“The Color Purple” was a hard novel for me to read because of the unremitting and graphically described cruelty faced by Celie, who’s putative father, Alphonso, repeatedly raped her at 14, stripped the resulting children from her, and condemned her to loveless marriage to Albert Johnson, a cruel older man known as “Mister.” Alphonso also deprives Celie of her beloved sister, Nettie, when she runs away to avoid Celie’s fate. Celie is left to find happiness in unexpected ways. She has no one to talk to so she writes letters to God about everything. The letters are wonderful and show Alice Walker’s genius in carrying the narrative of Celie’s world, as Celie blossoms with age, experience, love, eventual independence, and her connections with the people she loves and who love her along the way.

Celie comes to love Shug Avery, a beautiful but much used honky-tonk singer who Mister lusts after. When Shug takes sick and is brought into Mister’s house, Celie nurses her back to health. The women form a bond, some of it sexual, which brings love into Celie’s life. Celie also looks up to Sophia, a sturdy outspoken woman married to Mister’s son, Harpo, a slightly kinder man. Sophia’s trajectory is sadder than Celie’s, because she is not only beaten, but her rebellious streak costs her a lengthy jail term and enduring injuries. The Spielberg movie was beautiful, but omitted Celie’s letters and presented a somewhat sanitized view of Alice Walker’s novel. It treated all of the characters as flawed, but saw most of them as ultimately redeemable. I loved it because of the compelling scenes and remarkable performances. The Broadway musical wisely brings back Celie’s letters, written to her missing sister rather than to God, to carry the narrative, and this works beautifully with the book and music.

I have seldom worked with more talented actors, singers and dancers. The love they bring to the show is evident in everything. This is my hundredth show with TCP, and it is one I will never forget.

Photo Gallery

Photos by Coleman A. Jackson

Cast

• Celie: Andrea Gerald
• Nettie: Adhana Reid (understudy Tonya Mayo)
• Mister: Demetrius Durrell
• Sofia: Shanice Jones
• Harpo: Jonathan Randale
• Squeak: Alexa Yarboro
• Preacher: Jivon Lee Jackson
• Shug Avery: Rikki Howie
• Church Soloist: Brenda Parker
• Church lady Darlene: Jesaria Glover
• Church Lady Jarene: Temple Fortson
• Church Lady Doris: Kristen Lee
• Pa: Darrick Johnson
• Ol’ Mister: Munday Crowell (understudy Reginald Grier)
• Buster: Montario Hill (understudy Mike Summons)
• Young Man: Willie Garner
• Doris’s husband-Julius Williams
• Odessa: Kareema Cockrell
• Goldene: Rosslyn Fernandez
• Daisy: Aisha Casey
• Guard-Jamie Hamilton
• Chief: Darren Hubbard
• Young Olivia: Aisha Casey
• Older Olivia: Khalia Alexander
• Sofia’s Sisters: Brenda Parker, Beverly Baker, Rosslyn Fernandez, Jessica Parris, Cheramie Jackson, Dyone Mitchell, Anita Byrd
• Ensemble women: Beverly Baker, Jackie Williams, Ada Parker, Whitney Curry, Kareema Cockrell, Tonya Mayo, Rosslyn Fernandez, Aisha Casey, Rashida Bandy, Jessica Parris, Cheramie Jackson, Chaseedaw Giles, Dyone Mitchell, Khalia Alexander, Anita Byrd,
• Ensemble Men: Maverick Lemon, Willie Garner, Montario Hill, Julius Williams,Darrick Johnson, Munday Crowell
• Children’s Ensemble: Jared Belfield, Ruth Hall, Sade Hall, Liana Berry, Alyssa Berry, Nasir Phillips

Production Staff

• Director: Charla Rowe
• Producer: Jivon Lee Jackson
• Stage Manager: Jared Shamberger
• Asst. Stage Manager: Jamie Hamilton
• Crew: Zylar Long, Aryonna Caprece Lucas, Tina Marshall
• Music Director: LaVar Betts
• Choreographer: Taurean Maray Barber
• Set Design: Marilyn Weaver
• Lighting Design: Sheryl Fry
• Sound Design: Ron Rowe
• Sound and light Operators: Harmony Hall Staff, Ron Rowe
• House Manager: Sheryl Fry
• Costumes: Rikki Howie and Valarie Holt
• Props: Charla Rowe
• Set Construction Foreman: Mark Holt
• Set Crew: George Roff, Larry Carbaugh
• Set Painting: Marilyn Weaver, Larry Carbaugh, Jamie Hamilton

Orchestra

• Conductor: Robert Rausch
• Pianist: LeVar Betts
• Percussion: Virgil Bowsall
• Bass: Dotson Burns
• Keyboard: Leroy Pressley
• Drums: Samuel Glover
• Guitar: Talyor Lake
• Percussion: Sadale McCall

Disclaimer: Tantallon Community Players provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

In the Heat of the Night is a play by John Ball. When a Northern jobs developer is found dead by the side of the road in rural Alabama, the first person arrested is an African-American man who is trying to catch a train out of town. He is actually a detective from Los Angeles, but in Alabama in 1962 that does not mean a lot. Racial tensions run high as the detective is asked to help solve the case while dealing with prejudice, a surly chief sheriff, and the Klan. This play was powerful. While part of the time you were trying to figure out who the killer was, most of the time was spent understanding the characters in this drama.

Virgil Tibbs was the Los Angeles detective who, unfortunately was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested for the murder of Mr. Tatum. Tibbs was played by Charles Watley, who brought a strong command of emotion and feeling to the role. Watley was intense and was always ready to defend himself, both physically as well as emotionally in what could be considered the “backwater town” of Argo, Alabama. Watley was strong and always cut right to the chase. Watley was impressive as he played the part realistically, such as showing that injuries he received early on continued to cause pain throughout the rest of the show. Tibbs managed to produce grudging respect by a few of the locals. One was police officer Sam Wood, played by Doug Graupman. Wood was pretty peaceable and although he was unwilling to stand up fully for Tibbs, he tried to protect him in his own way. The two could almost be considered friends in a small way. Both Watley and Graupman were emotionally strong characters. The other major character was Chief Gillespie played by Brian Donohue. Rough and constantly grumpy he and Tibbs almost seemed to enjoy disagreeing as they tried to figure out the murder. In the end Donohue found a grudging tolerance (to say respect in a 1962 segregated South would be too much) for the work performed by Tibbs. Donohue made us respect the Chief as he fought with the mayor despite trying to bluff his way through the murder investigation.

Both Noreen Purdy (Morgan Skye Hamilton) and Melanie Tatum (Joanna Kenlon) gave solid performances. Hamilton played an obvious flirt which eventually got her into more trouble than she bargained for. Her character was easy to get along with and she was more than comfortable on stage. Kenlon was more refined and perhaps a bit withdrawn, but was still believable in her role as the victim’s daughter.

Set designer and director Charla Rowe made a wise choice in making the set basically black, as there were many scene changes throughout the production. There were only a few set pieces used, but they were arranged quickly by the cast. The simple set also allowed you to focus on the acting and not the background. Light Designer Sheryl Fry used colored lights to accent certain areas of the stage, although there were times when a wash might have allowed the actors to have a greater range of motion. Ron Rowe’s sound design accented each scene. The sounds as Tibbs and Wood were driving around were especially effective. The Harmony Hall staff though made mistakes with several light and sound cues early in the performance, which was distracting. Alex Zavistovich’s fight scenes were compelling, as they proceeded quickly, helping to impact the audience with their shock.

In the Heat of the Night contains strong language (profanity and racial slurs authentic to the Deep South in 1962) and adult situations. Catch this rarely produced show while you can, with a great performance from Charles Watley as “Mr. Tibbs.”

Director’s Notes

In The Heat of the Night begins with a murder on a hot summer night in Argo, a small town in the segregated Alabama of 1962. (You may have seen the 1967 movie, which is lightly different but also based on the novel by Ball.) Virgil Tibbs, a visiting Los Angeles homicide detective, is mistakenly arrested at the town’s train station, as an unknown African-American with money in his wallet. Because the murder victim is a northern businessman about to bring a factory and employment opportunities to this depressed town, necessity soon forces a racist community and its sheriff Bill Gillespie, to face an ironic truth: They must depend on Virgil Tibbs’s expertise in solving the murder. Tensions coul not be higher in the midst of the dangerous atmosphere that saw the Freedom Riders’ bus being viciously attacked less than a year before in two Alabama cities.

The play reminds us of how far we have come since 1962 in eliminating discrimination in our society. But in this year where our first African-American President stands for reelection, we are also reminded of how much still divides us. Maybe we can learn something from how Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie face their common dilemma.

Cast

• Noreen Purdy: Morgan Skye Hamilton
• Sam Wood: Doug Graupman
• Chief Gillespie: Brian Donohue
• Pete Rollins: Mark Holt
• Charles Tatum/Mayor Schubert/Klansman: Justin McCright
• Endicott/Al Jennings/Klansman: Kurt Anderson
• Coroner/Eric Kaufman/Klansman: Neil Twohig
• Virgil Tibbs: Charles Whatley
• Harvey Oberst/Klansman: Christian Huet
• Melanie Tatum: Joanna Kenlon
• Purdy/Ralph/Klansman: Jamie Todd Hamilton

Production Staff

• Director: Charla Rowe
• Assistant Director: Brian Donohue
• Producer: Larry Carbaugh
• Stage Managers: John Battersby, Tina McGuthry-Banks
• Set Design: Charla Rowe
• Costume Design: Jeanette Vaughan, Debbie Miceli
• Hair and Makeup Design: Cast
• Lighting Design: Sheryl Fry
• Sound Design: Ron Rowe
• Sound and Light Operators: Harmony Hall Staff
• Fight Choreography: Alex Zavistovich
• Set Construction: Mark Holt, George Roff, Jamie Todd Hamilton
• Set Painting and Dressing: Mark Holt, Charla Rowe
• Properties: Charla Rowe, Ron Rowe
• Program/Publicity: Larry Carbaugh
• Show Logo and poster: Valerie Holt
• Technical Advisor: Jamie Todd Hamilton

Disclaimer: Tantallon Community Players provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

In each of the thirty-eight categories, five nominees were selected based on the average scores of eight judges. In some categories, due to score ties, more than five nominees are announced. Nominations are provided in alphabetical order by nominee. The nominations are provided by category and then by theater.

The Award Presentation willbe held on March 11th at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Tickets can be purchased for $15.50 at the Birchmere Box Office or through Ticketmaster (additional fees will apply).

In 2012, 132 shows are scheduled for adjudication across the thirty-three participating WATCH member companies.

Nominations for outstanding technical achievements

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical

• Melissa Gilpin & John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• Mark Hamberger, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Grant Kevin Lane, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players
• Myke Taister, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• James Villarrubia, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• Amanda Acker, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• John Coscia et al, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chip Gertzog & John Coscia, Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax
• C. Evans Kirk & Dan Remmers, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Andrew JM Regiec, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Sara Birkhead, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Chris Feldmann, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jim Korte et al, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• James Villarrubia et al, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• John Coscia & Chip Gertzog, Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Coscia et al, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chris Feldmann, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Merritt, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Port Tobacco Players
• Arthur Pleasants et al, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Dan Remmers, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Erin Cumbo, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Malca Giblin et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Kevin O’Dowd, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Cathy Rieder & James Villarrubia, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Cathy Rieder, Sabrina Begley, Maggie Cotter, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• April Dawn Weimer et al, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Mary Hutzler, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ronna Johnson, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Port Tobacco Players
• Karl Meier & Kate Meier, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Kevin O’Dowd, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Melanie Papasian, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Kate Roehr, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Christa Westall, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Nancyanne Burton, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Marian Holmes & Russell Wyland, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Dawne LeKang, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Maria Littlefield, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Nancy McLaughlin et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Bea and Jerry Morse & Barbara Wilson, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Joe Stine & John Merritt, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players
• April Dawn Weimer & John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Ingrid Helvig David, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Lindsey Hays, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Evan Hoffmann, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Bea and Jerry Morse, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Derek Critzer & Dawne LeKang, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Mary Jo Ford, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Judy Kee & Margaret Snow, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Maria Littlefield, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Elli Swink, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Avery Burns, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Rebecca & John Johnson, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jessie Roberts, Loose Knit, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Nicole Zuchetto, Rabbit Hole, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Franklin C. Coleman, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ryan Desmond, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players
• Tom Epps, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players
• Noam Lautman, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Rick Swink, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• AnnMarie Castrigno, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Ken & Patti Crowley , Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ken & Patti Crowley, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players
• Jennifer Lyman, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Liz Owens & Nancy Owens, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Keith Bell, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players
• David Correia & David Hale, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• David Correia, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Bill Johnson, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Kenny Neal & Daniel Tobiassen, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Vitol Wiacek, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Ben Allen, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Wes Bedsworth, The Diviners , Colonial Players of Annapolis
• William Chrapsynski, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players
• Jonathan Powers, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Alan Wray, The Seagull, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Mary Ayala-Bush, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Michelle Bogert, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Kevin Lane, Nine , The Arlington Players
• Charlotte Marson & Judy Whelihan, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Lory Levitt & McKenna Kelly, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Susan Schulman et al, Romeo and Juliet, Silver Spring Stage
• Robbie Snow & Christian D. Faulkner, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Annie Vroom, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Annie Vroom, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Kat Brais & Andy Izquierdo, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jaimie Nelson, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• Robin Parker, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jaclyn Young, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Sammi Zanelotti, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Scott Beadle, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• C. Evans Kirk, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Howard Vincent Kurtz, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• PJ Mitchell, Psycho Beach Party, Dominion Stage
• Sue Pinkman, The Seagull, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Kat Brais, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Maureen Clum, Julie Perez, Derek Critzer, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Anna Michelle Jackson & Irene Kasotakis, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Melodie Wilson, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jaclyn Young , The Drowsy Chaperone , Reston Community Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Beth Harrison, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Howard Vincent Kurtz, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Molly Hicks Larson, A Streetcar Named Desire, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Denise A. Levine, Same Time Next Year, Greenbelt Arts Center
• PJ Mitchell, Psycho Beach Party, Dominion Stage
• Sue Pinkman, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Scott Ross & Kaeti Bradley, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Mary-Anne Sullivan, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre

Outstanding Special Effects

• Ben Allen, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Ken & Patti Crowley, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Denise Gilmore et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Keith Linville et al, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players
• Dav Timmermann, A Christmas Carol, Port Tobacco Players

Nominations for outstanding performances by an actor or actress

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Taurean Maray Barber as “Fred Casely”, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players
• Micky Goldstein as “Burt Healey”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Andy Izquierdo as “Blind Man”, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Scott J. Strasbaugh as “Mr. Pinky”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Gina C. Tomkus as “Matron/Gym Teacher”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Mark Williams as “High School Principal”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Carolyn Cameron as “Maggie”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre
• Victor Maldonado as “Lou Tanner”, The Gingerbread Lady, Chevy Chase Players
• Lisa Nichols as “Olga”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre
• Laura Rogers as “Girl”, Blackbird, Silver Spring Stage
• Sally Zatkoff as “Candy Starr”, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Prince William Little Theatre
• Robin Zerbe as “Crystal Allen”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Michelle Harmon as “Armeila McQueen”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Rikki Howie as “Charlayne Woodard”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Jade Jones as “Nell Carter”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Brenda Parker as “Motormouth Maybelle”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Miriam Urquart as “Star to Be”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Jaclyn Young as “Penny Pingleton”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Alex Bedont as “Audrey II voice”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Chaz Coffin as “Seaweed Stubbs”, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Adrian Cubbage as “Seaweed J. Stubbs”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Patrick Doneghy as “Andre DeShields”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Gabriel Potter as “Leaf Coneybear”, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher Prince as “Ken Page”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Bernadette Arvidson as “Juanita”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Joanne Bauer as “Sissy Hickey”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Karen Elle as “Saint Monica et al”, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Silver Spring Stage
• Ruth Neaveill as “Vera Charles”, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Jaclyn Young as “Hermia/Snout/Wall”, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players

Outstanding featured actor in a play

• Scott Beadle as “Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Adam Downs as “Garry Lejeune”, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Tom Flatt as “Mason Marzak”, Take Me Out, Dominion Stage
• Brendan Murray as “Butch Honeywell et al”, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Silver Spring Stage
• Pat Reynolds as “Paul Gauguin”, Inventing Van Gogh, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Maya Brettell as “Annie”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Laura Fontaine as “Audrey”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Shannon Kingett as “Tracy Turnblad”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Kate Merryman as “The Narrator”, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, McLean Community Players
• Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Audrey”, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Anya Randall Nebel as “Velma Kelly”, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Christopher Harris as “Edna Turnblad”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Anthony Ingargiola as “Seymour”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Eric Kennedy as “Guido Contini”, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Gabriel Potter as “Seymour”, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher Smith as “Nathan”, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players

Outstanding lead actress in a play

• Sherry Berg as “Una”, Blackbird, Capital City Players of DC
• Lolita-Marie as “Mattie Cheeks”, No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, Port City Playhouse
• Jo Black Sullivan as “Glorie”, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Sandra Cox True as “Grace”, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Beth Whitehead as “Auntie Mame Dennis”, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Robin Zerbe as “Irma Grese”, Angel: A Nightmare in Two Acts, Port City Playhouse

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Mark Lee Adams as “Dr. Farquhar”, Mindgame, Port City Playhouse
• J. McAndrew Breen as “Charlie Conlon etc.”, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse
• William Cassidy as “Randle P. McMurphy”, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Silver Spring Stage
• Adam Downs as “Ralph”, Frozen, Elden Street Players
• Kevin S. Dykstra as “Jake Quinn etc.”, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse

Nominations for outstanding achievement in overall production

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• Steve Custer, Hair, Kensington Arts Theatre
• William T. Fleming, Romeo and Juliet, Silver Spring Stage
• Katherine Frattini, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Richard Koster, Company, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Karen Schlumpf & Brian Farrell, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Choreography

• Iván Dávila, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Andrea Heininge, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Rikki Howie, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players
• Pam & Kathleen McCormack, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, McLean Community Players
• Duane Monahan, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• John K. Monnett, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Music Direction

• Mayumi Baker & Valerie A. Higgs, Jekyll & Hyde, Kensington Arts Theatre
• J. Michael d’Haviland, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Paul Nasto, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Keith Tittermary, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher A. Tomasino, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Stephanie Bonte-Lebair, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Annie Ermlick, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Richelle “Rikki” Howie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Sue Pinkman, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Joshua Redford, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Bob Benn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Silver Spring Stage
• Joanna Henry, Rabbit Hole, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Evan Hoffmann, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Estelle Miller, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Roxanne Fournier Stone, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse

Outstanding Musical

• Hairspray , The Alliance Theatre
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Annie , Rockville Musical Theatre

Outstanding Play

• Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Players
• The Shape of Things, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse
• Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax

Nominations sorted by theatre and show

Alliance Theatre

2 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• Hairspray
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Michelle Bogert
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Annie Ermlick
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Chaz Coffin as “Seaweed Stubbs”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Maureen Clum, Julie Perez, Derek Critzer
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Bill Johnson
• Little Shop of Horrors
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Alex Bedont as “Audrey II voice”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Anthony Ingargiola as “Seymour”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Laura Fontaine as “Audrey”
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Derek Critzer & Dawne LeKang
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Dawne LeKang

Arlington Players

3 productions received a total of 17 nominations

• 42nd Street
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Choreography, John K. Monnett
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Ryan Desmond
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Keith Bell
• Nine
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Kevin Lane
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Kat Brais
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Eric Kennedy as “Guido Contini”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Paul Nasto
• The Seagull
  10 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Lory Levitt & McKenna Kelly
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, AnnMarie Castrigno
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Avery Burns
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Arthur Pleasants et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Lindsey Hays
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Amanda Acker
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kate Roehr
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Alan Wray

Bowie Community Theatre

2 productions received a total of 9 nominations

• Grace and Glorie
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Estelle Miller
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Jo Black Sullivan as “Glorie”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Sandra Cox True as “Grace”
  • Outstanding Play
• Sordid Lives
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Scott Beadle as “Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Bernadette Arvidson as “Juanita”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Joanne Bauer as “Sissy Hickey”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Scott Ross & Kaeti Bradley
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Scott Beadle

Capital City Players Of Dc

1 production received 1 nomination

• Blackbird
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Sherry Berg as “Una”

Chevy Chase Players

1 production received 1 nomination

• The Gingerbread Lady
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Victor Maldonado as “Lou Tanner”

Colonial Players

4 productions received a total of 4 nominations

• Company
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Richard Koster
• Inventing Van Gogh
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Pat Reynolds as “Paul Gauguin”
• The Diviners
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Wes Bedsworth
• The Shape of Things
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

2 productions received a total of 12 nominations

• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Gabriel Potter as “Leaf Coneybear”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Keith Tittermary
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Elli Swink
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Vitol Wiacek
• Little Shop of Horrors
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Gabriel Potter as “Seymour”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Audrey”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Rick Swink
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Maria Littlefield
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Jim Korte et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Maria Littlefield

Dominion Stage

2 productions received a total of 3 nominations

• Psycho Beach Party
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, PJ Mitchell
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, PJ Mitchell
• Take Me Out
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Tom Flatt as “Mason Marzak”

Elden Street Players

4 productions received a total of 22 nominations

• A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream
  7 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Evan Hoffmann
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Jaclyn Young as “Hermia/Snout/Wall”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Evan Hoffmann
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kate Meier & Karl Meier
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Ben Allen
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Katherine Frattini
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
  11 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Richelle “Rikki” Howie
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Patrick Doneghy as “Andre DeShields”
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Christopher Prince as “Ken Page”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Michelle Harmon as “Armeila McQueen”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Rikki Howie as “Charlayne Woodard”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Jade Jones as “Nell Carter”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, J. Michael d’Haviland
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, James Villarrubia et al
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, James Villarrubia
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Cathy Rieder & James Villarrubia
• Frozen
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Adam Downs as “Ralph”
• Thrill Me
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Christopher Smith as “Nathan”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Tom Epps
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Grant Kevin Lane

Greenbelt Arts Center

1 production received 1 nomination

• Same Time Next Year
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Denise A. Levine

Kensington Arts Theatre

2 productions received a total of 2 nominations

• Hair
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Steve Custer
• Jekyll & Hyde
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Mayumi Baker & Valerie A. Higgs

Little Theatre of Alexandria

6 productions received a total of 43 nominations

• Hairspray
  22 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Scott J. Strasbaugh as “Mr. Pinky”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Gina C. Tomkus as “Matron/Gym Teacher”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Mark Williams as “High School Principal”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Ivan Davila
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Adrian Cubbage as “Seaweed J. Stubbs”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Brenda Parker as “Motormouth Maybelle”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Jaclyn Young as “Penny Pingleton”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Anna Michelle Jackson & Irene Kasotakis
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Christopher Harris as “Edna Turnblad”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Shannon Kingett as “Tracy Turnblad”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Franklin C. Coleman
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Robin Parker
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Christopher A. Tomasino
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Judy Kee & Margaret Snow
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Chris Feldmann
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Marian Holmes & Russell Wyland
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Myke Taister
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Kevin O’Dowd
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, David Correia & David Hale
• Move Over, Mrs. Markham
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Howard Vincent Kurtz
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Liz Owens & Nancy Owens
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Howard Vincent Kurtz
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Rebecca & John Johnson
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Chris Feldmann
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Mary Hutzler
• Noises Off
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Annie Vroom
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Adam Downs as “Garry Lejeune”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Dan Remmers
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, C. Evans Kirk & Dan Remmers
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kevin O’Dowd
• Oliver!
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancyanne Burton et al
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Erin Cumbo
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, David Correia
• Rabbit Hole
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Joanna Henry
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Nicole Zuchetto
• Widdershins
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Annie Vroom
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, C. Evans Kirk
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Ken & Patti Crowley

McLean Community Players

1 production received 2 nominations

• Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Outstanding Choreography, Pam & Kathleen McCormack
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Kate Merryman as “The Narrator”

Montgomery Playhouse

1 production received 4 nominations

• Stones in His Pockets
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Roxanne Fournier Stone
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, J. McAndrew Breen as “Charlie Conlon etc.”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Kevin S. Dykstra as “Jake Quinn etc.”
  • Outstanding Play

Port City Playhouse

3 productions received a total of 3 nominations

• Angel: A Nightmare in Two Acts
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Robin Zerbe as “Irma Grese”
• Mindgame
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Mark Lee Adams as “Dr. Farquhar”
• No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lolita-Marie as “Mattie Cheeks”

Port Tobacco Players

4 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• A Christmas Carol
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Dav Timmermann
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Jaimie Nelson
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, April Dawn Weimer & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Melissa Gilpin & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, April Dawn Weimer et al
• Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Ronna Johnson
• Willy Wonka
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Sammi Zanelotti
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Joe Stine & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Keith Linville et al

Prince William Little Theatre

2 productions received a total of 5 nominations

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Sally Zatkoff as “Candy Starr”
• The Women
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Carolyn Cameron as “Maggie”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Lisa Nichols as “Olga”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Robin Zerbe as “Crystal Allen”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Mary-Anne Sullivan

Providence Players

2 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• Auntie Mame
  8 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Robbie Snow & Christian D. Faulkner
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Ruth Neaveill as “Vera Charles”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Beth Whitehead as “Auntie Mame Dennis”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Coscia et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Ingrid Helvig David
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John Coscia et al
• Shadow Box
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Coscia & Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Chip Gertzog & John Coscia

Reston Community Players

3 productions received a total of 15 nominations

• Moonlight and Magnolias
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Bea and Jerry Morse
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, William Chrapsynski
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Karen Schlumpf & Brian Farrell
• The Drowsy Chaperone
  9 nominations
  • Outstanding Choreography, Andrea Heininge
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Charlotte Marson & Judy Whelihan
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Joshua Redford
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Jaclyn Young
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Jaclyn Young
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Mary Jo Ford
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Sara Birkhead
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Bea and Jerry Morse & Barbara Wilson
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Cathy Reider, Sabrina Begley, Maggie Cotter
• The Twilight of the Golds
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Andrew JM Regiec
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Christa Westall

Rockville Little Theatre

1 production received 3 nominations

• Translations
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Melanie Papasian

Rockville Musical Theatre

1 production received 11 nominations

• Annie
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Micky Goldstein as “Bert Healey”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Duane Monahan
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Miriam Urquart as “Star to Be”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Maya Brettell as “Annie”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Noam Lautman
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancy McLaughlin et al
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Mark Hamberger
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Malca Giblin et al
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kenny Neal & Daniel Tobiassen
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Denise Gilmore et al

Silver Spring Stage

4 productions received a total of 7 nominations

• Blackbird
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Laura Rogers as “Girl”
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Bob Benn
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, William Cassidy as “Randle P. McMurphy”
• Romeo and Juliet
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Susan Schulman et al
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, William T. Fleming
• The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Brendan Murray as “Butch Honeywell et al”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Karen Elle as “Saint Monica et al”

St. Mark’s Players

1 production received 3 nominations

• Chicago
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Taurean Maray Barber as “Fred Casely”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Rikki Howie
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Anya Randall Nebel as “Velma Kelly”

Taking Flight Theatre Company

3 productions received a total of 6 nominations

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Molly Hicks Larson
• Frankenstein
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Andy Izquierdo as “Blind Man”
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Mary Ayala-Bush
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Melodie Wilson
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Kat Brais & Andy Izquierdo
• Loose Knit
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Jessie Roberts

Vienna Theatre Company

1 production received 3 nominations

• Almost Maine
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Jennifer Lyman
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Jonathan Powers
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Ben Allen

G.K. Chesterton once said, “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim at his sweetest and most accessible — is eminently worth doing. Community theater groups with limited resources deserve credit for taking on challenging works, giving actors and technicians the opportunity to measure themselves against the significant demands of the plays they attempt. Tantallon Community Players’ try at the show has some successful moments, but the production frequently underlines the perils of biting off more than a group can chew.

Sondheim is notoriously difficult for singers, and, particularly in the first act, missed notes and failures to maintain pitch were all too common. The pace of the singing and acting in that act was noticeably slow, lengthening the time needed to tell the interlocking stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), and other well-known fairy tale characters, who interact with, among others, a narrator, a baker and his wife, and the neighborhood witch.

Things got better in the second act, with the baker (Lance Adell), witch (Sasha Miceli), and Cinderella (Valerie Holt) all singing effectively such songs as “The Last Midnight,” “No More,” “No One is Alone,” and “Children Will Listen.” These songs are the emotional core of Into the Woods, when the first act’s spinning out of familiar stories has darkened into a take of danger, tragedy, moral ambiguity, and survival, and the singers’ renditions were often touching.

In Community Theater, a director often lacks the luxury of being able to select among actors who are fully equipped for the roles they play. Holt, as Cinderella, and Robert Rausch, as the narrator/mysterious man, were the only members of the cast whose acting and singing were both completely up to the task. Others got part, but not all, of the job done. As Jack, 7th grader Greg Kenny captured the essential dorkiness of his character, but his voice has not matured to the point of being able to put across “Giants in the Sky.” Besides singing well, Miceli looked fetching in her second act glamour dress, but her spoken lines as the witch were often so high-pitched and shrill as to be incomprehensible. Adell chose to play an unusually diffident baker, and his generally adept singing was marred by an indulgent taking of a high note Sondheim never wrote at the end of “No More.”

As Cinderella’s prince, Charles Whatley was appropriately tall and handsome, and he conveyed well the shallowness of his “charming, not sincere” character. His squeamishness at the sight of the evil stepsisters’ bloody feet was a particularly nice touch. He lacks the vocal strength for an ideal rendition of “Agony,” but he had the savvy to avoid over singing. Kenneth Walters nailed the hunger and lechery of the wolf, but not his song, “Hello Little Girl.” Lani Novak Howe was well-suited to the mostly non-singing character role of Jack’s difficult mother. While she sang and acted adequately, Lauren Bloom, unfortunately, was not age-appropriate for the important role of the baker’s wife.

Group founder/director/choreographer/set designer Charla Rowe made some odd choices, notably in using little girls in ballet costumes to represent Cinderella’s birds (who normally are simply sound and visual effects). They enter periodically, wave their arms while saying “tweet,” and peck out three characters’ eyes. This choice was a distracting bow to community theater cutesiness that undermined the feeling of several scenes. Likewise, Rowe seemed to put Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother on invisible treadmills, so consistently were they jogging their way trough their roles.

Harmony Hall Regional Center in Ft. Washington, Maryland, provides a tricky space to mount a show. The deep stage, designed for concerts rather than theater, has no wing space and only two exit doors, both far upstage. Rowe’s work-around consisted of black flats along the sides of the stage, which did not succeed in masking entrances and exits. The portable units for the baker’s oven, Jack’s house, and other set pieces were built and painted in a rather amateurish, high-school show sort of way. The design and execution of the lighting can only be called dreadful. Cold spots that left actors in poor light and ill-timed cues abounded. The narrator, positioned downstage right, was a particular victim, suffering on-and-off illumination by a badly focused, harsh, blue-white follow spot. Why lights would remain at full brightness for an evening scene, despite a character singing “hard to see the light now,” is a mystery.

By contrast, costuming (especially for the witch, Cinderella, and Cinderella’s prince) and hair were done well, though the mysterious man’s prop beard appeared at different angles in different scenes and went missing altogether at one point. There were also some prop successes, notably the prince’s large, wheeled hobby horse and the slain giant’s head, though why the prince’s steward’s staff was topped in one scene by what appeared to be a cutout of a large cigarette lighter is a another mystery.

Director’s Notes

I think I was born singing. From Meet Me in St. Louis in 1944 to high school graduation, I was labeled “with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall make music wherever she goes.” Luckily, being taught by excellent instructors on the campus of Berea College in central Kentucky, I was exposed to drama, art, dance, piano and voice, and infused with the desire to live a life of rehearsal and performance. Along the way, I found the life-changing joy of teaching and directing children, which in turn gave order and fulfillment to the disparate segments of my life as a wife, mother and performer. Indeed, theatre has given me a taste of an authentic artistic mission! So, it isn’t surprising that when I realized that many of TCP’s young performers would be graduating from High School and College this year, that they would need a special play we could all do together one last time. They’re too grown to play Von Trapp children or Annie’s orphans again, so, despite having produced Into the Woods 15 years ago, I decided to remount Woods for our Spring show. How could I not? This is, after all, a compilation of the various stories of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” set in a humorous musical way (with a moral of course) to guide the young on their paths to adulthood (it takes a village). Inadvertently, our production allows us to participate in the current display of all things Sondheim: Follies at the Kennedy Center, and Side by Side by Sondheim at Signature Theatre, among others. How grateful I am to be a part of this talented and loving cast and crew, who have become like my family–and to celebrate Sondheim in all his creative life lessons.

And to you, dear TCP supporters, thank you for letting me sing Sondheim’s “I’m Still Here,” once again. Because of you, we all are.

Enjoy, Charla Rowe

Photo Gallery

Red Riding Hood (Aimee Bonn)	Jack (Greg Kinney) and Milkie White
Wicked Stepmother Attacked	End of Act One
They’re So Happy	The Narrator (Robert Rauch)
The Princes (Charles Watley and Xandra Weaver)	The Witch (Sasha Miceli)
Jack and His Mother	Jack’s Mother (Lani Howe)
Mysterious Man and the Baker	The Baker’s Wife (Lauren Bloom)
Rapunzel (Alexandra Heilmey)

Photos provided by the Tantallon Community Players

Cast of Characters

• Narrator: Robert Tausch
• Cinderella: Valerie Holt
• Jack: Greg Kenney
• Jack’s Mother: Lani Novak Howe
• Baker: Lance Adell
• Baker’s Wife: Lauren Bloom
• Cinderella’s Stepmother: Kitty Harger
• Little Red Riding Hood: Aimee Bonnet
• Witch: Sasha Miceli
• Cinderella’s Mother: Emmaline Taylor
• Mysterious Man: Robert Rausch
• Wolf: Kenny Waters
• Granny: Mari Davis
• Rapunzel: Alexzandra Heilmeier
• Rapunzel’s Prince: Charles Watley
• Cinderella’s Prince: Xandra Weaver
• Steward: Scott Orloff
• Snow White: Haley Luense
• Sleeping Beauty: Shemika Berry
• Birds: Alyssa Berry, Liana Berry, Tatyana Bloom, Liza Bloom, Lillian Orloff

Production Staff

• Director: Charla Rowe
• Producer: Leslie Luense
• Assistant Producer: Robert Rausch
• Stage Manager: John Battersby
• Music Director: Dave Monk
• Choreographer: Charla Rowe
• Set Design: Charla Rowe
• Lighting Design: Sheryl Fry
• Sound Design: David C. Weaver
• Sound and Light Operators: Harmony Hall Staff
• House Manager: Pat Bonnet
• Costumes: Debbie Miceli, Lauren Bloom
• Hair/Make-up: Shemika Berry, Xandr Weaver
• Publicity: Larry Carbaugh, Dramatic Works Theater and Promotions
• Props: Lauren Bloom, Debbie Miceli, Jamie Hamilton
• Set Painting/Dressing: Marilyn Weaver, Larry Carbaugh, Scott Orloff, Cast
• Set Construction: Foreman Mark Holt
• Crew: George Roff, Larry Carbaugh, Scott Orloff, Greg Kenney
• Orchestra: Cheri Daniels Monk, Tara Derr, Leah Farris, Susan Lewke, Ben Stern, Heidi Mickey, Mike Mickey, Tom Valdez, Dotson Burns Jr., Beth Lincoln, Will Derr

Disclaimer: Tantallon Community Players provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

The ceremony featured performances of a song from the five nominees for Outstanding Musical (She Loves Me, Damascus Theatre Company; Rent, Elden Street Players; Chicago, Little Theatre of Alexandria; The Producers, Port Tobacco Players; and The Producers, The Arlington Players). One group (The Alliance Theatre) joined WATCH in 2011 and introduced themselves during the ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by actor Fred Nelson and lasted three hours.

There were 121 productions (35 musicals, 86 plays) adjudicated in 2010. Thirty community theater companies participated in WATCH adjudication.

View all nominations and awards broken down by company

Awards for Outstanding Technical Achievements

• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Kevin King, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John W. Kirby & John Merritt, Arsenic and Old Lace, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Marty Sullivan & Bill Behan, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Jeff Merritt, Arsenic and Old Lace, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Mary Rose Vasko & John Vasko, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: John Merritt, Arsenic and Old Lace, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical: (TIE) Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe, Rent, Elden Street Players; Nancy Eynon Lark, She Loves Me, Damascus Theatre Company
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play: Mary Thiedeman, Arsenic and Old Lace, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Andrew Greenleaf, Bridget Muehlberger Sonya Okin, Rabbit Hole, Silver Spring Stage
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical: AnnMarie Castrigno, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: Terry Averill, Earth and Sky, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: (TIE) Richard Bird, Wonderful Town, Reston Community Players; Stan Harris, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Wes Bedsworth, Earth and Sky, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Barbara Esquibel, The Producers, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Heather Bauer, Arsenic and Old Lace, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: (TIE) Laura Fontaine, Rent, Elden Street Players; Christine Spata, Evil Dead: The Musical, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Julie Cameron, Frankenstein, Prince William Little Theatre
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: (TIE) Laura Fontaine, Rent, Elden Street Players; Ronna Johnson, The Producers, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Paul Morton, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Special Effects: John Bordeaux & Todd C. Huse, Rent, Elden Street Players

Awards for Outstanding Performances by an Actor or Actress

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Laura Gepford as “Mistress”, Evita, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Richard Bird as “Sheriff/Ticket Agent”, The Trip to Bountiful, Reston Community Players
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: TiaJuana Rountree as “Mrs. Mae Peterson”, Bye Bye, Birdie, Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Mickey Daniel DaGuiso as “Angel Dumott Schunard”, Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Audrey Cafaly as “Izzy”, Rabbit Hole, Silver Spring Stage
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Dino P. Coppa as “David O. Selznick”, Moonlight and Magnolias, Montgomery Playhouse
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Autumn Seavey as “Violet”, Violet, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Jimmy Payne as “Max”, The Producers, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Lorraine Magee as “Vivian Bearing, Ph.D.”, W;t, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Thurston Cobb as “Ralph”, Frozen, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Overall Production

• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Kevin C. Robertson, Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Choreography: Amy Carson, Chicago, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Music Direction: (TIE) John-Michael d’Haviland, Rent, Elden Street Players; Paul Nasto, Chicago, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: (TIE) Todd C. Huse, Rent, Elden Street Players; Susan Devine, Chicago, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Evan Hoffmann, Metamorphoses, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Musical: Rent, Elden Street Players
• Outstanding Play: Metamorphoses, Elden Street Players

All Nominations and Awards Broken Down by Company

Arlington Players

• Awards (1)
  • The Producers
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Barbara Esquibel
• Nominations (15)
  • Amadeus
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Michael Kharfen as “Antonio Salieri”
  • Cabaret
    • Outstanding Choreography, Jeremy A. McShan
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, J. Arthur Rodger
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Andy Izquierdo as “Emcee”
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Amanda Acker
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Dave Means
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Keith Bell
  • The Producers
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Mark Hidalgo as “Lead Stormtrooper”
    • Outstanding Choreography, John Monnett
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Barbara Esquibel
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Anne Marie Pinto as “Ulla”
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Xandra Weaver
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Peter Finkel & Bill Wisniewski
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Jared Davis

Bowie Community Theatre

• Nominations (1)
  • The Glass Menagerie
    • Outstanding Play

Capital City Players Of DC

• Nominations (1)
  • Julius Caesar
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Nello DeBlasio as “Mark Antony”

Castaways Repertory Theatre

• Nominations (1)
  • The Miracle Worker
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Kevin C. Robertson

Colonial Players

• Awards (3)
  • Earth and Sky
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Terry Averill
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Wes Bedsworth
  • Frozen
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Thurston Cobb as “Ralph”
• Nominations (16)
  • Dog Logic
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Ben Carr as “Hertel”
  • Earth and Sky
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Pat Reynolds as “David Ames”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Erin Leigh Casey as “Sara McKeon”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Terry Averill
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Wes Bedsworth
  • Frozen
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play, James Gallagher
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Laura E. Gayvert as “Agnetha”
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Thurston Cobb as “Ralph”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Mary MacLeod as “Nancy”
    • Outstanding Play
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Ben Cornwell
  • I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Danny Brooks as “Trentell/Arthur”
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Jamie Erin Miller as “Jennifer and other characters”
  • Mrs. California
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Doug Dawson
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play – Doug Dawson
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Grace Bumgardner & Lois Banscher

Damascus Theatre Company

• Awards (1)
  • She Loves Me
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancy Eynon Lark
• Nominations (10)
  • She Loves Me
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Jason Damaso as “Waiter”
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Phil Hosford
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Stephanie Bonte-Lebair as “Amalia Balash”
    • Outstanding Music Direction, Phil Hosford
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Margie Henry
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical – Bill Lebair
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancy Eynon Lark
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Bill Brown
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Judy Jandora

Dominion Stage

• Nominations (7)
  • Altar Boyz
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Jeffrey S. Auerbach
  • Reefer Madness
    • Outstanding Choreography, Catherine Oh
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Jacquin Pierce Allen
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Tom Flatt as “The Lecturer”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Jeffrey S. Auerbach
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Jared Davis
    • Outstanding Special Effects, Jeffrey S. Auerbach & David Moretti

Elden Street Players

• Awards (17)
  • Metamorphoses
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play – Evan Hoffmann
    • Outstanding Play
  • Rent
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical – Todd C. Huse
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Mickey Daniel DaGuiso as “Angel Dumott Schunard”
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Laura Fontaine
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, AnnMarie Castrigno
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Laura Fontaine
    • Outstanding Music Direction, John-Michael d’Haviland
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Marty Sullivan & Bill Behan
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Kevin King
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Mary Rose Vasko & John Vasko
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Stan Harris
    • Outstanding Special Effects, John Bordeaux & Todd C. Huse
  • W;t
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lorraine Magee as “Vivian Bearing, Ph.D.”
• Nominations (32)
  • Metamorphoses
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Evan Hoffmann
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Laura Fontaine & Jaclyn Young
    • Outstanding Play
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Marty Sullivan & Theresa Bender
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Evan Hoffmann
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Karl Meier & Kate Meier
    • Outstanding Special Effects, Theresa Bender et al
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Katherine Frattini
  • Murder in Green Meadows
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Alan Reichert
    • Outstanding Special Effects, Brian Farrell et al
  • Rent
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Judy Whelihan & Susan Devine
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Todd Huse
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Mickey Daniel DaGuiso as “Angel Dumott Schunard”
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Christopher Prince as “Tom Collins”
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Richelle “Rikki” Howie as “Joanne Jefferson”
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Chelsa Reba as “Mimi Marquez”
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Laura Fontaine
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, AnnMarie Castrigno
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Laura Fontaine
    • Outstanding Music Direction, John-Michael d’Haviland
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Marty Sullivan & Bill Behan
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Theresa Bender & Eliza Wolfe
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Kevin King
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Mary Rose Vasko & John Vasko
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Stan Harris
    • Outstanding Special Effects, John Bordeaux & Todd C. Huse
  • W;t
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Gloria DuGan
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lorraine Magee as “Vivian Bearing, Ph.D.”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Franklin Coleman
    • Outstanding Play

Fauquier Community Theatre

• Awards (1)
  • Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography – Kevin C. Robertson
• Nominations (3)
  • Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Kevin C. Robertson
  • The Miracle Worker
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Sarah LaFantasie as “Annie Sullivan”
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

Greenbelt Arts Center

• Nominations (1)
  • Man of LaMancha
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Eric Street

Kensington Arts Theatre

• Awards (1)
  • Violet
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Autumn Seavey as “Violet”
• Nominations (12)
  • Chicago
    • Outstanding Choreography, Diego Prieto
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Andrea Spitz & Diego Prieto
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Dani Stoller as “Roxie Hart”
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin P. Garrett
  • Rent
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Eric Jones as “The Man”
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Jase Parker as “Angel D. Schunard”
    • Outstanding Music Direction, Brian Victor
  • Violet
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Caroline Jane Angell
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Autumn Seavey as “Violet”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Christopher Kelly
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Jenna Ballard
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin P. Garrett

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

• Awards (4)
  • Chicago
    • Outstanding Choreography, Amy Carson
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Susan Devine
    • Outstanding Music Direction, Paul Nasto
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Paul Morton
• Nominations (16)
  • Chicago
    • Outstanding Choreography, Amy Carson
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Susan Devine
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Jon Keeling as “Amos Hart”
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Andy Izquierdo as “Billy Flynn”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Bethany Blakey as “Velma Kelly”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Jordan Hougham as “Roxie Hart”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Ken & Patti Crowley
    • Outstanding Music Direction, Paul Nasto
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Betty Dolan & Leslie Reed
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Kathy Dodson & Chris Macey
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Paul Morton
  • Nude With Violin
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Phillip Campbell & Patty Greksouk
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Russell Wyland
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Buffy Mechling
  • Play It Again, Sam
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley

Mclean Community Players

• Nominations (1)
  • Frost/Nixon
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Bob Sams as “Richard M. Nixon”

Montgomery Playhouse

• Awards (1)
  • Moonlight and Magnolias
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Dino P. Coppa as “David O. Selznick”
• Nominations (5)
  • An Ideal Husband
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Jessica C. Henry
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Jessica C. Henry
  • Antigone
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, William T. Fleming
  • Moonlight and Magnolias
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Dino P. Coppa as “David O. Selznick”
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, David Jones as “Ben Hecht”

Port Tobacco Players

• Awards (7)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Heather Bauer
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Jeff Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Mary Thiedeman
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John W. Kirby & John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, John Merritt
  • The Producers
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Ronna Johnson
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Jimmy Payne as “Max”
• Nominations (29)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Heather Bauer
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Theodore DeMarco-Logue
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Sarah Sandy
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Mary Thiedeman & Heather Bauer
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Jeff Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Mary Thiedeman
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John W. Kirby & John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, John Merritt
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Sarah A. Carlson & Jason Carlson
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Sarah A. Carlson
  • The Miracle Worker
    • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Brian Donohue
  • The Producers
    • Outstanding Choreography, Brooke L. Howells
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Kira Sanders
    • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Brooke L. Howells
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Patrick Pruitt as “Franz”
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Ronna Johnson
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Jimmy Payne as “Max”
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Jessica Ramos
    • Outstanding Music Direction, James D. Watson
    • Outstanding Musical
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Sarah A. Carlson & John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, John Merritt
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical – Sarah Carlson & John Merritt
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, James D. Watson
  • The Secret Garden
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Patricia M. Brennan & Cathy Compton
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Tessa N. Silvestro & Mary Thiedeman
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Kim Bessler & Heather Bauer

Prince George’s Little Theatre

• Awards (1)
  • Bye Bye, Birdie
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, TiaJuana Rountree as “Mrs. Mae Peterson”
• Nominations (2)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Roy Hammond & Gayle Negri
  • Bye Bye, Birdie
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, TiaJuana Rountree as “Mrs. Mae Peterson”

Prince William Little Theatre

• Awards (1)
  • Frankenstein
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Julie Cameron
• Nominations (4)
  • Frankenstein
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Julie Cameron
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Stan Harris
    • Outstanding Special Effects, Dave Warner, Bob Shon, Sarah Barlow, Ken & Patti Crowley

Providence Players

• Nominations (6)
  • Big Tree Falls
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Erin Finucane as “Amber”
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Addie Storvick as “Sherri”
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Beth Hughes-Brown as “Olive”
  • The Laramie Project
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, John Coscia as ” Sgt. Hing, Doc O’Connor, Dr. Cantway, Rev. Fred Phelps, Dennis Shepard “
  • Waiting in the Wings
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Robbie Snow
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Cheryl Sinsabaugh as “Deirdre”

Reston Community Players

• Awards (2)
  • The Trip to Bountiful
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Christopher Guy Thorn as “Roy/Ticket Agent”
  • Wonderful Town
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Richard Bird
• Nominations (13)
  • As You Like It
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Melissa Bailey as “Celia”
    • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Cathy Rieder
  • The Trip to Bountiful
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Christopher Guy Thorn as “Roy/Ticket Agent”
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Richard Bird as “Sheriff/Ticket Agent”
    • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Irene Molnar
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Robin Zerbe as “Thelma”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Adriana Hardy as “Carrie Watts”
    • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Adam Konowe
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Kat Brais
    • Outstanding Play
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Kevin P. Garrett
  • Wonderful Town
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Jaclyn Young
    • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Richard Bird

Rockville Musical Theatre

• Awards (1)
  • Evita
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Laura Gepford as “Mistress”
• Nominations (6)
  • Evita
    • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Laura Gepford as “Mistress”
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Malca Giblin
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Malca Giblin
  • Forever Plaid
    • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Sonya Tavitian
  • The Pajama Game
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, John Loughney as “Sid Sorokin”
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Sonya Okin & Joel Richon

Silver Spring Stage

• Awards (2)
  • Rabbit Hole
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Audrey Cefaly as “Izzy”
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf, Sonya Okin & Bridget Muehlberger
• Nominations (13)
  • Private Lives
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Mary Dalto
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Ken Lee
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf
  • Pygmalion
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Pauline Griller-Mitchell
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Maggie Skekel-Sledge
  • Rabbit Hole
    • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Chris Curtis
    • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Audrey Cefaly as “Izzy”
    • Outstanding Play
    • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf, Sonya Okin & Bridget Muehlberger
    • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf, Sonya Okin & Bridget Muehlberger
    • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Andrew Greenleaf

St. Mark’s Players

• Nominations (1)
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Rafael Cuesta as “Speed”

Taking Flight Theatre Company

• Awards (1)
  • Evil Dead: The Musical
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Christine Spata
• Nominations (3)
  • Evil Dead: The Musical
    • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Christine Spata
    • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Shannon Khatcheressian
    • Outstanding Special Effects, Jeff Bender

Tantallon Community Players

• Nominations (3)
  • A Raisin in the Sun
    • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, The Cast
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lolita-Marie Clayton as “Ruth Younger”
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Robin Dorsey as “Lena “Mama” Younger”

Tantallon Community Players has created an entertaining production of Neil Simon’s Barefoot in The Park. The show featured a group of actors who seemed comfortable on stage as well as with each other, and an attractive set. Despite some minor opening night line issues and insanely loud pre-show and intermission music, the actors clearly could be seen giving 100% to each other and the audience.

Barefoot in The Park is the tale of newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter, who are moving into a new apartment after their six-day honeymoon. When the couple has their first fight, it seems that opposites don’t attract, as carefree Corey is frustrated with her husband’s bland, uptight personality. Corie Bratter as the young, energetic newlywed who had stars in her eyes that may have caused her to hit reality a little hard was played by Coreen Ayr Hamilton. Hamilton had great charisma that never seemed to go out, not even when her husband was balancing on the ledge outside their window. Hamilton had fun experiencing life to the fullest and did so with lots of big gestures and over-acting that actually fit the character. She also possessed a serious side that came out when she thought her two-week marriage was lying in the snow five flights down. However her love did not die.

Her love was tested for sure late in the show as Paul played by Billy Nemi took her emotional outbursts seriously, yet it was obvious that he still loved her as he showed his concern for her mother. Although appearing perhaps a bit young for the part, Nemi made the relationship work. Always the cautious “watcher” to quote a line from the play, Nemi was the straight man trying to keep up with free-spirited Corie. But when Paul finally lets himself go, look out. His third act antics were comical. And his interactions with Corie’s mother were wonderful, almost as if she were his mother instead.

The mysterious upstairs neighbor Mr. Velasco was played by Lance Adell. Adell came across as a likable fellow who held many secrets. He seemed to gravitate to the quirky Corie as one who enjoyed life and knew how to embrace it. However his taste did not stop with just young women, but also the more, shall we say, “seasoned” female population. One such person was Corie’s mother Mrs. Ethel Banks played by Lauren Bloom. As equally uptight as Paul, Mrs. Banks was clearly set in her ways. How she kept Corie corralled until she got married is a mystery and probably led to Mrs. Banks’ nervous stomach condition as she tried to keep up with her daughter. Bloom had the eye rolling down pat.

To finally wrap up the ensemble cast was the Telephone Repairman, played by Dave Bayles. Bayles did a great routine of coming up the stairs as did all the cast (except Corie who did not seem phased as was true to her character). His comedic timing was fun to be a part of, as was Paul and Mrs. Banks when they came home after an evening of fun with the mysterious Mr. Velasco.

Now Jamie Todd Hamilton’s set can be mentioned. The first act opened with the furniture the new apartment not yet having arrived. The ladder and paint cans strewn about made the place look very sparse and uninviting. Yet in the second act when all the furniture arrived the place became much homier and although the apartment was supposed to be tiny, the efficient use of space in the design made the room feel huge. Would the play have worked as well with a slighlty more cramped feel to the room? Watching Corie dash back and forth in the opening scene was exhausting. This was addressed by putting in doors to the sides to represent the closet, tiny bedroom and bathroom. The costumes by Designer Libby Dasbach were true to the period of the ’60’s.

In sum, Tantallon’s production of Barefoot in the Park was entertaining. If you haven’t experienced it before, check it out while you can.

Director’s Notes

This play has been following me. We both made our debut the same year,1963. We went o college together, we made our post college debut together and when I went back to high school as a teacher, there she was, barefoot again. Now, as I re-define myself here in Fort Washington, I find that I am once again in familiar company.

The first time I worked on Barefoot was in college. The play, selected by the student run theater organization, had one very loud vote against it; mine. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Neal Simon (I grew up watching The Odd Couple), I just thought we could do something edgier, controversial, I mean, we were, after all, a college theater. I lost that vote along with many others over the years, and enjoyed the heck out of the experience despite myself.

A few years after leaving school I became the artistic director of the Western Door Playhouse in Lewiston, New York. Not surprisingly the second show on the list that season, was Barefoot. I chose a great cast and we set out to make a name for ourselves. One of the reviewers of the show, someone who has since become a friend, started off the review like this, “If you can’t say anything nice about a show, talk about the set. The set for Barefoot….” His disappointment was not with me or the actors, he just hated Simon for the aforementioned reasons: no teeth, no bravery, etc. I thought the show was perfect, and the set was wonderful. Last year the high school that I taught at produced Barefoot as the Spring show. I sat in on rehearsals and talked a lot with the director; himself a former Paul. it was during that time that I began to understand the plays importance. It is simplicity itself: if we want to get along with each other better, we need to give up some of ourselves to receive the rewards of harmony. Liberals and Conservatives, Cories and Pauls, bend a little and meet in the middle. We should be able to laugh a little at our differences so that we don’t end up taking little things too seriously.

So, this play has been following me for a long time, nudging me, asking me to pay attention to it. And now I’ve got the bittersweet job of directing it again. Why bittersweet? During the performance of our show you will notice that Corie is a beautiful energetic young woman, she is also my daughter. I cannot express how proud I am of her and her growth as an actor. I come to learn through this how, as Ethel has, that my little girl is an adult now. It’s painful to watch her make her own mistakes, but also rewarding to see her rebound with so much bravery. The cast and crew of this show are wonderful and perfect, but to me Corie turned out to be a little more perfect than I expected. Thank you all, with much love

Jamie Todd Hamilton

Cast

• Corie Bratter: Coreen Ayr Hamilton
• Telephone Repairman: Dave Bayles
• Paul Bratter: Billy Nemi
• Corie’s mother, Mrs. Banks: Lauren Bloom
• Victor Velasco: Lance Adell

Crew

• Director: Jamie Todd Hamilton
• Producer: Leslie Lucense
• Stage Manager: Amiee Bonnet
• Set Design: Jamie Todd Hamilton
• Costume Design: Libby Dasbach
• Hair and Makeup: Cast
• Special Effects: Jamie Hamilton, Mark Holt
• Light Design: Sheryl Frye
• Sound Design: Jamie Todd Hamilton
• Sound and Light Operators: Harmony Hall Staff
• Set Construction: Mark Holt, George Roff, Larry Carbaugh, John Lucense, Jerry Caputo, Jamie Todd Hamilton
• Set Painting and Dressing: Marilyn Weaver, Larry Carbaugh
• Properties: Charla Rowe, Ron Rowe
• Publicity: Jivon Jackson, Leslie Lucense, Valerie Holt, Johnny Dorshefski
• Program: Larry Carbaugh

Disclaimer: Tantallon Community Players provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.