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September 1 to August 31
Now that the 2006-7 Ovation season ended, it’s time for me to reveal my 2nd
annual picks for best of the season.
I saw 200 Ovation eligible shows in all. My choices are intended as a "prediction" of
possible Ovation Award nominees, and therefore represent only the shows that I
saw as a voter, not the perhaps 150 or more Ovation eligible shows that I didn’t
see, plus the many shows which weren’t submitted for Ovation consideration.
(Yes, even someone who sees 200 productions is seeing less than half of what’s out
there!)
The following lists do not include non-Ovation shows such as Wicked, national tours
of Spelling Bee, All Shook Up, and Altar Boyz, bonus productions like A Hatful of
Rain, MTG’s staged readings of Street Scene, Blood Brothers, etc.
Beginning next year, I will be including all productions reviewed at StageSceneLA.
com.
BEST COMEDY (INTIMATE THEATER) TIE
MODERN ORTHODOX
THE IDIOT BOX
RUNNERS-UP
BILOXI BLUES
GULF VIEW DRIVE
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
BEST DRAMA (INTIMATE THEATER) TIE
BEAUTIFUL THING
CORPUS CHRISTI
GRACE
IN ARABIA WE’D ALL BE KINGS
THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE
TRYST
RUNNERS-UP
1 TO 10?
SMALL TRAGEDY
TENDER
BEST MUSICAL (INTIMATE THEATER)
ZANNA DON’T
RUNNERS-UP
THE BEASTLY BOMBING
&
ASSASSINS
MENTAL: THE MUSICAL
MOMMY MOMMY! THE MUSICAL…MUSICAL!
PARADISE LOST: SHADOWS AND WINGS
SPLENDORA
THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL
BEST COMEDY (LARGE THEATER)
DISTRACTED
RUNNERS-UP
AS YOU LIKE IT
A CIRCUS CHRISTMAS CAROL
CUTTIN’ UP
SPEED-THE-PLOW
TRYING
TWENTIETH CENTURY (ICT)
BEST DRAMA (LARGE THEATER) TIE
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
DEFIANCE
DOGEATERS
FENCES
RABBIT HOLE
BEST MUSICAL (LARGE THEATER) (TIE)
CAN-CAN
MAN OF LA MANCHA (A NOISE WITHIN)
SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL
THE FULL MONTY
RUNNERS-UP
13
ALTAR BOYZ
BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL
DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
MAN OF LA MANCHA (RUBICON)
ON YOUR TOES
PHANTOM
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES
SONG OF SINGAPORE
BEST TOURING PRODUCTION (TIE)*
JERSEY BOYS
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
RUNNERS-UP
DOUBT
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
LEAD ACTOR OF THE YEAR/DRAMA (TIE)
RON CAMPBELL—The Thousandth Night
LAWRENCE FISHBURNE—Fences
JEREMY GABRIEL—Heads
TYRONE GIORDANO—Night of One Acts
JACK KLUGMAN—The Value of Names
JIM O’HEIR—1 to 10?
GABRIEL OLDS—Tryst
ERIC PARGAC—An Impending Rupture of the Belly
REMI SANDRI—Children of a Lesser God
JOSH STAMBERG—Burn This
MICHAEL TAUZIN—Beautiful Thing
LEAD ACTRESS OF THE YEAR/DRAMA (TIE)
ALICE ENSOR—1 to 10?
TL FORSBERG—Children of a Lesser God
RACHEL HARDISTY—Still Photos
SARA HENNESSEY—Grace
KATE MULLIGAN—The Women of Lockerbie
DEBORAH PUETTE—Tryst
DENDRIE TAYLOR—Pyretown
LEAD ACTOR OF THE YEAR—COMEDY (TIE)
MICHAEL GOLDSTROM—Modern Orthodox
JEFF GRIGGS—Twentieth Century
JERRY HERNION—Rounding Third
TODD KUBRAK—Pterodactyls
ALAN MANDEL—Trying
LEAD ACTRESS OF THE YEAR—COMEDY (TIE)
ROBYN COHEN—Modern Orthodox
JUDY KAYE—Souvenir
RITA WILSON—Distracted
LEAD ACTOR OF THE YEAR/MUSICAL (TIE)
DANNY CALVERT—Zanna Don’t!
GEOFF ELLIOTT—Man of La Mancha (A Noise Within)
HERSHEY FELDER—George Gershwin Alone
LEAD ACTRESS OF THE YEAR/MUSICAL (TIE)
MICHELLE DUFFY—Can-Can
DAWNN LEWIS—Sister Act The Musical
HILA PLITMANN—Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
CINDY ROBINSON—Song and Dance
SOLO PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
KEO WOOLFORD—I Land
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR/DRAMA
ERIC BLOOM—A Year Without Spring
DAVID J. DALTON—Inventing Van Gogh
ROBERT DOLAN—Glengarry Glen Ross
TATE DONOVAN—Rabbit Hole
JAMES ECKHOUSE—Heads
GEOFF ELLIOTT—A Touch of the Poet
DENNIS FLANAGAN—Bleed Rail
TOBIAS FORREST—Pyretown
NATHAN FRIZZELL—Beautiful Thing
CHUMA GAULT—Miss Julie
TROY KOTSUR—Night of One Acts
JONATHON LAMER—Frozen
J. RICHEY NASH--Heads
MICHAEL OBERLANDER—Atonement
ROBERT PICARDO—Broken Glass
BRAD PRICE—Grace
DREW RICHARDS—Taken
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS/DRAMA
JORDAN BAKER—Defiance
ANGELA BASSETT—Fences
BETH BRODERICK—Heads
MANDY FREUND—Proof
COLETTE KILROY—Nighthawks
LIZ LARSEN—The Value of Names
S. EPATHA MERKERSON—Come Back, Little Sheba
TRACY MIDDENDORF—Miss Julie
KATHLEEN PARKER—Burn This
AMY RILLING—1 to 10?
AMY RYAN—Rabbit Hole
JEANNE SAKATA—Master Class
SARAH TAYLOR—Beautiful Thing
OUSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR--COMEDY
GARY CLEMMER—Gulf View Drive
GEOFFF ELLIOTT—Loot
GREG GERMANN—Speed-The-Plow
AJ GUTIERREZ—Biloxi Blues
MATT LETSCHER—Anatol
JON TENNEY—Speed-The-Plow
JOE SEARS—Greater Tuna
KEVIN SYMONS—Rounding Third
JASTON WILLIAMS—Greater Tuna
OUSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS--COMEDY
JILL HILL—Loot
GILLIAN DOYLE—Pterodactyls
REBECCA MOZO--Trying
KIRSTEN POTTER—As You Like It
ROBIN RIKER—I Remember You
ALICIA SILVERSTONE—Speed-The-Plow
LIBBY WEST—Twentieth Century
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR/MUSICAL
ERIC ANDERSON—The Pirates of Penzance (OATT)
GEORGE BALL—Man of La Mancha (Rubicon)
JAMES BARBOUR—Camelot
JOHN BISOM—The Full Monty
STEPHEN BREITHAUPT—Oliver! The Musical
RICK CORNETTE—Hotel C’est L’Amour
JEFFRY DENMAN—On Your Toes
KEVIN EARLEY—Can-Can
HERSHEY FELDER—Monsieur Chopin
EUGENE FLEMING—Sophisticated Ladies
CHRIS WARREN GILBERT—Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
BEN HENSLEY—Splendora
ROBERT PATTERI—Phantom
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS/MUSICAL
SOPHINA BROWN—No Strings
MISTY COTTON—Sophisticated Ladies
ELIZABETH WARD LAND—Sister Act The Musical
JENNIFER MALENKE—The Pirates of Penzance (MTW)
ASHLEY MONIZ—Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
AMERICA OLIVA—Hotel C’est L’Amour
ADRIANA ROZE—Splendora
JENNIFER SHELTON—Man of La Mancha (Rubicon)
RACHEL YORK—Camelot
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
STEVEN FALES—Confessions of a Mormon Boy
DAEL ORLANDERSMITH—The Gimmick
LYNN REDGRAVE—Nightingale
BEST CAST IN A MUSICAL
The cast of THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
BEST CAST IN A DRAMA (TIE)
The cast of CORPUS CHRISTI
The cast of IN ARABIA WE’D ALL BE KINGS
BEST CAST IN A COMEDY (TIE)
The cast of CUTTIN’ UP
The cast of THE IDIOT BOX
RUNNERS UP: MUSICAL CAST
The cast of THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS
The cast of THE BEASTLY BOMBING
RUNNERS UP: DRAMA/COMEDY CAST
The cast of DOGEATERS
The cast of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
The cast of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
The cast of TENDER
BEST WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL
RUNNERS-UP:
13
MENTAL: THE MUSICAL
MOMMY MOMMY! THE MUSICAL…MUSICAL!
SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES
BEST WORLD PREMIERE DRAMA
1 TO 10?
RUNNERS-UP:
ATONEMENT
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO WORDS
HEADS
BEST WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY
DISTRACTED
RUNNERS-UP:
THE GOOD STENO
WOMEN OVER THE INFLUENCE
FEATURED ACTOR OF THE YEAR/DRAMA
DENNIS FLANAGAN—Defiance
FEATURED ACTRESS OF THE YEAR/DRAMA
MARY EILEEN O’DONNELL—The Women of Lockerbie
FEATURED PERFORMER OF THE YEAR/COMEDY
BONNIE BAILEY-REED—See Rock City & Gulf View Drive
FEATURED ACTOR OF THE YEAR/MUSICAL (TIE)
DAVID ENGEL— Can-Can, The Full Monty
KEVIN MCMAHON—The Full Monty
AMIR TALAI—Can-Can
FEATURED ACTRESS OF THE YEAR/MUSICAL (TIE)
MARY JO CATLETT— The Full Monty
BETTY GARRETT—My One and Only
BETH MALONE—Sister Act The Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMANCE/DRAMA
HUGO ARMSTRONG—Bleed Rail
LAWRENCE COHEN— Bad Hurt on Cedar Street
JEFF COLE—Bad Hurt on Cedar Street
IRIS GILAD— Bad Hurt on Cedar Street
ORLANDO JONES—Fences
MICHAEL LAURINO—A Year Without Spring
SHAWN LEE—An Impending Rupture of the Belly
BARRY LYNCH—Henry IV Part 1
LEO MARKS— Defiance
TROY METCALF— An Impending Rupture of the Belly
JUDITH MORELAND—Miss Julie
JUDY O’DEA—Scotland Road
GEORGE G. SIMMS—Box 27
DEBORAH STRANG—A Touch of the Poet
PATTI TIPPO— The Women of Lockerbie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMANCE/COMEDY
STEPHANIE BERRY— Distracted
JOSHUA BITON—Loot
JOHANNA DAY— Distracted
BO FOXWORTH—As You Like It
RICHARD GUILLILAND—I Remember You
DOROTHEA HARNAHAN— As You Like It
MICHAEL IRISH—Biloxi Blues
BRONSON PINCHOT—Distracted
RAY PORTER— Distracted
PATRICK ROGERS—Kimberly Akimbo
RYAN SPAHN—Act a Lady
HUDSON THAMES— Distracted
EILEEN T'KAY—Twentieth Century
GUY WILSON—Fat of the Land
OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMANCE/MUSICAL
ALAN BLUMENFELD— Man of La Mancha (A Noise Within)
ENRIQUE BROWN—Song and Dance
PAUL CLAUSEN—The Pirates of Penzance
GINA D’ACCIARO—Tales of Tinseltown
TAMI TAPPAN DAMIANO— The Full Monty
JOSHUA FINKEL—Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
SUZANNE FRIEDLINE— Tales of Tinseltown
CADEN MICHAEL GRAY—Oliver! The Musical
ELIZABETH GREENE—Splendora
MICHAEL GREGORY— Splendora
RICHARD HORVITZ—Tip Toes
NORMAN LARGE—Phantom
VICKI LEWIS—Hotel C’est L’Amour
TRACY LORE— The Full Monty
ROBERT MARRA— Tales of Tinseltown
AMY K. MURRAY— Sister Act The Musical
AUDRIE NEENAN— Sister Act The Musical
JOHN MASSEY, JR.— The Full Monty
MATTHEW ROCHELEAU— Zanna Don’t
JONATHAN SHARP—On Your Toes
JAMIE TORCELLINI—Man of La Mancha (Rubicon)
YVETTE TUCKER— On Your Toes
JUSTINE VALDEZ—Zanna Don’t
MARY VAN ARSDEL—Phantom
STEPHEN VAN DORN— Tales of Tinseltown
DIRECTORS OF THE YEAR (2006-7)
JULES AARON—Song of Singapore, Twentieth Century
DARIN ANTHONY—Burn This, Heads
NICK DEGRUCCIO—Beehive-The 60s Musical, Zanna Don’t
STEVEN GLAUDINI—The Full Monty, The Pirates of Penzance
TROY MAGINO—Altar Boyz, Thoroughly Modern Millie
MICHAEL MATTHEWS—Beautiful Thing, The Bacchae
MICHAEL MICHETTI—As You Like It, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
DAMASO RODRIGUEZ—Grace, An Impending Rupture of the Belly
HOWARD TEICHMAN—Atonement, Modern Orthodox
SPECIAL MENTION FOR DRAMA:
CHE’RAE ADAMS—Tender
NIC ARNZEN—Corpus Christi
JOHN PERRIN FLYNN—Small Tragedy
LEONARD FOGLIA—Distracted
DAVID FOFI—In Arabia We’d All Be Kings
BRENT HINKLEY—The Women of Lockerbie
ROBIN LARSEN—Tryst
ROB LATHIM—Children of a Lesser God
OANH NGUYEN—Frozen
JON LAWRENCE RIVERA—Dogeaters
SPECIAL MENTION FOR COMEDY:
ANDREW BARNICLE—Rounding Third
JEREMY B. COHEN—The Idiot Box
RICHARD ISRAEL—Music from a Sparkling Planet
JULIA RODRIGUEZ-ELLIOTT & GEOFF ELLIOTT—Loot
MAX WILLIAMS—Biloxi Blues
SPECIAL MENTION FOR MUSICALS:
JEFF CALHOUN—Sleeping Beauty Wakes
DAVID LEE—Can-Can
JULIEN NITZBERG—The Beastly Bombing
JULIA RODRIGUEZ-ELLIOTT—Man of La Mancha
PETER SCHNEIDER—Sister Act the Musical
CHOREOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Lee Martino—BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL, ON YOUR TOES, THE FULL MONTY
RUNNER UP:
Troy Magino—ALTAR BOYZ, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL
PRODUCTION
Lee Martino--ON YOUR TOES
RUNNERS UP:
Sha Newman—SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Patti Colombo—Can-CaN
Bubba Carr/Caleb Terray--PARADISE LOST: SHADOWS & WINGS
COSTUME DESIGNERS OF THE YEAR (TIE)
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg—THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (NoHo Arts Center), TIP
TOES, ZANNA DON’T
Shon LeBlanc—ON YOUR TOES, SONG OF SINGAPORE, TWENTIETH CENTURY
(ICT)
Soojin Lee—A TOUCH OF THE POET, MAN OF LA MANCHA (A NOISE WITHIN),
PARADISE LOST: SHADOWS AND WINGS
LIGHTING DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Jeremy Pivnick—BITCH, BLEED RAIL, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, MAN OF LA
MANCHA (A NOISE WITHIN), THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, NIGHT OF ONE
ACTS
RUNNERS UP:
Steven Young—BEAUTIFUL THING, DOGEATERS, NO STRINGS, PARADISE LOST:
SHADOWS AND WINGS, THE FULL MONTY
J. Kent Inasy—I REMEMBER YOU, SONG OF SINGAPORE, TWENTIETH CENTURY
(ICT)
MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Gerald Sternbach—MY ONE AND ONLY, NO STRINGS, ON YOUR TOES,
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
RUNNERS UP:
David O—13, MAN OF LA MANCHA (A NOISE WITHIN)
Dennis Castellano—ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Hershey Felder—GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE, MONSIEUR CHOPIN
Steven Smith—OLIVER! THE MUSICAL, SOPHISTICATED LADIES
AND
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSICAL DIRECTION FOR AN INDIVIDUAL
PRODUCTION
Roger Neill—THE BEASTLY BOMBING
SET DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Tom Buderwitz—A CIRCUS CHRISTMAS CAROL, I REMEMBER YOU, SONG OF
SINGAPORE, TWENTIETH CENTURY, ZANNA DON’T
RUNNER UP:
Kurt Boetcher—BEAUTIFUL THING, GEMINI, THE BACCHAE
OUSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SET DESIGN FOR AN INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION
Chris Covics—DON’T LOOK NOW
John Iacovelli—DEFIANCE
Michael Carnahan—CUTTIN’ UP
SOUND DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Cricket Myers--TWENTIETH CENTURY (Lilian Theater) w/Rick Sparks, BEAUTIFUL
THING w/Ryan Poulson, AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF THE BELLY, MOMMY
MOMMY! THE MUSICAL…MUSICAL!, STAGE STRUCK, THE BACCHAE, THE
MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
RUNNERS UP:
John Zalewski—BITCH, BLEED RAIL, NIGHT OF ONE ACTS, THE WOMEN OF
LOCKERBIE, THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT
David B. Marling—MISS JULIE, TENDER, THE GIMMICK
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