Audience Choice Awards Winners 2009 Announced

Favorite Play . Dante (Synetic Theater)

Favorite Actor in a Play . Alex Mills as Puck . A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Synetic Theater)

Favorite Actress in a Play . Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead . Looped (Arena Stage)

Favorite Musical . Next to Normal (Arena Stage)

Favorite Actress in a Musical . Alice Ripley as Diana . Next to Normal (Arena Stage)

Favorite Actor in a Musical . Antonio Soto as Juan Peron . Mummy in the Closet (GALA)

Favorite Ensemble . Dante (Synetic Theater)

Favorite Family Show . Zomo the Rabbit (Imagination Stage)

Favorite Touring Show . Spring Awakening (Kennedy Center)

Now we invite you to step into the world of radio drama, to hear the winners accept their awards.

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The night of the big Audience Choice Awards Show is finally here. A huge crowd of DC Theatre fans have gathered, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite nominees. Television cameras are trained on reporter Rona Slivers at the head of the red carpet, ready to give her usual biting fashion commentary…But what’s this?

No taxis? No limos? No stars? Where are all the nominees?

No Hedman, no Hicken, no Hemmingsen?

And what’s that whispering??? Nancy Robinette has skipped town!?!?

Something doesn’t smell right here–and the situation is also strange….

Will the curtain on the Audience Choice Awards Show ever go up?

Is this the end of theatre in Washington, DC?

Get comfy and listen in as Hashell Dammitt solves

THE CASE OF THE EMPTY RED CARPET

Created by The Audible Group

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Here’s your program.

BONUS: Be an Audiodetective yourself! There is ONE show title of ALL the 2009 Audience Choice Awards shows which did not make it (referenced or named outright) into The Case Of The Red Carpet. First person to name it correctly in the comments section will win a prize from the Audible Group. Tune in and Good Luck!

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AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS -  2008/09 Season

This year, DCTS writers nominated 128 performers and productions and Washington audiences cast over 12,000 votes to choose this year’s Audience Choice Awards winners.  Thanks to everyone for a great season.

The nominees are:

FAVORITE PLAY

• A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage)
• Antebellum (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• Blackbird (Studio Theatre)
• Blue Door (African Continuum Theatre Company)
• Dante (Synetic Theater)
• dark play, of Stories for Boys (Forum Theatre)
• Elizabeth Rex (Keegan Theatre)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (Keegan Theatre)
• Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J)
• Krapp’s Last Tape (Keegan Theatre)
• King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre)
• Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Round House Theatre)
  Pig Farm (1st Stage)
• Radio Golf (Studio Theatre)
• Rock ‘n’ Roll (Studio Theatre)
• Seascape (American Century Theater)
• The Aging of the Plum (GALA)
• The Heavens Are Hung in Black (Ford’s Theatre)
• The Legacy of Light (Arena Stage)
• The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Signature Theatre)
  The Seafarer (Studio Theatre)

FAVORITE ACTOR IN A PLAY

• Terry Beaver as Tobias . A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage)
• Lucas Beck as Gidger . The Violet Hour (1st Stage)
• Ben Cunis . Living Dead in Denmark (Rorschach Theatre)
• Mike Daisey . How Theater Failed America (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• John Dow as Phillipe . Heroes (MetroStage)
• Brian Hemmingsen as Krapp . Krapp’s Last Tape (Keegan Theatre)
• Carter Jahncke as Krapp . Krapp’s Last Tape (Spooky Action Theatre)
• Derrick Lemont in various roles . Blue Door (African Continuum Theatre Company)
• Eric Lucas as Ned . Elizabeth Rex (Keegan Theatre)
• Alex Mills as Puck . A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Synetic Theater)
• Paul Morella as Lior . The Accident (Theater J)
• Paul Morella as Clarence Darrow . A Passion for Justice (American Century Theater)
• Bruce Rauscher in multiple roles . Love, Peace and Robbery . (Keegan Theatre)
• Mark Rhea as McMurphy . One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Keegan Theatre)
• Mel Rocher as Don Tello . The Best Judge, The King (GALA)
• David Selby as Abraham Lincoln . The Heavens Are Hung in Black . Ford’s Theatre
• Tom Story as Prince Hal . Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Theatre)
• Ted van Griethuysen as Max . Rock ‘n’ Roll (Studio Theatre)
• Jerry Whiddon as Ray . Blackbird (Studio Theatre)
• David Winkler as Aristarkh . The Suicide . 1st Stage

FAVORITE ACTRESS IN A PLAY

• Lise Bruneau as Arkadina . Seagull on 16th Street (Theater J)
• Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead . Looped (Arena Stage)
• Lisa Harrow as Eleanor . Rock ‘n’ Roll (Studio Theatre)
• Carla Harting as Julia . A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage)
• Helen Hedman as Joan . The Year of Magical Thinking (Studio Theatre)
• Tana Hicken as Helen . The Road to Mecca (Studio Theatre)
• Naomi Jacobson as Sylvia . Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• Kerry Waters Lucas as Queen Elizabeth I . Elizabeth Rex (Keegan Theatre)
• Kim Martin-Cotton as Goneril . King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company)
• Sarah Marshall as Ruthie . Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• Sarah Marshall as Barbara . Boom! (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• Ellen McLaughlin as Clare . A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage)
• Jennifer Mendenhall as Woman . Woman & Scarecrow (Solas Nua)
• Nancy Paris as Beverly . The Receptionist (Studio Theatre)
• Lynn Redgrave . Rachel and Juliet (Folger Theatre)
• Nancy Robinette as Mother Courage . Mother Courage and Her Children (Scena Theatre)
• Holly Twyford as Elsa . The Road to Mecca (Studio Theatre
• Jjana Valentiner as Vivian . Funeral Potatoes (Flashpoint)

FAVORITE MUSICAL

• A Christmas Carol (Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Baltimore)
• Closer Than Ever (Limelight Theatre)
  Crowns (Arena Stage)
• Grey Gardens (Studio Theatre)
• Iolanthe (Washington Savoyards)
• Les Miserables (Signature Theatre)
• Momia en el Closet (GALA)
• Next to Normal (Arena Stage)
• Oklahoma! (Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Columbia)
• Ragtime (Kennedy Center)
• The Music Man (Washington Savoyards)

FAVORITE ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

• E. Faye Butler as Mother Shaw . Crowns (Arena Stage)
• Laura Comforte as Eva Peron . Mummy in the Closet (GALA)
• Felicia Curry as Eponine . Les Miserables (Signature Theatre)
• Elizabeth A. Hester . Closer Than Ever (Limelight Theatre)
• Channez McQuay as The Medium and Aunt Monica . See What I Wanna See (Signature Theatre)
• Christiane Noll as Mother . Ragtime (Kennedy Center)
• Karen Olivo as Anita . West Side Story (National Theatre)
• Belen Oyola-Rebaza as Isabel Peron . Mummy in the Closet (GALA)
• Alice Ripley as Diana . Next to Normal (Arena Stage)
• Judy Simmons as Mrs. Paroo . The Music Man (Washington Savoyards)
• Katie Thompson as Vashti . Giant (Signature Theatre)
• Roz White as Pearl Bailey . Pearl Bailey .. By Request (MetroStage)
• Brittany Williams as Maia . Walmartopia (Landless Theatre Company)

FAVORITE ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

• Kurt Boehm as Snoopy . You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Adventure Theatre)
• David Bosley-Reynolds as Scrooge . A Christmas Carol (Toby’s of Baltimore)
• Phillip Boykin as Man . Crowns (Arena Stage)
• John Dellaporta as Man 1 . Closer than Ever (Limelight Theatre)
• Manoel Felciano as Tateh . Ragtime (Kennedy Center)
• Jase Parker as Lord Chancellor . Iolanthe (Washington Savoyards)
• Stephen Schmidt as Prof Hill . The Music Man (Washington Savoyards)
• Bobby Smith as Janitor & Priest . See What I Wanna See (Signature Theatre)
• Antonio Soto as Juan Peron . Mummy in the Closet (GALA)
• J. Robert Spencer as Dan . Next to Normal (Arena Stage)
• Aaron Tveit as Gabe Goodman . Next to Normal (Arena Stage)

FAVORITE ENSEMBLE

• A Christmas Carol (Toby’s of Baltimore)
• Chicago (National Theatre)
• Closer Than Ever (Limelight Theatre)
• Crazyface (Constellation Theatre Company)
• Dante (Synetic Theater)
• Hell Meets Henry Half Way (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
• Les Miserables (Signature Theatre)
• Oklahoma! (Toby’s of Columbia)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Round House Theatre)
• Rock ‘n’ Roll (Studio Theatre)
• The Best Judge, The King (GALA)
• The Dog in the Manger (Shakespeare Theatre Company)
• Shakespeare’s R & J (1st Stage)
• The Music Man (Washington Savoyards)
• The Suicide (1st Stage)

FAVORITE FAMILY SHOW

• Heidi (Imagination Stage)
• Holes (Adventure Theatre)
• Lyle the Crocodile (Imagination Stage)
• Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Imagination Stage)
• Playing from the Heart (Imagination Stage)
• Story Theatre (Open Circle Theatre)
• The Butterfingers Angel (Rep Stage)
• You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Adventure Theatre)
• Zomo the Rabbit (Imagination Stage)

FAVORITE TOURING SHOW

• A Chorus Line (National Theatre)
  Chicago (National Theatre) (8%, 67 Votes)
• Frost/Nixon (Kennedy Center)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (Warner Theatre)
• Rachel and Juliet (Folger Theatre)
• Rent (Warner Theatre)
• Spring Awakening (Kennedy Center)
• The Color Purple (Kennedy Center)
• The Playboy of the Western World (Kennedy Center)West Side Story (National Theatre)

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