To get ready for the opening of the polls to choose the DCTS Audience Choice Awards, we thought we would ask a series of questions to help us all think back over the season.
Steven McKnight came up with this one.
What shows do you most regret missing from this past season?
To help you recall them all, here are the productions under consideration for this year’s nominations – both those which have closed and a few which are still running.
[Title of Show]
26 Miles
39 steps
4.48 Psychosis
700 Sundays
A Christmas Carol
A Comedy of Errors…at Colonus?
A Flea in Her Ear
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
A Man of No Importance
A Piece of My Heart
A Streetcar Named Desire
Adding Machine: A Musical
Adventures of Uncle Rabbit (Las Aventures de Tio Conejo)
Aida
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Always, Patsy Cline
Amazons and Their Men
American Buffalo
Andy Warhol:Good for the Jews?
Angels in America, Part I
Angels in America, Part II
Annie
Antony & Cleopatra
Around the World in 80 Days
As You Like It
August: Osage County
Avenue Q
Barrio Grrl!
Beauty of the Father
Black Nativity
Black Pearl Sings
Blood, Sweat & Fears II
Burn Your Bookes
Bus Stop
By the Bogs of Cats
Call Mr.Robeson
Camelot
Camille
Carrie Potter and the New Moon Prom
Chess
Chicks
Christmas Twist
Chumbale
Clybourne Park
Completely Hollywood (abridged)
Constant State of Panic
Cosi fan Tutte Goes Hollywood
Courage
Da
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dear Sara Jane
Dirty Blonde
Disco Pigs
Disney’s Mulan
Dracula
Dracula – family musical
Dublin Carol
Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies
Eclipsed
El Bola
El retablillo de Don Cristóbal
Every Young Woman’s Desire
Evil Dead
Ferdinand the Bull
Fiddler on the Roof
First you Dream
Fool at the Circus
Forever Plaid
Full Circle
Galumpha’s The Human Jungle Gym
Game of Love and Chance
Gdirl from Gdansk
Go, Dog. Go!
Grease
Great One Man Commedia Epic
Gretty Good Time
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Hairspray
Hamlet (Folger)
Hamlet (Chesapeake Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Washington National Opera)
Harvey
Heartstrings
Helen of Sparta
Henry V
High Fidelity: A Musical
House of Yes
House with Two Doors
How I Became a Pirate
Humble Boy
Hysteria
I Am My Own Wife
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
In Darfur
In the Goldfish Bowl
In the Red & Brown Water-Bro/Sister Plays
Jersey Boys
Johnny Meister
Julius Caesar
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Laughing Daughter
Let There Be Love
Lie With Me
Little Shop of Horrors
Look Out Below
Lord Saville’s Crime
Lost in Yonkers
Lucido/Lucid
Lulu
Lypsinka Legends
Mahalia
Mary Poppins
Mauritius
Measure for Measure
Metamorphosis
Mikveh
Mommy Queerest
Mondo Andronicus
Moonlight
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger)
Much Ado About Nothing (Chesapeake Shakespeare)
Musical of Musicals (the revival at MetroStage)
My Name is Asher Lev
My Way: Tribute to Sinatra
Naked Boys Singing!
New Jerusalem
Night Must Fall
Nights at the Opera: Golden Age
Nights at the Opera: Lisbon Traviata
Nights at the Opera: Master Class
Noises Off
Of Mice and Men
Oleanna
Oliver
On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning
One Destiny
One Man Lord of the Rings
Orestes, A Tragic Romp
Othello
Paige in Full
Passing Strange
Perez Hilton Saves the Universe
Permanent Collection
Peter & the Wolf
Phedre
Pirates! A Boy at Sea
Planet Claire
Poe Double Feature
Porgy and Bess
Port Authority
Prisoner of Zenda
Public Enemy
Puss in Boots
R. Buckminster Fuller
Reasons to Be Pretty
Rent (Keegan Theatre)
Richard II
Santaland Diaries
Savannah Disputation
Search for Gabriela
Serenading Louie
Shadowboxer
Show Boat
Stand up! Sit Down, The Greensboro sit–ins
Sixty Miles to Silver Lake
Some Girls
Son of a Standup Comedian
Souvenir
Stalag 17
Stange Bedfellows
Stella Morgan
Stick Fly
Striking 12
Suburban Motel
suicide.chat.room
Summer at Nohant
Sweeney Todd (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
Sweeney Todd (Signature Theatre)
Sycamore Trees
Sylvia
Tale of the Fisherman
Talk Radio
Teddy Roosevelt & the Ghostly Mistletoe
That Face
The Alchemist
The Atheist
The Best of Friends
The Constellation
The Dancing Princesses
The Fantasticks (Arena Stage)
The Fantasticks (Infinity Theatre)
The Four of Us
The Fugitives
The Glass Menagerie
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
The Graduate
The Horrors of Online Dating
The Last 5 Years
The Last Cargo Cult
The Liar
The Light in the Piazza
The Little Engine That Could
The Mikado
The Miser
The New Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
The Old Settler
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Quality of Life
The Ramayana
The Red Balloon
The Rivalry
The Seven Ages of Mime
The Snow Queen
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Free for All)
The Trip to Bountiful
The Zoo Story
There are Little Kingdoms
Three Days of Rain
Three Fantasias
Three Sisters
Thurgood
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Treadwell: Bright and Dark
Treemonisha
Triumph of Love
Trumpery
Tyler Perry – Laugh to keep from Crying
Upright Citizen’s Brigade
Wam! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!
White Christmas
Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This Joe?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hudson?
Wittenberg
Young Frankenstein
Yours, Isabel
Zarzuela
Zelda at the Oasis
Zero Hour
We hope you will leave your comments below.
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Our New Audience Choice Voting Procedures
DC Theatre Scene’s Audience Choice Awards, now in its fourth year, are the only awards to cover the Washington area’s professional theatrical season and which allows audiences to make the final decision, based on nominations by the DCTS writers and staff. The 16 DCTS nominators have seen 788 performances of this season’s 239 eligible productions.
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So, FULL-LENGTH festival shows aren’t considered?
Correct. The awards are limited – if you want to think about it that way – to professionally produced productions with a long enough run so that everyone has the chance to see them.
The one I regret missing the most this year (good question!) is A Man of No Importance.
Sorry to hear you missed A Man of No Importance, that was an amazing show! For my own part, I’m sorry to have missed Adding Machine: A Musical.
I’m really bummed that I wasn’t able to see Hamlet at the Folger, or any of the shows over at Adventure this year.
To many to name – Clybourne Park, American Buffalo, Angels in America, both parts, just to name a few. I’m glad the Ramayan is coming back next year because I really wanted to work that in my schedule and just couldn’t. Also the snowstorm made us (my husband and I) miss The Last Cargo Cult. That was a bummer as we really enjoyed How Theater Failed America the year prior.
Also, I am assuming by “Marcus Andronicus” you mean Molotov Theatre Group’s “Mondo Andronicus”, yes?
Missed a lot due to blizzards and a broken wrist – The Best of Friends – Thurgood – Phedre – I Am My Own Wife – Wittenberg – Sophisticated Ladies…and two plays not on your list: The Rivalry & Master Class.
I’m sorry I missed The Goat or Who is Sylvia at the Rep in Columbia.
I most regret missing In Darfur and Angels in America Part II — Part I was so terrific…. but also wished I’d seen Sophisticated Ladies. Such an extensive list of productions! — it’s impossible to see everything I want to see!
Just like every year, I missed several plays that I would have loved to see. But I really regret that I could not see Mikveh.
Congratulations to All on an incredible advancement within our theatre scene this season! I definitely wish I had made it out to A Flea In Her Ear, Lulu (and Every Young Womans Desire), Metamorphosis, The Goat, and Orestes. My Ace In The Sleeve goes to I Am My Own Wife, what a trump performance/production. Here’s to the season ahead and collections uncovered. Cheers
To answer my own question, the local production I most regret missing (mostly due to snow) is Keegan Theatre’s Rent. Friends whose opinion I respect all say it was wonderful.
Among touring shows I regret missing Thurgood. By the time I got my head above water at work all of the remaining shows were sold out.
I was sorry to miss Port Authority at Quotidian and Angels in America.
Regrets – I have a few …
Harvey at Bay Theatre. I’ve always been curious about this so-called ‘money play’, and Ted’s review for it made me wish I had planned for it earlier.
Knuffle Bunny, the new musical by Mo Williams was a quick sell-out at the Kennedy Center. Hoping it returns for a longer run.
Probably will miss seeing Holly Twyford tap dance in If You Give a Pig a Pancake. It’s still running til Aug 22nd, but seats are sold out.
and the Synetic spectacle Antony and Cleopatra.
I was fortunate to see some wonderful shows this season, but I have to say that the one that I heard a lot about and really missed was Adding Machine: A Musical
I’m really bummed I wasn’t able to see High Fidelity. I heard it was fantastic!!
I really wish I had seen Adding Machine, Title of Show, Keegan’s Rent and Angels In America.
I’m upset I didn’t get to see Keegan’s RENT. I heard amazing things. I tried many time and it was sold out. Also, Angels in America for the same reasons.
I regret not seeing Angels in America at Forum and Oliver at Toby’s Baltimore.