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AUDIENCE CHOICE Awards

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Sept 5 –

The results are in.  To celebrate, we recorded the Audience Choice Awards show. Tune in to hear James Konicek as host, DCTS staff announce the nominees, and the winners accept. Listen here.

Here are the top 5 finalists, and the *winners.

Best Play

  • *Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  • References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre)
  • Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)
  • Souvenir

Best Musical

  • *The Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  • Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  • Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  • Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)
  • Bricktop (MetroStage)

Best Performance by an Actress

  • *Donna Migliaccio (Abby and others)  The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
  • Heidi Blickenstaff (Ann)  Meet John Doe
  • Nora Woolley (Vivian) ¾ Mass for St. Vivian
  • Nancy Robinette (Florence Foster Jenkins) Souvenir
  • Susan Lynskey (Iris) Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

Best Performance by an Actor

  • * Bobby Smith (Jitter and others) The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
  • Marc Kudisch (Darryl Van Horne) Witches of Eastwick
  • Bill Irwin (George) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Bruce Nelson (George Schott) Bach at Leipzig
  • Rick Foucheux (Gordon) Dead Man’s Cell Phone

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Our First DCTS AUDIENCE CHOICE Awards

Aug 18,2007 – The first plays of the new season have already opened, but we find we haven’t bid a proper goodbye to that glorious 06/07 season.

We recently asked our reviewers and staff to rank their favorite top 5 productions and performers. Now we are asking all of our site visitors to help choose the Best Play, Best Musical, Best Actress and Best Actor for the 2006/2007 season.  The result we will call our Audience Choice Awards.

Included: All professional productions in the DC area between August 1, 2006 and July 31, 2007  (Productions mounted solely for Festivals, and Children’s Theatre productions were not included). The nominations, listed below, were taken from our staff’s top 3 of 5 nominations. Their full slate of nominations follow the list of nominees.

How to cast your votes

It’s easy to vote.  The polls are in the column to your right (scroll down).  Details that may be helpful for voting are below. The polls close at 6 pm on Wednesday, September 5th.  The results will be announced soon after.

Thanks for voting!

THE NOMINEES ARE

BEST PLAY

 

  • 3/4 Mass for St. Vivian  (Theater Alliance)
  • Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  • The Bluest Eye (Theater Alliance)
  • Democracy (Olney Theatre Center for the Arts)
  • Frankenstein (Synetic Theater)
  • Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  • Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company)
  • Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance)
  • Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
  • Mojo Mickybo (Keegan Theatre New Island Project)
  • Nine Parts of Desire (Arena Stage)
  • Noises Off (Arena Stage)
  • Orson’s Shadow (Round House Theatre)
  • Peter and Wendy (Arena Stage)
  • References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre)
  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Catalyst Theater Company)
  • Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  • Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)

BEST MUSICAL

  • Bricktop (MetroStage)
  • Cabaret (Arena Stage)
  • The Full Monty (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
  • The Light in the Piazza
  • Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  • Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  • Ragtime (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
  • Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)
  • She Loves Me (Arena Stage)
  • The Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

  • Heidi Blickenstaff [Ann] Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  • Veanne Cox [Kate] Beaux’ Stratagem (Shakespeare Theatre)
  • Gabriella Fernandez-Coffee [Gabby] References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre)
  • Kimberley Gilbert [Brenda-Marie] Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Woolly Mammoth Theatre)
  • Cherry Jones [Sister Aloysius] Doubt (National Theatre)
  • Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter and Wendy (Arena Stage)
  • Susan Lynskey [Iris] Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  • Maura McGuinn [Dean Daniels] Spinning into Butter (Journeymen Theatre)
  • Donna Migliaccio [Abby & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  • Polly Noonan [Jean] Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
  • Kate Eastwood Norris [Puck] Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger Theatre)
  • Heather Raffo [all roles] Nine Parts of Desire (Arena Stage)
  • Nancy Robinette [Florence Foster Jenkins] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  • Kerry Waters [Grace] Faith Healer (Keegan Theatre)
  • Nora Woolley [Vivian] 3/4 Mass for St. Vivian (Theater Alliance)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

  • Daniel Beatty [all roles] Emergence-SEE! (Arena Stage)
  • Raymond Bokhur [Rosencrantz] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Studio Theatre)
  • Raul Castillo [Cesar] Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)
  • Rick Foucheaux [Gordon] Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth)
  • Rick Foucheaux [Elia Kazan] The Director (Round House Theatre)
  • Christopher Henley [Dr. Dysart] Equus (Washington Shakespeare Theatre)
  • Wilbur Edwin Henry [Orson Welles] Orson’s Shadow (Round House Theatre)
  • Bill Irwin [George] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)
  • Marc Kudisch [Darryl Van Horne] Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  • Christopher Lane [Neil] In the Mood (Olney Theatre)
  • Krytzov Lindquist [Elliot] Opus (Washington Stage Guild)
  • Bruce Nelson [George Schott] Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  • KenYatta Rogers [Nat Turner] Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance)
  • J. Fred Schiffman [Head Waiter] She Loves Me (Arena Stage)
  • J. Fred Schiffman [Cosme McMoon] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  • Bobby Smith [Jitter & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  • Jeffries Thaiss [Gunter] Democracy (Olney Theatre Center)

DCTS STAFF: How They Voted.

Best Play

Debbie Jackson, Reviewer

  1. Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance)
  2. Bluest Eye (Theater Alliance)
  3. Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  4. Stones in His Pocket (Rep Stage)

Gary McMillan, Reviewer

  1. Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  2. Noises Off (Arena Stage)
  3. Frankenstein (Synetic Theatre)
  4. Pillowman (Studio Theatre)
  5. Rough Magic (Rorschach Theatre)

Janice Cane, Reviewer

  1. Peter & Wendy (Arena Stage)

Joel Markowitz, Columnist, Featured Podcasts

  1. Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  2. Orson’s Shadow (Round House Theatre)
  3. Peter & Wendy (Arena Stage)
  4. Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)

Lorraine Treanor, Editor

  1. Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  2. Mojo Mickybo (Keegan New Island Project)
  3. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
  4. Opus (Washington Stage Guild)
  5. Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)

Ronnie Ruff, General Manager, Reviewer

  1. References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre)
  2. Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)
  3. 3/4 Mass for St. Vivian (Theater Alliance)
  4. Nine Parts of Desire (Arena Stage)

Rosalind MacLennan, Reviewer

  1. Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  2. Democracy (Olney Theatre Center)
  3. Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance)
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Studio Theatre)
  5. Las Paredes (GALA Hispanic Theater)

Tim Treanor, Reviewer

  1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)
  2. Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Catalyst Theater)
  3. Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre)
  4. Mojo Mickybo (Keegan New Island Theatre)
  5. Scenes from the Big Picture (Solas Nua)

BEST MUSICAL

Debbie Jackson

  1. Bricktop (MetroStage)
  2. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)

Gary McMillan

  1. Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  2. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  3. The Full Monty (Toby’s Dinner Theater)
  4. Into the Woods (Signature Theatre)
  5. Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)

Joel Markowitz

  1. The Full Monty  (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
  2. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  3. Ragtime (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
  4. Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  5. Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)

Lorraine Treanor

  1. Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  2. Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  3. She Loves Me (Arena Stage)
  4. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  5. My Fair Lady (Signature Theatre)

Ronnie Ruff

  1. Cabaret (Arena Stage)
  2. She Loves Me (Arena Stage)

Rosalind Lacy

  1. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  2. Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)
  3. Light in the Piazza  (Kennedy Center)

Tim Treanor

  1. Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

Debbie Jackson

  1. Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter & Wendy (Arena Stage)
  2. Kerry Waters [Grace] Faith Healer (Keegan Theatre)
  3. Maura McGuinn [Dean Daniels] Spinning into Butter (Journeymen Theatre)
  4. Susan Lynskey [Iris] Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)

Gary McMillan

  1. Heidi Blickinstaff [Ann] Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  2. Donna Migliaccio [Abby & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  3. Nancy Robinette [Florence Foster Jenkins] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  4. Naomi Jacobson [Widow] Vigils (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
  5. Eleasha Gamble [Witch] Into the Woods (Signature Theatre)

Janice Cane

  1. Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter & Wendy (Arena Stage)
  2. Polly Noonan [Jean] Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)

Joel Markowitz

  1. Heidi Blickinstaff [Ann] Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre)
  2. Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter & Wendy (Arena Stage)
  3. Susan Lynskey [Iris] Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  4. Donna Migliaccio [Abby & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  5. Nancy Robinette [Florence Foster Jenkins] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)

Lorraine Treanor

  1. Susan Lynskey [Iris] Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  2. Kimberley Gilbert [Brenda-Marie] Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Woolly Mammoth)
  3. Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter and Wendy (Arena Stage)
  4. Helen Cary [Dottie Osley] Noises Off (Arena Stage)
  5. Kate Eastwood Norris [Kay/Jayne] She Stoops to Comedy (Woolly Mammoth)

Ronnie Ruff

  1. Gabriella Fernandez-Coffee [Gabby] References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre)
  2. Heather Raffo [all roles] Nine Parts of Desire (Arena Stage)
  3. Nora Woolley [Vivian] 3/4 Mass for St. Vivian (Theater Alliance)

Rosalind MacLennan

  1. Susan Lynskey [Iris] Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)
  2. Veanne Cox [Kate] Beaux’ Stratagem (Shakespeare Theatre)
  3. Donna Migliaccio [Abby & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  4. Kate Buddeke [Frankie] Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune (Arena Stage)
  5. Lisa Saubert [Maggie] Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)

Tim Treanor

  1. Karen Kandel [The Narrator] Peter and Wendy (Arena Stage)
  2. Cherry Jones [Sister Aloysius] Doubt (National Theatre)
  3. Kate Eastwood Norris [Puck] Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger Theatre)
  4. Kathleen Turner [Martha] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)
  5. Kimberley Gilbert [Brenda-Marie] Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Woolly Mammoth Theatre)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

Debbie Jackson

  1. Rick Foucheaux [Elia Kazan]  The Director  (Round House Theatre)
  2. KenYatta Rogers [Nat Turner] Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance)
  3. Bruce Nelson [George Schott] Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  4. Paul Morella [Eric] Brooklyn Boy (Olney Theatre)

Gary McMillan

  1. Marc Kudisch [Darryl Van Horne] Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  2. Bobby Smith [Jitter & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)
  3. J. Fred Schiffman [Cosme McMoon] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  4. Bobby Smith [Jack/Jesus] Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre)
  5. J. Fred Schiffman [Wooer] Vigils (Woolly Mammoth Theatre)

Janice Cane

  1. Rick Foucheaux [Gordon] Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth)
  2. Rick Foucheaux [Elia Kazan] The Director (Round House Theatre)

Joel Markowitz

  1. Marc Kudisch [Darryl Van Horne] Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  2. Wilbur Edwin Henry [Orson Welles] Orson’s Shadow (Round House Theatre)
  3. Bruce Nelson [George Schott] Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  4. J. Fred Schiffman [Cosme McMoon] Souvenir (Studio Theatre)
  5. Bobby Smith [Jitter & others] Musical of Musicals: The Musical (MetroStage)

Lorraine Treanor

  1. Krytzov Lindquist [Elliot] Opus (Washington Stage Guild)
  2. Raymond Bokhur [Rosencrantz] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Studio Theatre)
  3. J. Fred Schiffman [Head Waiter] She Loves Me (Arena Stage)
  4. Marc Kudisch [Darryl Van Horne] Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre)
  5. Jason Stiles [That One] In On It (Theater Alliance)

Ronnie Ruff

  1. Raul Castillo [Cesar] Throat (Allison Prouty Productions)
  2. J. Fred Schiffman [Head Waiter] She Loves Me (Arena Stage)

Rosalind MacLennan

  1. Bruce Nelson [George Schott] Bach at Leipzig (Rep Stage)
  2. Jeffries Thaiss [Gunter] Democracy (Olney Theatre)
  3. Christopher Henley [Dr. Dysart] Equus (Washington Shakespeare Theatre)
  4. Paul Morella [Eric] Brooklyn Boy (Olney Theatre)
  5. Rick Foucheaux [Gordon] Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth)

Tim Treanor

  1. Bill Irwin [George] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kennedy Center)
  2. Daniel Beatty [all roles] Emergence-SEE! (Arena Stage)
  3. Christopher Lane [Neil] In the Mood (Olney Theatre)
  4. Bruce Alan Rauscher [Edward III] Edward III (Washington Shakespeare)
  5. Jeffrey Carlson [Hamlet] Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre)

 

 

Comments

  1. what about Michelle Beck as Ophelia in Shakespeare Theater’s production of “Hamlet”??? That was the most amazing performance of that part I’ve ever seen!

  2. Um, folks. You got used. This is the poster child for what can go wrong with audience choice. It is absolutely not a coincidence that every single award went to a show associated with MetroStage. Not to take anything aware from the wonderful shows and actors that were nominated, but the sheer number of votes is way, way out of proportion.

    So, here’s what happened: Someone at the Brain Trust at MetroStage decided to hijack your audience poll as a way of drumming up free advertising for the theater. There is no doubt that’s what happened.

    The question is: Did you do it wittingly or unwittingly? If the former, why did you allow yourself to be used? If the latter, do you have any problem with the results?

  6. Two of my favorite plays you missed were Synetic Theater’s Macbeth and Shakespeare Theater’s Richard III, the latter with a stellar performance by Geraint Wyn Davies.

    from Takoma Park

  7. HEY – WHERE’S SYNETIC’S “ANIMAL FARM” ON YOUR LIST ???
    Shoulda been there!

    And I’ll take Nancy Robinette over Diva Donna ANYDAY – the former understands NUANCE and layers onstage….

  10. You know Don, when you compile a list of “Bests,” someone is going to be left off. I have seen every show that Carolee has been in, and many of them – two or three times, and I admire her talent. Her performance in “Parade” was sensational. Without her, “Saving Aimee” would have been “unsave-able.”

    The podcast I recorded with Carolee was one of the best interviews I have ever done, and she was delightful. You can hear it at
    https://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/06/coralee-carmello-on-saving-aimee/

    As for the best performance DC has ever seen Don- well- that goes to Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean in the Original Broadway production of “Les Miserables,” that premiered here at The Kennedy Center on December 27, 1986, before moving to Broadway on March 12, 1987.
    Joel

  11. UM….Carolee Carmello. Best performance DC has ever seen- let alone this year. Joel how could you leave off Carolee?????

  12. Here’s a VERY biased (hint) shout out to Solas Nus’s “Scenes from the Big Picture”

    Opinions??

  15. Why the 3 wonderful actresses in “The Witches of Eastwick” wasn’t nominated is a sin. Some of the best work in a musical in a long time. At least Marc K. was listed! Witches was a wonderful show and should be the number one show of the season.

  17. Although I voted for Nancy Robinette as best actress for Souvenir, I thought that Kerry Waters, Kate Norris and Heidi Blickenstaff were close runners up. Why wern’t Woolly’s “She Stoops to Comedy” and Studio’s “The Pillowman” on the list of best plays? They were both excellent — as good as “Orson’s Shadow” which was my vote — and much better than most of the others on the list.

    These lists do remind us of what excellent and varied theater and actors we have in Washington.

  18. Kind of fun, but ultimately silly idea …. 1 best of each category for the season? impossible! just shows what great theatre we have in town. one note – you break productions into best drama/best musical, but lump the actors together whether from drama or musical. Is such a different beast to perform and difficult to compare to each other, so why not separate out best actor in drama/best in musical?

  19. To add to my earlier comment, how about a category for favorite emerging actor or some such? This would allow a little more choice as to not have to compete against establshed professional actors. Just a thought. 🙂

  20. For best actors, my two favorites are the young actors in Mojo Mickybo. Neither was in the list of choices of best actor. I hope they won’t be overlooked in Helen Hayes awards.

  22. Audience Choice Awards — so glad you are doing this!

    I’d love it if DC THEATR ESCENE had a sort of chatroom/discussion board where we could discuss lots of stuff.

    There is so much going on . . . for example, remember that several-year brouhaha about the closing of the Source? Wouldn’t it have been fun to have been able to discuss that?

    Please consider having such a discussion board!

  23. Just a quick observation…one of the nominees for best actor has his name mispelled. It is Kryztov Lindquist …not as spelled on your list. Hope your awards are a success.

    Thanks

  24. With very few exceptions our reviewers have covered or seen nearly all professional productions for the season (180 productions). And, in addition to assignments, we are all regular theatre goers. So we asked Ronnie, Tim, Rosalind, Debbie, Gary, and Janice to rank their top 5 shows, whether they saw them as a reviewer or not. Joel nd I did also.

    We have listed everyone’s top 5 choices above. The polls consist of the top 3 of each reviewer’s top 5 lists.

    Speaking as one of the nominators, I can say it was very hard limiting myself to just 5 artists or productions. But not nearly as hard as voting in the Polls, where there is only 1 choice!

    Hope this explains it. Thanks for asking.

  25. how did the original lists get compiled? Obviously not everything can be listed — but how did you whittle down the lists?

  26. In order to pare down our nominations list, we chose the top 3 nominations from each staff member, which is why some appear on the top 5 nominations list, but not in the final polls. Thank you for finding the error in naming Mr. Morella’s character. We have corrected it.

  27. Two of your listed site folk named Paul Morella for his work in BROOKLYN BOY, however, he isn’t listed as a ‘nominee’. One of the listers mistakenly credits him for the role of “bruce’ who does not exist. The other properly credits Paul with playing the role of “Eric”. Snafu here?

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