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finley nominations for musicals.

Mon, 3 Jan 2011, 11:04 am
kerri64 posts in thread
The Finley nominations for musicals are as follows. Best costumes: Honk - Nine Lives Productions. Mame - Murray Music and Drama Jonah - Playlovers Spamalot - Playlovers. My Fair Lady - Darlington Best Set: Into the Woods - Roleystone Jonah - Playlovers Nine - Playlovers My Fair Lady - Darlington Spamalot - Playlovers. Breakthrough Charlie Darlington - Malice in Wunderland- Darlington Imogen Guest - Sound of Music, Stage Left Alistair Smith - Sound of Music, Stage Left Charlotte Devenport - Devil Downtown - UDS Emma Davis - Nine - Roleystone. Youth Award Ashlea Tunbridge - Honk, Nine Lives Productions. Charlie Darlington - Malice in Wunderland , Darlington Tess Hutchinson - Delicious House, Mesh Scott Blachford - Honk, Nine Lives productions. Best Musical Theatre Performer - Female Charlotte Devenport - Devil Downtown - UDS Carolyn Latter - Jonah , Playlovers. Cassandra Kotchie - My Fair Lady- Darlington Kerryn Lockhart - Sound of Music , Stage Left Louisa Fitzharding - Reefer Madness - Blak Yak Best Musical Theatre Performer - Male Tyler Jones - Spamalot - Playlovers Travis Hooper - Sound of Music, Stage Left Allan Schintu - My Fair Lady, Darlington Rod Worth - Jonah , Playlovers Jon Lambert - Honk, Nine Lives productions. Tyler Jones - Jonah , Playlovers. Best Choreography Kylie Baker - Altar Boyz - Mesh Joanne Neesham - Reefer Madness - Blak Yak Jess Dunn - Devil Downtown - UDS Hilary Readings - Jesus Christ Superstar - Wanneroo Kristen Twynham Perkins - Spamalot - Playlovers. Best Musical Direction Tim How - Altar Boyz- Mesh Matt Austin - Reefer Madness - Blak Yak Andrew Dobosz - My Fair Lady - Darlington Alistair Smith - Jonah- Playlovers Matt Austin - Into the Woods - Roleystone Kate McIntosh - Jesus Christ Superstar - Wanneroo. Best Director of a Musical Lorna Mackie - Reefer Madness - Blak Yak John Milson - Jonah - Playlovers. Ryan Taaffe - Jesus Christ Superstar - Wanneroo Kimberley Shaw - Spamalot - Playlovers.

One for the ITA to answer?

Thu, 6 Jan 2011, 08:17 am
The quick answer is that sound and lighting design are usually covered in adjudicators certificates. Why they don't have a major award I'm not sure on Disgruntled. I think it may have something to do with the number of awards already in place but even typing that I realise that's not a great or satisfactory answer. Over to Kim and the committee for an answer. As for stage managers, the key problem I see with that is that the adjudicators can only judge what they can see onstage and a lot of stage manager work is done backstage, in rehearsal, etc and without being backstage to observe, it's problematic to adjudicate. You could argue that one way of assessing this would be the efficiency of scene changes but thats only part of the job. In summary, how do you adjudicate a good stage manager? That's my thinking and I believe that's why there is no award. I agree with you though - a good stage manager is worth their weight in gold. In lieu of awards I find they survive very well on hugs.

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