NH Theatre Awards Nominations

Music Man is nominated for several NH Theatre Awards. So excited for my fellow castmates. So excited for Feb 3rd

(Updated Feb 4th 4:02pm)

• Ashley Hughes Best Lead Actress in a musical Winner
• Liz Calabria Best Chreographer
• Paula Troie Best Costume Designer Top 3 Finalist
• Steve Vordenberg Kevin Linkroum Dave Ostrowski, Alan D, Kapalan Best Scenic Design
• Michelle Emmond and Meg Peterson Best Supporting Actress
• Best Sound Design John Sauter
• Best Ligthing Design Alan D Kaplan
• Music Man is also nominated for best musical production

For the full nominationas list please go here :
http://www.nhtheatreawards.com/index.php?categoryid=94
Other notable nominations for shows I have seen through out this year (if bolded it means winner)
A Chorus Line Stagecoach Productions
Best Director. Best Choregrapher, Best Lead Actor in A Musical, Best Lead Actress in A Musical, Best Supporting Actor in A Musical
Suessical Peacock Players
Best Performance Youth, Best Supporting Actor Youth Best Supporting Actress Youth , Best Director
Guys and Dolls Actorsingers
Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress ,Best Supporting Actress,Scenic Design, Sound Design.
My fellow Barn Playhouse co-worker Joel Mercier is nominated for two awards for Best Musical Direction of The Drowsy Chaperone at New London Barn Playhouse and Best Director for A New Brain with New Thalian Players. The Barn Playhouse's production of Drowsy Chaperone is nominated for 8 more awards aside from Best Musical Director
Congrats to my theatre professor from NEC Wally Pineault for his nominaton for Best Director of a Drama/Comedy for Almost Maine at Community Players of Concord

NH Theatre Awards Winners

Tried to do a video blog to recap the NHTA's but it would not upload to youtube properly. :(

Congrats to all who won awards! There are particular people I wish to highlight in this entry.


This year I mostly went to the theatre awards for the fun of it and to support the people I knew who were nominated. There were two things I felt made the ceremony drag on forever that I think should be eliminated next year. Those two things are the banter in between presentations and they should do something with letting people know beforehand that certain recipents aren't going to be there to cut back on so much time the people giving the trophies out walking back and forth. My top three favorite performances were Children of Eden (Amherst PTA), Wedding Singer (Peacock Players) and Christmas Carol A Musical Ghost Story (Community Players of Concord).



I was very happy that The Wedding Singer made out so well at the awards. It was one of my favorite shows that I saw last year and I think it was very well deserving of best Youth Performance. Other awards the show won were Best Supporting Actress (Alyssa Dumas) Best Supporting Actor (Andrew Barret Cox) and best Cheoreographer (Valerie Posinos)



Another show that made out very well that I WISH I had seen was Pirates of Penzance put on by my summer stock Alma mata New London Barn Playhouse. They won a slew of awards including best Director ( Carol Dunne) Best Musical Director (Joel Mercier who also won best Origianl Playwright for his play A Christmas Carol A Musical Ghost Story with Community Players of Concord) and Best Leading Actress in a A Musical (Serena Brook).



Congrats to the above listed people as well as Jennie Leonard (Best Supporting Actresss in a Drama Comedy Laramie Project Winni Players) and Ashley Hughes (Best Actress Musical Little Women Stagecoach Productions) on your awards!



I am crossing my fingers that The Music Man will get nominated for a few things for next year's NHTAs. It would be amazing to perform at the Palace! :)

Willy Wonka

So things have been hectic and super stressful with job searching and I haven't gotten the chance to blog about going to see Willy Wonka JR @ the Boys and Girls Club on Jan 20th so now I will take the opportunity to do as such.

I loved the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory when I was a kid so when I first found out the Riverbend Youth Company was doing Willy Wonka Jr I was really excited. I was very impressed with the depth of the talent with the students who are in the Riverbend Youth Company. This theatre troupe is made up of middle and high school students from Amherst, Mt Vernon, Hollis, Brookline and Nashua. Everything about this show was well done singing,chreography the works. It was a very much enjoyed performance. I think my favorite song from the show was Think Positiive. It was very upbeat and lively and exatcly the way that people should be thinking in these tough economic times.
I look foward to seeing more Riverbend Youth Company productions in the future.

The NH Theatre Awards were on Thursday. I didn't get to go to the ceremony because I didn't have a ride and I also had other stuff to do that night but I was excited to find out that quite a few local shows and actors from Peacock Players and Milford Area Players won awards. Congrats to alll!

Upcoming Shows I will be seeing
February 14th Godspell @ Peacock Players
March 9th Dirty Dancing in Boston with Nashua Tech College Theatre Club
Weekend of March 27th

• Souhegan Spring Musical Pirates of Penzance
• CTE Spring Show- A Night of One Acts