The honors — "celebrating excellence in theatre" in Los Angeles — took place Nov. 12 at 7:30 PM at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A. Broadway and television star Neil Patrick Harris hosted the evening, which featured the presentation of the Career Achievement Award to stage and screen star Annette Bening.

Can-Can and George Gershwin Alone's four wins apiece boosted the respective Pasadena and Los Angeles companies to the evening's most honors, tied with The Theatre @ Boston Court (which produced triple winner Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings and single honoree Bleed Rail).

Also among the winners were Souvenir star Judy Kaye, solo performer Dael Orlandersmith, George Gershwin Alone actor Hershey Felder, Hotel C'est L'amour star Vicki Lewis, the touring company of Jersey Boys and the new Rachel Sheinkin, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes.

The nominations for the 2007 L.A. Ovation Awards (*with winners in bold, some categories have multiple winners) follow:

WORLD PREMIERE PLAY  

Bad Hurt On Cedar Street - Mark Kemble
Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles, John C. Mooney

 

 

Because They Have No Words - Tim Maddock & Lotti Louise Pharriss
Weirdsmobile Productions LLC, Lotti Louise Pharriss

 

 

Fallujah - W. Colin McKay
Theatre East, W. Colin McKay

 

 

*Film Chinois - Damon Chua
Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson

 

 

Gulf View Drive - Arlene Hutton
Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre

 

 

Space Therapy - Justin Tanner
Zephyr Theatre, Linda Toliver & Gary Guidinger

 

 

Yellow Face - David Henry Hwang
Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL

 

 

13 - Music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown; Book by Dan Elish
Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum

 

 

Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert - Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, based on the music of John Denver
Rubicon Theatre Company & Harold Thau Productions

 

 

Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - Book & music by Eric Whitacre, Lyrics by David Norona and Eric Whitacre
The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

*Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Book by Rachel Sheinkin; Music & lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

A Time For Love - Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. & Joel Silberman; Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr
Rubicon Theatre Company RAY STRICKLYN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR SOLO PERFORMANCE

 

 

*Dael Orlandersmith, The Gimmick - Fountain Theatre, Simon Levy

 

 

Keo Woolford, I Land - East West Players, Co-commissioned by the Asia Society and the Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City

 

 

Lynn Redgrave, Nightingale - Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum

 

 

Jodi Long, Surfing DNA - East West Players

 

 

Fritz Coleman, Tonight at 11! - Falcon Theatre & Steven Ullman ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

 

 

Because They Have No Words - Weirdsmobile Productions, LLC, Lotti Louise Pharriss

 

 

Beehive, The 60's Musical - Valley Musical Theatre, Ronn Goswick

 

 

*Jitney - Stagewalker Productions

 

 

The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe

 

 

The Marvelous Wonderettes Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider

 

 

Plaid Tidings - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

Small Tragedy - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble DIRECTION OF A PLAY

 

 

Michael Matthews, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre

 

 

Michael Matthews, Beautiful Thing - Celebration Theatre

 

 

Claude Purdy, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions

 

 

*Stuart Rogers, The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe

 

 

Vivian Matalon, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

 

 

Cameron Watson, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

Robin Larsen, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

 

 

*David Lee, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Joel Zwick, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Joel Zwick, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty Eight Productions

 

 

Roger Bean, The Marvelous Wonderettes - Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider

 

 

Michael Michetti, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Jeff Calhoun, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

Nick DeGruccio, Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble CHOREOGRAPHY

 

 

Lee Martino, Beehive, The 60's Musical - Valley Musical Theatre, Ronn Goswick

 

 

Patti Colombo, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Cheryl Baxter, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III

 

 

*Lee Martino, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best

 

 

Bubba Carr & Caleb Terray, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Tracy Powell, Urinetown: The Musical - Interact Theatre Company

 

 

Christine Lakin & Paul Nygro, Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble MUSICAL DIRECTION

 

 

*Dan Wheetman, Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert - Rubicon Theatre Company & Harold Thau Productions

 

 

Steve Orich, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Hershey Felder, Monseiur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Gerald Sternbach, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best

 

 

Greg Chun, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

*Brendan Milburn, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum TOURING PRODUCTION

 

 

Doubt - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

 

 

In The Continuum - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre, Primary Stages and Perry Street Theatre

 

 

*Jersey Boys - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

 

 

Twelve Angry Men - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

 

 

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre PLAY (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre

 

 

Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney

 

 

Beautiful Thing - Celebration Theatre

 

 

*Jitney - Stagewalker Productions

 

 

The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe

 

 

Safety - Closet Space Theatre

 

 

Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre PLAY (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

As You Like It - A Noise Within

 

 

Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

*Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

 

 

Trying - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre FRANKLIN R. LEVY MEMORIAL AWARD FOR MUSICAL (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

The Beastly Bombing - The Secret Order of Revolutionary Operettists, Rorry Daniels & Amit Itelman

 

 

*The Marvelous Wonderettes - Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider

 

 

Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Urinetown: The Musical - Interact Theatre Company

 

 

Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble MUSICAL (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

*George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty Eight Productions

 

 

Monseiur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Plaid Tidings - La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY

 

 

Eddie Jones, Death of a Salesman - Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher

 

 

Laurence Fishburne, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Joe Sears, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

Jaston Williams, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

Tim Sullens, Taking Care - The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny

 

 

*Alan Mandell, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

Dan Lauria, The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY

 

 

Yeardley Smith, Balancing Act - Falcon Theatre

 

 

Anne Gee Byrd, The Bay at Nice - Andak Stage Company

 

 

Anne Gee Byrd, Death of a Salesman - Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher

 

 

Anna Khaja, Palace of the End - 49th Parallel Theatre

 

 

*Judy Kaye, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

 

 

Rebecca Mozo, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

Deborah Puette, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

 

 

Kevin Bailey, Annie Get Your Gun - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III

 

 

Kevin Earley, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

*Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Jeffry Denman, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

 

 

*Michelle Duffy, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Misty Cotton, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III

 

 

Hila Plitmann, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

Alexandria Wailes, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

 

 

Laurence Cohen, Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney

 

 

*Hugo Armstrong, Bleed Rail - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Richard Tatum, A Doll's House - Ark Theatre Company

 

 

*Dan Alemshah, The Fat of the Land - The New Theatre, Don Cummings, Dan Alemshah & Mary McBride

 

 

Orlando Jones, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Wendell Pierce, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Matt Foyer, Power - Theatre Banshee FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

 

 

Iris Gilad, Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney

 

 

Lily Holleman, Bleed Rail - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Sharon Johnston, Kimberly Akimbo - The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny & Maria Gobetti

 

 

*Judith Moreland,Miss Julie - Fountain Theatre

 

 

Peggy Goss, Safety - Closet Space Theatre

 

 

Bonnie Bailey-Reed, See Rock City - Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre

 

 

Deborah Strang, A Touch of the Poet - A Noise Within FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

 

 

*David Engel, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Amir Talai, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Kevin McMahon, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West

 

 

John Massey, Jr., The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West

 

 

Randal Keith, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Norman Large, The Pirates of Penzance - Musical Theatre West

 

 

Kevin Earley, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

 

 

Carol Hatchett, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III

 

 

Mary Jo Catlett, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West

 

 

Tami Tappan Damiano, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West

 

 

*Vicki Lewis, Hotel C'est L'amour - The Blank Theatre Company

 

 

Yvette Tucker, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best

 

 

Erika Amato, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

Gina D'Acciaro, Tales of Tinseltown - Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre SET DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

Two Blue Chairs, 1 to 10? - The Theatre District

 

 

Brian Sidney Bembridge, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company

 

 

Leonard Ogden, Film Chinois - Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson

 

 

Joel Daavid, Jitney Stagewalker Productions

 

 

Travis Gale Lewis, Miss Julie - Fountain Theatre

 

 

*Tom Buderwitz, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Craig Siebels, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre SET DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

*Roy Christopher, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Thomas S. Giamario, The Diary of Anne Frank - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Yael Pardess, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Thomas S. Giamario, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Francois-Pierre Couture, A Picasso - Geffen Playhouse

 

 

Victoria Profitt, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

*Keith Mitchell, The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre LIGHTING DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

Tim Swiss, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre

 

 

Brian Sidney Bembridge, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company

 

 

Jeremy Pivnick, Gilgamesh - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Joel Daavid, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions

 

 

Luke Moyer, The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe

 

 

Christopher Kuhl, Monster of Happiness - 24th St. Theatre

 

 

*Steven Young, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court LIGHTING DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

Michael Gilliam, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

*Michael Gilliam, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Richard Norwood, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Jeremy Pivnick, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Michael Gilliam, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

Jason H. Thompson, Sunday in the Park with George - Reprise! Broadway's Best

 

 

Jared Sayeg, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company SOUND DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

Cricket Myers, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre

 

 

John Zalewski, Bleed Rail - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

Robbin E. Broad, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company

 

 

John Zalewski, Melancholia - Latino Theater Company

 

 

Richard Alger & Tina Kronis, Monster of Happiness - 24th St. Theatre

 

 

John Zalewski, No Mercy - 24th St. Theatre

 

 

*Martin Carillo, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court SOUND DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

Francois Bergeron, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Ken Huncovsky, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

*Jon Gottlieb, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

 

 

Eric Snodgrass, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

 

 

David Budries, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

 

 

John Zalewski, The Thousandth Night - The Colony Theatre Company

 

 

Cricket Myers, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company COSTUME DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)

 

 

Leonard Ogden, Film Chinois - Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson

 

 

Rudy Dillon, Hogan's Goat - Pacific Resident Theatre, Alley Mills, Jake Arnette & Dan Kozlowski

 

 

Nanci Martin, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions

 

 

JoAnna Jocelyn, Les Liaisons Dangeureses - Ark Theatre Company

 

 

Soojin Lee, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court

 

 

A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Travesties - Open Fist Theatre Company

 

 

*Audrey Fisher, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre COSTUME DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)

 

 

Randy Gardell, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

Linda Fisher, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

 

 

Marcy Froehlich, Hamlet - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Marcy Froehlich, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company

 

 

Bob Mackie & Joe McFate, No Strings - Reprise! Broadway's Best

 

 

*Tracy Christensen, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

 

 

A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company LA STAGE ALLIANCE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AWARDS:

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Annette Bening

THE JAMES A. DOOLITTLE LEADERSHIP IN THEATRE AWARD
Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AWARD
The Actors Fund

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