NewsPinkins, Davis, Caroline and Little Night Music Vie for L.A. Drama Critics Circle AwardsWest Coast stagings of Caroline, or Change, A Little Night Music, and Hairspray are among the shows with most nominations for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for excellence in L.A. and Orange County theatre for the year 2004.
By
Ernio Hernandez
February 08, 2005
Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or ChangePhoto by Michal Daniel
Tony Award nominee Harry Groener (Oklahoma!, Crazy for You) and theatre critic Wenzel Jones will host the 36th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony set for March 21 at 7:30 PM at West Hollywood's Coronet Theatre. Tickets ($35) are available by calling (818) 754-4785. Doors open at 6:30 PM for drinks and a buffet.
Special awards will be bestowed as follows: The Margaret Harford Award (for sustained excellence in theatre) will go to Dakin Matthews. The Ted Schmitt Award (for world premiere of an outstanding new play) will also be presented to Dakin Matthews for The Prince of L.A. The Bob Z Award (for lifetime achievement in set design) will honor Tom Buderwitz. The Angstrom Award (for lifetime achievement in lighting design) goes to Steven Young. The Natalie Schafer Award (for an emerging comic actress) will be awarded to Kirsten Vangsness. The Polly Warfield Award (for an excellent season/year in a small-to-mid-sized theatre) will be bestowed upon The Black Dahlia Theatre. And the Lifetime Achievement Award will honor Center Theatre Group artistic director Gordon Davidson.
The 2004 nominees for Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards are:
PRODUCTION
A Little Night Music - New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Caroline, or Change - Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays
Cyrano De Bergerac - South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Stage
Exits and Entrances - Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
Hot Mikado - Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Theater District - The Black Dahlia Theatre TOM MCCULLOH AWARD (REVIVAL)
A Flea in Her Ear - A Noise Within, A Noise Within
Awake and Sing - Shashin Desai, International City Theatre
Rocket to the Moon - Pacific Resident Theatre and West Coast Jewish Theatre DIRECTION
Elina De Santos, Rocket to the Moon
Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez Elliott, A Flea In Her Ear
Scott Ellis, A Little Night Music
Jessica Kubzansky, Light - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Stuart Rogers, Book of Days - Theatre Tribe
Stephen Sachs, Exits and Entrances
Matt Shakman Theater DistrictMUSICAL DIRECTION
Lloyd Cooper, Hot Mikado
John DeMain, A Little Night Music
Kimberly Grigsby, Caroline, or Change
Gerald Sternbach, Company - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Jim Vukovich, Hairspray - Pantages Theatre WRITING
Athol Fugard, Exits and Entrances
Tom Jacobson, Ouroboros - The Other Side of the Hill Productions, Inc., the Road Theatre
Trey L. Wilson, Stage Directions - Ensemble Studio Theatre ADAPTATION
Matthew Barber, Enchanted April - Pasadena Playhouse
Bart DeLorenzo, Hard Times - The Evidence Room
Nicholas Saunders and Fran Dwyer Chekhov X 4 - The Antaeus Company MUSICAL SCORE
Bark! David Troy Francis (music) and Gavin Geoffrey Dillard & Robert Schrock (lyrics), with additional lyrics by Mark Winkler, Jonathan Heath, and Danny Lukic - Bark Productions, The Coast Playhouse
Hairspray Marc Shaiman (music) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics)
Caroline, or ChangeJeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics) LEAD PERFORMANCE
Viola Davis, Intimate Apparel - Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum
Mark Harelik, Cyrano de Bergerac
Morlan Higgins, Exits and Entrances
Wade McCollum, Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Derek Charles Livingston, Celebration Theatre
Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A. - Andak Stage Company, NewPlace Theatre Center
Jeremy Sisto, Take Me Out - Geffen Playhouse at the Brentwood Theatre
Cory Stoll, Intimate ApparelENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
The cast of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, Powerhouse Theatre Company and Les Freres Corbusier
The cast of Book of Days
The cast of Chekhov x 4SCENIC DESIGN
Michael Anania, A Little Night Music
D Martyn Bookwalter, Talley's Folly - Pasadena Playhouse and Arizona Theatre Company
Craig Siebels, Dorian - Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Attractions LIGHTING DESIGN
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauser, Caroline, or Change
Michael Gilliam, 110 in the Shade - Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse
Jeremy Pivnick, LightCOSTUME DESIGN
Lindsay W. Davis, A Little Night Music
Scott Lane, Dorian
Catherine Zuber, Intimate ApparelSOUND DESIGN
David B. Marling, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jon Weston, A Little Night Music
John Zalewski, M. Butterfly - East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre CHOREOGRAPHY
Kay Cole, Bark!
Sean McNight, Hot Mikado
Jerry Mitchell, HairsprayHAIR, WIGS AND MAKEUP DESIGN
Paul Huntley (wig and hair design) Hairspray A tally of show with multiple nominations follows: Caroline, or Change - 7 A Little Night Music - 6 Exits and Entrances - 5 Hairspray - 4 Light - 4 Chekhov x 4 - 3 Hot Mikado - 3 Intimate Apparel - 3 Theater District - 3 A Flea in Her Ear - 2 Bark! - 2 Book of Days - 2 Cyrano De Bergerac - 2 Dorian - 2 Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2 Rocket to the Moon -
The LADCC, founded in 1969, is dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism, and to the encouragement and improvement of theatre in Greater Los Angeles. 17 critics reviewed theatre for different websites, radio stations, and newspapers and magazines for the year 2004. For more information, visit www.ladramacriticscircle.com.
