applausemusicals.com - OA: Significant Achievement

	CONGRATULATIONS to the following individuals who have been presented with SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT OVATION AWARDS since the OVATION Awards began in 2005. This award is awarded annually to a member of the community who has contributed a minimum of 10 years to the development, promotion and continuation of musical theatre in the lower mainland.
	Johnny Duncan - January 2007 Mr. Duncan is a director, writer, producer, fundraiser and volunteer. He has directed numerous musicals over the yeas including the western Canadian premiere of Blood Brothers. Much of his involvement has been with Metro Theatre where he as also written their annual panto for numerous years. For Metro he also directed Seesaw, My Fair Lady, I Do I Do, Paint Your Wagon and Oh Coward. Other companies he was associated with were Richmond Musical Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars and Dunbar Musical Theatre.
	Perry Ehrlich - January 2009 For over 10 years the director and founder of Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! has attracted hundreds of enthusiastic and talented participants from throughout BC and as far away as Isreal. He combines a busy legal career with his love of musical theatre working with children. Perry is a composer, pianist, teacher, arranger, producer, adjudicator, writer and talent coordinator. He is also the director of SHOSTOPPERS, a teenage performance troupe. His programs have provided the training grounds for many of Vancouver's most successful musical theatre performers.
	Ed Harrington - January 2006 Retired teacher and director of high school musicals, Ed was the founding Artistic Director of Royal City Musical Theatre in New Westminster.He has directed and acted with such diverse Lower Mainland groups as UBC, Metro Theatre, Vagabond Players, and the Vancouver International Festival.
	Lloyd Nicholson - January 2005 Lloyd Nicholson was artistic director of Royal City Music Theatre and an instructor at Studio 58, and had worked across the country in a career that spanned more than three decades. Lloyd passed away in the fall of 2009.
	Bill Millerd - January 2005 As the Artistic Managing Director of the Arts Club Theatre Company, Bill Millerd continues to make a significant contribution to the musical theatre community especially with the presentation of more professional musicals than any other company in the lower mainland. He has demonstrated a real desire to attend and support other productions often scouting out new talent and ideas for possible co-productions or show transfers.
	Cecilia Smith - January 2008 A long time performer, and volunteer with many organizations in the lower mainland Cecilia's forte is accents; at Metro Theatre she used her talents in Stop The World with Russian, German, Bronx and terrible English. She has worked in feature films, commercials, radio plays, taped books and dinner theatre and teaching. She is remembered for being the definitive Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Centennial Theatre and Malkin Bowl. Cecilia has won Best Supporting Actress in Dominion Drama Festival, the EV Young Award (TUTS) and Best Actress in the BC Drama Association. She has also spent countless volunteer hours as the archivist for Theatre Under The Stars, Vancouver's oldest musical theatre company.
	Roger Smith - January 2008 Roger was instrumental in working with a dedicated and driven group to resurrect Theatre Under The Stars after the demise of the professional company in the 60's. Roger applied his knowledge of all aspects of production including stage management, lighting design etc. to build the society as well as conducing many seminars teaching the principles of stage management. Roger sat in the board with TUTS for many years and in 2004 the board recognized he and his wife Cecilia's many years of service and dedication with the creation of a new volunteer award named in their honour. Roger has also worked with numerous other companies in the lower mainland including Dunbar Musical Theatre, North Shore Light Opera, Ophidian Theatre, and Royal City Musical Theatre.
	Pat Waldron- January 2006 Pat's theatre career spans over many years in some 37 musicals and plays. Highlights include Chicago (Vancouver Playhouse), Anne of Green Gables (Charlotterown), Showboat (LiveEnt), Sweeney Todd (Arts Club). Pat established the "Singin' Dancin' Actin' Studio" and saw many students go through the courses to become professionals across the country. Pat produced the first four family musicals at Gateway Theatre including Annie Wizard of Oz, and Anne of Green Gables. In 1987 Pat was the executive producer of Peter Pan, the musical for SDA productions starring Cathy Rigby and Long John Baldry which toured to Seattle and Spokane and received four Jessie Awards including Best Musical and Outstanding Production of the Year. Pat was also the founder and producer of the former Dunbar Musical Theatre.

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