The 2009 January Ovation Awards, Celebrating the Musicals of 2008
The following is a list of the awards, the top nominations for each award, and the winner of the award in bold:
Production – Professional Drowsy Chaperone (Vancouver Playhouse) Into The Woods (Patrick Street) I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Gateway Theatre) Musical of Musicals, the Musical (Fighting Chance Productions) The Producers (ACTC) Production – Amateur Anything Goes (Metro) Annie Get Your Gun (TUTS) The Boyfriend (Studio 58) West Side Story (RCMT) Once On This Island (Cap College) Production – Co-operative/Independent Edges Gutenberg! The Musical The World Goes Round Production – Pantomime Aladdin And His Magic Lamp (Metro) Mother Goose (Royal Canadian Theatre Co.) Panto Of The Rings (Presentation House) Princess and the Pea (FVGSS) Puss ‘N Boots (North Van Players) Puss ‘N Boots (White Rock Players) Production – Other: Operetta, Revue or Concert Fete Boheme (3 Broads & A Baritone) Fifty Million Frenchmen (AMIC) Lolanthe (FVGSS) Tenderloin (AMIC) What Not To Wish... (Broadway Chorus) New Work Bruce, The Musical (Theatre In The Raw) Quarterlife (Feisty Fairy Productions) Director Brian Anderson (Gutenburg! The Musical) Dean Paul Gibson (The Boyfriend) Peter Jorgenson (Into The Woods) Ryan Mooney (Musical of Musicals) Max Reimer (Drowsy Chaperone) Shane Snow (World Goes Round) Music Director James Bryson (West Side Story) Kevin Michael Cripps (Once On This Island) Scott Knight (Into The Woods) Lloyd Nicholson (Drowsy Chaperone) Gordon Roberts (World Goes Round) Wendy Bross Stuart (Annie Get Your Gun) Choreographer Valerie Easton (West Side Story) Dawn Ewen (Anything Goes) Shane Snow (Edges) Shelley Stewart Hunt (The Boyfriend) Dayna Tekatch (Drowsy Chaperone) |
Lead Performance – Male
Jay Brazeau (Drowsy Chaperone) Damon Calderwood (Billy Bishop) Nathan Clark & Ken Lawson (Gutenberg! The Musical) Josh Epstein (Producers) Michael Scholar Jr. (Black Rider) Lead Performance – Female Meghan Anderssen (Annie Get Your Gun) Kazumi Evans (West Side Story) Alison Macdonald (World Goes Round) Susan Skemp (Anything Goes) Colleen Winton (Musical of Musicals) Supporting Performance – Male Thom Alison (Drowsy Chaperone) Mark Burgess (Producers) Jackson Davies (Producers) Joel Stephanson (Fantasticks) Dane Szohner (West Side Story) Supporting Performance – Female Sara Jeanne Hosie (Guys & Dolls) Gabriel Jones (Drowsy Chaperone) Ingrid Nilson (Into The Woods) Robyn Wong (West Side Story) Cathy Wilmot (Anything Goes) Gypsy – Male Greg Armstrong Morris (Seussical) Darren Burkett (Annie Get Your Gun, West Side Story, Producers, Beauty) Brandyn Eddy (West Side Story, JCS) Michael Kovac (Annie Get Your Gun) Bryan Nothling (Frog/Toad) Gypsy – Female Melissa Assalone (Christmas Carol) Meagan Ekelund (West Side Story, Frog/Toad) Anna Kuman (Musical of Musicals) Keri Minty (Producers) Melissa Young (Into The Woods/Beauty & The Beast) Costume Design Phillip Clarkson (Drowsy Chaperone) Barbara Clayden (Into The Woods) Marissa Kochanski (Black Rider) Chris Sinosich (Annie Get Your Gun) Sheila White (The Boyfriend) Set Design Pam Johnson (The Boyfriend) Marissa Kochanski (Black Rider) JC Olivier (Drowsy Chaperone) Bryan Pollock (West Side Story) Marti Wright (Into The Woods) Behind The Scenes Award: Diane Berladyn |