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Two touring productions, “Caroline, or Change” and New York Opera’s “A Little Night Music,” garnered the most attention from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, which announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theater for 2004.
“Caroline” nabbed seven noms while “A Little Night Music” took home six. The two will compete for the top production award against South Coast Rep’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Simon Levy’s “Exits and Entrances,” Musical Theater West’s “Hot Mikado” and the Black Dahlia Theater’s “Theater District.”
Among local productions, the Fountain Theater preem of Athol Fugard’s “Exits and Entrances” secured five noms and Pasadena-based Boston Court’s “Light” received four. The national tour of “Hairspray,” which played the Pantages, also secured four.
With three noms each are the Black Dahlia’s staging of “Theater District,” Musical Theater West’s “Hot Mikado,” the Antaeus Company’s “Chekhov X 4″ and Roundabout Theater Company’s “Intimate Apparel” (presented by the Center Theater Group’s Mark Taper Forum).
In the Special Awards category, local thesp Dakin Matthews is a double honoree, receiving the Margaret Harford Award for sustained excellence in theater and the Ted Schmitt Award for world premiere of a new play, “The Prince of L.A.”
Departing Center Theater Group artistic director Gordon Davidson has been accorded the LADCC Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 36th annual awards ceremony will take place March 21 at West Hollywood’s Coronet Theater.
And the nominees are…
PRODUCTION A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre 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 Theatre District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, 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, Pacific Resident Theatre DIRECTION Elina De Santos, Rocket to the Moon, Pacific Resident Theatre and West Coast Jewish Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez Elliott, A Flea In Her Ear, A Noise Within, A Noise Within Scott Ellis, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Jessica Kubzansky, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court Stuart Rogers, Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre Stephen Sachs, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Matt Shakman, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre MUSICAL DIRECTION Lloyd Cooper, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Perform-ing Arts Center John DeMain, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Kimberly Grigsby, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Gerald Sternbach, Company, Reprise! Broadway’s Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse Jim Vukovich, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre WRITING Athol Fugard, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Tom Jacobson, Ouroboros, The Other Side of the Hill Productions, Inc., the Road Theatre Richard Kramer, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Jean-Claude Von Itallie, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court Trey L. Wilson, Stage Directions, Ensemble Studio Theatre-The LA Project, [Inside] the Ford ADAPTATION Matthew Barber, Enchanted April, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Play-house Bart DeLorenzo, Hard Times, the Evidence Room, the Evidence Room Nicholas Saunders and Fran Dwyer, Chekhov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center MUSICAL SCORE David Troy Francis (music) and Gavin Geoffrey Dillard & Robert Schrock (lyrics), Bark!, with additional lyrics by Mark Winkler, Jonathan Heath, and Danny Lukic, Bark Productions, The Coast Playhouse Marc Shaiman (music) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics), Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics), Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre LEAD PERFORMANCE Viola Davis, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum Mark Harelik, Cyrano de Bergerac, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Stage Morlan Higgins, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Wade McCollum, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Derek Charles Livingston, the Celebration Theatre Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A., Andak Stage Company, New-Place Theatre Center Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Lenny Von Dohlen, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court FEATURED PERFORMANCE Julian Acosta, Lovers and Executioners, South Coast Repertory, Julianne Argyros Stage Harry Groener, Chekov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center Arye Gross, Brooklyn Boy, South Coast Repertory in association with Manhattan Theatre Club, Segerstrom Stage William Dennis Hurley, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in associa-tion with Carole Shorenstein Hayes, the Ahmanson Theatre Jeremy Sisto, Take Me Out, the Geffen Playhouse, the Geffen Play-house at the Brentwood Theatre Cory Stoll, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company pro-duction presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE The cast of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, the Powerhouse Theatre Company and Les Freres Corbusier, Aaron Lemon-Strauss, Andrew Barrett-Weiss and Robert J. Wunsch, the Powerhouse Theatre The cast of Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre The cast of Chekhov x 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center SCENIC DESIGN Michael Anania, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion D Martyn Bookwalter, Talley’s Folly, Pasadena Playhouse and Arizona Theatre Company, the Pasadena Playhouse Craig Siebels, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Attractions, NoHo Arts Center LIGHTING DESIGN Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhau-ser, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Michael Gilliam, 110 in the Shade, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse Jeremy Pivnick, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court COSTUME DESIGN Lindsay W. Davis, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Scott Lane, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Productions, NoHo Arts Center Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum SOUND DESIGN David B. Marling, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Celebration Theatre, the Celebration Theatre Jon Weston, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion John Zalewski, M. Butterfly, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre CHOREOGRAPHY Kay Cole, Bark!, Bark Productions, the Coast Playhouse Sean McNight, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center Jerry Mitchell, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre HAIR, WIGS AND MAKEUP DESIGN Paul Huntley (wig and hair design), Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre SPECIAL AWARDS THE MARGARET HARFORD AWARD for sustained excellence in theatre (Funded by Pacific Resident Theatre) Dakin Matthews THE TED SCHMITT AWARD for world premiere of an outstanding new play (Funded by Z. Clark Branson) Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A. THE BOB Z AWARD for lifetime achievement in set design (Funded by the Fountain Theatre) Tom Buderwitz THE ANGSTROM AWARD for lifetime achievement in lighting design (Funded by Angstrom Lighting) Steven Young THE NATALIE SCHAFER AWARD for an emerging comic actress (Funded by the Natalie Schafer Trust) Kirsten Vangsness THE POLLY WARFIELD AWARD for an excellent season/year in a small-to-mid-sized theatre (Funded by contributions from the Los Angeles theatre community) The Black Dahlia Theatre LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Gordon Davidson
PRODUCTION A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre 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 Theatre District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, 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, Pacific Resident Theatre DIRECTION Elina De Santos, Rocket to the Moon, Pacific Resident Theatre and West Coast Jewish Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez Elliott, A Flea In Her Ear, A Noise Within, A Noise Within Scott Ellis, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Jessica Kubzansky, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court Stuart Rogers, Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre Stephen Sachs, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Matt Shakman, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre MUSICAL DIRECTION Lloyd Cooper, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Perform-ing Arts Center John DeMain, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Kimberly Grigsby, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Gerald Sternbach, Company, Reprise! Broadway’s Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse Jim Vukovich, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre WRITING Athol Fugard, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Tom Jacobson, Ouroboros, The Other Side of the Hill Productions, Inc., the Road Theatre Richard Kramer, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Jean-Claude Von Itallie, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court Trey L. Wilson, Stage Directions, Ensemble Studio Theatre-The LA Project, [Inside] the Ford ADAPTATION Matthew Barber, Enchanted April, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Play-house Bart DeLorenzo, Hard Times, the Evidence Room, the Evidence Room Nicholas Saunders and Fran Dwyer, Chekhov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center MUSICAL SCORE David Troy Francis (music) and Gavin Geoffrey Dillard & Robert Schrock (lyrics), Bark!, with additional lyrics by Mark Winkler, Jonathan Heath, and Danny Lukic, Bark Productions, The Coast Playhouse Marc Shaiman (music) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics), Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics), Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre LEAD PERFORMANCE Viola Davis, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum Mark Harelik, Cyrano de Bergerac, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Stage Morlan Higgins, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Wade McCollum, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Derek Charles Livingston, the Celebration Theatre Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A., Andak Stage Company, New-Place Theatre Center Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Lenny Von Dohlen, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court FEATURED PERFORMANCE Julian Acosta, Lovers and Executioners, South Coast Repertory, Julianne Argyros Stage Harry Groener, Chekov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center Arye Gross, Brooklyn Boy, South Coast Repertory in association with Manhattan Theatre Club, Segerstrom Stage William Dennis Hurley, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in associa-tion with Carole Shorenstein Hayes, the Ahmanson Theatre Jeremy Sisto, Take Me Out, the Geffen Playhouse, the Geffen Play-house at the Brentwood Theatre Cory Stoll, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company pro-duction presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE The cast of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, the Powerhouse Theatre Company and Les Freres Corbusier, Aaron Lemon-Strauss, Andrew Barrett-Weiss and Robert J. Wunsch, the Powerhouse Theatre The cast of Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre The cast of Chekhov x 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center SCENIC DESIGN Michael Anania, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion D Martyn Bookwalter, Talley’s Folly, Pasadena Playhouse and Arizona Theatre Company, the Pasadena Playhouse Craig Siebels, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Attractions, NoHo Arts Center LIGHTING DESIGN Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhau-ser, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre Michael Gilliam, 110 in the Shade, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse Jeremy Pivnick, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court COSTUME DESIGN Lindsay W. Davis, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Scott Lane, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Productions, NoHo Arts Center Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum SOUND DESIGN David B. Marling, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Celebration Theatre, the Celebration Theatre Jon Weston, A Little Night Music, New York Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion John Zalewski, M. Butterfly, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre CHOREOGRAPHY Kay Cole, Bark!, Bark Productions, the Coast Playhouse Sean McNight, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center Jerry Mitchell, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre HAIR, WIGS AND MAKEUP DESIGN Paul Huntley (wig and hair design), Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre SPECIAL AWARDS THE MARGARET HARFORD AWARD for sustained excellence in theatre (Funded by Pacific Resident Theatre) Dakin Matthews THE TED SCHMITT AWARD for world premiere of an outstanding new play (Funded by Z. Clark Branson) Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A. THE BOB Z AWARD for lifetime achievement in set design (Funded by the Fountain Theatre) Tom Buderwitz THE ANGSTROM AWARD for lifetime achievement in lighting design (Funded by Angstrom Lighting) Steven Young THE NATALIE SCHAFER AWARD for an emerging comic actress (Funded by the Natalie Schafer Trust) Kirsten Vangsness THE POLLY WARFIELD AWARD for an excellent season/year in a small-to-mid-sized theatre (Funded by contributions from the Los Angeles theatre community) The Black Dahlia Theatre LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Gordon Davidson
