Ambie Awards for 2009

Le Chat Noir 2/1/2010 (schedule)

Producer: Brian Sands · Patrick Shannon · Ambush Magazine

Category: Awards

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The Seventh Annual Ambie Awards was held at Le Chat Noir on Monday, February 1, 2010. Winners below*

The proceeds from the suggested admission of $20 ($5 for nominees/performers/presenters) benefitted NOCCA's Theater Department. The total amount donated to NOCCA was $1,000.

For a complete list of nominees, see below or go to http://www.ambushmag.com/is110/images/110main26-30.pdf The article begins on Page 29.

Uniquest Theatrical Experience:

Jim Fitzmorris’ Cabinet of Wonders, Le Chat Noir
My First Time, fourfront theatre
*A Purrfect Evening: The Songs of Eartha Kitt, Anais St. John
The Uprising, Le Chat Noir/Southern Rep
Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, Le Chat Noir

Best Production of a Musical:

A...my name is Alice, Cutting Edge Productions and Moonsong Productions
The Apple Tree, NOCCA
Honk!, JPAS Summer Youth Musical Theatre (East Bank)
South Pacific, Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre
THE SWEETEST SOUNDS The Music of Richard Rodgers, NOCCA
*The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, forefront theatre

Best Production of a Drama:

The Glass Menagerie, Marigny Theatre & To Do Productions
I Am My Own Wife, Southern Rep & All Kinds of Theatre
Loup Garou, ArtSpot Productions & Mondo Bizarro
The Piano Lesson, Anthony Bean Community Theater
*The Skin of Our Teeth, NOCCA
Some Girl(s), Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans

Best Production of a Comedy:
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare Festival at Tulane
Mr. Marmalade, The NOLA Project
Pterodactyls, Cutting Edge Productions
Sick, Southern Rep
Silent Night of the Lambs!, Running With Scissors
*We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Cripple Creek Theatre Company

Best Original Work:

Livin’ Janis, Dorian Rush/Le Chat Noir;
Loup Garou, Raymond “Moose” Jackson/ArtSpot Productions & Mondo Bizarro
Short Takes, Mary Louise Wilson/All Kinds of Theatre
*Soul of the City, Jim Fitzmorris & John D. Fitzmorris, Jr./Tulane Dept. Of Theatre
Taste, Gabrielle Reisman/The NOLA Project
Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, Jeffery Roberson, Jacques Lamarre, Ricky Graham, Brooks Braselman/Le Chat Noir

Best Director of a Musical:

AJ Allegra, The Apple Tree
Blake Coheley, THE SWEETEST SOUNDS The Music of Richard Rodgers
Jonne Dendinger, A...my name is Alice
David W. Hoover, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Diane Lala, South Pacific
*Frannie Rosenberg, Honk! (East Bank)

Best Director of a Play:

Lorenzo Gonzalez, The Comedy of Errors
Jason Kirkpatrick & Janet Shea, The Skin of Our Teeth (NOCCA)
Gary Mendoza, Pterodactyls
Buzz Podewell, Soul of the City
*Kathy Randels, Loup Garou
Carl Walker, I Am My Own Wife

Best Actor in a Musical:
Christopher E. Carey, South Pacific
*Keith Claverie, All Shook Up
Kasey Marino, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
David Murray, Honk! (East Bank)
Jeffery Roberson, Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads
Jamie Wax, Damn Yankees

Best Actress in a Musical:

Elizabeth Argus, South Pacific
Jenna Ibieta, Honk! (East Bank)
Idella Johnson, Aida
Leslie Limberg, All Shook Up
Fran Love, The Women of Brewster Place
*Dorian Rush, Livin’ Janis

Best Actor in a Play (tie):

Rus Blackwell, Shotgun
Brad Caldwell, Hand Over Fist
*Bob Edes, Jr., I Am My Own Wife
Jason George, Jerker
Stephfon Guidry, The Piano Lesson
*Nick Slie, Loup Garou

Best Actress in a Play:

Donna Duplantier, Shotgun
Adella Gauthier, Bourbon at the Border
Pat McGuire Hill, A Raisin in the Sun
*Lyla Hay Owen, The Glass Menagerie
Jennifer Pagan, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!
Stacy Taliancich, Wait Until Dark

Best Featured Actor in a Musical:

Joseph Arrigo, Honk! (East Bank)
Roland “Butch” Caire, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
*Brian Peterson, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
George J. Sanchez, Damn Yankees
Dane Rhodes, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Shad Willingham, South Pacific

Best Featured Actress in a Musical:

*Becky Allen, A...my name is Alice
Elizabeth Donner, Honk! (West Bank)
Michaela Harrison, The Women of Brewster Place
Heidi P. Junius, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Leslie Limberg, Aida
Lisa Picone, Songs for a New World

Best Featured Actor in a Play:

A.J. Allegra, Mr. Marmalade
Kenneth Brown, Jr., Shotgun
Bob Edes, Jr., Valley of the Dolls
*Harold X. Evans, The Piano Lesson
Thomas Hellmers, The Member of the Wedding
Sam Henry, Pterodactyls

Best Featured Actress in a Play:

Samantha Beaulieu, A Raisin in the Sun
Trina Beck, King Lear
Sarah Fontenelle, Some Girl(s)
*Liz Mills, The Glass Menagerie
Sarah Jordan Stout, The Scene
Jessie Terrebonne, The Little Dog Laughed

Best Ensemble:

A...my name is Alice (Becky Allen, Tara Brewer, Dana Deris Fatic, Francine Finley, Leslie Limberg)
bobrauschenbergamerica (James Bartelle, Tyler D’Aquilla, Stephen Foley, Helen Jaksch, Alex Lemonier, Richard Mayer, Matthew Morris, Meredith Mullins, Carol Sutton)
Pterodactyls (CC Falcon, Sam Henry, David Jacobs, Alex Lemonier, Jane McNulty)
Silent Night of the Lambs! (Wesley Callaway, Jack Long, Brian Peterson, Lisa Picone, Dorian Rush)
Soul of the City (Averis Anderson, Kirk “KB” Bush, Dave Davis, Shannon March, Kameron Moore-Mitchell, Ben Piemont, Zack Serota, Billie Stirewalt, Jennie Stumpf, Sarah Yeboah)
*Taste (A.J. Allegra, James Bartelle, Claire Gresham, Angela Papale, Richard Alexander Pomes, James Yeargain)

Best Costume Design:

Cecile Casey Covert, Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads
Linda Fried, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Kelly James-Penot, Honk!
Valerie Johnson, Silent Night of the Lambs!
*Veronica Russell, Camelot
Charlotte Svenson, The Apple Tree

Best Lighting Design:

*Jonathan Foucheaux, Aida
Su Gonczy, My First Time
Darcy Jamison, The Trojan Women
Lorrena Murray, Wait Until Dark
Selena Poznak, After the War
Dan Zimmer, The Skin of Our Teeth (NOCCA)

Best Set Design:

Jeff Becker, The Skin of Our Teeth (NOCCA)
*Kevin Griffith, Verses from Jordan
Geoffrey Hall, Shotgun
David Raphel, I Am My Own Wife
Chad Talkington, A Raisin in the Sun
Stephen Thurber, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

Best Choreography:

*Tara Brewer, The Apple Tree
Jauné Buisson, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Blake Coheley, THE SWEETEST SOUNDS The Music of Richard Rodgers
Kelly Fouchi, All Shook Up
Frannie Rosenberg, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Christie Zimmerman, Honk! (East Bank)

Best Music Director:

Joel Britton, The Women of Brewster Place
William Bowling, Major Archibald Swelling’s Salvation Salve Medicine Show
Jonne Dendinger, A...my name is Alice
Alan Payne, Honk! (East Bank)
C. Leonard Raybon, South Pacific
*Jefferson Turner, Let Freedom Swing!

Best Sound Design:

A.J. Allegra, True West
Richard Read, Valley of the Dolls
Marty Sachs, Betty’s Summer Vacation
Eric Shimelonis, Shotgun
*Mike Singleton, Opus
Christopher W. Wright, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!

Best Original Music:

Noah Adams, The Father Clock
William Bowling, Major Archibald Swelling’s Salvation Salve Medicine Show
Barbara & Whit Connah, Loup Garou
Eric Shimelonis, Shotgun
*Joshua Smith, Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
James Walsh, The Trojan Women

“It’s Not the Size That Counts” Special Ambie Award: Stylist Bartholomew, The Skin of our Teeth; Gwendolyne Foxworth, A Raisin in the Sun

“Someone to Watch Out For” Special Ambie Award: Rebecca Elizabeth Hollingsworth, Michael Moore, Josh Smith

Special Ambie Award to Bryan Batt for his efforts, including a special performance of his one man show Batt on a Hot Tin Roof, to help save Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré.

Staff

	Patrick Shannon	....	Producer
	Brian Sands	....	Producer

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