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The Fifth Annual Ambie Awards
(winners marked with a *)
Unique Theatrical Experience
I Know What It Means..., Ricky Graham/Performer & Writer
*The New Orleans BINGO! Show
The Red Light District Variety Show, Two Sisters LLC
Varla Jean Merman is Anatomically Incorrect!, Jeffery Roberson/Performer & Writer with Jacques Lamarre
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! A Concert Celebration, Jefferson Performing Arts Society
Best Production of a Musical
*Bitter/Sweet, Rich Arnold/Le Chat Noir
Chicago, Summer Lyric Theatre
Naked Boys Singing, Marigny Theatre & To Do Productions
Singin’ in the Rain, Slidell Little Theatre
Sugar Babies, Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré
Thoroughly Modern Millie, ...Read More
The Fifth Annual Ambie Awards
(winners marked with a *)
Unique Theatrical Experience
I Know What It Means..., Ricky Graham/Performer & Writer
*The New Orleans BINGO! Show
The Red Light District Variety Show, Two Sisters LLC
Varla Jean Merman is Anatomically Incorrect!, Jeffery Roberson/Performer & Writer with Jacques Lamarre
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! A Concert Celebration, Jefferson Performing Arts Society
Best Production of a Musical
*Bitter/Sweet, Rich Arnold/Le Chat Noir
Chicago, Summer Lyric Theatre
Naked Boys Singing, Marigny Theatre & To Do Productions
Singin’ in the Rain, Slidell Little Theatre
Sugar Babies, Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rivertown Repertory Theatre
Best Production of a Drama
Boy Gets Girl, Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans
Bury the Dead, Cripple Creek Theatre Co.
Doubt, All Kinds of Theatre and Southern Rep
The Pillowman, DEM BOYS Productions/Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré
Rising Water, Southern Rep
*The Sty of the Blind Pig, Anthony Bean Community Theater
Best Production of a Comedy
Carries’s Facts of Life, Running With Scissors
Dog Sees God, Tulane University Department of Theatre
*The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Southern Rep/The NOLA Project
Natalie Needs a Nightie, Minacapelli’s Dinner Playhouse
The Titanic Adventures of the Love Boat Poseidon!, Running With Scissors
Valhalla, To Do Productions
Best Original Work
Carries’s Facts of Life, Jack Long and Richard Read/Running With Scissors
Finding the Enemy, John Grimsley/Anthony Bean Community Theater
Fleeing Katrina, Rob Florence/Jefferson Performing Arts Society
The Red Light District Variety Show, Pat Bourgeois, Bud Faust, Jim Fitzmorris, Aimée Hayes, Sean Patterson, Evan Prizant & Rudy Vorkapic/Two Sisters LLC
Rising Water, John Biguenet/Southern Rep
*The Sunken Living Room, David Caudle/Southern Rep
Most Outstanding Benefit
Carol Channing in Concert: The First Lady of Musical Comedy, Dillard University
From Broadway with Love!, Patrick Lee
Mario Cantone Does Le Petit!, Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré
*The Women, Running With Scissors
Best Director of a Musical
Jonne Dendinger, Naked Boys Singing
Derek Franklin and Sonny Borey, Sugar Babies
J. Hammons, The Red Sneaks
Diane Lala, Chicago
Gary Rucker, Thoroughly Modern Millie
*Scott Sauber, Singin’ in the Rain
Best Director of a Play
Chelle Ambrose & René J. F. Piazza, Boy Gets Girl
Anthony Bean, The Sty of the Blind Pig
Dane Rhodes, The Pillowman
*Ryan Rilette, Rising Water
Andrew Vaught, Bury the Dead
Noel Wilson, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Best Actor in a Musical
Rich Arnold, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Fenwick Broyard III, Purlie
Tyler Chetta, The Red Sneaks
James C. Martin, Chicago
*Dane Rhodes, Sugar Babies
Josh St. Cyr, Singin’ in the Rain
Best Actress in a Musical
Elizabeth Argus, Chicago
Joel Dyson, Once On This Island
*Kelly Fouchi, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Megan Sauzer Harms, The Pajama Game
Samantha Helmstetter, Jane Eyre
Idella Johnson, Purlie
Best Actor in a Play
Blake Balu, The Pillowman
*Danny Bowen, Rising Water
Andy LaRocca, Ordinary People
Michael Martin, Finding the Enemy
Rudy Mungaray, The Sunken Living Room
Jamie Wax, Doubt
Best Actress in a Play
Alison Blackwell, Trumpets & Raspberries
Caitlin Clifford, Bright Ideas
Gwendolyne Foxworth, The Sty of the Blind Pig
Adella Gautier, Gem of the Ocean
*Anysia Manthos, Boy Gets Girl
Patricia McGuire-Hill, Morning, Noon, & Night
Best Featured Actor in a Musical (tie)
*Kyle Daigrepont, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Ricky Graham, Chicago
*P.J. McKinnie, The Rocky Horror Show
Bryan Reilly, Singin’ in the Rain
Dane Rhodes, Purlie
Kristopher Lloyd Shaw, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Tracey E. Collins, The Fix
Janie Heck, Singin’ in the Rain
Charlotte Lang, Chicago
Joanne Mehrtens, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Asia Rainey, Purlie
*Joan C. Spraggins, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Derrick Deal, The Three Sisters
Bob Edes, Jr., The Breach
Tom Hassinger, Natalie Needs a Nightie
*Dane Rhodes, The Boys Next Door
George Sanchez, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Will Williams, The Sty of the Blind Pig
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Coti Gayles, Gem of the Ocean
*Megan Sauzer Harms, The Boys Next Door
Morrey McElroy, Ordinary People
Carrie Anne Rose, Kennedy’s Children
Benita Scott, Morning, Noon, & Night
Janet Shea, Fleeing Katrina
Best Ensemble
Bitter/Sweet (Rich Arnold, Trina Beck, Natalie Boyd, Meredith Long, Michael Tramontin)
The Breach (Troi Bechet, Kenneth Brown, Kesha Bullard, Bob Edes, Jr., Lance Nichols, Sean Patterson)
Carries’s Facts of Life (Travis Acosta, Brad Caldwell, Bob Edes, Donald Lewis, Jack Long, Brian Peterson, Lisa Picone, Dorian Rush)My Uncle Sam (Molly Breeskin, Ryan Davis, Clayton Faits, Stephen Foley, Claire Gresham, Ron Gural, Meredith Mullins, Samuel Repshas, Amy Sherman, Jenny Smith, Marty Smith, Leeann St. John, Katherine Thomas, Andrew Wuestenfeld)
*Naked Boys Singing (Julius Dietze, Jason George, Philip Gordon, Marshall Harris, Travis Resor, Bryan Wagar)
The Sty of the Blind Pig (Gwendolyne Foxworth, Donald Lewis, Patricia McGuire-Hill, Will Williams)
Best Costume Design
Carolyn Barrois, Regina Schlotzhauer, Roy Haylock, Cecile Casey Covert, Linda Fried, Sugar Babies
Sally Anne Buras, Singin’ in the Rain
Cecile Casey Covert, Scrooge in Rouge!
*Linda Fried, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Michael Velasquez & Cecile Casey Covert, Varla Jean Merman is Anatomically Incorrect!
Julie Winn, Jane Eyre
Best Lighting Design
Timm Holt, Naked Boys Singing
Andrew Kingsley, Bury the Dead
Earl H. Lennie III & Scott Sauber, ...and the World Goes Round
William Liotta, Rising Water
*Melissa Oliver, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! A Concert Celebration
Martin Sachs, My Uncle Sam
Best Set Design
Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay, Relativity
*Geoffrey Hall, Rising Water
Takeshi Kata, The Breach
David Raphel, Doubt
Chad Talkington, Finding the Enemy
Tricia Vitrano, The Three Sisters
Best Choreography
Kelly Fouchi/Casey Thompson, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Karen Hebert, Sugar Babies
*Arieuna McGee, 504
Gerry McIntyre, Once On This Island
Maritza Mercado-Narcisse, The Red Sneaks
Lindsey Price, Singin’ in the Rain
Best Music Director
Rick Avard, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! A Concert Celebration
Brandt Blocker, ...and the World Goes Round
*Jonne Dendinger, Tunes
Derek Franklin, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
C. Leonard Raybon, Chicago
Dave Reis, Once On This Island
Best Sound Design
Davis Barron & David Rigamer, Jane Eyre
Marlena Feehery, J.B.
Ben Marcum, Gem of the Ocean
Richard Read, Carrie’s Facts of Life
*Martin Sachs, The Wedding Dress
Jack Daniel Stanley, Rising Water
Best Wigs/Make-Up
Brian Fontenot, Singin’ in the Rain
Amanda Hebert, Scrooge in Rouge!;
Brian Peterson, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
*Brian Peterson, Carries’s Facts of Life
Brian Peterson, The Titanic Adventures of the Love Boat Poseidon!
Best Special Effects
*The Ballad of Sylvia Post’s tears
Carries’s Facts of Life’s blood-spurting pig
Scrooge in Rouge!’s snow, Joel Havnen
Singin’ in the Rain’s rain
Best Food/Dining Experience
John Folse, Waiting for Godot
Ginger Luke, Minacapelli’s Dinner Playhouse
Messina’s, Rivertown Repertory Theatre
*Salaville Perk, JPAS/Teatro Wego
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