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Vertigo Theatre and Theatre Calgary swept the nominations for the twenty fourth annual Betty Mitchell Awards, or Bettys, that acknowledges excellence in skilled theatre.
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Vertigo Theatre scored a complete of 24 nominations from the 18 classes with Theatre Calgary a detailed second with 23. Lunchbox Theatre obtained 9 nominations, Making Treaty 7 had 9, and Alberta Theatre Initiatives and Stage West every obtained 5 nominations.
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With seven nominations every, Vertigo Theatre’s manufacturing of the Stephen King thriller Mercy and Theatre Calgary’s manufacturing of the Oscar Wilde comedic traditional The Significance of Being Earnest had been probably the most nominated exhibits of the yr. Theatre Calgary’s world premiere of Hiro Kanagawa’s Forgiveness obtained six nominations. All three productions are vying for excellent manufacturing of a play alongside the touring manufacturing of Kevin Loring’s Little Pink Warrior and His Lawyer offered by Theatre Calgary and Making Treaty 7, and Tara Beagan’s The Ministry of Grace produced by Making Treaty 7.
This yr’s nominees for excellent manufacturing of a musical embrace Lunchbox Theatre’s world premiere of Cayley Wreggitt and Alixandra Cowman’s Residence for the Holidays, One Yellow Rabbit’s manufacturing of David Rhymer’s Nightingale Alley, Theatre Calgary’s model of the Jimmy Buffett musical Escape to Margaritaville, Forte Musical Theatre’s revival of the Jonathan Larson musical Tick, Tick…Increase! and Calgary Opera’s presentation of Verdi’s Macbeth.
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With 4 nominations in two classes, native designer Andy Moro is probably the most nominated artist of the previous season. He has been acknowledged for his projection designs for Chromatic Theatre’s Hookman and Vertigo’s The Extractionist, in addition to his set designs for Vertigo’s The Extractionist and Making Treaty 7’s The Ministry of Grace.
This yr’s nominees for excellent efficiency by an ensemble contains the Catalyst Theatre touring manufacturing of Nevermore offered by Vertigo Theatre, Sage Theatre’s The Home of Bernarda Alba, Lunchbox Theatre’s Residence for the Holidays, One Yellow Rabbit’s Nightingale Alley and Vertigo’s Homicide on the Orient Categorical.
Nominated for excellent lead efficiency in a drama are Bruce Horak for Richard III, Haysam Kadri and Anna Cummer for Distress, Mike Tan for Frankenstein and Griffin Cork for Forgiveness.
Nominees for excellent lead efficiency in a comedy embrace Emily Howard, Christopher Duthie and Michael Rolfe for The Significance of Being Earnest, Garrett Smith for Cottagers and Indians and Dylan Thomas-Bouchier for Teenage Dick.
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The nominees for excellent lead efficiency in a musical embrace Shakura Dickson for Woman Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Katie McMillan for Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville, Anna Dalgleish for Nations Formed Like Stars, Julia Juhas for 9 to five The Musical and Elena Belyea for We’re Gonna Die.
Nominated for excellent supporting efficiency in a drama are Bernard Starlight and Stafford Perry for The Ministry of Grace, Elinor Holt for Homicide on the Orient Categorical, Valerie Planche and Braden Griffiths for Gaslight and Daniela Vlaskalic for Richard III.
Nominees for excellent supporting efficiency in a comedy are Luisa Jojic and Kevin McNulty for Little Pink Warrior and His Lawyer, Valerie Planche for The Significance of Being Earnest, Darcy
Gerhart for Cowgirl Up and Anna Cummer for Teenage Dick.
Nominated for excellent supporting efficiency in a musical are Joel Schaefer and Jessica Jones for Tick, Tick…Increase!, Elinor Holt and Kate Blackburn for 9 to five The Musical and Michele Shuster for Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville.
Eric Rose’s script for his play Struck has been nominated for excellent new play as has Hiro Kanagawa’s script for Forgiveness, Michaela Jeffrey’s for The Extractionist, Cayley Wreggitt and Alixandra Cowman for Residence for the Holidays and Keshia Cheesman and Bianca Miranda for The F Phrase.
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Nominees for excellent route are Bronwyn Steinberg for The Significance of Being Earnest, Jamie Dunsdon for Distress, Stafford Arima for Forgiveness, Tara Beagan for The Ministry of Grace and Johnathan Christenson for Nevermore.
Nominated for excellent musical route are Joe Slabe for Tick, Tick…Increase!, Alixandra Cowman for Residence for the Holidays, Ruth Alexander for Nevermore, Chris Tsujiuchi for Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville and Miranda Martini and Kathryn Smith for Nations Formed Like Stars.
A full checklist of the classes and their nominees is posted on bettymitchellawards.com.
The awards shall be offered at an occasion on the Jubilee Auditorium on June 19. Tickets can be found at bettymitchellawards.com
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