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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