Mary and Tracy to battle it out for supremacy in the 2010 Green Room Awards.
Hairspray and Mary Poppins have tied with nine nominations each in the 2010 Green Room Nominations. Leading ladies, and newly minted stars, Jaz Flowers (Tracy, Hairpsray) and Verity Hunt-Ballard (Mary, Mary Poppins) go head-to-head for Music Theatre Best Female Artist – Leading Role .
Along with Flowers, other Theatre People Pro Choice winners were all nominated: The Drowsy Chaperone’s Geoffrey Rush and Adam Murphy plus Hairspray’s Esther Hannaford.
Other popular Music Theatre nominations will surely include Christie Whelan (Female Artist – Leading Role for Sugar), Todd McKenney (Male Artist – Leading Role for The Boy from Oz) and all the Design nominations for Hairspray.
The most glaring snub is Trevor Ashley not being nominated for his lead role in Hairspray. Also missing are the cast of West Side Story in the Full Ensemble Performance category, Hairspray in Music Direction, and Choreography and Silvie Paladino from The King & I. West Side Story leads Josh Piterman and Julie Goodwin also deserved attention in the nominations.
Kelley Abbey’s nomination for Fame – The Musical choreography is somewhat out of place given the MTV rock clip style used rather than music theatre story-telling choreography.
The Plays category is set to be dominated by MTC’s Richard III, with Ewen Leslie sure to win Best Male Actor for his work as the title character. Opera honours will be split between Bliss and La Sonnambula, with new Australian work Bliss more likely to take Best Production and Emma Matthews sure to win for her stunning turn as Amina in La Sonnambula.
If the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria go overboard with nominations, The Green Room Awards have an over-abundance of categories. The awards ceremony, to be held on 21 March at The Famous Spiegeltent, may be a very long night.
Music Theatre
Direction |
Nancye Hayes, The Boy From Oz |
David Atkins, Hairspray |
Richard Eyre & Matthew Bourne, Mary Poppins |
Costume and/or Set Design |
Janet Hine (costume and wigs), Hairspray |
Eaemon D’Arcy (production design), Hairspray |
Robbi Klaesi, Tracey Taylor, Frantz Kantor, Digital Pulse (graphic & digital content), Hairspray |
Bob Crowley (set & costumes), Mary Poppins |
Lighting Design |
Trudy Dalgleish, Hairspray |
Trudy Dalgleish, The Boy from Oz |
Sound |
Peter Grubb, Mary Poppins |
Choreography |
Matthew Bourne & Stephen Mear, Mary Poppins |
Jerome Robbins, West Side Story |
Andrew Hallsworth, The Boy from Oz |
Andrew Hallsworth, The Drowsy Chaperone |
Kelley Abbey, Fame – The Musical |
Musical Direction |
Michael Tyack, Mary Poppins |
Simon Holt, Starting Here, Starting Now |
Female Artist – Leading Role |
Jaz Flowers, Hairspray |
Verity Hunt-Ballard, Mary Poppins |
Christie Whelan, Sugar |
Delia Hannah, Cats |
Male Artist – Leading Role |
Todd McKenney, The Boy From Oz |
Geoffrey Rush, The Drowsy Chaperone |
Male Artist – Featured Role |
Philip Quast, Mary Poppins |
Rohan Browne, West Side Story |
Rohan Browne, The Drowsy Chaperone |
Adam Murphy, The Drowsy Chaperone |
Michael-John Hurney, Cats |
Female Artist – Featured Role |
Christen O’Leary, The Boy From Oz |
Robyn Arthur, The Boy From Oz |
Esther Hannaford, Hairspray |
Alinta Chidzey, West Side Story |
Lisa Marie Parker, Cats |
Featured Ensemble or Full Ensemble Performance |
Mary Poppins |
Fame – The Musical |
Cats |
Hairspray |
Best Production |
Hairspray |
Mary Poppins |
Theatre – Alternative & Hybrid Performance
Outstanding Production |
The Bougainville Project – Paul Dwyer |
Pin Drop – Tamara Saulwick |
Propaganda – Acrobat |
Composition and Sound Design |
Irony is not Enough – Jethro Woodward (Fragment 31) |
Pin Drop – Peter Knight (Tamara Saulwick / Arts House) |
Urchin – Jethro Woodward (Full Tilt / Encyclopaedia of Animals) |
Production Design |
Cageling – Design – Emma Valente and Kate Davis (The Rabble) |
Carnival of Mysteries – Visual Artists & Production Design – The Sister Hayes (Finucane & Smith / MIFA) |
Hole in the Wall – Conceptual Design – Claire Britton, Matt Priest, Danny Egger (Matt Priest & Clare Britton / NextWave) |
Pin Drop – Design & Production – Bluebottle (Tamara Saulwick / Arts House) |
Video Design |
This Kind of Ruckus – Sean Bacon (Version 1.0) |
2 Dimensional Life of Her – Fleur Elise Noble |
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets – Paul Barrit (Malthouse / 1927) |
Mise-en-Scene |
This Kind of Ruckus – Version 1.0 |
The Bougainville Photoplay Project – Paul Dwyer |
Pin Drop – Tamara Saulwick |
Propaganda – Acrobat |
The Animals & Children Took to the Streets – 1927 |
Site-Specific Production |
The Lost Story of the Magdalen Asylum – The Abbotsford Convent (Peepshow Inc.) |
Southern Crossings – Southern Cross Station (One Step at a Time Like This) |
Best New Original Writing for the Melbourne Stage |
Peta Brady Status Update (La Mama) |
Patricia Cornelius Do Not Go Gentle (fortyfivedownstairs) |
Adriano Cortese (Concept & Direction), Raimondo Cortese (text) with Beth Buchanan, Paul Lum & Patrick Moffatt (co-devisors) Intimacy (Ranters Theatre/Malthouse Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival) |
Declan Greene Moth (Arena Theatre Company/Malthouse Theatre) |
Best Adaptation for the Melbourne Stage |
Gary Abrahams (writer, inspired by and based on the novella by James Baldwin) Acts of Deceit (Between Strangers in a Room) (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Gary Abrahams (writer, based on, adapted from and inspired by the short stories of Katherine Mansfield) Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Simon Stone, Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan and Mark Winter (co-writers)Thyestes after Seneca (The Hayloft Project/Malthouse Theatre) |
Anne-Louise Sarks and Benedict Hardie (writers) The Nest after Maxim Gorky’s The Philistines |
Cabaret
Best Production |
Yana Alana and tha Paranas in Concert (Gasworks & Arts Victoria in association with Melbourne Workers Theatre and Yana Alana and tha Paranas) |
Shut Up and Sing (Geraldine Quinn) |
Big in Sweden (Carl-Einar Hackner) |
Mrs Bang: A Series of Seductions in 55 Minutes (Sheridan Harbridge) |
Britney Spears: The Cabaret (Luckiest Productions) |
Artiste |
Geraldine Quinn, Shut Up and Sing |
Yana Alana, Yana Alana and tha Paranas in Concert |
Mike McLeish, The World is Winning and body of work |
Carl-Einar Hackner, Big in Sweden |
Mikelangelo, The Mysteries of Love and body of work |
Ensemble |
Yana Alana and the Paranas, Yana Alana and the Paranas in Concert |
Die Roten Punkte, Kunst Rock |
The Beautiful Losers, The Beautiful Losers |
The Brown Bears, From Russia With Lust |
Original Songs |
Geraldine Quinn, Shut Up and Sing |
Die Roten Punkte, Kunst Rock |
Yana Alana and tha Paranas, Yana Alana and tha Paranas in Concert |
Mikelangelo and Saint Clare, The Mysteries of Love |
Karin Muiznieks, First Against the Wall |
Director |
Anni Davey, Yana Alana and tha Paranas in Concert |
Dean Bryant, Britney Spears: The Cabaret |
Scott Gooding, First Against the Wall |
Martin White, Hello You |
Musical Direction |
Sarah Ward, Bec Matthews & Ania Reynolds, Yana Alana and the Paranas in Concert |
Matthew Frank, Britney Spears: The Cabaret |
Mark Jones, The Divine Cabaret |
Innovative Use of Form |
Emily Taylor, Hello You |
Contribution to Cabaret |
Kaye Sera |
Dance
Music/Sound Composition and Performance |
David Page, Of Earth and Sky (Bangarra) |
Gerard Brophy, Halcyon (Australian Ballet) |
Kelly Ryall, Expectation (Carlee Mellow) |
Ezio Bosso & George Gorga, We Unfold (Sydney Dance Company) |
Design |
Gideon Obarzanek (set), Paul Jackson (lighting), Anna Cordingly (set realisation), Human Interest Story (Lucy Guerin Inc.) |
Jacob Nash (set), Artefact (of Earth and Sky) (Bangarra) |
Bluebottle, Expectation (Carlee Mellow) |
Daniel Askill (video), Hugh Taranto (lighting), We Unfold, Sydney Dance Company |
Male Dancer |
Waangenga Blanco, Of Earth and Sky (Bangarra) |
Daniel Gaudiello, Coppelia (Australian Ballet) |
Chen Wen, We Unfold (Sydney Dance Company) |
Tony Yap, Rasa Sayang (Tony Yap Company) |
Tim Ohl, Mix Tape (Chunky Move) |
Female Dancer |
Emily Amisano, We Unfold (Sydney Dance Company) |
Lucinda Dunn, Silver Rose (Australian Ballet) |
Madelaine Eastoe, Coppelia (Australian Ballet) |
Carlee Mellow, Expectation (Carlee Mellow) |
Sabina Perry, Human Abstract (Jack Productions) |
Ensemble |
Sydney Dance Company – We Unfold |
Australian Ballet – Molto Vivace |
Luke George Co. – Now Now Now |
Chunky Move – Mix Tape |
Bangarra – Of Earth and Sky |
Concept & Realisation |
Private Dances (Next Wave Festival – Natalie Cursio) |
Expectation (Carlee Mellow) |
The Oak’s Bride (Red Moon Rising) |
Betty Pounder Award for Choreography |
Frances Rings, Artefact (or Earth and Sky) (Bangarra) |
Rafael Bonachela, We Unfold (Sydney Dance Company) |
Stephanie Lake, Mix Tape (Chunky Move) |
Theatre – Independent
Male Performer |
Dennis Moore (performer) Crime and Punishment (The Stork Theatre/Alliance Francaise) |
Daniel Schlusser (performer) Cageling (The Rabble/fortyfivedownstairs) |
Ben Pfeiffer (‘Lady’ Macbeth) Manbeth (Band of Creatures/Optic Nerve/fortyfivedownstairs) |
Thomas Conroy (Henry) Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Josh Price (Pedagogus) Elektra (Fraught Outfit/The Dog Theatre) |
Female Performer |
Justine Campbell (Jane Franklin) The Fate of Franklin and his Gallant Crew (Four Larks Theatre) |
Nicola Gunn (performer) At the Sans Hotel (Theatreworks) |
Peta Brady (performer) Status Update (La Mama) |
Hannah Norris (performer) My Name is Rachael Corrie (fortyfivedownstairs) |
Nikki Shields (Maddy) Madeleine (Jenny Kemp & Black Sequin Productions/Arts House |
Ensemble |
Acts of Deceit (Between Strangers in a Room) (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Orpheus (Four Larks Theatre) |
Us (Grit Theatre/The Function Room) |
Design |
Sebastian Peters-Lazaro & Ellen Strasser (Set & Properties Design)Body of Work (Four Larks Theatre) |
Chloe Greaves (Costume Design) The Fate of Franklin and his Gallant Crew (Four Larks Theatre) |
Tim Stitz, Kelly Somes & Ashlee Hughes (Design Concept & Realisation) Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper (Two Blue Cherries/Soulart/La Mama) |
Nicola Gunn, Gwendolyna Holmberg-Gilchrist & Rebecca Etchell (design) At the Sans Hotel (Theatreworks) |
Daniel Harvey (Design) Back From The Dead Red (Melboune Fringe/The Loft, Lithuanian Club) |
Lighting Design |
Lisa Mibus (Lighting Design) The Colour of Glass (La Mama) |
Emma Valente (Lighting)Bare Witness (La Mama/fortyfivedownstairs) |
Bluebottle – Ben Cobham with Jenny Hector (Lighting Design & Realisation) Madeleine (Jenny Kemp & Black Sequin Productions/Arts House) |
Katie Sfetkidis (Lighting)Elektra (Fraught Outfit/The Dog Theatre) |
Sound/Composition |
Four Larks Theatre (Music/Sound/Composition) Body of work |
Luke Paulding (Original Sound) At the Sans Hotel (Theatreworks) |
M. Davis (Sound Designer/Composer) Cageling (The Rabble/fortyfivedownstairs) |
Lou Bennett (Original Music) Wakaid Girl Lyndhurst Kid (Loose Canon Art Services/La Mama) |
Direction |
Gary Abrahams (direction) Body of work |
Andrew Gray (Director) The Colour of Glass (La Mama) |
Adena Jacobs (Direction) Elektra (Fraught Outfit/The Dog Theatre) |
Anne-Louise Sarks (Director) The Nest (The Hayloft Project/Northcote Town Hall) |
Production |
The Fate of Franklin and his Gallant Crew (Four Larks Theatre) |
At the Sans Hotel (Theatreworks) |
Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Us (Grit Theatre/The Function Room) |
The Lounge Room Confabulators: Unverified Stories from a Travelling Suitcase (Melbourne Fringe) |
Opera
Production |
Bliss – Opera Australia |
La Sonnambula – Opera Australia |
The Bear/Angelique – Victorian Opera |
The Barber of Seville – Melbourne Opera |
Julius Caesar – Victorian Opera |
Design |
Brian Thomson (Set and LED Images Designer) – Bliss (Opera Australia) |
Richard Roberts – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Adam Gardir (Set) and Harriet Oxley (Costume) – Angelique – (Victorian Opera) |
Richard Roberts (set) Angus Strathie (Costume) – Fledermaus (Opera Australia) |
Andrew Bellchambers (set) – Cavalleria Rusticana /Pagliacci (Melbourne Opera) |
Female Lead |
Emma Matthews (Amina) – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Danielle Calder (Governess) – The Turn of the Screw (Victorian Opera) |
Nicole Youl (Floria Tosca) – Tosca (Opera Australia) |
Merlyn Quaife (Betty Joy) – Bliss (Opera Australia) |
Theresa Borg (Angelique) – Angelique (Victorian Opera) |
Male Lead |
Peter Coleman-Wright (Harry Joy) Bliss |
David Hansen (Giulio Cesare) – Julius Caesar – (Victorian Opera) |
John Bolton Wood (Smirnov) – The Bear (Victorian Opera) |
Phillip Calcagno (Figaro) The Barber of Seville (Melbourne Opera) |
Tobias Cole – (Oberon) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Australia) |
Female Support |
Sian Pendry (Cheribino) – Marriage of Figaro (Opera Australia) |
Lisa Harper Brown (Helena) – The Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Australia) |
Jessica Aszodi (Sesto) – Julius Caesar (Victorian Opera) |
Taryn Fiebig (Lisa) – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Catherine Carby (Orlovsky) – Fledermaus and (Hippolyta) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Australia) |
Male Support |
Conal Coad (Bottom/Pyramus) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Australia) |
Benjamin Namdarian (The Italian) – Angelique (Victorian Opera) |
Joshua Bloom (Count Rodolfo) La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Roger Howell (Sharpless) – Madam Butterfly (Melbourne Opera) |
Ian Cousins (Bartolo) – The Barber of Seville (Melbourne Opera) |
Conductor |
Paul Kildea – The Turn of the Screw (Victorian Opera) / A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Australia) |
Elgar Howarth – Bliss (Opera Australia) |
Shao-Chia Lu – Tosca (Opera Australia) |
Richard Bonynge – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Marko Letonja – Rigoletto (Opera Australia) |
Director |
Neil Armfield – Bliss (Opera Australia) |
Julie Edwardson – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Christopher Alden – Tosca (Opera Australia) |
Steven Heathcote – Julius Caesar (Victorian Opera) |
Talya Masel – The Bear (Victorian Opera) |
Lighting |
Nigel Levings – Bliss (Opera Australia) |
Matt Scott – La Sonnambula (Opera Australia) |
Damien Cooper – Julius Caesar (Victorian Opera) |
Theatre – Companies
Lighting Design |
Nick Schlieper, Richard III (MTC) |
Rachel Burke, Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Paul Jackson, The Trial (Malthouse / STC / Thinice) |
Luiz Pampolha, Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Govin Ruben, Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Set/Costume Design |
Shaun Gurton (set), Richard III (MTC) |
Dayna Morrissey (set), The City (Red Stitch) |
Claude Marcos (set), Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Anna Tregloan (set / costume), Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Dale Ferguson (set / costume), Life Without Me (MTC) |
Sound / Composition |
David Franzke (sound), Intimacy (Malthouse / Ranters / M.I.F.A) |
Jethro Woodward (composer), Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Ash Gibson Greig (composer) & Kelly Ryall (sound), The Trial (Malthouse / STC / Thinice) |
Bree van Reyk (musician / composer), King Lear (Bell Shakespeare) |
Stefan Gregory (sound) Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Female Actor |
Alison Whyte (Queen Elizabeth) Richard III (MTC) |
Fiona Macleod (Clair) The City (Red Stitch) |
Sarah Ogden (Claryssa) Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Andrea Demetriades (Viola) Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Bernadette Robinson (female performer) Songs for Nobodies (MTC) |
Male Actor |
Ewen Leslie (Richard) Richard III (MTC) |
Dylan Young (Sebastian) Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Elan Zavelsky (Orsino / Sir Andrew Aguecheek) Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Mark Leonard Winter (performer) Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Christopher Ryan (performer) Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Direction |
Simon Phillips, Richard III (MTC) |
Peter Evans, The Ugly One (MTC) |
Chris Kohn, Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Lee Lewis, Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Simon Stone, Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Production |
Richard III (MTC) |
The City (Red Stitch) |
Moth (Malthouse / Arena) |
Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Ensemble |
The Ugly One (MTC) |
Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare) |
Intimacy (Malthouse / Ranters / M.I.F.A) |
Thyestes (Malthouse / Hayloft Project) |
Association Awards
Best New Original Writing for the Melbourne Stage |
Peta Brady Status Update (La Mama) |
Patricia Cornelius Do Not Go Gentle (fortyfivedownstairs) |
Adriano Cortese (Concept & Direction), Raimondo Cortese (text) with Beth Buchanan, Paul Lum & Patrick Moffatt (co-devisors) Intimacy (Ranters Theatre/Malthouse Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival) |
Declan Greene Moth (Arena Theatre Company/Malthouse Theatre) |
Best Adaptation for the Melbourne Stage |
Gary Abrahams (writer, inspired by and based on the novella by James Baldwin) Acts of Deceit (Between Strangers in a Room) (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Gary Abrahams (writer, based on, adapted from and inspired by the short stories of Katherine Mansfield) Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre/La Mama) |
Simon Stone, Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan and Mark Winter (co-writers)Thyestes after Seneca (The Hayloft Project/Malthouse Theatre) |
Anne-Louise Sarks and Benedict Hardie (writers) The Nest after Maxim Gorky’s The Philistines |
