The IRNE Awards were last night — that’s the Independent Reviewers of New England, basically the theatre awards for the Boston area and other New England environs. I’ve never been to the IRNEs or anything, but it’s something I like to follow because I usually have a few horses in the race.<\/p>\n
This year it was productions of Hello, Dolly<\/i>, Mame<\/i> and La Cage<\/i> that I was PSM for at the Reagle Players this past year.<\/p>\n
I’m pleased to say that we won six awards including Best Musical<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The winners were:<\/p>\n
We had many other worthy nominees, many of whom lost to the people above. They were: Susan Chebookjian for choreography on Dolly<\/i>, Maureen Brennan (Mame<\/i>) and Sarah Pfisterer (Dolly<\/i>) for Supporting Actress, Jamie Ross (Georges in La Cage<\/i>, who was just as important to the charm of the show as David, but naturally had the less flashy role — literally!), Worth Howe (Dolly<\/i>) and David Scala (La Cage<\/i>) for Best Director, who were both a real pleasure to work with, Troy Costa for Most Promising Performance by a Child Actor for Mame<\/i>, and finally Dolly<\/i> was also up for Best Musical — which is a tough choice, as it may or may not have been the best show I’ve ever done. At least until we did La Cage<\/i> a few months later.<\/p>\n
I also have to give a shoutout to Anita Yavich, who is an awesome costume designer I worked with on Henry V<\/i>, who won for her design on The Miracle at Naples<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Anyway, if the IRNEs are anything like the Tonys, they would be motivated only by political and financial concerns, by a bunch of people who haven’t seen half the shows nominated. So I hope they’re not. I prefer instead to think that we are being recognized for our good work this past summer. It’s nice to think that my work might have contributed in some way to the impact the show had to earn it Best Musical, especially since I haven’t been able to have that degree of impact doing Shakespeare for the last six months. It is truly time to go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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