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HOME | ABOUT | MY COLUMN | EMAIL | RSS FEED BY FRANK RIZZO Connecticut Critics Group Chooses Season's Faves By Frank Rizzo on June 3, 2011 10:45 AM | Permalink | Comments - 0 http://blogs.courant.com/curtain/2011/06/connecticut-critics-group-choo.html The Connecticut Critics Circle named its best of the 2010-11 season in the state. Awards will be given out in a program Sunday, June 11 at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex. The group is made up of some but not all theater critics in the state. (Not included in the membership are major outlets such as the New Haven Register, New York Times, Waterbury Republic and the New Haven Advocate.) The winners are noted in bold face: PLAY "The Diary of Anne Frank" (Westport Country Playhouse) "Gem of the Ocean" (Hartford Stage) *"The Piano Lesson" (Yale Rep) "A Steady Rain" (TheaterWorks) "The Train Driver" (Long Wharf Theatre) MUSICAL "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Ivoryton Playhouse) "Everything the Traffic Will Allow" (Music Theatre of Connecticut) "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (Goodspeed Musicals) "I Do! I Do!" (Westport Country Playhouse) *"My One and Only" (Goodspeed Musicals) "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" (Yale Rep) ACTRESS/PLAY *Francesca Choy-Kee ("Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf Theatre) Eisa Davis ("The Piano Lesson," Yale Rep) Laura Esterman ("Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf) Dana Ivey ("Happy Days," Westport Country Playhouse) Judith Ivey ("Shirley Valentine," Long Wharf Theatre) Novella Nelson ("Gem of the Ocean," Hartford Stage) ACTOR/PLAY Anthony Chisholm ("The Train Driver," Long Wharf Theatre) Harry Groener ("The Train Driver," Long Wharf Theatre) Edward Herrmann ("A Delicate Balance," Yale Rep) *LeRoy McClain ("The Piano Lesson," Yale Rep) Brian Murray ("The Old Masters," Long Wharf Theatre) Roger Robinson ("Gem of the Ocean," Hartford Stage) ACTRESS/MUSICAL Kate Baldwin ("I Do! I Do!," Westport Country Playhouse) *Klea Blackhurst (Everything the Traffic Will Allow, Music Theatre of Conn.) Jenn Gambatese ("We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Yale Rep) Jodi Langel ("Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Downtown Cabaret) Alexandra Socha ("We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Yale Rep) ACTOR/MUSICAL Lewis Cleale ("I Do! I Do!," Westport Country Playhouse) Sean Palmer ("We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Yale Rep) Brian Sears ("How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," Goodspeed) Kris Stock ("Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Downtown Cabaret) *Tony Yazbeck ("My One and Only," Goodspeed Musicals) DIRECTOR/PLAY Gordon Edelstein ("The Train Driver," Long Wharf) Gerald Freedman ("The Diary of Anne Frank," Westport) *Peter Lockyer ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Ivoryton) Eric Ting ("Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf) Liesl Tommy ("The Piano Lesson," Yale Rep) DIRECTOR/MUSICAL Greg Ganakas ("How to Succeed in Business . . . , Goodspeed) Jacqueline Hubbard ("Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story," Ivoryton) Anne Kauffman ("We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Yale Rep) Ray Roderick ("My One and Only, Goodspeed) *Scott Thompson ("Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Downtown Cabaret) Darko Tresnjak ("Carnival," Goodspeed) CHOREOGRAPHY Kelli Barclay ("How to Succeed in Business . . . , Goodspeed)) *Kelli Barclay ("My One and Only," Goodspeed) Peggy Hickey ("Carnival," Goodspeed)) SET DESIGN Frank Alberino ("Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf)) Frank Alberino ("Shirley Valentine," Long Wharf) Scott Bradley ("Gem of the Ocean, Hartford Stage) *John Ezell ("The Diary of Anne Frank," Westport Country Playhouse) Eugene Lee ("The Train Driver," Long Wharf) Chien-Yu Peng ("A Delicate Balance," Yale Rep) LIGHTING Christopher Akerlind ("The Train Driver," Long Wharf) *Travis McHale ("The Diary of Anne Frank," Westport Country Playhouse) Stephen Strawbridge ("We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Yale Rep) Jennifer Tipton ("Autumn Sonata," Yale Rep) COSTUMES Elicia Lord ("The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," Connecticut Rep) *Robin L. McGee ("My One and Only," Goodspeed) Devon Painter ("I Do! I Do," Westport) Ilona Somogyi ("Gem of the Ocean," Hartford Stage) David C. Woolard ("Divine Rivalry," Hartford Stage) SOUND Broken Chord ("Gem of the Ocean," Hartford Stage) *Katie Down ("Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf) Chad Raines ("Autumn Sonata," Yale Rep) ENSEMBLE "God of Carnage" (TheaterWorks) "Divine Rivalry" (Hartford Stage) *Robert Eli, Steven French, Christina Pumariega, Noble Shropshire in "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps" (Hartford Stage) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Downtown Cabaret) DEBUT (3-WAY TIE) *Eshan Bay (Agnes Under the Big Top," Long Wharf) *Evan Jonigkeit ("High," TheaterWorks) *Aaron Moss ("The Winter's Tale," Elm Shakespeare) THE TOM KILLEN MEMORIAL AWARD Music Theatre of Connecticut SPECIAL RECOGNITION The 100th Anniversary of the Ivoryton Playhouse