Grigware Talks Theatre: December 2012

2012 Eddon Awards

The Best in LA Theatre for 2012
(alphabetical listings)
(artists performing outside LA may be included in performance categories)

(this post will be on the main page of my website in January 2013!)

BEST PRODUCTION
Avenue Q - DOMA
Billy Elliott - Pantages Theatre
The Book of Mormon - Pantages Theatre
Clybourne Park - Mark Taper Forum
The Color Purple - Celebration Theatre
Deathtrap - Gay and Lesbian Center
Follies - Ahmanson Theatre

In the Red and Brown Water - Fountain Theatre
The Irish Curse - Odyssey Theatre
Memphis - Pantages
Other Desert Cities - Mark Taper Forum
The Paris Letter - Group rep
Peter Pan - La Mirada
Red - Mark Taper Forum
The Scottsboro Boys - Old Globe, San Diego
Seminar - Ahmanson Theatre
Silence the Musical - Hayworth Theatre
Stoneface - Sacred Fools Theatre
Sweeney Todd - Moonlight Amphitheatre, Vista
War Horse - Ahmanson Theatre
The World Goes Round - Actors Co-op
You Can't Take It With You - The Antaeus Company

BEST DIRECTOR (musical)
Robert Marra - The World Goes Round, Actors Co-op/
Michael Matthews - The Color Purple/Justin Love - Celebration
BEST DIRECTOR (play)
Bart DeLorenzo - Coney Island Christmas - Geffen/
Shirley Jo Finney - In the Red and Brown Water, Fountain Theatre

MOST PROMISING NEW MUSICAL

Justin Love(book by Patricia Cotter & David Elzer; music and lyrics by Lori Scarlett & David Manning) - Celebration Theatre

MOST PROMISING NEW PLAY
Coney Island Christmas (Donald Margulies) - Geffen Playhouse/ The Gronholm Method (Jordi Galceran Ferrer) - Falcon

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: PLAY

Art - Pasadena Playhouse
Clybourne Park - Mark Taper Forum
Cobb - Group rep
Deathtrap - Gay and Lesbian Center
Jitney - Pasadena Playhouse
That Good Night - The Road Theatre Co
The New Electric Ballroom - Rogue Machine

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: MUSICAL
Bad Apples - Circle X at Atwater Village
The Book of Mormon - Pantages
Follies - Ahmanson
The Full Monty - Third Street Theatre
Justin Love - Celebration
Million Dollar Quartet - Pantages
The World Goes Round - Actors Co-op

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Anne Gee Byrd - The Savannah Disputation - Colony
Jonathan Cake - The Gronholm Method - Falcon
Victoria Clark/Jan Maxwell - Follies - Ahmanson
C. Stephen Foster/Michael Taylor Gray - Bitchslap!-Macha Theatre
Davis Gaines - Man of La Mancha - MTW/Silence the Musical - Hayworth Theatre
Harry Hamlin/Loretta Swit - One November Yankee - NoHo Arts Center
John Hurt - Krapp's Last Tape - Kirk Douglas Theatre
Genevieve Joy/Robert Wuhl - I Ought To Be in Pictures - Falcon
Chris Kaufmann/Mark Whitten - Avenue Q - DOMA
Diarra Kilpatrick - In the Red and Brown Water - Fountain
Christine Lakin - Silence the Musical - Hayworth
Bets Malone - Once Upon a Mattress - Cabrillo/Sweeney Todd - Vista
Lesli Margherita - Man of La Mancha -MTW
Alfred Molina/Jonathan Groff - Red - Mark Taper Forum
Kevin Odekirk - Miss Saigon - La Mirada/Riverside
Lloyd Pedersen - The Paris Letter - Group rep
Lawrence Pressman/Simon Lees - Farm Boy - Matrix Theatre
Cathy Rigby - Peter Pan -La Mirada
Ben Rovner - The Compleat Female Stage Beauty - Crown City Theatre

Christopher Sieber - La Cage Aux Folles - Pantages Theatre
Douglas Sills - The Addams Family A New Musical Comedy - Pantages
Julia Silverman/Liza de Weerd - Collected Stories - Group rep
Anthony Skordi - Onassis - Stella Adler Theatre
French Stewart - Stoneface - Sacred Fools Theatre
Dan Sykes - Cobb/The Paris Letter - Group rep
Sunny Thompson -Marilyn Forever Blonde - El Portal Mainstage
Heather Tom - The Heiress - Pasadena Playhouse
Robert Townsend - Sweeney Todd - Vista
Karen Volpe - Little Shop of Horrors - GCT
Cesili Williams - The Color Purple - Celebration
Vanessa Williams - Intimate Apparel - Pasadena Playhouse

BEST FEATURED PERFORMANCE
Tim Bagley- Under My Skin-Pasadena Playhouse
Stephen Bienskie - Silence The Musical - Hayworth
Julia Duffy - The Heiress - Pasadena Playhouse
Gaelen Gilliland - The Addams Family - Pantages
Annabelle Gurwitch - Coney Island Christmas - Geffen
Julie Johnson-Memphis-Pantages
Greg Keller - Seminar - Ahmanson
Alix Korey/Sal Mistretta - The Fix - ICT, Long Beach
Tracy Lore - Once Upon a Mattress - Cabrillo/42nd Street-MTW
Derrell Maury - The Beat Goes On! - Theatre of Arts, Arena Stage
Elaine Paige - Follies - Ahmanson
Patrick Quinlan - The Irish Curse - Odyssey
Patrick Joseph Rieger - The Water's Edge - The Road
Jan Sheldrick - The Full Monty - Third Street Theatre
Julia Silverman - The Paris Letter - Group rep
Edward Staudenmayer - Anything Goes - Ahmanson
Alet Taylor - Justin Love - Celebration
Jamie Torcellini - 42nd Street - MTW
Robin Weigert/Michael Weston - Other Desert Cities - Mark Taper Forum

BEST SOLO SHOW- Female
Mona Golabek - The Pianist of Willesden Lane - Geffen
BEST SOLO SHOW - Male
Johnny O'Calloghan - Who's Your Daddy? - Victory Theatre Center

BEST CABARET/CONCERT ARTIST: MALE
Cortes Alexander - Swell - Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal
Raul Esparza Sings Sondheim - Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge
Jason Graae - The Prince and the Showboy - Sterling's
Levi Kreis - Upclose and Personal - NoHo Arts Center
Peter Mac - Get Happy - French Quarter
Brian Stokes Mitchell - The Broad, Santa Monica

BEST CABARET/CONCERT ARTIST: FEMALE
Eileen Barnett - Colony Theatre
Michele Brourman - Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal
Chelsea Emma Franko - The Girl from Apple Valley - Sterling's
Ilene Graf - Sterling's
Juliana Hansen - Sterling's
Faith Prince - The Prince and the Showboy - Sterling's
Helen Reddy - Canyon Club
Sirens - Sterling's

MOST UNIQUE SHOW/SPECIAL EVENT
Donny and Marie, Christmas in Los Angeles - Pantages
The Beat Goes On! -Theatre of Arts, Arena Stage
Smoke and Mirrors - Promenade Theatre, Santa Monica
Twilight Zone Unlimited - Impro Theatre at the Odyssey

SPECIAL NOD
Kritzerland -the first Sunday monthly at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal/
GCT (Glendale Centre Theatre) - Annie/ And Then There Were None

BEST CD

Kaye Ballard -My Life, In My Own Words, With My Own Mouth

James Barbour - Bring Me Giants
Bonnie & Clyde - Broadway Records
Jim Bullock - diFFerent
Vikki Carr - Viva la Vida - Sony Music Latin
Carrie the musical, premiere recording - Ghostlight Records
Dinner and a Fancy Dress - Karen Volpe

Eden Espinosa- Look Around
Marvelous Wonderettes/Caps and Gowns - original cast recording