Steven Leigh MorrisDust off those leather pants, pull your '80s duds out of mothballs and get ready to rock. The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera (Backers' Audition Edition) is coming Monday night, April 7, to the Avalon, 1735 Vine Street, Hollywood. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show starts at 7:30. We've invited Mick Jagger, Sting, David Bowie, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt (yes, possibly all under one roof just to celebrate small theater in L.A.!) and many other celebrity backers to check out Troubadour Theater Company's new rock opera, which is loosely based on — and will be the main entertainment at — L.A. Weekly's awards show honoring excellence in Los Angeles theaters of 99 seats or fewer, in productions that opened between January 1 and December 31, 2007.
Ed Krieger
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Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
Robert W. Arbogast
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Bush Is Bad
You are a nominee if your name appears in the list below or if, in the categories of Production of the Year, Revival Production of the Year, Musical of the Year, or Two-Person Show, you are named in the program of the nominated show as an actor, designer, producer, director, writer, choreographer or stage manager. You are a nominee if, in the category of Production Design, you are listed in the program of the nominated show as a producer, director or designer. Finally, you are a nominee if, in any of the Ensemble categories, you were listed in the program of the nominated show as an actor.
Tickets for nominees are free. Nominees: R.S.V.P. to (323) 993-3693 beginning Wednesday, February 13 at noon, and somebody will confirm your reservation within a week. Tickets for all nominees' guests and for the general public are available for $17.50 plus handling fees, through www.laweekly.com/theaterawards.
(Note: Both the nominee R.S.V.P. line and the online box office for guests and the public open on Wednesday, February 13 at noon.)
T-shirts will be ripped at the door.
PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Center
An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theatre Company
Loyal Women, Theatre Banshee
Sliding Into Hades, Koan Ensemble at the Odyssey Theatre
REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (of a 20th- or 21st-century work)
Bad Seed, Buzzworks Theatre Company at the Lounge Theatre
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
The Swine Show, Sacred Fools Theatre Company
Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
Why Marry?, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
MUSICAL OF THE YEAR
Bush Is Bad, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Evel Knievel: The Rock Opera, Bootleg Theater
Hair, MET Theatre
DIRECTION
Bo Crowell, Hair, MET Theatre
Elina DeSantos, A Doll's House, Ark Theatre Company
James Mellon, Feed, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Matthew Miller, Girl, 20, Serendipity Theatre Collective at the Hudson Mainstage
Penny L. Moore, A Lesson Before Dying, Actors Group Theatre
Damaso Rodriguez, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious
Theatre Company
Ron Sossi, Sliding Into Hades, Koan Ensemble at the Odyssey Theatre
COMEDY DIRECTION
David Cheaney, Why Marry?, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
Michael Connors, Limonade Tous les Jours, I'm a Parade Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Frédérique Michel, The Bald Soprano, City Garage
Charles Otte, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
Paul Plunkett, The Swine Show, Sacred Fools Theatre Company
Howard Teichman, Modern Orthodox, Theatre 40
ONE-ACT DIRECTION
Frédérique Michel, Quartet, City Garage
MUSICAL DIRECTION
Michael Levine, Bush Is Bad, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Christian Nesmith, Hair, MET Theatre
Billy Thompson, Invasion! The Musical, Flying Pig Productions at the Hudson Backstage Theatre
ENSEMBLE
Bleed Rail, Theatre @ Boston Court
Bug, Lost Angels Theater Company at the Coast Playhouse
Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court
Girl, 20, Serendipity Theatre Collective at the Hudson Mainstage
An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theatre Company
Loyal Women, Theatre Banshee
Sliding Into Hades, Koan Ensemble at the Odyssey Theatre
Wreck of the Unfathomable, Theatre of NOTE
MUSICAL ENSEMBLE
Bush Is Bad, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
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Hair, MET Theatre
COMEDY ENSEMBLE
Bad Seed, Buzzworks Theatre Company at the Lounge Theatre
The Bald Soprano, City Garage
It's Just Sex, Zephyr Theatre
Limonade Tous les Jours, I'm a Parade Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Modern Orthodox, Theatre 40
The Swine Show, Sacred Fools Theatre Company
Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
Why Marry?, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
ONE-ACT ENSEMBLE
Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death, Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group
Quartet, City Garage
LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Deidre Henry, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
Karen Kondazian, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Fountain Theatre
Andrea Lockhart, Feed, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Anna Quirino Miranda, A Doll's House, Ark Theatre Company
Deborah Puette, Tryst, Black Dahlia Theater
Samantha Sloyan, The Misanthrope, New Place Theatre
Rachel Style, The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Center
LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE
Robert W. Arbogast, Feed, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Stewart W. Calhoun, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Theatre @ Boston Court
Steve Cell, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
Paul Denniston, Feed, Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Malik B. El-Amin, A Lesson Before Dying, Actors Group Theatre
Chuma Gault, Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre
Gabriel Olds, Tryst, Black Dahlia Theater
Matt Letscher, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre
Martin Papazian, The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Center
SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Ginna Carter, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre
Renae Geerlings, A Doll's House, Ark Theatre Company
Amanda Deibert, Loyal Women, Theatre Banshee
Valerie Dillman, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre
Judith Moreland, Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre
Tuffet Schmeltzle, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Celebration Theatre
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Adam Haas Hunter, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Theatre @ Boston Court
Tim Starks, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theatre
Richard Tatum, A Doll's House, Ark Theatre Company
TWO-PERSON SHOW
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Volition Entertainment Productions and the Elephant Theatre
Tryst, Black Dahlia Theater
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Anna Kahja, Palace of the End, 49th Parallel and Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Michael Catlin, Palace of the End, 49th Parallel and Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Kate Mines, Palace of the End, 49th Parallel and Open at the Top Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
Robert Trebor, The Return of Brother Theodore, Camelot Artists at the Skylight Theatre
COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Steven Benson, Why Marry, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
Megan Boone, Limonade Tous les Jours, I'm a Parade Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Benjamin Burdick, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
David Castellani, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
Aimee Guichard, Why Marry?, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
Peter Lewis, Limonade Tous les Jours, I'm a Parade Productions at 2100 Square Feet
David St. James, Why Marry?, Theater Neo at the Secret Rose Theater
ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE
Troy Dunn, Quartet, City Garage
Sharon Gardner, Quartet, City Garage
PLAY WRITING
Aaron Henne, Sliding Into Hades, Koan Ensemble at the Odyssey Theatre
Richard Martin Hirsch, Atonement, Theatre 40
Christopher Kelley, Wreck of the Unfathomable, Theatre of NOTE
Matt Pelfrey, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theatre Company
Frank Tangredi, Galatea, The Space
Rita Valencia, A New World War, Padua Playwrights Productions at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Jeff Murray
QUEEN OF THE ANGELS
Tom Fitzpatrick
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bleed Rail, Theatre @ Boston Court
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Volition Entertainment Productions and the Elephant Theatre
Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death, Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group
Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court
Limonade Tous les Jours, I'm a Parade Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Quartet, City Garage
Sliding Into Hades, Koan Ensemble at the Odyssey Theatre
ADAPTATION
Christopher Kelley, Wreck of the Unfathomable, Theatre of NOTE
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Allain Rochel, The Bacchae, Celebration Theatre
Stephen Sachs, Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre
LIGHTING DESIGN
Leigh Allen, Bug, Lost Angels Theater Company at the Coast Playhouse
Steven Young, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court
COSTUME DESIGN
Ann Closs-Farley, Evel Knievel: The Rock Opera, Bootleg Theater
Audrey Eisner, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre
Shon Le Blanc, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Fountain Theatre
Soojin Lee, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
Paul Spadone, Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X Theatre Company at [Inside] the Ford
SET DESIGN
Tom Buderwitz, Paradise Lost:Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court
Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theatre
Travis Gale Lewis, Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre
Gary Smoot, Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X Theatre Company at [Inside] the Ford
SOUND DESIGN
Lindsay Jones, Bug, Lost Angels Theater Company at the Coast Playhouse
Tim Labor, TheSwine Show, Sacred Fools Theatre Company
Tim Labor, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company
CHOREOGRAPHY
Bubba Carr, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court
Bo Crowell, Hair, MET Theatre
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Josh Gordon, Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Christopher Reiner, Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death, Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group
Billy Thompson, Invasion! The Musical, Flying Pig Productions at the Hudson Backstage Theatre
Eric Whitacre, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court
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