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Critics Circle
vice president Anne Marie Welsh announces the
choreography winners, Javier Velasco for San
Diego Rep's "Hairspray" and Casey Nicholaw for
the Old Globe's "Robin and the 7 Hoods."
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Composer Mark
Bennett thanks Felix Mendelssohn while accepting
his prize for Original Music for a Play for La
Jolla Playhouse's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." |
Deborah Gilmour
Smyth thanks her ailing husband, Robert, and the
talented Cygnet Theatre cast and crew for her
prize, Outstanding Lead Performance in a
Musical, for the role of Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney
Todd." |
Steve Gunderson,
honored as Outstanding Featured Performance for
his role as Wilbur in San Diego Rep's
"Hairspray," said it's a role he never
considered auditioning for. |
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San Diego
Repertory Theatre artistic director Sam
Woodhouse, accepting the prize for Outstanding
Resident Musical for "Hairspray," was joined at
the podium by faculty members from San Diego
School of Creative and Performing Arts, whose
students filled out the cast. |
Sean Murray heads
to the podium to accept the Outstanding Resident
Musical prize for "Sweeney Todd." |
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Critics Circle
member Carol Davis gets a hug from honoree Eric Lotze, the award-winning lighting designer for
Cygnet Theatre's "Private Lives." The former San
Diegan now lives in Canada, but was in San Diego
to accept his award. |
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Ion Theatre's
Glenn Paris, left, with four members of his "Hurlyburly"
cast -- Karson St. John, Matt Scott, Francis
Gercke and Walter Ritter -- accepts the award
for Outstanding Ensemble. |
Walter Ritter
gives his "Hurlyburly" director, Paris, a
congratulatory hug. |
Steve Gunderson
returns to the stage to collect his prize as
Actor of the Year, for his featured roles in
four San Diego County musicals in 2010. |
Pam Kragen congratulates Miles Anderson, who won
the Outstanding Lead Performance award for the
title role in the Old Globe's "The Madness of
George III." |
Anderson
thanked the Old Globe's Lou Spisto for
taking a chance on him with the large
role, his acting coach/partner Dr. Bella
Merlin of UC Davis, and he joked that
he'd apparently come dressed as a
tablecloth (his fuschia jacket closely
matched some of the linens in the lobby. |
Director/choreographer Jeff Calhoun, who
won last year's directing award for La
Jolla Playhouse's "Bonnie and Clyde,"
gave out this year's New Musical award.
Before announcing the winner, Calhoun
described how the San Diego critics'
reviews were instrumental in helping him
reshape "Bonnie and Clyde" for its
second tryout in Florida. It will head to Broadway
later this year. |
And this
year's winner is .... |
... La
Jolla Playhouse, once again, for
"Limelight: The Story of Charlie
Chaplin." Managing director Michael
Rosenberg accepts the prize. |
A memorial
video produced by Pam Kragen remembers
the San Diego theater community members
lost in 2010, beginning with retired
Critics Circle member Bill Fark, seen
here in a painting by Laurie Brindle. |
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Also memorialized
in the video were Craig Noel, left,
philanthropists Donald Shiley and Rita Bronowski,
and actor/director Robert Ellenstein, right, as
well as ... |
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The Critics Circle has launched a youth theater
scholarship in Ellis-Troy's name, in tribute to
her work with young drama students.