from THE THEATER MIRROR, New England's's LIVE Theate
Guide
THE THEATER MIRROR
proudly announces the INDEPENDENT REVIEWERS OF NEW ENGLAND'S
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
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SPECIAL CITATIONS
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KENNETH A MACDONALD AWARD
For Lifetime Commitment to Theater
to
NORA HUSSEY
and WELLESLEY SUMMER THEATRE
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CITATIONS to
OSKAR EUSTIS
of TRINITY REPERTORY THEATRE, PROVIDENCE
and to
DEAF WEST THEATRE for "Big
River"
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Kay Bourne Diversity Awards
to
WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATRE for "Snow
White"
and to RYAN LANDRY and The Gold
Dust Twins
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MAJOR AWARDS
DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS
BEST SET
DESIGN
SMALL COMPANY
RICHARD CHAMBERS
for "The Glider"
@ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
PETER CALAO for "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" @ Up You
Mighty Race
GIANNI DOWNS for "The Dazzle" @ Stoneham Theatre
JANIE E. HOWLAND for "Private Lives" @ The Lyric Stage
Company of Boston
CHRISTINA TODESCO for "The Violet Hour" @ Stoneham Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
ADAM STOCKHAUSEN
for "Sonia Flew"
@ Huntington Theatre Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
DAVID P. GORDON for "What The Butler Saw" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
RAY KLAUSEN for "Big River" @ Deaf West Theatre
DAVID GALLO for "Gem of The Ocean" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
GEORGE JENKINS &JESSE POLESHUCK for "Sly Fox" @
The Shubert Theatre
@ The Huntington Theater Company
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
SMALL COMPANY
TIE
ANDREW FOLEY
for "The Glider"
@ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
AND
JEFFREY GARDINER
for "Evita"
@ Turtle Lane Playhouse
NOMINEES INCLUDED
TESS JAMES for "Mojo Mickybo" @ Sugan Theatre Company
KATHY PETER for "Antigone" @ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
DONALD HOLDER
for "Tom Jones: The Musical"
@ North Shore Music Theatre
&
"Movin' Out" @ The Colonial Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
MICHAEL GILLAM for "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn" @ Deaf West Theatre
JAMES INAGLLS for "A Midsummer night's Drea," @ American
Repertory Theatre
JACK MEHLER for "Nine" @ North Shore Music Theatre
JENNIFER TIPTON for "The Provok'd Wife" @ American Repertory
Theatre
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
SMALL COMPANY
DAVID CABRAL
for "A Little Night Music" &"Noises
Off"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
GAIL ASTRID BUCKLEY for "Private Lives" @ The Lyric
Stage &
"Kimberly Akimbo" @ Boston Theatre Works
MARIAN PIRO & MATTHEW LAZURE for "Snow White" @
Wheelock Family Theatre
FRANCES NELSON McSHERRY for "Approaching Moomtaj" &"Scapin"
@ The New Repertory Theatre
LOANN WEST for "Far Away" @ Zeitgeist Stage Company
LARGE COMPANY
JULIE TAYMOR
for "The Lion King"
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
GABRIEL BERRY for "The Provok'd Wife" @ American Repertory
Theatre
RANDALL KLEIN for "Aida" @ North Shore Music Theatre
MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ for "Kiss Me, Kate" @ North Shore
Music Theatre
CLINT RAMOS for "Much Ado About Nothing" @ Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company
BEST SOUND DESIGN
SMALL COMPANY
RICK LOMBARDO
for "Three-Penny Opera"
@ The New Repertory Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
DEWEY DELLAY for "Fully Committed" @ The Lyric Stage
Company of Boston
HADDON KIME for "The Glider" "Matter Familias"
& "Jasper Lake" @ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
JOHN MacKENZIE for "Scotland Road" @ The Hovey Players
LARGE COMPANY
PETER FITZGERALD
for "Big River"
@ Deaf West Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
BRUCE ELLMAN for "Bad Dates" @ The Huntington Theater
Company
DAVID REMEDIOS for "Oedipus" @ American Repertory Theatre
JOHN A. STONE for "Tom Jones" @ North Shore Music Theatre
JERRY YAGER for "The Rose Tattoo" @ The Huntington Theater
Company
BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE
SMALL COMPANY
MARC WOLF
in "Another American Asking And Telling"
@ Boston Theatre Works
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
KEITH MASCOLL in "Love Jones" @ The New African Company
JONATHAN MIRIN in "Riding The Wave.Com" @ Piti Theatre,
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
RODNEY RAFTERY in "The Santaland Diaries" @ TheatreZone
HANIFAH WALIDAH in "The Black Folks Guide to Black Folks..."
@ Theater Offensive
LARGE COMPANY
TIE
ELAINE STRITCH
in "Elaine Stritch At Liberty"
@ Broadway in Boston's Wilbur Theatre
AND
JULIE WHITE
in "Bad Dates"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
JOAN RIVERS in "Broke And Alone...in Boston" @ Broadway
in Boston's Wilbur Theatre
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
SMALL COMPANY
KORTNEY ADAMS
for "After Mrs. Rochester"
@ Wellesley Summer Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
KORTNEY ADAMS in "After Mrs. Rochester" @ Wellesley
Summer Theatre
RAMONA ALEXANDER in "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" @ Up
You Mighty Race
ELIZA ROSE FICHTER in "Curse of The Starving Class"
@ TheatreZone
BIRGIT HUPPUCH in "Glider" @ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
ANGELA ROSE in "Say You Love Satan" @ Zeitgeist Stage
Company
LARGE COMPANY
TIE
KAREN MacDONALD
in "The Miser" & "The Provok'd
Wife"
@ American Repertory Theatre
AND
LISA GAY HAMILTON
in "Gem of The Ocean"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
EFFIE JOHNSON in "The Provok'd Wife" @ American Repertory
Theatre
AMY VAN NOSTRAND in "What The Butler Saw" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
BOBBIE STEINBACH in "Much Ado About Nothing" @ Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTOR
SMALL COMPANY
VINCENT ERNEST SIDERS
in "Our Lady of 121st Street"
@ SpeakEasy Stage
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
BARLOW ADAMSON in "Matter Familias" @ Boston Playwrights'
Theatre
DANNY HARRIS in "The Bad Seed" @ The Footlight Club
RICHARD LaFRANCE in "After Mrs. Rochester" @ Wellesley
Summer Theatre
JACOB LIBERMAN in "Kimberly Akimbo" @ Boston Theatre
Works
LARGE COMPANY
NAT DeWOLF
in "Burn This"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
ANTHONY CHISHOLM in "Gem of The Ocean" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
JEREMIAH KISSEL in "Sonia Flew" @ The Huntington Theater
Company
WILL LEBOW in "The Birthday Party" @ American Repertory
Theatre &
"Sonia Flew" @ The Huntington Theater Company
PAXTON WHITEHEAD in "What The Butler Saw" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
BEST ACTRESS
SMALL COMPANY
TIE
ALICIA KAHN
in "After Mrs. Rochester" & "Jane
Eyre"
@ Wellesley Summer Theatre
AND
JUDITH McINTYRE
in "Kimberly Akimbo"
@ Boston Theatre Works
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
LAURA LATRELLE in "Glider" @ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
"Gigolo Confessions" @ Sugan Theatre Company
PAULA PLUM in "Private Lives" @ The Lyric Stage Company
of Boston
ADRIENNE WILLIAMS in "Yellowman" @ The New Repertory
Company
LARGE COMPANY
KAREN MacDONALD
in "The Birthday Party" & "Midsummer
Night's Dream"
@ American Repertory Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
GEORGIA HATZIS in "Much Ado About Nothing" @ Commonwealth
Stakespeare Company
JULIE JESNECK in "Ruby Sunrise" @ Trinity Repertory
Theatre
ANDREA MARTIN in "The Rose Tattoo" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
PHYLICIA RASHAD in "Gem of The Ocean" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
BEST ACTOR
SMALL COMPANY
NEIL A. CASEY
in "The Dazzle"
@ Stoneham Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
DORIAN CHRISTIAN BAUCUM in "Spell #7" @ Company One
&
"Yellowman" @ New Repertory Theatre
MICHAEL HAMMOND in "Private Lives" @ The Lyric Stage
Company of Boston
CLARK JACKSON in "Permanent Collection" @ New Repertory
Theatre
JESSE SOUSOURIAN in "Popcorn" @ Zeitgeist Stage Company
LARGE COMPANY
THOMAS DERRAH
in "The Birthday Party"
@ American Repertory Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
BILL CAMP in "The Provok'd Wife" @ American Repertory
Theatre
STEVEN EPP in "The Miser" @ American Repertory Theatre
JOHN EARL JENKS in "Gem of The Ocean" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
JONNO ROBERTS in "Much Ado About Nothing" @ Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company
BEST ENSEMBLE
PLAYING
TIE
SMALL COMPANY
"AFTER MRS. ROCHESTER" & "JANE
EYRE"
@ Wellesley Summer Theatre
AND
THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE"
"@ SpeakEasy Stage Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"RAGTIME" @ The Footlight Club
"SPELL #7" @ Company One
"TWELVE ANGRY JURORS" @ Emerson Stage @ Roxbury Community
College
LARGE COMPANY
"WHAT THE BUTLER SAW"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"EVITA" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
"GEM OF THE OCEAN" @ The Huntington Theater Company
"THE MUSIC MAN" @ Reagle Players
"SONIA FLEW" @ The Huntington Theater Company
BEST DIRECTOR
SMALL COMPANY
NORA HUSSEY
for "After Mrs. Rochester" & "Jane
Eyre"
@ Wellesley Summer Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
AKIBA ABAKA for "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" @ Up You
Mighty Race
BARLOW ADAMSON for "Shakespeare's R & J" @ Mill6
Collaborative
SCOTT EDMISTON for "The Last Sunday in June" @ SpeakEasy
Stage Company
LARGE COMPANY
NICHOLAS MARTIN
for "Sonia Flew"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
JoANNA AKALAITIS for "The Birthday Party" @ American
repertory Theatre
OSKAR EUSTIS for "Ruby Sunrise" @ Trinity Repertory
Company
JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY for "Bad Dates" @ The Huntington
Theater Company
ROBERT WOODRUFF for "Oedipus" @ American Repertory Theatre
BEST NEW PLAY
SMALL COMPANY
"GLIDER"
by Kate Snodgrass
@ BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS' THEATRE
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"BACKWATER" by William Donnelly @ Rough &Tumble
Theatre
"EUROPHOCHYLUS" by 6 Playwrights @ Essayons Theatre
"MATTER FAMILIAS" by Ginger Lazarus @ Boston Playwrights'
Theatre
"SCAPIN" by Rick Lombardo & Haddon Kime @ The New
Repertory Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
"SONIA FLEW"
by Melinda Lopez
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"GEM OF THE OCEAN" by August Wilson @ The Huntington
Theater Company
"RUBY SUNRISE" by Rinne Groff @ Trinity Repertory Company
BEST PRODUCTION (DRAMA/COMEDY)
SMALL COMPANY
"AFTER MRS. ROCHESTER" & "JANE
EYRE"
@ Wellesley Summer Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"GILDER" @ Boston Playwrights' Theatre
"JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE" @ Up You Mighty Race
"THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
"LAST RITES" @ Theater Offensive
LARGE COMPANY
"SONIA FLEW"
@ The Huntington Theater Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"THE BIRTHDAY PARTY" @ American Repertory Theatre
"GEM OF THE OCEAN" @ The Huntington Theater Company
"MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" @ Commonwealth Shakespeare
Company
"RUBY SUNRISE" @ Trinity Repertory Company
MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
SMALL COMPANY
JUDY ERICKSON & PIERRE CHARTRAND
for "The Christmas Revels"
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
LISA CAHILL, LAURIE FISHER, SHERYL RIFAS-SHIMAN & STEPHANIE
SCHRADER for
"Anything Goes" @ Encore Theater Company
JENNIFER CONDON for "Grease" @ Turtle Lane Playhouse
KELLI EDWARDS for "Scapin" &"Three-Penny Opera"
@ The New Repertory Theatre
JENNIFER WERNER for "Cabaret" @ Worcester Foothills
Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
TWYLA THARP
for "Movin' Out"
@ Broadway In Boston's Colonial Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
SUSAN M. CHEBOOKJIAN for "The Music Man" @ The Reagle
Players
MARTHA CLARKE for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" @ American
Repertory Theatre
LARRY FULLER for "Evita" @ Broadway In Boston's Colonial
Theatre
LEE WILKINS for "Kiss Me, Kate!" @ North Shore Music
Theatre
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
SMALL COMPANY
KERRY DOWLING
for "Company" &"Elegies"
@ SpeakEasy Stage Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
LEIGH BARRETT in "Three-Penny Opera" @ New Repertory
Theatre
NANCY E. CARROLL in "Three-Penny Opera" @ New Repertory
Theatre
in "Company" & "Elegies" @ SpeakEasy Stake
Company
ELIZABETH HAYES in "A Little Nighht Music" &"The
Spitfire Grill"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
ANDREA ROSS in "Lizzie Borden" @ Stoneham Theatre &
"A Little Night Music" @ The Lyric Stage Company of
Boston
LARGE COMPANY
CHERYL McMAHON
in "Grease" & "The Music Man"
@ Reagle Players
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
CATHERINE MIEUN CHOI in "The King & I" @ Atlanta's
Theater of The Stars
The Independent Presenters' Network
JANINE LaMANNA for "Aida" @ North Shore Music Theatre
DEB LEAMY in "Kiss Me, Kate!" @ North Shore Music Theatre
MEGAN STRANGE in "Urinetown" @ Broadway in Boston's
Colonial Theatre
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
SMALL COMPANY
WILL McGARRAHAN
in "Company"
@ SpeakEasy Stage Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
PETER ADAMS in "Evita" @ Turtle Lane Playhouse
JOSE DELGADO in "Elegies" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
PAUL FARWELL in "Three-Penny Opera" @ New Repertory
Theatre
DREW POLING in "A Little Night Music" @ The Lyric Stage
Company of Boston
LARGE COMPANY
RON HOLGATE
in "Urinetown"
@ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
DAVID COFFEE in "Kiss Me, Kate!" @ North Shore Music
Theatre
PHILLIP HERNANDEZ in "Evita" @ Broadway in Boston's
Colonial Theatre
JOE WILSON JR. in "Ain't Misbehavin'" @ Trinity Repertory
Theatre
RON WISNISKI in "Beauty &The Beast" & "Tom
Jones" @ North Shore Music Theatre
BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
SMALL COMPANY
MARY ANN ZSCHAU
in "A Little Night Music"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
SUSAN MOLLOY in "Three-Penny Opera" @ New Repertory
Theatre
KATHY ST. GEORGE in "Johnny Guitar" @ SpeakEasy Stage
Company
SABREEN STAPLES in "Mama I Want to Sing" @ Our Place
Theatre Project
NICOLE VAN GIESEN in "Cabaret" @ Worcester Foothills
Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
MONTEGO GLOVER
in "Aida"
@ North Shore Music Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
RACHEL deBENEDET in "Kiss Me, Kate!" @ North Shore Music
Theatre
SANDY DUNCAN in "The King & I" @ Theater of The
Stars ,The Independent Presenters Network
BETH McVEY in "Urinetown" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial
Theatre
SARAH PFISTERER in "The Music Man" @ The Reagle Players
BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
SMALL COMPANY
CHRISTOPHER CHEW
in "A Little Night Music" @ The Lyric Stage
Company of Boston &
"Johnny Guitar" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
TALLY SESSION in "The Last Five Years" @ SpeakEasy Stage
Company
CHRISTOPHER SLOAN in "Cabaret" @ Worcester Foothills
Theatre
CHUCK WALSH in "Evita" @ Turtle Lane Playhouse
JUSTIN A. I. WAITHE in "Ragtime" @ The Footlight Club
LARGE COMPANY
SCOTT WAHLE
in "The Music Man"
@ The Reagle Players
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
BRADLEY DEAN in "Evita" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial
Theatre
TOM HEWITT in "Urinetown" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial
Theatre
DANIEL JENKINS in "Big River" @ Deaf West Theatre
MICHAEL McELROY in "Big River" @ Deaf West Theatre
BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
SMALL COMPANY
TIE
BILL DOSCHER
for "Ragtime"
@ The Footlight Club
AND
SPIRO VELOUDOS
for "A Little Night Music"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
PAUL DAIGNEAULT for "Company" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
RICK LOMBARDO for "Three-Penny Opera" @ The New Repertory
Theatre
SONYA WORDEN for "Anything Goes" @ Encore Theater Company
LARGE COMPANY
GABRIEL BARRE
for "Tom Jones: The Musical"
@ North Shore Music Theatre
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
ROBERT EAGLE for "The Music Man" @ The Reagle Players
LARRY FULLER for "Evita" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial
Theatre
KENT GASH for "Ain't Misbehavin' " @ Trinity Repertory
Theatre
BARRY IVAN for "Nine" @ North Shore Music Theatre
BEST MUSIC DIRECTION
SMALL COMPANY
TIE
JOSE DELGADO
for "Cabaret" @ Worcester Foothills Theatre
&
"Johnny Guitar" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
AND
JONATHAN GOLDBERG
for "A Little Night Music"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston NOMINEES INCLUDED:
DON BORONSON for "Sunday in The Park with George" @
The Concord Players
TODD GORDON for "Three-Penny Opera" @ The New Repertory
Theatre
PAUL S. KATZ for "Company" @ SpeakEasy Stage Company
LARGE COMPANY
TIE
JASON DeBORD
for "Urinetown"
@ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
AND
JEFFREY LEONARD & KAREN GAHAGAN
for "The Music Man"
@ The Reagle Players
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
TONY GERALIS for "Kiss Me, Kate!" @ North Shore Music
Theatre
MILTON GRANGER for "Swing!" @ North Shore Music Theatre
BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION
SMALL COMPANY
"A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC"
@ The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"CABARET" @ Worcester Foothills Theatre
"COMPANY" @ Speakeasy Stage Company
"RAGTIME" @ The Footlight Club
"THREE-PENNY OPERA" @ The New Repertory Theatre
LARGE COMPANY
"THE MUSIC MAN"
@ The Reagle Players
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"AIDA" @ North Shore Music Theatre
"KISS ME, KATE!" @ North Shore Music Theatre
"TOM JONES" @ North Shore Music Theatre
"AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'" @ Trinity Repertory Theatre
BEST VISITING PRODUCTION
SMALL COMPANY
"SIN"
@ Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
@ The Regent Theatre, Arlington
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"ANOTHER AMERICAN ASKING AND TELLING" @ Boston Theatre
Works
"THE SAVIOR OF FENWAY" @ Nate Meyer Productions
LARGE COMPANY
"THE LION KING"
@ Broadway in Boston's Opera House
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
"EVITA" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
"MARCEL MARCEAU & La Nouvelle Compagnie de Mimedrama"
@ The American Repertory Theatre
"MOVIN' OUT" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
"URINETOWN" @ Broadway in Boston's Colonial Theatre
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CABARET AWARDS
Chosen by the BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF CABARET ARTISTS
BEST FEMALE CABARET PERFORMER
SOPHIA BILIDES
for "Young And Foolish" with Tom LaMark
Trio
@ Scullers Jazz Club, Boston
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
MICHELLE CURRIE for "At Last" with Jim Rice on Piano
@ Riverside Theatre
CAROL O'SHAUGHNESSEY for "Full-Tilt" with Jim Rice on
Piano
@ CabaretFest, Provincetown BEST MALE CABARET PERFORMER
JACK DONAHUE
for "Strange Weather"
@ Regattabar, Charles Hotel, Cambridge
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
JOHN ABERNATHY
for "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" with Tom LaMark on piano
@ Club Cafe Cabaret Room, Boston
BRIAN DeLORENZO
for "Marry Me (a Little)" with Jim Rice on piano
@ Club Cafe Cabaret Room, Boston
BRIAN PATTON
for "At The Movies Reel 2" @ Kennedy's, Boston
BEST GROUP CABARET PERFORMANCE
JIM PORCELLA, JIM RICE & IDA ZECCO
for "Prima Vera!! @ Grand Fox Theater, Foxwood
Resort Casino, Connecticut
NOMINEES INCLUDED:
WILL McMILLAN & BOBBI CARREY
for "If I Loved You"
@ Scullers Jazz Club, Boston
THE FABULOUS BAKER SISTERS
for "Vaudeville Revisited" with the Al Vega Quartet
@ Scullers Jazz Club, Boston
BRIAN PATTON, MICHAEL RICCI, NINA VANSUCH & WILL McMILLAN
for "At The Movies: Reel 2"
@ Kennedy's, Boston
BEN SEARS, BRAD CONNOR, VAL ANASTASIO & TIM HARBOLD
for "The Smart Set"
@ Wheaton College
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A SPECIAL AWARD
FOR
OUTSTANDING LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN CABARET
THE FABULOUS BAKER SISTERS
DOLLY AND BOBBI BAKER
Born and raised in New Your City, the Bakers have
recorded for Mercury Records and entertained in the most prestigious
supper clubs and hotels in the USA and Canada. They have shared
a comedy & singing act; enjoyed great success throughout a
career spanning over 50 years; known as "Bobbi, the Queen
of Comedy at Sea" for her years of entertaining on cruise
ships all over the world; Dolly, after 40 years of singing there,
was named "Japan's Best Female Jazz Singer" in 2001.
The Independent Reviewers of New England are proud to present
this year's Outstanding Achievement Award in Cabaret to two women
who have dedicated ther lives to entertaining so many, as