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News Liza Minnelli & Faith Prince To Join Hayes Award Presenters, May 3 Liza Minnelli and Faith Prince are recent additions to the presenters list at the 15th annual Helen Hayes Awards, May 3 at Washington DC's Kennedy Center. They join such notables as Dana Ivey (The Last Night of Ballyhoo), Andrea McArdle (Beauty and the Beast), Maurice Hines and James MacArthur. Tyne Daly (Gypsy, Off-Broadway's Mystery School) hosts.

Liza Minnelli and Faith Prince are recent additions to the presenters list at the 15th annual Helen Hayes Awards, May 3 at Washington DC's Kennedy Center. They join such notables as Dana Ivey (The Last Night of Ballyhoo), Andrea McArdle (Beauty and the Beast), Maurice Hines and James MacArthur. Tyne Daly (Gypsy, Off-Broadway's Mystery School) hosts.

During 1998, fifty theatres presented more than 180 shows in Washington D.C. Nominations for the Awards were announced March 1 at a ceremony at the Canadian Embassy.

Signature Theatre leads the field with 22 nods for such productions as A Little Night Music, The Fix and Nijinsky's Last Dance. The "non-resident" Kennedy Center collected 15 nominations for housing such shows as Show Boat and Brothers of the Knight.

Awards will be presented in 22 categories, plus three special awards: the American Express Tribute, honoring lifetime achievement; the KPMG Award for Distinguished Service, given to an individual or organization lending "energy, ideas and leadership" to the theatre community; and the Washington Post Award, given to a person or organization for supporting DC theatre and/or "nurturing the creative spirit through educational programs.

The Awards will take place May 3 at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Minnelli's credits include Victor/Victoria and Flora The Red Menace; Prince appeared in revivals of The King and I and Guys And Dolls. At the nominations press conference, Raymond Chretien, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., told the assembled the number of Canadian plays presented by Washington theatres was "at an all-time high."

Last year the Shakespeare Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra was the most-honored production, taking four of the awards, including Outstanding Resident Play. The national touring production of Chicago was named Outstanding Non-Resident Production.

Major names among the winners were actors Anna Deavere Smith, Liz Larsen, Robert Prosky, L. Scott Caldwell and designer Jane Greenwood.

Here are the 1999 Helen Hayes Award nominees:

Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production
Derbhle Crotty, Hamlet
Guy Henry, Cymbeline
Tom Plotkin, Footloose
David Ryall, Hamlet
Tony Todd, The Captain's Tiger

Supporting Performers Resident Musical
Doug Eskew, Thunder Knocking on the Door
Jason Gilbert, Lady in the Dark
Robb McKindles, A Little Night Music
Donna Migliaccio , A Little Night Music
Sal Mistretta , The Fix
Rhea Seehorn, Marat/Sade

Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
Rena Cherry Brown, A Delicate Balance
Gretchen Cleevely , Dimly Perceived Threats to the System
Linda Gravatt, The Old Settler
Sarah Ripard, Dangerous Liaisons
Nancy Robinette, Freedomland
Holly Twyford, The Steward of Christendom

Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play
Donald Griffin, Seven Guitars
Marty Lodge, Criminal Genius
Bruce Nelson , The Triumph of Love
Nick Olcott, Dead Funny
Everett Quinton, The Merry Wives of Windsor
J. Fred Shiffman, Lovers and Executioners
Frederick Strother, Seven Guitars

Outstanding Sound Design
Scott W. Edwards and Timothy M. Thompson, You Can't Take It With You
Brian D. Keating, Neville's Island
David Maddox, Nijinsky's Last Dance
Neil McFadden, Jack & Jill
Red Ramona, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Gil Thompson, Seven Guitars

Outstanding Costume Design
Natasa Djukic, Quartet
Anne Kennedy, The Fix
Robert Perdziola, A Woman of No Importance
Reggie Ray, The Old Settler
Robin Stapley, Camille
Paul Tazewell, Peer Gynt

Outstanding Lighting Design
Howell Binkley, Peer Gynt
Howell Binkley, Sweet Bird of Youth
Dan Covey, Dangerous Liaisons
Michael Giannitti, Seven Guitars
Daniel MacLean Wagner, The Fix
Daniel MacLean Wagner, Nijinsky's Last Dance

Outstanding Set Design
Tony Cisek, Much Ado About Nothing
Tony Cisek, Pericles
Daniel Conway, Seven Guitars
James Kronzer, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Thomas Lynch, You Can't Take It With You
Lou Stancari, The Fix

Outstanding Choreography
Debbie Allen, Brothers of the Knight
Charles Augins, The Fix
Karma Camp, Nijinsky's Last Dance
Ilona Kessell, West Side Story
Mark Minnick, Godspell
Inna Tsikurishvili, The Little Tragedies

Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production
Darlesia Cearcy, Ragtime
B.J. Crosby, Dreamgirls
Rebecca Eichenberger, Ragtime
Jane Lapotaire, The Famous History of the Life of Henry VIII
Joanne Pearce, Cymbeline

Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production
Dan Hiatt, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Alex Jennings, Hamlet
Jeremy Kushnier, Footloose
Michael Rupert, Ragtime
Alton Fitzgerald White, Ragtime

Outstanding Actress, Resident Musical
Linda Balgord, The Fix
Patricia Pearce Gentry, A Little Night Music
Janine Gulisano, West Side Story
Marva Hicks, Thunder Knocking on the Door,
Maureen Kerrigan, Lady in the Dark

Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical
Stephen Bienskie, The Fix
Peter Jay Femandez, Thunder Knocking on the Door
Floyd King, Mad about the Bard
Rob McQuay, Godspell
Psalmayene 24, The Hip Hop Nightmares of Jujube Brown

Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
Elizabeth Ashley, Sweet Bird of Youth
Tana Hicken, The Lion in Winter
Judith Hawking, Lovers and Executioners
S. Epatha Merkerson, The Old Settler
Holly Twyford, Much Ado About Nothing
Halo Wines, Holiday Memories

Outstanding Lead Actors Resident
Wallace Acton, Peer Gynt
Jeremy Davidson, Nijinsky's Last Dance
Ted van Griethuysen, The Steward of Christendom
Thomas W. Jones II, Waitingfor Godot
Bill Largess, Man and Superman
Max Robinson, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

Outstanding Direction, Resident Production
Buck Brown, Kerouac
Anderson Edwards, Thunder Knocking On the Door
George Fulginiti-Shakar, Mad about the Bard
Douglas Lawler, Hot Nostalgia II
Jon Kalbfleisch, The Fix
Jon Kalbfleisch, A Little Night Music

Outstanding Director, Resident Musical
Jesse Berger, Marat/Sade
Catherine Flye, Great Expectations. The Musical
Keith Glover, Thunder Knocking on the Door
Toby Orenstein and Carole Lehan, Children of Eden
Eric D. Schaeffer, The Fix

0utstanding Director, Resident Play
Joe Calarco, Nijinsky's Last Dance
Zeljko Djukic, Quartet
Thomas W. Jones II, Seven Guitars
Michael Kahn, Peer Gynt
Seret Scott, The Old Settler
Douglas C. Wager, You Can't Take It With You

The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play
Lisa Loomer, Expecting Isabel
Christi Stewart-Brown, The Gene Pool
John Strand, Lovers and Executioners
Norman Allen, Nijinsky's Last Dance
Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Playing Juliet/Casting Othello
Norman Allen, Waiting In Tobolsk: The Children of the Last Tsar

Outstanding Non-Resident Production
Hamlet
Ragtime
Showboat
2 Pianos, 4 Hands
The Vagina Monologues

Outstanding Resident Musical
Brothers of the Knight
The Fix
A Little Night Music
Marat/Sade
Thunder Knocking on the Door

Outstanding Resident Play
Much Ado About Nothing
Nijinsky's Last Dance
The Old Settler
Peer Gynt
Seven Guitars
You Can't Take It With You
-- By David Lefkowitz & Christine Ehren

 
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