The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced its nominations and special awards for greatness in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2016 (Dec. 1, 2015 - Nov. 30, 2016). The 48th annual LADCC awards ceremony will occur on Monday, March 20, 2017, at the Colony Theater at Burbank Town Center, 555 North third Street, Burbank. (There is abundant, free, nearby stopping.) All event tickets are $40 and can be purchased at 2017criticsawards.brownpapertickets.com (a small service fee applies) or at the door if available. (Purchased tickets will be held at Will Call.) Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for a reception with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. The show will commence at 7:30 p.m. Further information will be found at www.ladramacriticscircle.com. Celebration Theater's The Boy From Oz leads the pack with nine nominations,, taking after by the Antaeus Theater Company generation of Cloud 9 with eight assignments, and Pasadena Playhouse's Fly and East West Players' La Cage auz Folles, each with five selections. At least one plaques will be exhibited in each of 17 classifications. Tony champ Lena Hall and Darren Criss, both of whom performed in the Broadway recovery of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, earned assignments for their repeated exhibitions at the Hollywood Pantages Theater. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder authors Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman are likewise assigned in a class with individual Tony victor Jason Robert Brown, who is perceived for his Tony-winning score to The Bridges of Madison County. The following seven special awards will be presented as well: The Margaret Harford Award for maintained magnificence in theater will be granted to Antaeus Theater Company; the Polly Warfield Award for a fantastic season in a little to average size theater will be granted to Rogue Machine Theater; the Ted Schmitt Award for the world debut of a remarkable new play goes to Aliza Goldstein for A Singular They, initially delivered by the Blank Theater; the Kinetic Lighting Award for exceptional accomplishment in dramatic outline goes to lighting fashioner Jared A. Sayeg; the Joel Hirschhorn Award for extraordinary accomplishment in melodic theater goes to Cabrillo Music Theater; the Milton Katselas Award for vocation or uncommon accomplishment in course goes to Maria Gobetti; and the Gordon Davidson Award, another respect for recognized commitment to the Los Angeles dramatic group, will be exhibited to I Love 99. The honor is built up out of appreciation for the late Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group. The complete list of nominees, below : Production A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder - Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company Disgraced - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum Fly - The Pasadena Playhouse The Boy From Oz - Celebration Theatre Urinetown the Musical - Coeurage Theatre Company McCulloh Award for Revival (plays written between 1920 and 1991) Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company Endgame - Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum West Side Story - Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center Lead Performance Hugo Armstrong - All the Way, South Coast Repertory Andrew Bongiorno - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre Ginna Carter - The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Pacific Resident Theatre Kate Morgan Chadwick - Bed, Echo Theater Company Darren Criss - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hollywood Pantages Theatre Hari Dhillon - Disgraced, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum Rebecca Gray - One of the Nice Ones, Echo Theater Company Connor Kelly-Eiding - Dry Land, Echo Theater Company Matt Orduña - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court Gedde Watanabe - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players Jacqueline Wright - Blueberry Toast, Echo Theater Company. Featured Performance JD Cullum - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company Bo Foxworth - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company Lena Hall - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hollywood Pantages Theatre Steve Hofvendahl - The Engine of Our Ruin, Victory Theatre Bess Motta - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre Jessica Pennington - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre Victoria Ortiz - The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!, Rogue Machine Theatre Ensemble Performance Ameryka - Critical Mass Performance Group, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Casa Valentina - Pasadena Playhouse Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum The Boy from Oz - Celebration Theatre Solo Performance Deborah Puette - Captain of the Bible Quiz Team, Rogue Machine Theatre. Direction Tim Dang - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players Kari Hayter - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company Ricardo Khan - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse Michael A. Shepperd - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre Casey Stangl - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre Writing Ayad Akhtar - Disgraced, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum Idris Goodwin - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court Erik Patterson - One of the Nice Ones, Echo Theater Company Jason Wells - The Engine of Our Ruin, Victory Theatre Musical Score Noah Agruss - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre Music Direction Bryan Blaskie - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre Paul Litteral - Louis & Keely: ‘Live' at the Sahara, Geffen Playhouse Marc Macalintal - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players Gregory Nabours - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company Choreography Hope Clarke - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse Reggie Lee - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players Janet Roston - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre Leslie Stevens - The Full Monty, 3-D Theatricals Set Design Tom Buderwitz - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre David Gallo - Empire the Musical, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Michael Navarro - My Mañana Comes, Fountain Theatre Lighting Design Brandon Baruch - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company Ken Billington - Dreamgirls, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Rui Rita and Jake DeGroot - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse Tim Swiss - Dream Boy, Celebration Theatre Costume Design Kate Bergh - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse Amy Clark and Mark Koss - The Little Mermaid, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts A. Jeffrey Schoenberg - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company Anthony Tran - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players Sound Design John Farmanesh-Bocca and Adam Phalen - Tempest Redux, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and New American Theatre John Gromada - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse Rebecca Kessin - Dream Boy, Celebration Theatre Eric Snodgrass - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre Specialty: Fight Choreography Jen Albert - Punch and Judy, School of Night, Ruby Theater at the Complex Specialty: Wigs, Hair and Makeup Rick Geyer - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse Jessica Mills - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
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