“The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” the only show staged by BroadStreet Theatre Co. during the 2008-09 theater season, topped Theatre Arts Guild award nominations, announced Sunday night at the P.S. Collective in Benson.
The musical, about the romantic travails of a blue-collar couple, a pole dancer and her jealous boyfriend, notched 16 nominations, including for best musical.
The nominations are made by guild members for shows that ran between late June 2008 and mid-June 2009. Awards will be announced Aug. 2.
The Omaha Community Playhouse received the most nominations, 33, including 11 for “Bat Boy: The Musical” and 10 for “Gypsy.” “Intimate Apparel,” a playhouse drama about a black lingerie seamstress in 1900 New York, got seven nominations, including best drama.
Close behind in total nominations was SNAP Productions with 32. SNAP’s “Compleat Female Stage Beauty” was the most nominated comedy, with 12. It tells the story of a Shakespeare-era actor who specialized in playing women’s roles. SNAP’s “The Secret of the Old Queen: A Hardy Boys Musical Adventure” got 10 nominations. “Doubt,” also a SNAP show, tied for most-nominated drama, with eight.
The Blue Barn Theatre’s “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia” was the other top-nominated drama. The Blue Barn totaled 14 nominations, including five for another drama, “Wit.”
The Bellevue Little Theatre, also with 14 nominations, scored 10 for its best-musical nominee, “Into the Woods.” Bellevue’s “A Tuna Christmas” was a double nominee, including best comedy.
Other best-comedy nominees were “The Odd Couple,” a joint production of the Blue Barn and the Brigit St. Brigit Theatre Co.; the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; the Circle Theatre’s “Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery”; and SNAP’s “Compleat Female Stage Beauty.”
The playhouse scored two more best-drama nominees, “Stones in His Pockets” and “Twelve Angry Men.” They join “Doubt,” “The Goat” and “Intimate Apparel” in the category.
Best-musical nominees besides BroadStreet’s “Trailer Park Musical” and Bellevue’s “Into the Woods” were “Bat Boy” at the playhouse, SNAP’s “The Secret of the Old Queen” and Creighton University’s “West Side Story,” which notched eight nominations. Contact the writer:
444-1269, bob.fischbach@owh.com
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