On a night of revelry reflecting on the "revolutionary" season just past and highlighting upcoming productions, the Reston Community Players bestowed 24 audience choice "Restie" awards and three $1,000 scholarships.
"We have an incredible theatre company that I am so very proud of," said RCP president Joshua Redford at the annual gala. "What other community theatre in the area can put a 20 piece orchestra on stage, produce a Les Miserables that was so beautiful and so well executed, and follow it up with a production where the actors roller skate on stage? I'm so excited about where we are going in 2014-2015, and about the very talented people we are working with." More than 700 audience ballots were cast to produce the winners of the Resties -- an RCP record. The critically acclaimed LesMiserables swept the awards, winning 20 of 24 categories including Outstanding Production, and Director (Andrew JMRegiec). Xanadu won two awards, Outstanding Musical Direction (Matt Jeffrey) and Outstanding Choreography (Chelsea DeRoché). Lori Brooks won Outstanding Actress in a Lead role for her portrayal of Jennie Malone in Chapter Two. A complete list of winners can be found at the end of this article. Reston Community Players also presented Shelton Hall Memorial scholarships to Shanelucas Ramsey and Hunter Robinson and the Bruce Marson Memorial Scholarship to AriaNawab for technical design.Complete List of Winners
Outstanding Production: LES MISERABLES (Richard E. Schneider, producer; Kaiti Parish, stage manager, Sara Birkhead, crew chief)
Outstanding Director: Andrew JM Regiec, LES MISERABLES
Outstanding Musical Director: Matt Jeffrey, Xanadu
Outstanding Choreography: Chelsea DeRoché, Xanadu
Outstanding Musical Production Number: "One Day More" Andrew JM Regiec and Mark V. Deal
Outstanding Combat Choreography: Karen Schlumpf, LES MISERABLES
Outstanding Performance by Actor in Character Role: Chuck Dluhy (Thenardier), LES MISERABLES
Outstanding Performance By Actress in a Cameo Role: Ella Schnoor (Little Cosette), LES MISERABLES
Outstanding Performance by Actor in a Cameo Role: Ethan VanSlyke (Gavroche), LES MISERABLES
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