2014 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards Update 11/25 - Stephen Mitchell Brown Gobbling Up Competition!

By: Nov. 25, 2014
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Voting has opened for the 2014 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2013 and September 2014. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.

Voting is now underway for Cleveland! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

Here are the current standings for Cleveland:

Best actor in a comedy or drama ( Non-professional Theatre)
Will Crosby - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Huntington Playhouse 46%
Colin Wheeler - A Christmas story the musical - Near West theatre 39%
Alec Hynes - Too True to be Good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program 6%
Jeremiah Clapp - Too True to be Good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program 5%
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Best actor in a comedy or drama (Guest Artist Theatre)
Pat Miller - Title of Show - Beck Center 54%
Scott Plate - Seminar - Beck Center 26%
Greg White - Anna Christie - Ensemble Theatre 20%
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Best actor in a comedy or drama (Production House Theatre)
Dustin Tucker - As You Like It - Great Lakes Theater 55%
Donald Carrier - The Little Foxes - Cleveland play house 33%
Remi Sandors - CLYBOURNE PARK - Cleveland Play House 12%
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Best Actor in a musical - Educational or Community Theatre
Anthony Covatta - RENT - Tri-C West 12%
George Morgan - Les Miserables - Happy Ending Lyric Players 8%
Colin Wheeler - A Christmas story the Musical - Near West Theatre 6%
Marcus Martin - Roar of the greasepaint - Weathervane Playhouse 6%
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Best Actor in a musical - Guest Artist Theatre
Eric van Baars - Oliver! - Porthouse Theatre 21%
Gilgamesh Taggett - Annie - Beck Center for the Arts 19%
Alex Smith - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center for the Arts 14%
Perren Hedderson - The Texas Chainsaw Musical - Blank Canvas Theatre 6%
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Best Actor in a musical - Production House Theatre
Stephen Mitchell Brown - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theater 43%
Eric Fancher - The Frogs - Cain Park 13%
Justin Williams - Grand Night For Singing - Actors' Summit 13%
Dan Folino - The Frogs - Cain Park 9%
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Best actress in a comedy or drama (Guest Artist Theatre)
Dorothy Silver - 'night Mother - Beck Center 29%
Laura Perrotta - night Mother - Beck Center 26%
Katie Nabors - Anna Christie - Ensemble Theatre 20%
Lara Knox - Seminar - Beck Center 17%
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Best actress in a comedy or drama (Non-professional Theatre)
BJ Colangio - Once Upon a Mattress - MGP 51%
Kathryn Metzger - Too True to be good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Company 21%
Megan King - Too True to be Good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Company 17%
Katie o Solomon - Too True to be Good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Company 11%
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Best actress in a comedy or drama (Production House Theatre)
Betsy Mugavero - AS YOU LIKE IT - Great Lakes Theatre 28%
Maggie Lacey - THE LITTLE FOXES - Cleveland Play House 15%
Laura Welsch Berg - MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - Great Lakes Theatre 15%
Jodi Dominick - MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - Great Lakes Theatre 15%
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Best Actress in a musical - Educational or Community Theatre
Isabella Rakityan - Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 10%
Erin Burke - Les Miserables - Happy Ending Lyric Players 7%
Hannah Schmidt - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Hathaway Brown Theater Institute 7%
Jordan Gadoury - Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 5%
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Best Actress in a musical - Guest Artist Theatre
Caitlin Houlihan - Carrie: The Musical - Beck Center/Baldwin-Wallace 22%
Amiee Collier - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center for the Arts 13%
Kaycee Cummings - My Fair Lady - Porthouse Theatre 13%
Keri Rene Fuller - Murder Ballad - Baldwin Wallace/PHSq 9%
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Best Actress in a musical - Production House theatre
Keri Rene Fuller - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theater 25%
Aimee Collier - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center 13%
Colleen Longshaw - Starmites - Porthouse Theatre 12%
Betsy Mugavaro - As You Like It - Great Lakes Theater 7%
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Best choreographer - Educational or community Theatre
Jen Justice - Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 16%
Jim Weaver - Legally Blonde - Kent State University 15%
Nicci Cassara - Happy Days the New Musical - Broadview Hts. Spotlight Theater 11%
Pierre Bralt - RENT - Tri-C West 11%
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Best choreographer - Guest Artist Theatre
Mary Ann Black - Oliver! - Porthouse Theatre 26%
Gregory Daniels - Carrie - Beck Center 24%
Martin Cespedes - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center for the Arts 16%
Jessie Cope Miller - Hair - Blank Canvas Theatre 14%
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Best choreographer - Production House
Gregory Daniels - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theatre 59%
Martin Cespedes - The Frogs - Cain Park 26%
Julie Goncy - Grand Night for Singing - Actors' Summit 15%
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Best Costume Design of a drama or comedy - Educational or community theatre
Katie Wells - Steel Magnolias - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 40%
Jackie Guerra - Twelfth Night - Tri-C West 23%
Jasen Smith - Life With Father - Weathervane Community Playhouse 20%
Esther Haberlan - Too True to be Good - CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program 11%
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Best Costume Design of a drama or comedy - Guest Artist Theatre
Nancy Humes, Nancy Cates - Henry IV, Part One - Ohio Shakespeare Festival 72%
Jenniver Sparano - KIN - Dobama 17%
Peg Parish - KNOCK ME A KISS - Ensemble 11%
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Best Costume Design of a drama or comedy - Production House
Lex Liang - The Little Foxes - Cleveland Play House 63%
MaryJo Alexander - Bus Stop - Actors' Summit 16%
MaryJo Alexander - Farndale Ave...Christmas Carol - Actors' Summit 11%
MaryJo Alexander - Handle with Care - Actors' Summit 8%
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Best Costume Design of a musical - Educational or Community Theatre
Katie Wells - Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 35%
Jasen Smith - The Wizard of Oz - Weathervane Community Playhouse 18%
Inda Blatch-Geib - Sweeney Todd - Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute 17%
Jackie Guerra - Rent - Cuyahoga Community College 11%
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Best Costume Design of a musical - Guest Artist House
S.Q. Campbell - My Fair Lady - Porthouse Theatre 54%
Aimee Kluiber - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center for the Arts 27%
Aimee Kluiber - FOREVER PLAID - Beck Center 18%
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Best Costume Design of a musical - Production House
Esther M. Haberlen - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theatre 72%
MaryJo Alexander - My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding - Actors' Summit 12%
MaryJo Alexander - Ring of Fire the Music of Johnny CAsh - Actors' Summit 6%
MaryJo Alexander - Back to Bacharach & David - Actors' Summit 6%
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Best director of a comedy or drama - Educational or community Theatre
Stephen Benjamin - Steel Magnolias - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 45%
Jennifer Jeter - Race - Weathervane Community Playhouse 20%
Patrick Ciammacco - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Blank Canvas Theatre 10%
Ann Hedger - Noises Off - Rabbit Run Theater 6%
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Best director of a comedy or drama - Guest Artist Theatre
Patrick Ciamaco - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Blank Canvas Theatre 44%
Martin Cespedes - Forever Plaid - Beck Center for the Arts 18%
Donald Carrier - Seminar - The Beck Center 13%
Ian Hinz - Anna Christie - Ensemble Theatre 13%
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Best director of a comedy or drama - Production House
Joe Hanreddy - Richard III - Great Lakes Theater 30%
Laura Kepley - The Little Foxes - CPH 20%
Shannon Sindelar - Kin - Dobama Theatre 11%
Bill Hoffman - The Goblins'll Git You - Lantern Theatre Ohio 9%
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Best director of a musical - Educational or Community theatre
Stephen Benjamin - Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 14%
Victoria Bussert - Carrie: The Musical - BW/Beck Collaboration 13%
Jim Weaver - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Weathervane Community Playhouse 9%
Mike Skerritt - Les Miserables - Haply Ending Lyrics Players 8%
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Best director of a musical - Guest Artist Theatre
Terri Kent - Oliver! - Porthouse Tehatre 31%
Scott Spence - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center for the Arts 26%
Pat Ciamacco - Hair - Blank Canvas Theatre 21%
Martin Friedman - Light in the Piazza - Lakeland Theatre 12%
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Best director of a musical - Production House
Victoria Bussert - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theatre 61%
Martin Friedman - The Frogs - Cain Park 11%
Neil Thackaberry - My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding - Actors' Summit 11%
Jeff Calhoun - Tappin Through Life - CPH 6%
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Best musical director of a musical - Guest Artist Theatre
Jonathan Swoboda - Oliver! - Porthouse Theatre 25%
Larry Goodpaster - Young Frankenstein - Beck Center of the Arts 21%
Miki Saito - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute 18%
Bryan Bird - Forever Plaid - Beck Center for the Arts 17%
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Best musical director of a musical - Production House
Joel Mercier - Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theatre 51%
Nathan Motta - The Frogs - Cain Park 21%
JT Buck - My Mothers' Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding - Actors' Summit 11%
Michael Seevers, Jr. - The Loush Sisters Do the Nutcracker - Cleveland Public Theatre 9%
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Best musical director of a musical- Educational or Community theatre
Dr. Robert Schneider - Les Miserables - Happy Ending Lyrics Players 20%
Dave Coxe - 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Huntington Playhouse 18%
Joanna Li - A Chorus LIne - Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute 17%
Joanna Li - Sweeney Todd - Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute 14%
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Best production of a drama or comedy - Educational or Community Theatre
Life With Father - Weathervane Community Playhouse 26%
Twelfth Night - Tri-C West 21%
The Giver - TrueNorth Cultural Arts 16%
Private Lives - Chagrin Valley Little Theatre 11%
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Best production of a drama or comedy - Guest Artist Theatre
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Blank Canvas Theatre 49%
Seminar - The Beck Center 25%
Anna Christie - Ensemble Theatre 14%
Gidon's Knot - None Too Fragile 12%
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Best production of a drama or comedy - Production House Theatre
As You Like It - Great Lakes Theater 30%
The Little Foxes - CPH 17%
'Night Mother - Beck Center for the Arts 17%
The Aliens - DOBAMA 8%
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Best production of a musical - Production House
Les Miserables - Great Lakes Theater 59%
My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding - Actors' Summit 12%
The Frogs - Cain Park 11%
Back to Bacharach and David - Actors' Summit 6%
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Best production of a musical-Educational or Community theatre
Legally Blonde - Garfield Heights High School Theatre 18%
Legally Blonde - Kent State University 14%
Rent - Tri-C West 13%
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Huntington Playhouse 11%
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Best production of a musical-Guest Artist Theatre
Oliver! - Porthouse Theatre 28%
Carrie - The Beck Center 28%
Hair - Blank Canvas Theatre 16%
Young Frankenstein - The Beck Center 14%
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Best Professional Musical, Drama or Comedy touring production
Porgy and Bess - PlayhouseSquare 51%
Rock of Ages 18%
Seven Ages - Great Lakes Theatre Festival 16%
Maurice Hines - CPH 15%
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Best Scenic Design of a drama or comedy - Educational or community theatre
Richard Morris, Jr. - Sweeney Todd - Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute 18%
Alan Scott Ferrall - Life With Father - Weathervfane Community Playhouse 16%
Nicky Belardo - Hair - Blank Canvas Theater 15%
Brad Bunn - Twelfth Night - Tri-C West 15%
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Best Scenic Design of a drama or comedy - Production House
Lex Liang - The Little Foxes - Cleveland Play House 33%
Russ Metheny - Deathtrap - Great Lakes Theater 31%
Neil Thackaberry - My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding - Actors' Summit 18%
Tiffany Scribner - Kin - Dobama Theatre 13%
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Best Scenic Design of a musical - Guest Artist Theatre
Pat Ciamacco - Hair - Blank Canvas Theatre 31%
Nolan O'Dell - Oliver! - Porthouse Theatre 27%
Ron Newell - The Frogs - Cain Park 15%
Trad Burns - Light In The Piazza - Lakeland Theatre 15%
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Best theatre production for young audiences
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Hathaway Brown Theater Institutute 26%
The Wizard of Oz - Beck Center 24%
Seussical, Jr. - Garfield Heights Youth Theatre 20%
The Wizard of Oz - Weathervane Community Playhouse 15%
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