(Photo of Don Grigware with Tony Award Winner Jay Johnson by Paul Kreppel)
The Best in LA Theatre for 2009 brought to you by L.A.'s Don Grigware (alphabetical listings - artists performing outside LA may be included in performance categories)
Top Productions
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins - West Coast Ensemble
The Apple Tree - Crown City Theatre
August Osage County - Ahmanson Theatre
Cabaret - Met Theatre
Farragut North - Geffen Playhouse
F*cking Men - Celebration Theatre
Life Could Be a Dream - Hudson Mainstage
Meet Me in St. Louis - Musical Theatre West @ The Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, Long Beach
Parade - Mark Taper Forum
Voice Lessons - Zephyr Theatre
Most Promising New Musical
Bonnie & Clyde - La Jolla Playhouse
Most Promising New Play
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins - West Coast Ensemble
Best Revival (tie)
The Light in the Piazza @ El Portal Secondstage
Pippin @ Mark Taper Forum
Best Ensemble: Play (3 cast split)
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
@ West Coast Ensemble
Carved in Stone @ Theatre Asylum
F*cking Men
@ Celebration
Theatre
Best Ensemble: Musical (tie)
Life Could Be a Dream @ Hudson Mainstage Theatre
Parade
@
Mark Taper Forum Best Lead Performance
Sam Anderson The Bird and Mr. Banks @The Road Theatre Company
Eduardo Enrikez Cabaret @ The Met Theatre
Stephanie Fredericks The Apple Tree @ Crown City Theatre
Laurie Metcalf Voice Lessons @ Zephyr Theatre
Megan Mullally The Receptionist @ Odyssey Theatre
Laura Osnes/
Stark Sands Bonnie & Clyde @
La Jolla PlayhouseEstelle Parsons August Osage County @
Ahmanson TheatreChris Pine Farragut North @
Geffen PlayhouseBill Pullman/
Julia Stiles Oleanna @
Mark Taper Forum
Leslie Uggams Stormy Weather @ Pasadena Playhouse
Best Featured Performances
Ray Abruzzo Mauritius @
Pasadena Playhouse Shannon Cochran August Osage County @
Ahmanson TheatreRachel Dratch Minsky's @
Ahmanson TheatreAnnalisa Erickson Cabaret @ Met Theatre
Sam Harris The First Wives Club @ Old Globe, San Diego
Dee Hoty,
Nikki Crawford Stormy Weather @
Pasadena Playhouse David McBean Twist @ Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
John McLaughlin The Golden Gays @ Cavern Club, Casita del Campo, Silverlake
Julia Migenes Man of La Mancha @ Reprise!, Freud Playhouse
Kimberly Van Luin Wonder of the World @ Victory Theatre
Mare Winningham Bonnie & Clyde La Jolla Playhouse Best Solo Show
The Two & Only
Jay Johnson @ The Colony Theatre
Best Cabaret Artist: Male
Alan Cumming
I Bought a Blue Car Today
@ Geffen Playhouse
Best Cabaret Artist: Female
Alexandra Billings
Everybody's Girl
@ Sterling's Upstairs @ Vitello's
Best Seasonal Show (tie)
Wicked Summer Nights: Upright Cabaret
@ Ford Amphitheatre
Winter Wonderettes
@ Laguna Playhouse
Best CD
this place I know
Stephanie J. Block
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