Vote For The 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; THE LITTLE MERMAID Leads Best Musical!

Voting continues for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

If you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends. Here are the current standings for Nashville:

Best Actor in a Musical
Thomas Grisham - RENT - RHP Productions 6%
Mike Sallee - NEWSIES - Circle Players 6%
Christian Weeter - DISNEY'S BEAUTY & THE BEAST - Dream Reality Group 5%

Best Actor in a Play
Ethan Duncan - BAREFOOT IN THE PARK - Warren Arts 6%
Britt Hancock - BOEING BOEING - Cumberland County Playhouse 6%
Joey Scott - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Center for the Arts 5%

Best Actress in a Musical
Weslie Webster - SWEENEY TODD - Cumberland County Playhouse 7%
Dylan Womack - THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL - Warren Arts 6%
Emily McGill - THE ADDAMS FAMILY - Bethel University Renaissance 5%

Best Actress in a Play
Katie Ledford - MIRACLE WORKER - Center for the Arts 6%
Emily Stefanik - BAREFOOT IN THE PARK - Warren Arts 6%
Bethany True - STEEL MAGNOLIAS - Murfreesboro Center for the Arts 6%

Best Choreographer
Tosha Marie Pendergast - NEWSIES - CIRCLE 9%
Leila Jones - LEGALLY BLONDE - Cumberland County Playhouse 8%
Emily Pennington - THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL - Warren Arts 7%

Best Community Theater Company
Center for the Arts Murfreesboro 15%
Cookeville Children's Theatre 11%
Lakewood Theater Company 8%

Best Costume Design
Karen Staggs - DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 9%
Carol-Lee Mayberry - A WONDERFUL LIFE - Warren Arts 7%
Denese Kelly - NEWSIES - Circle Players 5%

Best Director of a musical
Jennifer Welch - THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 7%
Jonathan Hunter - BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theater 7%
Chad McGee - A WONDERFUL LIFE - Warren Arts 6%

Best Director of a play
Chad McGee - BAREFOOT IN THE PARK - Warren Arts 8%
Donald Fann - BOEING BOEING - Cumberland County Playhouse 6%
Bala Boyd - ARSENIC AND OLD LACE - Bethel University Renaissance 5%

Best Ensemble Performance in a musical
BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theatre Compamy 7%
NEWSIES - Circle Players 7%
A WONDERFUL LIFE - Warren Arts 6%

Best Ensemble Performance in a play
BOEING BOEING - Cumberland County Playhouse 8%
MOUSETRAP - Cumberland County Playhouse 6%
STEEL MAGNOLIAS - Center for the Arts 5%

Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Kaden Hobbs - THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL - Warren Arts 4%
Seth Brown - FOOTLOOSE! - Robertson County Players 4%
Rob Nunley - A WONDERFUL LIFE - Warren Arts 3%

Best Featured Actor in a Play
Dorian Loeffler - BAREFOOT IN THE PARK - Warren Arts 7%
Patriq James - THE BOYS IN THE BAND - Jeffrey Elllis Presents 5%
D. Eric Massengill - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Center for the Arts 4%

Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Maggie Garrett - THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL - Warren Arts 6%
Karisha Glover - HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL - Murfreesboro Center for the Arts 5%
Hannah Hays - LEGALLY BLONDE - Cumberland County Playhouse 4%

Best Featured Actress in a Play
Patty Payne - BOEING BOEING - Cumberland County Playhouse 12%
Allie Hunter - ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Lakewood Theatre Co 5%
Jamie Hubbard - STEEL MAGNOLIAS - Murfreesboro Center for the Arts 5%

Best Lighting Design
Christopher Van Tuyl - HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - Cumberland County Playhouse 6%
Coleton Wood - RENT - RHP Productions 5%
Daryl Ritchie - NEWSIES - circle players 5%

Best Musical
THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 7%
NEWSIES - CIRCLE PLAYERS 7%
BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theater 7%

Best Musical Direction
Michael Choate - THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 8%
Creighton Irons - BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theater 8%
DaJuana Hammonds - NEWSIES - Circle players 6%

Best Original/New Work
SLEEPY HOLLOW - Cumberland County playhouse 22%
BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theatre Company 17%
YOU'RE STILL HERE - The Theater Bug 11%

Best Play
BOEING BOEING - Cumberland County Playhouse 9%
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - ARTS CENTER OF CANNNON COUNTY 6%
THE MIRACLE WORKER - Center for the Arts 6%

Best Professional Theater Company
Cumberland County Playhouse 30%
Nashville Children's Theater 19%
Studio Tenn 12%

Best Set Design
Tom Tutino - SWEENEY TODD - Cumberland County Playhouse 8%
Jim Manning - NEWSIES - Circle Players 8%
Cody Rutledge - HEATHERS THE MUSICAL - The Center of the Arts 4%

Best Sound Design
Matt Bundy - LEGALLY BLONDE - Cumberland County Playhouse 14%
Jared Dalton/Patriq James - LA BELLA NOIR NOIR - Nobleman Productive/Darkhorse Theatre 7%
John Frost, Jr. - THE LITTLE MERMAID - Center for the Arts 7%

Best Younger Actor (under age 25)
Toby Davis - HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - Cumberland County Playhouse 7%
Griffin Hawkins - THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 7%
Tuck Wood - BOOMTOWN - Lakewood Theater 5%

Best Younger Actress (under age 25)
Samantha McKenzie - DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID - Cookeville Children's Theatre 7%
Dylan Womack - THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL - Warren Arts 6%
Katie Ledford - MIRACLE WORKER - Center for the Arts - Murfreesboro, TN 5%

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