MTA received 2 AriZoni Awards and a total of 16 Nominations for our 2010-11 season! Congratulations to our winners and all of our nominees!!
   
Awards:
Guest Actor - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - K.C. Lindley
Guest Actor - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - Matt Newhard
Additional Nominations:
Overall Production - Youth Musical: Peter Pan
Overall Production - Youth Musical: Disney's The Jungle Book Kids
Director - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - Laura O'Meara, Sherry Henderson
Director - Youth Musical: Honk! Jr. - Laura O'Meara
Music Director - Youth Theatre: Peter Pan - Jackie Hammond, Kevin Kozacek
Music Director - Youth Theatre: Honk! Jr. - Jackie Hammond
Music Director - Youth Theatre: Once on This Island Jr. - Jackie Hammond
Choreographer - Youth Theatre: Peter Pan - Sherry Henderson
Choreographer - Youth Theatre: Honk! Jr. - Sherry Henderson
Scenic Design - Youth Theatre: Honk! Jr. - Matt Wessel, Jeff Hammond, Mike Toussaint
Sound Design - Youth Theatre: Peter Pan - Keith Huff
Sound Design - Youth Theatre: Once on This Island Jr. - Caleb Sellers
Properties Design - Youth Theatre: Honk! Jr. - Jennifer Bowman, Teresa Long
Guest Actor - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - Allison Houston
Guest Actor - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - K.C. Lindley
Guest Actor - Youth Musical: Peter Pan - Matt Newhard
MTA was featured in the Arizona Republic on August 28, 2011 and was also selected as Photo of the Week on AZCentral.com. Below are pictures, that were published in the newspaper and on AZCentral.com, from MTA's performance at the Herberger Theater during the National Youth Arts Awards Ceremony.
MTA is happy to announce the below NY Awards and Nominations. Congratulations to all of our winners and nominees!!
Awards:
Outstanding Production - Junior Division: Honk!
Lead Actress in a Musical: Megan Mahoney as Peter Pan
Lead Actress – Junior Division: Maggie Eley as Ugly in Honk!
Supporting Actress – Junior Division: Maddie Lopez as The Cat in Honk!
Outstanding Ensemble - Junior Division: Honk!
Additional Nominations:
Lead Actress – Junior Division: Taylor Ellsworth as Ti Moune in Once on this Island
Supporting Actor – Junior Division: Corbin Blair as Bullfrog in Honk!
Supporting Actress – Junior Division: Madeline Wessel as Bullfrog in Honk!
MTA WON Nickelodeon's Parentsconnect Parents' Picks Award for
Best Theatre Group for Kids in Arizona! Click
here to see our page on the Parentsconnect website.
MTA made the cover story for the September 2010 issue of Freedom Way. Click here to read the article.
MTA is proud to announce that we have WON 3 National Youth Theatre Awards and were nominated for 7 more!
WINNERS:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (13 and under)
Madeline Wessel as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Outstanding Supporting Actress (13 and under)
Hannah Long as Lion in The Wizard of Oz
Outstanding Ensemble (13 and under)
The Wizard of Oz
NOMINEES:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (13 and under)
Kailyn Toussaint as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical (13 and under)
Maggie Eley as Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
Maddie Lopez as Lion in The Wizard of Oz
Peyton Wayne as Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
Jaci Wells as Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (13 and under)
Taylor Ellsworth as Clarissa in Little Women
Madeline Wessel as Young Amy in Little Women
About the National Youth Theatre Awards
The First Annual National Youth Theatre Awards were presented on June 12, 2006 to honor outstanding work in youth theatre throughout the country. That year, 40 youth productions from 4 different states were considered for the awards.
This is the National Youth Theatre's Fifth Annual Awards and more than 200 productions were considered for the awards, including shows from more than 100 different theatres in more than 50 cities spanning 15 states. The award winners were selected from nominations by a panel of eighteen judges and reviewers.
Click here to read the NYT newsletter.
MTA is thrilled to announce that we won 3 ariZoni awards and received 14 ariZoni nominations for our 2009/2010 season!
Here are some photos from the evening's festivities:
In Musical Theatre of Anthem’s (MTA) first year of eligibility for the ariZoni Awards, we won 3 ariZoni awards and received an astounding 14 nominations!
The 3 ariZoni awards went to:
Little Women
Guest Actor - Youth Musical
Geoff Belliston
Into the Woods
Actor in a Supporting Role - Musical
Evan Tyler Wilson
Actor in a Supporting Role - Musical
Sterling Liska
MTA was also nominated for our youth AND adult productions. Nominations were received for four MTA shows.
Little Women nominations include:
Overall Production – Youth Musical
Director - Youth Musical
Shawna Quain
Musical Direction - Youth Musical
Shawna Quain
Choreography - Youth Musical
Shawna Quain
Actress in a Major Role - Youth Musical
Victoria Fairclough
Guest Actor - Youth Musical
Geoff Belliston
Guest Actor - Youth Musical
Sterling Liska
Guest Actor -Youth Musical
Brandy Haas
Guest Actor - Youth Musical
Jenny Allen
Guest Actor - Youth Musical
Beth Wheatcraft
Into the Woods nominations include:
Actor in a Supporting Role - Musical
Evan Tyler Wilson
Actor in a Supporting Role - Musical
Sterling Liska
Beauty and the Beast Jr. nominations include:
Actress in a Supporting Role – Youth Musical
Kailyn Toussaint
The Wizard of Oz nominations include:
Musical Direction - Youth Musical
Jackie Hammond
About the ariZoni Awards
The ariZoni Theatre Awards is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the visibility and growth of theatre in Phoenix and Maricopa County. They are currently celebrating their 20th year of their annual awards ceremony that recognizes excellence in categories such as Overall Production, Director, Musical Direction, Choreography, Scenic Design, Actor and Actress in a Major Role, Actor and Actress in a Supporting Role, and much more.
- Raising Arizona Kids
"I’ve never met a young actor who performs primarily to win theater awards. They’re more into the fun, the friendship, the focus on song and dance. But I know quite a few who are thrilled when their work is recognized with a nomination or award.
The AriZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence ceremony for the 2009-2010 season will be held Mon, Sept. 20–and recognize achievements within several categories: contracted musicals, contracted plays, non-contracted plays and musicals, youth and original works."
"Five of the nine guest actor/musical nominees worked with Musical Theatre of Anthem."
Click here to read the full story.
- Raising Arizona Kids
"I was thrilled to get word from Musical Theatre of Anthem that they’ve been selected as one of five finalists in this year’s “Parents’ Pick” competition in the “theatre group for kids” category."
"Nominations are accepted online from folks registered with Nickelodeon’s “Parents Connection” program, and finalists are then put up for a vote–again with registered users at www.parentsconnect.com."
Click here to read the full story.
- National Youth Theatre
"It’s the longest-running show in Broadway history. Not a big, splashy musical like the kind that have mostly dominated for the last few decades. Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks is a charming, intimate musical fable about a boy and a girl, next-door neighbors whose puppy love of youth gets replaced with a taste of the real world, a tale of loss of innocence as our young, callow days of gentle September give way to our older, sadder, but wiser days of winter when we can Try To Remember when life was slow and oh, so mellow. "
Click here to read the full review.
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