MUKILTEO — Kamiak High School’s performing arts department received about a dozen nominations from the 13th annual 5th Avenue Theatre Awards program, which honors musical theater productions in the state’s high schools.
Kamiak’s nominations include those for outstanding musical, direction, music direction, orchestra, scenic design, actress, chorus and ensemble. Kamiak choir teacher Nancy Duck Jefferson already has been named the 5th’s outstanding educator of the year.
Glacier Peak, Edmonds Heights, Snohomish, Woodinville, Stanwood, Arlington, Marysville-Pilchuck, Bothell, Jackson, Everett, Monroe, Mountlake Terrace and Murphy high schools also received nominations and/or honorable mentions.
Award winners will be announced at a gala June 8 at the Seattle theater. An estimated 2,100 high school students are expected to attend the ceremony, which is similar to the Tony award celebrations on Broadway. Nominated students will perform excerpts from their shows.
For the 2014-15 high school theater season, 197 nominations and 163 honorable mentions were given in 21 categories. Judges from 5th Avenue watched 104 productions at 89 schools. More than 10,000 students were involved statewide.
Winners awards for “Outstanding Actor” and “Outstanding Actress” will go on to the National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York City.
A few highlights of the nominations:
Kamiak (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and Glacier Peak (“The Addams Family”) earned best overall musical nominations. Along with Woodinville (“Fiddler on the Roof”), Kamiak and Glacier Peak also were nominated for outstanding chorus.
Nominations for outstanding performances in leading roles went to Mariah Lotz and Alia Thomaier (Edmonds Heights), Jessica Niewohner (Kamiak) and Brandon Gertz (Woodinville).
Nominated for supporting performance awards are Ireland Woods and Cole Conley (Stanwood), Grady O’Shea (Snohomish), Leif Jorgensen, Lexie Roenfeldt and Hayden Call (Glacier Peak), Harrison Gordon (Bothell) and Erin Hyatt (Edmonds Heights).
Outstanding ensemble nominations went to Arlington’s Stepsisters (“Cinderella”), Everett’s Princes (“Into the Woods”) and Kamiak’s Urchins.
Earning top stage crew nominations were students at Marysville-Pilchuck and Edmonds Heights.
The full list of nominees and honorable mentions, as well as information about the awards, can be found at www.facebook.com/5thAvenueEdu.
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