The Guilds
My recap of events that occurred while I was away has to kick off with the guilds.
The guild awards are the Melbourne equivalent of the tony awards (which is the theater equivalent of the Oscars...which is the movie equivalent of the Olympics...which is the dating equivalent of a blow-job on a first date.)
Anyway, the first year that I had done any work that was eligible for guild award nominations was in 2005, when my two productions (Cabaret and Les Mis) were horribly, horribly shunned. We received something like a whopping total of 1 nomination...and that was for the lead actress in Cabaret.
So, I swapped companies, leaving behind the horrendous pompous gay men of 2005, and ushered in the fantastic gay men of 2006....with Sunayan Devanesan leading the charge.
Together we worked on two shows...RENT and Michael John La Chuisa's The Wild Party. This year went a little better, and between the two shows we picked up a total of 12 nominations, all for talent. (Frankly, getting an award for best costuming or set has got the be the high school equivilent of the awards for woodwork and cooking...which is the dating equivlent to a first date with a transexual...nothing really worth mentioning...probably best if no-one finds out).
So, we got nominated for:
- Best Production - RENT
- Best Concert - The Wild Party
- Best Director - Sunayan Devanesan - RENT
- Best Musical Director - Marty Pitt (that's ME!!) - RENT
- Best Lead Male - Scott McKenzie - RENT
- Best Lead Male - Darryn Gatt - RENT
- Best Lead Female - Shandalle (sorry, I've forgotten your last name) - RENT
- Best Lead Female - Angela Covington - RENT
- Best Lead Female - Mayarni (Sorry, I've forgotten your last name -- not related to the above) - RENT
- Best new talent - Mayarni - (As above) - RENT
- Best Supporting Male - James Cook - RENT
So, we were all pretty rapt. I had hoped that Wild Party would've done a bit better, but let's not knock a gift horse in the mouth.... the show was pretty 'out there', and doesn't really fit into a shoebox category.
However, if they had a category for "Best rape scene involving a bisexual playboy and a 14 year-old virgin", I'm quietly confidant we'd have taken it out.
As for the actual awards night, we picked up a couple, but somewhat predictably, the big awards went with the big budgets...with Scarlett Pimpernell cleaning up. (I think that Michael Lachlan did an outstanding job of MD'ing that puppy, so no hard feelings there. At least it didn't go to some of the other god-awful productions I had seen this year.)
The awards night was followed by a rather large after party. I found too many hypo gays and ass-kissing tossers all looking for some drunk footage to use as leverage at the next audition session for my liking, so I pissed off early.
All in all...I'm pretty stoked about the whole guild thing-o for '06.
Bravo.
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