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Paul & Michael slingin’ New Year’scocktails at 700 Club

Ringin’ in the New Year at 700 Club

Vic, David & Keith with 700 Club’s Mikedoin’ a New Year’s toast

Sean dancin’ in the New Yearat 700 Club

700 Club’s famous couple Scott & ScottNew Year’s Eve

Deroy & Southern Dynasty CohostVanShawn celebrate at Society Page

Kory, Mwindo’s Larry & Leroy pop in toSociety Page

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Robert, Lisa & Sandra having some funat Society Page

Bartender Neel serves cocktails forRawhide’s Chuck Wagon

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Chris, Eric, Ray & Steve out at Oz

Jim & Jim cocktailin’ at Oz

Rip & Marsha ready for Satyricon’s 12thNight Ball at Oz trying for over two

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Best Production of a Musi-cal: Assassins, The NOLA Project;By Jeeves, Rivertown RepertoryTheatre; Li’l Abner, Summer LyricTheatre at Tulane University; MissSaigon, Rivertown Repertory The-atre; Rent, Le Petit Théâtre du VieuxCarré; Tommy, NOCCA

Best Production of a Drama:The Arabian Nights, Tulane Univ.Dept. Of Theatre; Metamorpho-ses, UNO Dept. of FTCA; RabbitHole, Actor’s Theatre of NewOrleans; The Seafarer, South-ern Rep; A Soldier’s Play,Anthony Bean CommunityTheater; Spinning Into But-ter, Loyola Dept. of TheatreArts

Best Production of aComedy: The Altos, ShineProductions; Die! Mommy!Die!, Running With Scissors;For Better, Southern Rep;Laughing Wild, Actor’s The-atre of New Orleans; A Placein the Sun, Running WithScissors; Speech & Debate,Southern Rep

Best Original Work: CrimesAgainst Nature, Otter/BackyardBallroom; A Place in the Sun, Ri-chard Read/Running With Scis-sors; The Renew Revue, RickyGraham, Sean Patterson, JeffersonTurner, Dane Evans; The Sweet-est Sounds: The Music of Rich-ard Rogers, Jefferson Turner/NOCCA; Varla Jean MermanLoves a Foreign Tongue; What,Has This Thing Appeared AgainTonight, Jim Fitzmorris/The NOLAProject & The Shakespeare Festi-val at Tulane

Best Children’s Show: Aida,JPAS Summer Youth Theatre;

Back to the 80s, 2 Left Feet Pro-ductions; Cinderella, Wing & APrayer Productions; Holiday Ex-travaganza, NORD Crescent CityLights Youth Theater; Jamal’s Spe-cial Christmas Gift, Anthony BeanCommunity Theater; Once Upona Mattress, JPAS Summer YouthTheatre

Best Director of a Musical:AJ Allegra, Assassins; Roland“Butch” Caire, Miss Saigon; BlakeCoheley, Tommy; Derek Franklinand Sonny Borey, Rent; Diane Lala,Li’l Abner; Gary Rucker, ByJeeves

Best Director of a Play:Lorenzo Gonzalez, The ArabianNights; Aimée Hayes, Speech &Debate; Laura Hope, SpinningInto Butter; David W. Hoover,Metamorphoses; René J. F. Pi-azza, Rabbit Hole; Richard Read,A Place in the Sun

Best Actor in a Musical: RoyHaylock, Cabaret; Vatican Lokey,Miss Saigon; Michael Moore,Tommy; Travis Resor, The Frogs;Joey Taranto, Rent; ChristopherWoods, Rent

Best Actress in a Musical:Becky Allen, Annie; Idella Johnson,Rent; Meredith Long, Ruthless!

The Musical; Janie Planchet, Aida;Rachel Romano, Once Upon aMattress; Jessie Terrebonne,Cabaret

Best Actor in a Play: JasonKirkpatrick, Coyote on a Fence;Keith Launey, Erik the Fourteenth;Jack Long, A Place in the Sun;Brian Peterson, Die! Mommy!Die!; René J. F. Piazza, RabbitHole; Will Williams, Radio Golf

Best Actress in a Play: TrinaBeck, As You Like It; Joyce Deal,Miss Margarida’s Way; LauraFriedmann, Spinning Into Butter;Elizabeth Skinner Gore, LaughingWild; Jennifer Growden, UncleVanya; Ashley Ricord, Side Man

Best Featured Actor in a Mu-sical: Matt Artigues, Tommy; LeeFarrar Bailey, Oklahoma!; DanieldeShazo, Miss Saigon; Bob Edes,Jr., Cabaret; Richard AlexanderPommes, Assassins; Josh Smith,Tommy

Best Featured Actress in aMusical: Samantha Helmstetter,Tommy; Jorinda Junius, Li’lAbner; Leslie Limberg, Rent; LisaPicone, Assassins; Beverly Trask,Cabaret; Ralshella Washington,Raisin

Best Featured Actor in a Play:A.J. Allegra, What, Has This Thing

Appeared Again Tonight?;Bob Edes, Jr., Die!Mommy! Die!; Harold X.Evans, Radio Golf; RodneyGraham, Gem of theOcean; Dui Jarrod, ASoldier’s Play; Ron Reeder,An Enemy of the People

Best Featured Actressin a Play: Gina Abromson,Rabbit Hole; Julie Bounds,Talking With...; ChrissyGarrett, Metamorphoses;Claire Gresham, What, HasThis Thing AppearedAgain Tonight?; MauraHooper, An Enemy of the

People; Peggy Walton-Walker, TheClean House

Best Ensemble: The Bug(Brittany Chandler, Cynthia Davila,Joshua Eichhorn, Rebecca Eliza-beth Hollingsworth); Die! Mommy!Die! (Leon Contavesprie, BobEdes, Jr., Jack Long, BrianPeterson, Dorian Rush, DwayneSepcich); Metamorphoses (BlakeBalu, Natalie Boyd, Ryan Bruce,Ellen Buschang, Derrick Deal,Joyce Deal, Chrissy Garrett,Jonathan Mares, Ben Matheny, Jes-sica Salamin, Georgette Verdin,James Yeargain); The Renew Re-vue (Ricky Graham, Yvette Hargis,

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Sean Patterson, MandyZirkenbach); The Seafarer (DrewBattles, John Bostic, Jim Fitzmorris,Mark McLaughlin, ShadWillingham); Speech & Debate(Natalie Boyd, Sean Glazebrook,Sean Knapp, Liann Pattison)

Best Costume Design: LindaFried, Oklahoma; Roy Haylock,Cabaret; Charlotte Lang, Li’lAbner; Shauna Leone, FrannieRosenberg, Abbey Peterson, Backto the 80s; Otter & Oliver Manhat-tan, Crimes Against Nature; JulieWinn, Tommy

Best Lighting Design: Lynn F.Caliva, Metamorphoses; JamesClotfelter, The Seafarer; SuGonczy, Die! Mommy! Die!; MartySachs, For Better; Scott Sauberand Nancy Macko, Rent; GarySolomon, Jr., Tommy

Best Set Design: KevinGriffith, Metamorphoses; GeoffreyHall, The Clean House; ShannonR. Miller, Return to the ForbiddenPlanet; Rick Paul, Li’l Abner; DavidRaphel, For Better; ChadTalkington, A Soldier’s Play

Best Choreography: BlakeCoheley, Tommy; Karen Hebert,Cabaret; Stephanie Herring, TheArabian Nights; Arieuna McGee,Jamal’s Special Christmas Gift;Mattew Neff, Oklahoma!; LindseyPrice, Annie

Best Music Director: Roland“Butch” Caire, Miss Saigon;Donna Clavijo/Alan Payne, Fiddleron the Roof; Jonne Dendinger,Annie; Derek Franklin, Rent; C.Leonard Raybon, Oklahoma;Jefferson Turner, Tommy

Best Sound Design: PriscillaJenkins, Spinning Into Butter; Ri-chard Read, Die! Mommy! Die!;Michael Singleton, For Better; LizWaldmen, What, Has This ThingAppeared Again Tonight?; Chris-topher Wright, Gem of the Ocean

Best Wigs/Make-Up: Tori Ber-nard, Heather Autin, Back to the80s; Greg Bonin, Tommy; MelCalahan, Where the Girls Were;Don & Linda Guillot, Li’l Abner;Brian Peterson, A Place in theSun; Bryce Turgeon, Ruthless!The Musical

Best Special Effects: Die!Mommy! Die!; Metamorphoses;A Place in the Sun; Rent; Splat-ter House; Tommy

Best Food/Dining Experi-ence: Ginger Luke, Minacapelli’sDinner Playhouse; Andy Messina’s,Rivertown Repertory Theatre;NOCCA; Rocky & Carlos, The Al-tos/Shine Productions

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