The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Directors and Musical Directors of Musicals in Professional Theatres honors go to:
Patrick A’Hearn for Gypsy at Riverside Center Dinner Theater
Musical Director: Jason J Michael
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Grace Anastasiadis and Janelle Broderick for You’re Gonna Love Tomorrrow at the Red Branch Theatre Company
Musical Director: Dustin Merrell
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Gregory Bell for The Rocky Horror Show at Spotlighters
Musical Direction: Michael Tan
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Joe Calarco for The Nutcracker at Round House Theatre
Musical Director: William Yanesh
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David Hemsley Caldwell for Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Riverside Center Dinner Theatre
Musical Director: David Hemsley Caldwell and Robbie Limon
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Tracey Elaine Chessum for The Fall of the House of Usher at Pallas Theatre Collective at The Anacostia Arts Center
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Bill Condon for Side Show at The Kennedy Center
Musical Director: Sam Davis
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Matt Conner and Laura Connors Hull for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Creative Cauldron
Musical Director: Virginia Rice Sircy
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Jeffrey Davis for Nevermore at Pandemonium Theatrical Productions
Musical Director: Brandon Heishman
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Michael Grandage for Evita (National Broadway Tour) at The Kennedy Center
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Lucinda Merry-Browne for Cats at Compass Rose Theater
Musical Director: Anita O’Connor
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Carolyn Coulson for Mary Poppins at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre
Musical Director: Dr. Thomas Albert
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Dann Dunn for Spamalot at Riverside Center Dinner Theater
Musical Direction: Jason J. Michael
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Matthew Gardiner for Ordinary Days at Round House Theatre
Musical Director: William Yanesh
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Matthew Gardiner for Sunday in the Park with George at Signature Theatre
Musical Director: John Kalbfleisch
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Matthew Gardiner for The Threepenny Opera at Signature Theatre
Musical Direction: Gabriele Mangiante
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Christopher Goodrich for Dani Girl at Unexpected Stage Company
Musical Director: Laura Brady
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Ryan Michael Haase for Vanishing Point: A New Musical at Stillpointe Theatre Initiative
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Evan Hoffmann for Into the Woods at NextStop Theatre Company
Music Director: Elisa Rosman
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Randy Johnson for Smokey Joe’s Café at Arena Stage
Musical Director: Rick Fox
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Thomas W. Jones II for Three Sistahs at MetroStage
Musical Director: William Knowles
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Jason Loewith for Avenue Q at Olney Theatre Center
Musical Director: Christopher Youstra
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Jenny Male for A Year With Frog and Toad at Red Branch Theatre Company
Musical Director: Dustin Merrell
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Mark Minnick for Spamalot at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Musical Direction: Ross Scott Rawlings
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Darnell Morris for Caroline, or Change at Stillpointe Theatre Initiative
Musical Director: Stacey Antoine
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Toby Orenstein and Lawrence B. Munsey for Memphis at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Musical Director: Ross Scott Rawlings
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Diane Paulus for Pippin at The National Theatre
Musical Director: Charlie Alterman
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Tom Prewitt for Visible Language at WSC Avant Bard
Musical Director Elisa Rosman
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Susan Marie Rhea and Mark A. Rhea for HAIR at The Keegan Theatre
Musical Director: Jake Null
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Steven Royal for Bat Boy at 1st Stage
Musical Director: Walter “Bobby” McCoy
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Eric Ruffin for Black Nativity at Theater Alliance
Musical Director: e’Marcus Harper-Short
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Eric Schaeffer for Beaches at Signature Theater
Musical Director: Gabriel Mangiante
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David Schweizer for Next to Normal at CENTERSTAGE
Musical Director: Darren Cohen
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Shirley Serotsky for Yentl at Theater J
Musical Director: Jonathan Tuzman
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Eric Shaffer for Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre
Musical Director: WIlliam Yanesh
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Molly Smith for Fiddler on the Roof at Arena Stage
Musical Director: Paul Sportelli
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Susan Stroman for Lttle Dancer at The Kennedy Center
Musical Director: Shawn Gough
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Mark Waldrop for Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Olney Theatre Center
Musical Director: Darius Smith
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Walter Ware III for tick, tick…BOOM! at Quackensteele Theatre Company
Musical Direction: Joel DeCandio
Stephanie Lynn Williams for The Last Five Years at Red Branch Theatre Company
Musical Direction: Tiffany Underwood Holmes
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LINKS
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Special Awards.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Musicals in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Musicals in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts: Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Musical in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts: Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Musical in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Play in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Directors of a Play in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Director/Musical Director in a Musical in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Director/Musical Director in a Musical in Professional Theatres.
