Chat About Ogunquit Playhouse - Ogunquit, ME

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The IRNE Award ceremony will take place on Monday, April 13, at 7:30 pm (doors at 7 p.m.), at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. Entry is FREE to all.

Billy Elliot the Musical has received nine IRNE nominations including one for Best Ensemble and one for Best Musical in the “Large Theatre” category. The Ogunquit production featured a cast of Broadway veterans, including Anastasia Barzee, Armand Shultz and Tony Award nominee Joel Blum. Armand Schultz has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his raw and heartfelt portrayal of Billy’s Dad and Dale Soules has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her gritty performance as Grandma. Alec Shiman and Noah Parets have both been nominated in the Promising Performance by Young Actor category. Broadway veteran BT McNicholl has been nominated for Best Director of a Musical for the Ogunquit production of Billy Elliot. Other nominations for the Ogunquit Playhouse production of Billy Elliot the Musical in the Large Theatre category are for Ana Flavia Zuim for Best Music Director, and for Adam Pelty in the Best Choreography category. Mr. Pelty served as resident choreographer for the Broadway touring company of Billy Elliot the Musical.

Good luck, everyone!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IRNE-Awa ... 8908231579

Alec Shiman was nominated in 2014 as well:

https://www.facebook.com/35124890823157 ... =1&theater
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Noah Parets and Sam Faulkner won the Young Performer Award, Large Company at the 19th Annual IRNE Awards (Independent Reviewers of New England) last night for their role as Billy Elliot at the 2014 Ogunquit Playhouse.

This was listed on Noah's mom, Robyn Parets, facebook page. I am posting with Robyn's permission.

Congratulations Noah and Sam. Well deserved!

IRNE has a public Facebook page but they have not posted all the results yet.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IRNE-Awa ... 8908231579

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2015 IRNE AWARDS:

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL received the following awards at the 2015 IRNE Awards, held last night:

Best Choreography
Adam Petty BILLY ELLIOT (Ogunquit Playhouse)

Best Ensemble
BILLY ELLIOT (Ogunquit Playhouse)

Best Music Director
Ana Flavia Zuim BILLY ELLIOT (Ogunquit Playhouse)

Promising Performance by Young Actor
Noah Parets/Sam Faulkner (alternating) BILLY ELLIOT (Ogunquit Playhouse)

Congratulations, everyone!

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Congrats to all of the winners. Noah and Sam represented BETM according to Sam's Instagram post:

https://instagram.com/p/1cOnSlRShJ/
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Amanda Bruton has posted the following on her Instagram:

"So proud to have been a part of this incredible production! Congrats to everyone involved with Billy Elliot @ogunquitph on all of their wins at last night's @IRNEawards including Best Ensemble! #WERK #opbillyelliot #irneawards #loveyouforever"

https://instagram.com/p/1evV7WyHq5/
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Dustin Cross is the costume designer at the Ogunquit Playhouse. Here he gives his insight into the process behind designing costumes for original regional shows from scratch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peU-IgW ... e=youtu.be
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Here are several Facebook photos of members of the Ogunquit cast of BETM having a reunion at the IRNE Awards in Boston:

https://www.facebook.com/OgunquitPlayho ... =1&theater

Noah Parets, Sam Faulker, Tyler Brown (Tall Boy), Dale Soules (Grandma), Armand Schultz (Dad) - Alec Shiman at right with iconic hat - Adam Pelty back row, Julia Yameen (Debbie) sitting bottom left.

https://www.facebook.com/OgunquitPlayho ... =1&theater

Dale Soules, Alec Shiman, Bradford Kenney, Noah Parets, Sam Faulkner, Armand Schultz and Ana Flavia Zuim at the 19th Annual IRNE Awards on Monday, April 13.

Winners in bold. Not pictured: Ensemble (winner: Best Ensemble)
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A former fantastic Billy posted his well wishes as Ogunquit begins a new season:

https://instagram.com/p/29OW11xSlc/?tak ... ulkner5678
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Athough voting has now closed, the promo video for the OPH Billy Elliot the Musical production is a candidate for the 36th Anniversary TELLY Awards:

http://www.tellyawards.com/peoplestelly ... 2&id=31389

Winners will be announced mid-June.
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Watching that reminded me of why I enjoyed the Ogunquit production so much last summer. The video was a nice showcase for Noah, although I wish they would have included more of Sam Faulkner and Alec Shiman, since they were such big parts of the show's success, too.
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