45th LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
THIS MONDAY, MARCH 16!
Host Dixie Longate to host over 50 Local Performers at Beyond The Stars Palace in Glendale!
March 12, 2015…Los Angeles… The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle will host a total of 50 local performers at its 2015 Awards Ceremonies on Monday night, March 16. Guests at the Beyond The Stars Palace in Glendale, 417 N. Brand Blvd., will enjoy highlights of great musicals, as well as award presentations and, as the Circle is fond of saying, “a few surprises.”
Welcoming the performers will be the previously-announced hostess for the evening, Dixie Longate, creator and performer of 2014’s smash attraction Dixie’s Tupperware Party at the Geffen Playhouse and Segerstrom Stage. Accompaniment will be provided by the event’s musical director, Corey B. Hirsch, who won an LADCC award last year for A Man of No Importance.
“If 50 isn’t an all-time record for our awards show, and it probably is,” says awards chair Bob Verini, “it’s certainly the largest assemblage of onstage performers at an LADCC event in my memory. We are thrilled to get the participation of so many talented folks.”
Tickets for the event, which cost $40, are still available at www.brownpapertickets.com. Remaining seats will be sold at the door. Credit cards will be accepted, as well as cash or check.
The largest single group at the LADCC event will be the 28 cast members from 3D Theatricals’ acclaimed 2014 revival of Ragtime. They are scheduled to perform the famous “Opening Prologue” from the Ahrens-Flaherty-McNally musical, prior to 3D Theatricals’ receiving the Joel Hirschhorn Award for outstanding achievement in musical theater.
Two of 2014’s best received and most nominated musical productions will be represented on March 16. The Sacred Fools-Burglars of Hamm-Center Theatre Group co-production of The Behavior of Broadus, nominated for seven LADCC awards, will bring a company of 10 to recreate the rollicking “Paper and Pen” number by Matt Almos, Brendan Milburn & Burglars of Hamm.
In addition, musical director and nominee David O, along with John Ballinger on guitar, will accompany Kim Huber in the ballad “Through the Mountain” from Floyd Collins. Adam Guettel’s musical play (with additional lyrics by Tina Landau) has garnered five LADCC nominations for its production at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
In a nod to current productions, a quartet of performers from Closer Than Ever will grace the show with “Next Time/I Wouldn’t Go Back.” The Maltby-Shire revue is running at Hollywood Piano Co. in Burbank under the aegis of Good People Theatre Co., with musical direction by Hirsch.
Verini notes that the March 16 performers will reflect both the geographical and theatrical diversity of the LADCC “beat.”
“These actors and singers come from Hollywood, the Valley, and Orange County, and represent both huge spectacles and intimate 99-seat venues. The LADCC, in our reviews and reporting but also in our awards and award shows, is always committed to celebrating theater of all stripes: dramatic and comedic, large and small, wherever and whenever it’s performed.”
Further information about the March 16 LADCC Awards is available at www.ladramacriticscircle.com or at crixawards2015@gmail.com.
A cash bar with great food and a silent auction will occupy the 6:30-7:30 hour, until doors open and the annual celebration of great L.A. area theatre begins.
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