2012 Halo Winners

MUSICALS
Best Classic Musical (Pre-1965)

• Shepaug- Pajama Game

Best Contemporary Musical (Post-1965):
• Guilford- Evita

Best Performance by an Actor in a Classic Musical (Pre- 1965):
• WAMS- Jack Saleeby as Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain

Best Performance by an Actor in a Contemporary Musical (Post- 1965):
• Immaculate- Michael Hudak as Engineer in Miss Saigon

Best Performance by an Actress in a Classic Musical (Pre- 1965):
• Cheshire- Emma Gannon-Salamon as Marian Paroo in The Music Man

Best Performance by an Actress in a Contemporary Musical (Post- 1965):
• Guilford- Devin Patton as Eva the Saint in Evita

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical:
• WAMS- Louis Cubille as Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical:
• Immaculate- Laura McKee as Ellen in Miss Saigon

Best Featured Actor in a Musical:
• Housatonic Valley- Efraim Hermes as Luther Billis in South Pacific

Best Featured Actress in a Musical:
• Nonnewaug- Alexa Constantini as Betty Rizzo in Grease

Best Couple in a Musical:
• Stonington- Haley Barravecchia and Cory Candelet as Liesl & Rolf in The Sound of Music

Best Comic Male Performance in a Musical: TIE
• Taft- Max Flath as Gaston in Beauty & The Beast
• Litchfield- Jimmy Pavlick as “Snoopy You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Best Comic Female Performance in a Musical:
• Watertown- Jen Bavone as Mayzie LaBird in Seussical

Best Acting by an Ensemble Cast in a Musical:
• Kennedy- 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Best Specialty Ensemble in a Musical:
• Oxford- The Hot Box Girls in Guys and Dolls
• Woodland Regional- The Four Gods in Once On This Island

Best Dancing:
• Guilford- Evita

Best Featured Dancer(s):
• Shepaug- Adrienne Dembeck, Ellery Rourk and Ray Cook in “Steam Heat”, Pajama Game

Best Orchestra: (Students only or predominantly students)
• Watertown- Seussical

Best Student Choreographer
• Nonnewaug- Shanara Bauer, Choreographer & Nicole Drost, Tumbling & Stunts for Grease

Best Ensemble Chorus in a Musical: GYPSY ROBE CATEGORY
• Stonington- The Sound of Music

Gypsy of the Year:
• Stonington, Ian Capozzoli

Fearless Award (Musical)- Language, subject
• Immaculate- Miss Saigon

PLAYS
Best Classic Play: (Pre-1965)
• Bristol Central- Romeo & Juliet

Best Contemporary Play: (Post 1965)
• Chase- Frankenstein

Best Actor in a Play:
• Chase- Tom Aviles as Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein

Best Actress in a Play:
• Pomperaug- Magghie Werner as Mrs. Drayton in Life on the Bowery or The Liar’s Doom

Best Supporting Actor in a Play:
• Chase- Jim Lazor as The Creature in Frankenstein

Best Supporting Actress in a Play:
• Holy Cross- Marika DiCarlo as Margaret of Anjou in Richard III

Best Featured Actor in a Play:
• Bristol Central- Graham Washburn as Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet

Best Featured Actress in a Play:
• Cheshire- Kayleigh Torck as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Best Comic Performer in a Play (male):
• The Gunnery- Jack Douglas as Gaston in Picasso At the Lapin Agile

Best Comic Performer in a Play (female):
• Stonington- Libby Hall as Maria in Lend Me A Tenor

Best Acting by an Ensemble Cast (Play):
• Woodhall- Lord of the Flies

Best Standout Performance by a Male Actor in an Ensemble Production
• Taft- Chris Hylwa as Julian in Roomies

Best Standout Performance by a Female Actor in an Ensemble
• Naugatuck- Bryce Burroughs as William Blore in And Then There Were None

Best Incidental Music (Play)
• Chase- Nico de Groot (composer); with Rosemary Minkler & Alyssa Longo- New York

Fearless Award (Play)- Language and subject
• Taft- Roomies

Theatre for Social Awareness Award
• Torrington- EAT

TECHNICAL/ADMIN CATEGORIES

Student Lighting Design and/or Execution:
• Chase- Matthew Szczygiel for New York, Frankenstein & Our Town

Student Costume Design and/or Execution:
• Woodhall- The entire cast for A Christmas Carol… Sort of

Student Scenic Design and/or Execution:
• Bristol Central- Derek Cote for Romeo & Juliet

Student Stage Management & Running Crew:
• Stonington- Mackenzie Angus-SM; Kimberly Armstrong and Hannah Lyon-ASMs for The Sound of Music

Student Sound Design
• Woodhall- Alex Crawford for The Lord of the Flies

Best Special Effects by a Student
• Guilford- Connor McGinley & Marisa Mormile for the revolving platform in Evita

Best Props Design and or Management:
• Bethel- The Arts Honors Class for Jack & the Beanstalk

Best Original Program Cover Design
• Wamogo- Brooke Bittel for Anything Goes

Special Recognition Awards
• “Above and Beyond” (or “The Mickey Rooney Award”) Julia Stevensen from Watertown, Antonio Pereira from Stonington, and Erin Start from Nonnewaug.

• Against All Odds (Overcoming all obstacles) Thomaston High School (Urban Legends), Kaynor Tech (Twelfth Night)

• Artistic Director’s Award- Juston Scott, Crosby and Nonnewaug HS- Grease

• Outstanding Contribution to the Community- Bethel HS

• Stanislavski Award: “There are no small parts…”:
Female: Sarah Gelb, New Fairfield, as the jester in Once Upon A Mattress
Male: Michangelo Mancini, Wolcott, as Hugo Peabody in Bye Bye BirdieListed below are the winners of the 2011 Halo Awards.

MUSICALS
1. Best Classic Musical (Pre-1965)
• Stonington- Carousel

2. Best Contemporary Musical (Post-1965):
• Chase- Beauty and the Beast

3. Best Ensemble Cast in a Musical:
• Torrington- Runaways

4. Best Actor in a Musical:
• Wolcott- Zachary Cipriano in Little Shop of Horrors

5. Best Actress in a Musical:
• Pomperaug- Sarah McVerry as Cinderella in Cinderella

6. Best Supporting Actor in a Musical:
• Holy Cross- Joseph Antonios as Che in Evita
• WAMS- Ben Orlando as Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street

7. Best Supporting Actress in a Musical:
• Cheshire- Nathalya Diosa as Bloody Mary in South Pacific

8. Best Featured Actor in a Musical:
• Housatonic Valley- Myles Clohessy as Harry the Horse in Guys & Dolls

9. Best Featured Actress in a Musical:
• Pomperaug- Nina Paganucci as Stepmother in Cinderella

10. Best Couple in a Musical- 1st performer:
11. Best Couple in a Musical- 2nd performer:
• Chase- Haley Paret & Zach Leff as Belle & Beast in Beauty & the Beast

12. Best Comic Male Performance in a Musical:
• Shepaug- E.O. Narcisso as Mary Sunshine in Chicago

13. Best Comic Female Performance in a Musical:
• Bristol- Cameron Barney as Mayor Matilda Hyde in All Shook Up

14. Best Specialty Ensemble in a Musical:
• Oxford- James Kostka, Gabriel Armentano, Nathan Siebert, Kevin Schumitz, Samantha Ramsay, Matthew Weisgable, Jared Schulman as Action & the Jets in “Officer Krupke” in West Side Story

15. Best Dancing:
• Watertown- The Wiz

16. Best Featured Dancer(s):
• Crosby- Juston Scott in Hairspray

17. Best Student Orchestra:
• Guilford- Anything Goes

18. Best Student Choreographer
• Stonington- Grace Rezendes for Carousel

19. Best Ensemble Chorus in a Musical: GYPSY ROBE CATEGORY
• Bristol- All Shook Up
Samantha Putko- Gypsy of the Year

PLAYS
20. Best Classic Play: (Pre-1965)
• Nonnewaug- Pride and Prejudice

21. Best Contemporary Play: (Post 1965)
• WAMS- Joe Turner Has Come and Gone

22. Best Actor in a Play:
• Woodhall- Aleks Birnhak as Jerry in The Zoo Story & Wasp

23. Best Actress in a Play:
• Nonnewaug- Jerica Olson as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice

24. Best Supporting Actor in a Play:
• Cheshire- R.J. Anderson as Algernon Moncrief in The Importance of Being Earnest

25. Best Supporting Actress in a Play:
• Chase- Olivia Ohanesian as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker

26. Best Featured Actor in a Play:
• The Gunnery- Manolo Gonzales as Creon in Too Much Memory

27. Best Featured Actress in a Play:
• Chase- Audrey Hickox as Sagot in Picasso at the Lapin Agile

28. Best Comic Performer in a Play (male):
• Torrington- Zach Schebel as Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley’s Aunt

29. Best Comic Performer in a Play (female):
• Naugatuck- Angela Buckley as Desdemona in Ladies, Sigh No More

30. Best Ensemble Cast (Play):
• Shepaug- Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare

31. Best Incidental Music (Play)
• WAMS- Kenny Copes, Tiffany Brophy, Lucy Christiana, Foley Megan Foell, Shakaya Walcott, Blesing Zenick for Servant of Two Masters

32. Fearless Award (Play)- (Language, subject, approach)
• The Gunnery- Too Much Memory

33. Fearless Award (Musical)- (Language, subject, approach)
• WAMS- 42nd Street

TECHNICAL/ADMIN CATEGORIES
34. Student Lighting Design:
• Bristol- Brian Daly for Godspell & All Shook Up

35. Student Costume Design:
• Guilford- Sheridan Baker for Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare

36. Student Scenic Design:
• Bristol- James Harlow for All Shook Up

37. Student Stage Management & Running Crew:
• Shepaug- Sara Good for Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare & Chicago

38. Student Sound Design
• Guilford- Will Greco for Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare & Anything Goes

39. Best Special Effects by a Student
• WAMS- Domenic DelCarmine for the filming and editing of all scenes that occurred in other locations on 42nd St

40. Best Props Design and Management:
• Torrington- Katrina Spriggs for Charley’s Aunt

41. Best Original Program Cover Design
• Wamogo- Brooke Bittel for Damn Yankees

Special Honors

42. Above and Beyond Award
• Stonington- Sarah Downie

43. Against All Odds
• Kaynor Tech

44. Artistic Director’s Award

• WAMS- Timothy Floyd