Halo Award Winners 2009

Halo Awards 2009

Best Musical:

Watertown- Once on this Island

Best Actor in a Musical:

Woodland Regional- Brandon Hayse as Tony/Romeo in “West Verona Story”

Best Actress in a Musical:

Wolcott- Gina Mancini as Princess Winifred in “Once Upon A Mattress”

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical:

Holy Cross- Chris Brown as Ringmaster/ James Bailey in “Barnum”

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical:

Watertown:* Danna Mazzola as Mama Euralie in “Once On This Island”

Best Featured Actor in a Musical:

Watertown:* Nate Habegger as Papa Ge in “Once On This Island”

Best Featured Actress in a Musical:

Litchfield- Katie Weiser as Kim MacAfee in “Bye Bye Birdie”

TIE

Cheshire- Alexa Barchini as Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes”

Best Couple in a Musical:

Wamogo- Shannon Gunnip & Matt LeFevre as Sarah & Sky in “Guys & Dolls”

Best Comic Male Performance in a Musical:

Cheshire- R.J. Anderson as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in “Anything Goes”

TIE

Chase- Ryan Foley as George in “The Wedding Singer”

Best Comic Female Performance in a Musical:

Bristol- Que Pelletier as Miss Adelaide in “Guys & Dolls

TIE

Wolcott- Alexandra Inglese as Queen Aggravain in “Once Upon a Mattress”

Best Ensemble Acting in a Musical:

Oxford- “Into the Woods”

Best Specialty Ensemble in a Musical:

Bristol- The Hot Box Girls in “Guys & Dolls”

Best Ensemble Chorus in a Musical:

Pomperaug- South Pacific
GYPSY of the Year- Olivia Roome

Best Dancing:

Cheshire- “Anything Goes

Best Featured Dancer(s):

Watertown- Samantha Aquavia as Little Ti Moune in “Once On This Island”

Best Student Orchestra

Holy Cross- “Barnum”

Best Student Choreographer(s)

Nonnewaug- Chloe Prasinos for “Sound of Music”

Fearless Award (Musical)

Kennedy- “Celebration”

Best Play:

Woodhall- “Stage Blood”

Best Actor in a Play:

Shepaug- Everett OReily Narciso as Frederick Fellows in “Noises Off”

TIE

Chase Collegiate- Connor Mulvaney in “The Laramie Project”

Best Actress in a Play:

Westover- Hannah Hartmann as Martha Brewster in “Arsenic & Old Lace”

Best Supporting Actor in a Play:

Shepaug- Aaron Dwyer as Garry LeJeune in “Noises Off”

Best Supporting Actress in a Play:

Nonnewaug- Madeline Smith as Ruth Kelly, R.N.in “Harvey”

TIE

Torrington- Jessica Koontz as Alma in “Playing For Time”

Best Featured Actor in a Play:

Chase Collegiate- Matt Carlson as Aaron McKinney in “The Laramie Project”

Best Featured Actress in a Play:

Torrington- Ashley DiLaurenzio as Maria Mandel in “Playing For Time”

Best Comic Actor in a Play

Thomaston- Curtis Dunn as Rich Coldheart in “How the West Was Dun”

TIE

Naugatuck- Ryan Glick as Emerson Dibble/ Rosita’s Husband in “Macbeth Did It”

Best Comic Actress in a play:

Shepaug- Sarah Kelly as Brooke Ashton in “Noises Off”

Best Ensemble Acting in a Play

Chase Collegiate- “The Laramie Project”

Fearless Award (Play)

Kaynor: “How to Make a Teenage American Quilt

Student Lighting Design & Execution:

Pomperaug- Mary Doolin & Molly O’Lena for “South Pacific”

Student Costume Design and Execution

Pomperaug- Alissa Rhodes, Keven Varanai, Colleen McLaughlin, Kacie Baldwin, Rachel LeBlanc for “Kabuki Lady Macbeth”

Student Scenic Design and/or Execution:

Shepaug- Hope Brinn, Kurt Conklin, Matt Carlson, Emma Cava, Jake Brundage, Brendan Dwyer, Azul Micevic Gotti, Kenny Heyne, Mike Josefson, Dan Knowlton, Zach Koerner, Blaze Silvernail, Dalton Silvernail, Carmela Windebank, Lindsay Walsh, & Evan Wright, for “Noises Off”

Student Stage Management & Running Crew:

Shepaug- Zach Koerner & Emma Cava for “Noises Off”

Student Sound Design & Execution

Woodland Regional- Kim Edwon for “West Verona Story”

Special Effects by a Student:

Thomaston- Benjamin Abbott, Jonathan Duncan, Jamison Kish, Jonathan Lampron, Chris Farrell, Jacob Silver for “Fahrenheit 451”

CERTIFICATES OF MERIT

Above & Beyond

Shepaug:* Tara Furey