Monkey Jeffs
Posted by Molly on September 7, 2011
The Equity Jeff nominations just were announced, and as usual, lots of Monkeys are up for the awards!
For Best Production, Play (Large): The Seagull at Goodman, with Cliff Chamberlain!
For Best Production, Play (Midsize): Scorched at Silk Road, with Lacy Campbell!
For Best Production, Musical (Midsize): Merrily We Roll Along at The Music Theatre Company, with Alan Schmuckler!
For Best Ensemble: The Front Page at TimeLine, with Alex Goodrich! and also The Seagull with Cliff!
For Actor in a Principal Role, Musical: Michael Mahler, for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Theatre at the Center! And Alan Schmuckler for Murder for Two (still playing!) at Chicago Shakespeare!
For New Adaptation - play or musical: The Comedy of Errors at Court, adapted by Sean Graney, and featuring Alex Goodrich! And Working at Broadway Playhouse, featuring Emjoy Gavino and Michael Mahler!
The Weir, at Seanachai, received nominations for Best Actor and Scenic Design (Midsize), and was directed by Matt Miller!
For Music Direction: Michael Mahler, for Hot Mikado at Drury Lane!
And for Projections/video design (soon to be renamed The Tutaj Award): Mike Tutaj is nominated for 3 shows! The Detective’s Wife, at Writer’s Theatre, Frost/Nixon at TimeLine, and In Darfur at Timeline!
Chris Jones also said about Tutaj: “Meanwhile, another triple-threat, Mike Tutaj, demonstrated the ongoing likelihood that if you see excellent video on a Chicago stage, Tutaj was behind it.” He then goes on to talk about “The human with the most nominations, though”, thus proving what we’ve all secretly believed - Mike Tutaj is a robot.
Thanks for compiling this List of Jeffness, BOM-er Jason Sperling!
Nice one!
Molly B