4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Entertainment Herald Sun Entertainment Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre by: Sally Bennett arts editor From: Herald Sun April 20, 2015 10:30PM Share × Share this story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google Email 0 0 Madeleine Jones and Tom Parsons both won best actor awards for their roles in the musical “Once”. Picture: Eugene Hyland Source: News Corp Australia THE Melbourne Theatre Company has dominated this year’s Green Room Awards, announced http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 1/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun tonight, but in an unexpected category. Instead of cleaning up the awards for theatre — where it was virtually snubbed — the company won eight awards in the musical category for its co­production of Once with John Frost, including best production, director and male and female leads. The MTC, which also won a dance award for its co­production with Chunky Move, tied with Opera Australia to be the two most successful companies with 10 gongs each. But our flagship theatre company came a distant fourth in the theatre category — behind the Malthouse Theatre, Bell Shakespeare and Red Stitch Actors Theatre — picking up only one award for sound design. It’s highly touted Neon Festival of Independent Theatre also managed only one award in the independent theatre category. Opera Australia’s “Eugene Onegin” won seven awards, including female lead for Nicole Car. Source: Supplied Last year marked a change of direction for the MTC as it invested more heavily in popular co­ productions, such as Once and the world premiere of The Speechmaker with the Working Dog team. Both were box­office winners. The recipients of this year’s 62 Green Room Awards, announced at the Comedy Theatre, were recognised for outstanding work in performing arts seen on Melbourne stages. Bell Shakespeare won the coveted award for best theatre production for Henry V; best actor went to Andre de Vanny for Red Stitch’s Glory Dazed, and best female actor went to Melita Jurisic for Malthouse Theatre’s Night on Bald Mountain. Opera Australia dominated its category, winning seven awards including best production, director, conductor and female lead for Eugene Onegin. It also picked up three musical awards for The King and I, another co­production with John Frost. But OA didn’t scoop the pool entirely. The Malthouse Theatre will be jubilant after winning two opera awards for its co­production of The Riders with Victorian Opera, a stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 2/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun novel. Best production went to Bell Shakespeare’s “Henry V”. Source: Supplied In the dance category, the Australian Ballet went home empty­handed, Chunky Move picked up three awards, and Bangarra Dance Theatre earned two. The popular and hotly contested cabaret category produced six different winners for six awards, including best artist Geraldine Quinn. The 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award went to Nance Grant, for her outstanding contribution to opera as a singer and teacher. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s “Patyegarang” won two awards. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 3/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Source: Supplied GREEN ROOM AWARD WINNERS 2015 CABARET Production Eurosmash Die Roten Punkte Artist Geraldine Quinn All Out Of Pride & MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt Writing Ash Flanders Special Victim Musical Direction Jane Patterson Ginger & Tonic’s Desperate & Dateless Original Songs Andrew Strano and Loclan Mackenzie­Spencer Nailed It! Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret Ali McGregor Ali McGregor’s Late­ Nite Variety­ Nite Night CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE Outstanding Work by an Emerging Artist Fluvial Matthias Schack­ Arnott Next Wave Festival, Speak Percussion Outstanding Contemporary Circus A Simple Space Gravity and Other Myths Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance Going Nowhere, Arts House Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance Reach Out Touch Faith Sarah Rodigari in collaboration with Joshua Sofaer Going Nowhere, Arts House Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award Margaret Cameron DANCE Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography Shaun Parker Am I http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 4/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Shaun Parker & Company Concept and Realisation Lilian Steiner Noise Quartet Meditation Lilian Steiner AND James Batchelor Island James Batchelor Ensemble Cast of Patyegarang Bangarra Dance Theatre Female Dancer Lauren Langlois Complexity of Belonging Melbourne Theatre Company and Chunky Move Male Dancer Waangenga Blanco Patyegarang Bangarra Dance Theatre Music, Sound Design and Performance Alisdair Macindoe Princess Benjamin Hancock/Chunky Move Visual Design Jack Hancock (costume) and Bosco Shaw (lighting) Princess Benjamin Hancock/Chunky Move INDEPENDENT THEATRE Production The Trouble With Harry MKA, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival Costume Design Chloe Greaves Body of Work Director Alyson Campbell The Trouble With Harry MKA, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival Ensemble Cast of I Heart John McEnroe Clare Watson, Uninvited Guests, Theatre Works Female Performer http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 5/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Maria Mercedes Master Class Left Bauer Productions, fortyfivedownstairs Male Performer Angus Cerini Resplendence Angus Cerini/Doubletap, Neon Festival of Independent Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company Lighting Design Lisa Mibus My Lovers’ Bones Brown Cab Productions, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne Festival Sound Design and Composition Jesse Cox, Luke Mynott and Joff Bush Wael Zuaiter: Unknown Theatre Works, Next Wave Festival Writing Marcel Dorney Prehistoric Elbow Room Productions, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Fringe MUSIC THEATRE Actor In A Leading Role Hayden Tee Les Miserables Cameron Mackintosh AND Tom Parsons Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Actress In A Leading Role Madeleine Jones Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Actor In A Supporting Role Adrian Li Donni Pacific Overtures Watch This, Auspicious Projects, Theatre Works Actress In A Supporting Role Yong Ying Woo The King And I John Frost, Opera Australia Ensemble The cast of Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 6/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Direction John Tiffany Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Betty Pounder Award for Choreography Jerome Robbins and Susan Kikuchi The King And I John Frost, Opera Australia Musical Direction Martin Lowe and Kellie Dickerson Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Sound Design Clive Goodwin Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Costume and Set Design Roger Kirk (costume) and Brian Thomson (set) The King And I John Frost, Opera Australia Lighting Design Natasha Katz Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company Production Once John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company OPERA Direction Kasper Holten Eugene Onegin Opera Australia Production Eugene Onegin Opera Australia Conductor Guillaume Tourniaire Eugene Onegin Opera Australia Female Lead Nicole Car Tatyana, Eugene Onegin Opera Australia Female In A Supporting Role http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/melbourne-theatre-company-dominates-green-room-awards-but-not-for-theatre/story-fni0fcgk-1227312347021 7/10 4/30/2015 Melbourne Theatre Company dominates Green Room Awards — but not for theatre | Herald Sun Dominica Matthews Madame Larina, Eugene Onegin Opera Australia Male Lead Barry Ryan Scully, The Riders Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre Male In A Supporting Role Daniel Sumegi Sparafucile, Rigoletto Opera Australia Design Mia Stensgaard (set), Katrina Lindsay (costume), Wolfgang Goebbel (lighting) Eugene Onegin Opera Australia New Australian Opera The Riders Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre THEATRE COMPANIES Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage Roslyn Oades and Collaborators Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Festival Female Actor Melita Jurisic Miriam Sword, Night On Bald Mountain Malthouse Theatre Male Actor Andre de Vanny Ray’, Glory Dazed Red Stitch Actors Theatre Ensemble The Cast of Henry V Bell Shakespeare Lighting Design Paul Jackson Body of Work Audio Visual Design and Animation Matthew Gingold (audio visual design) and Matt Greenwood (animation) Calpurnia Descending Sisters Grimm, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company