Published: May 07, 2008 10:33 am            

Altoona theater will announce Isaac Award winners June 1

BY RUTH RICE

RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM

There will be a red carpet and the dress is semiformal, but it’s not the Oscars or Tonys.

The 2008 Altoona Community Theatre’s Isaac Awards ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. June 1 at the Mishler Theatre, 1208 12th Ave., Altoona.

The Isaac recognizes and supports excellence in the region’s high school musical theater and is named for Isaac Mishler, who built the historic Altoona theater.

The ceremony will open with a group musical number featuring students from each of the participating schools, and the evening will include musical selections from some of the nominated productions.

A $500 college scholarship for any field of study will be given to the winners of four categories: Best actor and actress and best supporting actor and actress.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 944-9434.

Productions and participating schools:

“Kiss Me, Kate,” Altoona Area High School; “Smile,” Bishop Carroll High School; “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle High School; “Fame,” Bishop McCort High School; “The Wiz,” Cambria Heights High School; “Grease,” Central Cambria High School; “The Wiz,” Chestnut Ridge High School; “Once Upon a Mattress,” Everett Area High School; “The Wizard of Oz,” Glendale Area High School; “The King and I,” Hollidaysburg Area Repertory Players; “Anything Goes,” Penn Cambria High School; “West Side Story,” Tyrone Area High School; “Grease,” Westmont Hilltop High School.

Best production:

“Anything Goes,” “The King and I,” “Once Upon a Mattress,” “Smile,” “West Side Story,” “The Wiz,” Cambria Heights.

Best musical number:

“Beauty School Dropout” from “Grease,” Westmont Hilltop; “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from “Kiss Me, Kate”; “Friendship” from “Anything Goes”; “Summer Nights” from “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle; “Tonight” from “West Side Story”; “We Go Together” from “Grease,” Central Cambria.

Best actress in a leading role:

Bre Beltowski as Doria Hudson, “Smile”; Marlena Carnicella as Dorothy, “The Wiz,” Cambria Heights; Lindsay Kimble as Anna Leonowens, “The King and I”; Elizabeth Marafino as Serena, “Fame”; Sofia Revolorio as Maria, “West Side Story”; Ariel Watters as Winifred, “Once Upon a Mattress.”

Best actor in a leading role:

Tyler Delauter as Danny Zuko, “Grease,” Central Cambria; Nick Finochio as Danny Zuko, “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle; Jonathan Harris as Tony, “West Side Story”; Scott Link as The Scarecrow, “The Wiz,” Cambria Heights; Michael Petyak as Billy Crocker, “Anything Goes”; Andrew Pramuk as the King, “The King and I.”

Best supporting actress:

Devon Ingold as Brenda DiCarlo Freelander, “Smile”; Angela Finelli as Marty, “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle; Gabbi Hertzog as Bonnie, “Anything Goes”; Kasey Leidy as Queen Agrivane, “Once Upon a Mattress”; Brittany Molnar as Betty Rizzo, “Grease,” Westmont Hilltop; Stevie Woodring as Anita, “West Side Story.”

Best supporting actor:

Derik Cruz as Bernardo, “West Side Story”; David Dapper as the Lion, “The Wiz,” Chestnut Ridge; Michael Hallinan and Zach Scholl as The Gangsters in “Kiss Me, Kate”; Sully McConnell as Roger, “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle; Garrett Storm as Moonface Martin, “Anything Goes”; Zach Weirich as Lun Tha, “The King and I.”

Best actress/actor in a featured role:

Liz Romano as Anybody’s, “West Side Story”; Jerica Snedden as Evilline, “The Wiz,” Cambria Heights; James Trexler as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, “Anything Goes”; Matthew

Varchol as Teen Angel, “Grease,” Westmont Hilltop; Rachel Villareale as The Nightingale, “Once Upon a Mattress”; Mallorie Winn as Patty Simcox, “Grease,” Central Cambria.

Best featured dance/dancer:

Jaci Hall as Cha-Cha DiGregorio in “Grease,” Bishop Guilfoyle; “The Jitterbug” from “The Wizard of Oz”; “Small House of Uncle Thomas” from “The King and I”; “There She Goes/Fame” from “Fame”; “The Twister” from “The Wiz,” Chestnut Ridge; the cast of “West Side Story.”

        

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