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What's On Stage Awards: Nominees Announced!
The nominees for the 2009 What's On Stage Theatregoers' Choice Awards, which cover productions that have opened in London's West End and beyond over the last 12 months have now been announced.
The 2009 awards mark the introduction of a new Best Lighting Designer category to the awards, this category is sponsored by White Light, a leading supplier of lighting to theatre productions and the rest of the entertainment industry.
As with all of the other categories, nominations for the Best Lighting Designer award came from members of the public. The lighting nominees are Chahine Yavroyan for Relocated at the Royal Court Upstairs and Wig Out! at the Royal Court Downstairs; Jean Kalman for The Year of Magical Thinking at the NT Lyttelton and In The Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; Malcolm Rippeth for Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket and Six Characters In Search Of An Author at the Gielgud; Mark Henderson for Under The Blue Sky at the Duke of York's and Marguerite and The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket; Neil Austin for Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville, No Man's Land at the Duke of York's and Oedipus at the NT Olivier; and Paule Constable for Othello and The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse and Ivanov at the Wyndham's.
A full list of nominated people and productions can be found at www.whatsonstage.com
Voting for the winners is now open at the whatsonstage.com website through until January 31st 2009; the winners will be announced during the week of 9th February 2009 with a Winners Concert held on 15th February. Last year saw over 25,000 people vote for their favourite shows and performers, the musical Hairspray winning the most categories.
12th December 2008
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