SPELLING BEE CAST WINS
FOR BEST ENSEMBLE!
Photo credit: Amiya Tess
Congratulations to the cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for winning Best Ensemble - Musical at the 2021-2022 DASH Awards Gala, presented by the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres (EMACT) on August 20th at Cary Hall in Lexington. The cast also received loud applause for their performance at the Gala. NCT was nominated in 10 categories for Spelling Bee; the list of all nominees is here, and the nomination presentation on YouTube can be seen here. NCT’s nominations included:
Best Supporting Performer in a Female-Identifying Role - Marielle Sciore
Best Set Design - Chris Stulb
Best Set Dressing - Heather Daley, Kathy Magni, Libby Ostrofsky, Erica Traub
Best Sound Design - Chris Tess
Best Costume Design - Heather Daley, Kathy Magni
Best Props - Erica Traub
Best Ensemble in a Musical - Cast of Spelling Bee
Best Music Director - Alan Rodi
Best Director - Marianne Sarazen Lonati
Best Musical Production - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
And congratulations to NCT Board member Nadine Sa for her win as Best Stage Manager for The Concord Players’ Titanic!
Photo credit: Marianne Lonati
On July 15, 2021, the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters (EMACT) honored NCT with Virtual DASH Consultants Choice Awards for our musical revues A Little Bit of Fun in 2021 and A Little More Fun in 2021.
Chris Tess, Dan Henderson, and David Bailit were awarded Excellence in Technical Production, and Ashley DiFranza was awarded Outstanding Cabaret Soloist.
Congratulations to all of our Fun in 2021 cast and crew! Thank you to EMACT and its consultants for continuing to recognize and support community theater during this difficult year.
The EMACT awards presentation can be seen here, and our musical revues can be found here.