The Fall 2012 Hubbie Awards

Alas, it has been quite some time since I've handed out Hubbies - so some of the winners in this round were seen in the summer months.  Somehow I don't think they'll mind the belated bouquet, though - oh and btw, that's Apolo Ohno modeling another possible Hubbie design up top, should we ever get to handing out physical awards!

Now you know how this works - I look back through the posts from the past few months and pick those performers, designers, and directors whose work I admired the most.  So without further ado:

Best Productions

Kyle Cherry and John Geoffrion in Gross Indecency

War Horse, National Theatre of Great Britain, via Broadway in Boston

Sequence 8, Les 7 Doits de la Main, via ArtsEmerson

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (at right), Bad Habit Productions

Round and Round the Garden, Gloucester Stage

Avenue Q, Lyric Stage

Private Lives, Huntington Theatre


Best Ensembles

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - John Geoffrion, Kyle Cherry, Gabriel Graetz, Matthew Murphy, Brooks Reeves, Tom Lawrence, Joey Heyworth, Luke Murtha, Morgan Bernhard, James Bocock, and Derek McCormack, directed by Liz Fenstermaker, dialect coach Susanna Harris Noon, Bad Habit Productions

"Master Harold" . . . and the boys - Johnny Lee Davenport, Peter Mark Kendall, Anthony Willis, Jr., directed by Benny Sato Ambush, Gloucester Stage

Polaroid Stories - Luke Murtha, Michael Underhill, Melissa De Jesus, Jesse Wood, Kiki Samko, Danielle Leeber Lucas, Elizabeth Battey, Mikey DiLoreto, Michael Caminiti, Amy Meyer, Robyn Linden, Denise Drago, Lauren Elias, Nicole Howard, Kate Shanahan, and Sarah Sixt, directed by Joey Pelletier and Elise Wulff, a joint production by Heart and Dagger Productions, Boston Actors Theater, Happy Medium Theatre

Round and Round the Garden - Steven Barkhimer, Barlow Adamson, Richard Snee, Lindsay Crouse, Adrianne Krstansky, Sarah Newhouse, directed by Eric C. Engel, Gloucester Stage

Private Lives - Bianca Amato, James Waterston, Autumn Hurlbert, Jeremy Webb, Paula Plum, directed by Maria Aitken, (at left) Huntington Theatre

Avenue Q - Erica Spyres, Phil Tayler, John Ambrosino, Jenna Lee Scott, Davron S. Monroe, Elise Arsenault, Harry McEnerny V, directed by Spiro Veloudos, Lyric Stage

Best Individual Performances

Patrick Shea, Race, New Rep

Luke Murtha, John Zdrojeski, The Kite Runner, New Rep

Joel Colodner, Zach Eisenstadt, The Chosen, Lyric Stage

Adriane Lenox, Now or Later, Huntington Theatre

Karen MacDonald, Nancy E. Carroll, and Johanna Day, Good People (at right), Huntington Theatre

Seumas Sargent, Beat Generation, Merrimack Rep

Hassan Il-Amin, Fred Sullivan, Jr., King Lear, Trinity Rep

Michael Benz, Hamlet, Shakespeare's Globe via ArtsEmerson

Maurice E. Parent, Melinda Lopez, The Motherfucker with the Hat, SpeakEasy Stage

Leslie Shires, Ross Cowan, Homestead Crossing, Merrimack Rep

Michael Underhill, William Schuller, Romeo and Juliet, Happy Medium Theatre

Anita Gillette, Bye Bye Birdie, Reagle Music Theatre

Gary Beach, Matt Loehr, Eric Mann, Hello, Dolly!, North Shore Music Theatre

Ryan Overberg, Shana Dirik and Kathy St. George (both at right), Xanadu, SpeakEasy Stage

Marianna Bassham, Philana Mia, Melis Aker, Bernie Baldassaro, Charlotte Anne Dore, Joey Heyworth, Sarah Jones, Gerard Slattery, Meredith Stypinski, Sheriden Thomas, I Capture the Castle, Stoneham Theatre

Stephen Thorne, Rebecca Gibel, Nance Williamson - Boeing, Boeing, Trinity Rep

Craig Mathers - Troilus and Cressida, Actors' Shakespeare Project

Susan Molloy - Little Shop of Horrors, New Rep

Best Operatic Performances

Amanda Forsythe, Partenope, Boston Baroque

Ricardo Lugo, David Kravitz, Don Pasquale, Boston Midsummer Opera

Owen Willetts - Orfeo ed Euridice, Boston Baroque

Best Design

Janie Howland, set, and Rafael Jean, costumes, The Mikado (above), Lyric Stage

Michael Clark Wonson, lighting, Polaroid Stories, Heart and Dagger/Happy Medium Theatre/Boston Actors Theater

Jenna McFarland Lord, set, Round and Round the Garden, Gloucester Stage

Richard Chambers, set, I Capture the Castle, Stoneham Theatre

Allen Moyer, set, and Candice Donnelly, costumes, Private Lives, Huntington Theatre

Chris Larson, sound, Trojan Women, Whistler in the Dark

Patrick Lynch, set, William Lane, costumes, and Peter Sasha Hurowitz, sound - Boeing, Boing, Trinity Rep

Crystal Tiala, set, Xanadu, SpeakEasy Stage

Dan Kotlowitz, lighting, The Ghost-Writer, Merrimack Rep

Best Choreography

Larry Sousa, Bye Bye Birdie (above), Reagle Music Theatre

Michael Lichtefeld, Hello, Dolly!, North Shore Music Theatre

Best Musical Direction

Susan Davenny Wyner, Don Pasquale, Boston Midsummer Opera

Best Direction

Joey Pelletier and Elise Wulff, Polaroid Stories, Heart and Dagger/Happy Medium Theatre/Boston Actors Theater

Liz Fenstermaker, Gross Indencency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Bad Habit Productions

Charles Repole, Hello, Dolly!, North Shore Music Theatre

Maria Aitken, Private Lives, Huntington Theatre

Spiro Veloudos - Avenue Q, Lyric Stage

Well, I think that's it for now - so hats off (in fact almost everything off) for the Fall 2012 Hubbie winners!