BOTOC: Broadway! Awards

February 15, 2012 in BOTOCS (Battles of the Ongoing Classes), Lesly, Lesly's Thoughts, Ongoing

BOTOC: Broadway!
December 12-16, 2011
Awards

Judges
Aline Bui
Julia Black
Lesly Kahn

Best Participation/Attendance

• 3rd Place Thursday Day: RUMORS
• 2nd Place Tie: Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
• 1st Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY

Best Following of all the Rules Listed on the Assignment

• 3rd Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY – Marty Soole
• 2nd Place Thursday Day: RUMORS – Mallory McGill
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ginifer King, Helen Highfield, Victoria Kelleher

Best Presentation of Script

• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Saku Ee
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE

Best Party Planning

• 3rd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Alex Quijano
• 2nd Place Tie: Friday Day: THE LION KING / Thursday Day: RUMORS – Kalie Samovar
• 1st Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden

Most Unexpected Outcome

• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE

Best Last Minute Understudy

• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Carrie Witta for the lights
• 2nd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Alex Quijano as Olive’s Other Dad
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Jeff Meacham as Leaf Coneybear (we love you and your grandmother, Joel!)

Best Handling of Double-Casting

• 3rd Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE for the two Olives

Best Bios

• 3rd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING
• 1st Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS

Best Program

• 3rd Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY – Nate Jackson, Arriane Alexander
• 2nd Place Tie: Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS -Nikki Hayden made me look gawgeous!
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Saku Ee

Best Use of Music

• 4th Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY
• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
• 2nd Place Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE –  Marcienne Dwyer‘s song
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Mike Gilbertson on drums and guitar

Best Musical Direction

• 3rd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 2nd Place Tie: Friday Day: THE LION KING – JD Barton / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ginifer King, Helen Highfield & Victoria Kelleher

Best Producer

• 4th Place Tie: Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY – Marty Soole / Thursday Day: RUMORS – Mallory McGill / Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE – Will Hawkes / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Lili Mirojnick and Josh Crotty

• 3rd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Dean Li with Gina Novish, JD Barton and Saku Ee (Hilary Bauman)
• 2nd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ginifer King, Helen Highfield, Vikki Kelleher
• 1st Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden

Best Casting

• 4th Place Tuesday Eve: 12 FABULOUS PEOPLE
• 3rd Place Tie: Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS / Thursday Day: RUMORS – Mallory McGill
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Dean Li
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ensemble

Raciest

• 4th Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE - Adam Korson‘s erection and Lesly as the object of his lust
• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Ensemble STREETCAR kissing scenes
• 2nd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Rachel Germaine for “Tits & Ass” Striptease
• 1st Place Thursday Day: RUMORS – Jay Ellis in KC’s pink feathered cock sock and not much else

Best Props

• 3rd Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Saku Ee for the Zebra Leg
• 1st Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – India deBeaufort, Anna Campbell

Best Hair & Make-up

• 3rd Place Tie: Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ellen Wroe as Logainne Schwartzandgrubeniere / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – India deBeaufort
• 2nd Place Tuesday Eve: 12 FABULOUS PEOPLE – Cheryl Lynn Bowers for The Queen of Hearts
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Cher Tenbush

Best Costumes

• 4th Place Tie: Thursday Day: RUMORS / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Lilah Richcreek and Tyler Ritter for Princess Jasmine & Aladdin / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Alison Turner, Bianca Lopez, Bettina Olivieri, Allison Pocchia and Nikki Hayden for my addictions
• 3rd Place Monday Eve: BEYOND THERAPY – Theresa Jun-Tao
• 2nd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Ensemble
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Gina Novish

Best Sets

• 3rd Place Tie: Thursday Day: RUMORS – KC Morgan and Mallory McGill / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden for curtains and suspended stars, among other things
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Saku Ee (Hilary Bauman, Kantu Lentz, Linda Kang, Heather Habecker)
• 1st Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Josh Crotty and family and Lili Mirojnick for the five fabulous backdrops!!!!

Best Lighting

• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Carrie Wiita
• 2nd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING

Best Choreography

• 4th Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Adam Korson
• 3rd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Josh Crotty and India deBeaufort
• 2nd Place Tie: Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Allison Poccia / Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Angelique Cabral for “I Speak Six Languages”
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – JD Barton (for six numbers in a week!)

Best Use of Space

• 3rd Place Thursday Day: RUMORS – Mallory McGill & KC Morgan
• 2nd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Josh Crotty & Lili Mirojnick for so many sets in ONE room
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Saku Ee for use of entire building

Best Adaptation

• 3rd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Lili Mirojnick
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – JD Barton
• 1st Place Tie: Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Chris Schneider, Ensemble / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden

Best Puppetry

• 2nd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 1st Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Hilary Bauman

Most Fun Had

• 3rd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Jeff Meacham as Leaf Coneybear
• 2nd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Adam Korson as Chip Tolentino
• 1st Place Tie: Thursday Day: RUMORS – Courtney Parks as Chris / Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Victoria Kelleher, in general / Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Angelique Cabral, in general / Friday Day: LION KING – Saku Ee, in general

Best Daring to Suck

• 3rd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Kristina Campo (Zasu)
• 2nd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Adam Korson (Chip)’s Unfortunate Erection
• 1st Place Thursday Day: RUMORS – Jay Ellis and the Pink Feathered Cock Sock

Best Monologue

• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Van Hansis (aka Mini Van) as weird dude in Triage
• 2nd Place Tuesday Eve: 12 FABULOUS PEOPLE – Mike Manning
• 1st Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nick Clifford as Lesly Kahn talking about Chinese Food

Best Moment in a Song

• 3rd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – “I Speak Six Languages” with Angelique Cabral
• 2nd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – “My Friend The Dictionary” with Jackie Geary
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – The “I Love You” Song with Ginifer King, Helen Highfield and Eyal Podell

Best Supporting Actress

• 3rd Place Tie: Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Kate Johnson as Mrs. Banks / Thursday Day: RUMORS – Ursula Taherian / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – India deBeaufort as Jane
• 2nd Place Tie: Friday Day: THE LION KING – Lydia Medeiros as Timon / Friday Day: THE LION KING – Hilary Bauman as Pumbaa
• 1st Place Tie: Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ellen Wroe as Logainne Schwartzandgrubeniere / Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Angelique Cabral as Marcy Park / Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE – Nawal Bengholam as Coco Chanel

Best Supporting Actor

• 3rd Place Tie: Thursday Day: RUMORS – KC Morgan as Ken in Act I / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Doug Simpson as Uncle Albert
• 2nd Place Tie: Thursday Day: RUMORS – Jay Ellis as Lenny / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Vinoj Zacharia as Michael
• 1st Place Tie: Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE – Jeremy Brandt as Ted Nugent / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Eric Nenninger as Mr. Banks

Best Song

• 3rd Place Tie: Friday Day: THE LION KING – “Be Prepared” with Collin Palomares, Saku Ee, Kantu Lentz, and Ryan Nolan / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – “Sister Suffragette” and “The Life I lead” with Kate Johnson, Eric Nenninger, Kristi Sexton and Lili Mirojnick
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – “Hakuna Matata” with Lydia Medeiros, Hilary Bauman, Dean Li and JD Barton
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – “I Love You” with Ginifer King, Helen Highfield and Eyal Podell

Best Ensemble

• 3rd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 2nd Place Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE
• 1st Place Tie: Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE / Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS

Best Direction

• 4th Place Tuesday Eve: TWELVE FABULOUS PEOPLE – Will Hawkes
• 3rd Place Thursday Day: RUMORS – Mallory McGill
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – JD Barton
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ensemble

Best Actor

• 3rd Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Chris Schneider as Douglas Panch
• 2nd Place Friday Day: THE LION KING – Collin Palomares as Scar
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Ryan Bailey as William Barfee

Best Actress

• 3rd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Rachel Germaine as Lesly Kahn
• 2nd Place Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Anna Campbell as Mary Poppins
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE – Victoria Kelleher as Rona Lisa Peretti

Best Show

• 3rd Place Tie: Friday Day: THE LION KING / Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS
• 2nd Place Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
• 1st Place Tuesday Night: SPELLING BEE

Best Bios

3rd Place (an 8-way tie):

• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Dean Li (Young Simba) . . . is making his Broadway debut in THE LION KING. He’d rather be in a boyband circa 2001, but this will do. He prepared for his role as Young Simba by watching THE LION KING as a five year old in 1994. Shout outs to his mom, his management team, and Joe Jonas for being a musical and theatrical inspiration.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Lilah Richcreek is personally responsible for half of Whole Foods’ yearly gross income.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Allison Poccia spends her days coming up with new erotic emoticons (.) (.)
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Sammy Obeid wrote, in response to Monday Night’s MARY POPPINS, “Yeah, but did those motherfuckers have Circle of Life??? Get ‘em guys.”
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Nikki Hayden is raising a three year old and currently stars in every commercial on television.  She is shocked to be awake right now.”
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Jordan Davis wishes he was a little bit taller, wishes he was a baller, and wishes he had a girl who looked good.  He would call her.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Joshua Sawtelle grew a beard and is now stopped by the TSA on a regular basis.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Bianca Lopez speaks fluent Spanish, manages a food truck, and fulfills any other stereotypes you can think of.

2nd Place (a 10-way tie):

• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Kate Johnson (Mrs. Banks) . . . would like you to know that she does not have a great English accent, so if it changes to Irish or another European ethnicity throughout her performance, you are not to judge her. Had it been a southern accent, everything would have been fine. She would like to thank Lesly Kahn for never teaching dialects.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Rachel Germaine will be portraying tits on a stick, which isn’t a huge stretch.
• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Vinoj Zacharia (Michael): “He would like to thank his wife for all her love and support through his affair with Lesly Kahn.”
• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Trevor Torseth (Constable, Mr. Dawes, Sr., Company): “Trevor Torseth is a big, stupid dummy head. He often loses and can’t find things. He’s been known to lock himself out of other things. And he rarely understands or even remembers the simplest things. You may have seen Trevor in many different things. And he very much enjoys pushing himself deeply into the most wonderful things. He would greatly appreciate the opportunity to thank one particular thing. Thanks, thing, and he hopes more than anything things enjoy this thing.
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Linda Kang (Giraffe) is only 5’3”.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Ryan Caltagirone was born on 7.8.81. You’re welcome, world.
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Hilary Bauman (Pumbaa) – Her acting career began while serving five to life in Joliet Women’s Detention Center, where she formed the one-woman improv team: Solitary Con-Fun-Ment. Hilary had caught the acting bug! And Hepatitis C. She now enjoys performing across the greater San Pedro area . . . as long as it’s not within fifty feet of a minor. Or 100 feet of a service animal.
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Collin Palomares (Scar) . . .  is thrilled to be playing the evil villain as opposed to the nice guy next door who never gets the girl and will spend the rest of his life sulking in the shadow of his more awesome friend/brother/opponent. [He] . . . received his BFA in Acting from somewhere you’ve never heard of.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Alison Turner is an acting teacher/dogwalker/valet/nanny/lover of all things Oprah and constantly looking for more forward slashes to add to her title.
• Thursday Night: 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS – Justice Leak has a burgeoning career as a rap artist under the moniker Just-[ICE] and is hoping his daily application of L’Oreal Sublime Bronzer will make him more street.

1st Place (a 5-way tie):

• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Josh Crotty (Bert): FUCKIN BURGERVILLE PUNCHIN STUFF TOM WAITES SEATTLE SEAHAWKS 2 GIRL ONE GUY PRON BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY WHERE THE FUCK IS MY HOVER BOARD MAZTO PEARL SNAP SHIRTS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER BOARD GAMES NORTH CAROLINA ORIGINAL NINTENDO EYEBALLS JACK DANIELS JOHNNY CASH IF YOU CELEBRATE PASSOVER ON AN OVERPASS YOU WILL GO BACK IN TIME FUCK DRUMS ANIMAL COWBOY BOOTS STEVE LARGENT I WANT TO REMAKE URBAN COWBOY THE MAGNIFICENT 7 AND COOL HAND LUKE SO GOD DAMN BAD BEIN REALLY FUCKIN HIGH BLOW JOBS TATTOOS DAVE CHAPPELLE I MISS PLAYIN BALL I WILL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF TIM TEBOW MY DAD HUGS 501′S THE COUVE!!!!!!!! BOB HIRSCH.
• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Jennifer Landon (Andrew the Dog) – Woof.
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – JD Barton (Simba) – . . . Look past the incredible musculature and unparalleled male masculinity and see a lion who is just looking to belong.”
• Monday Night: MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ MARY POPPINS – Lili Mirojnick (Director, Ellen, Company)  – “Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah acting blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah debut. Blah blah blah blah blah blah mom, dad, blah Lesly Kahn blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• Friday Day: THE LION KING – Mike Gilbertson . . . moved to LA to play acoustic guitar for a closing number for an at times insane Jewish woman’s acting school’s end of the year musical theatre competition between all the classes which only perpetuates this thin invisible layer of competitive nature between them all thus causing not only spite and malice between ‘em but this deep need and desire to please the very teacher that put them there in the first place.  This is BOTOC!

Special thanks to Julia Black and Aline Bui, without whom I would not have survived this process!

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