{"id":236739,"date":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/critics-circle-san-diegos-tony-awards\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","slug":"critics-circle-san-diegos-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/critics-circle-san-diegos-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics Circle: San Diego\u2019s Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlene Baldridge | Noticias del Centro<\/p>\n

Thirty 2013 Craig Noel Awards were handed out Feb. 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, in La Jolla, for the annual San Diego Critics Circle Awards. More than 500 actors, directors, patrons and friends turned out to socialize, feast, celebrate and be celebrated.<\/p>\n

The Critics Circle instituted the awards in 2003 to honor Craig Noel, first artistic director of he Old Globe, who devoted his life to developing and enhancing theater in San Diego. During his tenure at the Old Globe, Noel staged in excess of 500 productions.<\/p>\n

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A group of winners display their awards at the post-ceremony reception for the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle\u2019s 2013 Craig Noel Awards on Feb. 10. From left: Ion Theatre co-founder Trina Kaplan (Ion won the Don Braunagel Award for Oustanding Work at a Small Theatre); Zoe Sonnenberg and her mother, Moxie Theatre artistic director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (with awards for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Dramatic Production for Moxie\u2019s coproduction of \u201cThe Bluest Eye\u201d with Mo\u2019olelo Performing Arts); San Diego Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse (with the Outstanding Resident Musical award for \u201cIn the Heights\u201d), \u201cBluest Eye\u201d underwriter Dea Hurston; and Javier Velasco (who won for his choreography in \u201cIn the Heights.\u201d (Photo by Ion Moe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Current members of the Critics Circle are David Codden (San Diego CityBeat), Carol Davis (Examiner, sdjewishworld.com), Bill Eadie (SandiegoStory.com, TalkinBroadway.com), James Hebert (U-T San Diego), Pat Launer (KSDS-FM), Ruth Lepper (freelance), Jean Lowerison (sdgln.com), Jeff Smith (The Reader), and Anne Marie Welsh (independent arts writer).<\/p>\n

It was a big night for Moxie Theatre co-founder Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, whose production of \u201cThe Bluest Eye\u201d (an adaptation of Toni Morrison\u2019s novel, co-produced with Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company) received San Diego Theatre Critics Circle awards for Ensemble, Direction and Outstanding Production.<\/p>\n

It was also a big night for the Old Globe. Their production of \u201cA Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love and Murder\u201d received awards for New Musical, Direction of a Musical (Darko Tresnjak), Lead Performance (Jefferson Mays, whose outrageously amusing video acceptance speech was taped back stage at the Broadway theater where the Tony-Award winning work is still playing, is posted on the Critics Circle web site), Orchestrations (Jonathan Tunick), and Scenic Design (Alexander Dodge).<\/p>\n

In addition, Miles Anderson received Lead Performance in a Play for Shylock in \u201cThe Merchant of Venice,\u201d and Don Sparks got the plaque for Featured Performance as Doolittle in \u201cPygmalion.\u201d York Kennedy received an award for his lighting of \u201cOther Desert Cities.\u201d Randall Dodge, who received an award for Actor of the Year for his 2013 body of work, performed in this season\u2019s \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas.\u201d His other 2013 credits were two productions of \u201cSouth Pacific\u201d (Welk Theatre and Moonlight Stage), \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d (Moonlight), Chicago (Welk), and \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d (San Diego Musical Theatre).<\/p>\n

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A capacity crowd of 500 guests at the San Diego Theatre Critics\u2019 2013 Craig Noel Awards ceremony, held Feb. 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla. (Photo by Ion Moe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moved to tears and choking up, Dodge called his wife, performer Brenda Dodge, his two young children, and all his directors the Master of Thank You and the key to his amazing success performing in six shows during a single calendar year.<\/p>\n

For the first time ever there were two Actor of the Year awardees. The other was admired actor Linda Libby, who appeared in \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d at ion theatre and \u201cThe Importance of Being Earnest\u201d at Cygnet Theatre Company. \u201cIt was a great year,\u201d she said. \u201cAs women in theater we fight for parts, sometimes feel we are standing in quicksand. Right now, the floor just got a bit more solid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Sullivan \u2014 an actor raised at the Old Globe who also met his wife Lynne Griffith there \u2014 received Solo Performance honors for his San Diego Fringe Festival appearance in Philip Dmitri Glass\u2019s \u201cBaby Redboots Revenge.\u201d Todd Blakesley, a longtime proponent of establishing a San Diego Fringe Festival, accepted the award for Sullivan, paying tribute to Sean\u2019s late mother, Diane Sinor, who worked most of her life at the Globe, first as an actor and then as education director. \u201cHey, Diane, your kid got a Noelie,\u201d Blakesley said.<\/p>\n

The Fringe Festival received a Special Event award and so did La Jolla Playhouse\u2019s Without Walls Festival.<\/p>\n

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Ten-year-old Abby DeSpain, foreground, holds her award for Outstanding Young Artist for her performance in New Village Arts\u2019 \u201cWait Until Dark.\u201d She\u2019s surrounded by the cast of \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d at the San Diego Theatre Critics\u2019 2013 Craig Noel Awards ceremony, held Feb. 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla.(Photo by Ion Moe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to those previously mentioned, Outstanding Performance awards went to Phil Johnson for Bottom in Intrepid Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, the Musical,\u201d Yolanda Franklin for multiple roles in Diversionary\u2019s \u201cThe Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler,\u201d Erin Davie and Emily Padgett for La Jolla Playhouse\u2019s \u201cSideshow,\u201d and Deborah Gilmour Smyth for Lamb\u2019s Players Theatre\u2019s \u201cWit.\u201d In accepting the award for Smyth, her colleague Cynthia Gerber said that Deborah writes she is south of the border watching whales, drinking tequila with her husband, Robert Smyth, and growing her hair back.<\/p>\n

Sam Woodhouse received Outstanding Direction of a Musical for his San Diego Repertory Theatre production of \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d produced with staff and students from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. The musical\u2019s choreographer, Javier Velasco, was also a winner.<\/p>\n

Of his theater\u2019s success, Woodhouse said, \u201cI just open the door and invite the right people in to play.\u201d It follows then that San Diego jazz trumpet player Gilbert Castellanos received a special award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a play \u2014 the Rep\u2019s \u201cFederal Jazz Project.\u201d<\/p>\n

A complete list of awards and recipients may be found at the Critics Circle web site, sdcriticscircle.org.<\/p>\n

\u2014Charlene Baldridge moved to San Diego from the Chicago area in 1962. She\u2019s been writing about the arts since 1979, and has had her features, critiques, surveys and interviews included in various publications ever since. Her book \u201cSan Diego, Jewel of the California Coast\u201d (Northland Publishing) is currently available in bookstores. She can be reached at charb81@gmail.com.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

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