I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Despite worries that late December was not a good time to present Tuesday’s with Morrie we had a wonderful production and it turned out to be nicely profitable also. Thank you and welcome back Lary Etten who directed the show. Lary and his cast and crew did an excellent job and the compliments from those who saw it, keep rolling in.
January has also been good to us. The Sioux Empire Community Theatre scooped 9 out of the 17 awards in the 2019 Broadway World Regional Awards including OUTSTANDING THEATRE OF THE YEAR! Well done and congratulations to the winners listed below and to everyone else involved in these shows that helped to create these results:-
Noah Winters – Best Actor in a Musical, Oliver
Rebekah Merrimen - Best Choreographer, Mamma Mia!
Kendra Dexter – Best Costume Design, Mamma Mia!
Robin Byrne - Best Director/Play, Steel Magnolias
Matt Cook – Best Lighting Design, Mamma Mia!
Best Play – Steel Magnolias (All cast and Crew)
Jacob Habermann – Best Scenic Design, Mamma Mia!
Rick Huffman – Best Supporting Actor/Musical. Mamma Mia!
Sioux Empire Community Theatre – Outstanding Theatre of the Year
I’m proud that we won over 50% of the awards and feel it would have been even more if all of the cast of Steel Magnolias had not been competing against each other for Best Actress Award. Any one of them would have walked away with it.
Lend Me A Tenor is in rehearsal and looks like being another great production. Please buy your tickets and encourage friends or family to come along too and enjoy a great night out with high quality value for money theatre at the Orpheum Best wishes for 2020 to you all!
Robin Byrne
Executive Director
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