CURTAIN CALL AWARDS 2001/2002 - WINNERS

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Best Set (Gilbert Clayton Cup)
Christchurch Gilbert & Sullivan Society – The Mikado

Best Lighting & Effects
Ranger Productions – Blitz To Broadway

Best Young Performer
Lauren Millen – Goneril – King Lear – Brownsea Open Air Theatre

Best Entertainment
Opus 8 – The Cruise
Poole & Parkstone Musical Theatre Society – 2001 A Musical Odyssey
Ranger Productions – Blitz To Broadway

Best Director of a Drama or Thriller (Barbara Warde Cup)
Jo Puttick – King Lear – Brownsea Open Air Theatre

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama or Thriller
Lee Tilson – Judge Brack – Hedda Gabler – Swan Theatre

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama or Thriller
Patricia Richardson – Miss Mackay – The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – Impact Theatre

Best Actor in a Drama or Thriller
Don Gent – Butter – Sandcastles On The Beach – Bournemouth Little Theatre Club

Best Actress in a Drama or Thriller
Pam Goldsbrough – Hedda Gabler – Hedda Gabler – Godshill Players & Swan Theatre

Best Drama or Thriller
Hedda Gabler – Swan Theatre

Best Director of a Comedy or Farce
Tim Wallace-Abbott – The School For Scandal – Arena Theatre

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Farce
Kevin Dicker – Bottom – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bournemouth Shakespeare Players

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Farce
Chris Gorman – Madame Desmortes – Ring Round The Moon – Bournemouth Shakespeare/St Peter’s Players

Best Actor in a Comedy or Farce
Martyn French – The French Cast – The Three Musketeers – All Saints Dramatic Society

Best Actress in a Comedy or Farce
Katherine Senior – Annie – Table Manners – St Luke’s Players

Best Comedy or Farce
The Mating Game – KCA Players

Best Musical Director
David Andrews – Fiddler On The Roof – Ringwood Musical & Dramatic Society

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Andy Steeds – Motel – Fiddler On The Roof – Ringwood Musical & Dramatic Society

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Julia Gadenne – Ruth – The Pirates Of Penzance – Swanage Choral & Operatic Society

Best Actor in a Musical
Mike Purnell – Emcee – Cabaret – Theatre 2000

Best Actress in a Musical
Andrea Young – Sally Bowles – Cabaret – Theatre 2000

Best Director of a Musical
Albert Brown – Cabaret – Theatre 2000
Pat Donovan – The Zoo – M4 Theatre Company

Best Musical (Edna Tice Cup)
Cabaret – Theatre 2000

Daily Echo Special Awards
ANN WHITAKER
Our first Special Award winner tonight is a multi-talented lady who has been a loyal member of her group for many years. She not only appears on stage but has written and directed no less than seven original musicals for the company, saving them a fortune in performance fees.
That in itself would be quite an achievement, but where she really excels is in creating the right look for each production. She designs, builds and paints the sets, and makes every costume, achieving miracles from scraps of material. The company is small so her budget is, of necessity, low, but she trawls charity shops, recycles everything – and the results are never less than stunning.
Her creations don’t end at the proscenium arch either, and, as anyone who has been to one of this company’s productions will know, she decorates the entire auditorium in the style of the show. At their most recent musical, Queen of the Nile, the glittering costumes, glorious sets and Egyptian artefacts looked a million dollars – yet she had spent less than £200.
The company is understandably very proud of this lady’s achievements and was anxious that she should gain recognition from outside the group.
A well-deserved Special Award goes to Zenith Theatre’s Ann Whitaker.

Daily Echo Special Award
PAM WRIGHT
The second of our Special Award winners tonight has an extensive knowledge of drama, and of Shakespeare in particular. She is also no mean artist, and her comic drawings have been gracing the pages of Bournemouth Little Theatre Club’s newsletter for several months now.
As well as her membership of the Theatre Club and Castle Players, she has been involved with Brownsea Open Air Theatre since its beginnings in 1964, and since then has utilised her skills almost every year in set-building, backstage work, acting, prompting, and writing and researching programme text.
She has a phenomenal memory and is also a life-long local resident, so if you need to know anything about local theatre over the years, or even the history of Lilliput and Sandbanks, she can almost certainly provide the answer.
As a former teacher of English and drama she has undoubtedly fostered a love of theatre in many young people, and was so enthusiastic that in the days of the late-lamented repertory company at the Palace Court theatre she was often to be found at performances with groups of her pupils from Bournemouth School For Girls.
I have a particular reason to be grateful to her because I was one of them, and I loved those theatre visits. I know that without a doubt it was her influence and enthusiasm that gave me my love of the theatre and led me, indirectly, to Curtain Call.
It also occurs to me that she’s probably known me longer than anyone else in this room, and we’re still speaking even after 40 years, so for that reason at least, this accolade is well deserved.
A Special Award goes to Pam Wright.

David Palmer Rosebowl
DON CHERRETT
Our winner this year is under the impression that he is here tonight to support someone else, thanks to a little subterfuge that was necessary beforehand, but when needs must…
He has been heavily involved in local theatre for many years, having worked as both a performer and director with Barclays Players, Brownsea Open Air Theatre, Castle Players and Bournemouth Little Theatre Club. In his spare time he runs a youth theatre group, Barclays Eaglets, which has been very successful in winning trophies at local drama festivals, and as an writer he has also had a play or two published.
However, it is with Brownsea Open Air Theatre that he has made perhaps his biggest mark. The company does not have members as such, but is run by a management committee. Nonetheless, our winner’s involvement goes back to 1984, when he appeared as a huntsman in The Taming of the Shrew. Since then, as well as playing more substantial roles, he has directed their 1999 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and will direct Romeo and Juliet next year.
He is currently BOAT’s chairman, and for a number of years has held what must be the most onerous task of all, that of box office manager. The season’s ticket turnover is huge, and the amount of time he spends dealing with bookings, sending out tickets and answering queries would faze all but the most organised person, yet the system works like a dream.
Without people like this, who are prepared to work so hard behind the scenes without the glory of a public appearance, the amateur theatre world would be in a sorry state.
This year’s David Palmer Award goes to Don Cherrett.