The Robby Awards are presented by theater critic Rob Stevens based on shows he saw during 2001 from San Diego to Paso Robles, from Riverside to Long Beach. Leading the way again in total nominations, as it has for each of the past 15 years, is Costa Mesa’s South Coast Repertory with 30. Coming in second were Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre and Performance Riverside with 16 nominations each. L.A.’s Reprise!Broadway’s Best gathered 13, while Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and Glendale’s A Noise Within each collected 12. Among L.A.’s 99-seat theaters, North Hollywood’s Deaf West Theatre led with 9 nominations. The Ahmanson’s presentation of Disney Theatricals’ Aida earned the most nods for a production with 12. The Shubert Theatre’s Mamma Mia! and Santa Barbara’s production of Triumph of Love both gathered 10. Fullerton Civic Light Opera’s Jekyll & Hyde and A Noise Within’s Hay Fever each collected 9. SCR’s Much Ado About Nothing and A Delicate Balance each received 8 nominations, as did the El Portal’s The Last of Mrs. Lincoln and Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre’s The Boys Next Door. A complete listing of all nominations follow.

MUSICAL PRODUCTION

Aida, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre

Anything Goes, Music Theatre of Southern California

Crazy For You, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities

Do I Hear a Waltz?, Pasadena Playhouse

Hair, Coast Playhouse

Jekyll & Hyde, Fullerton Civic Light Opera

Mamma Mia!, Shubert Theatre

The Most Happy Fella, Reprise!Broadway’s Best

Pinafore!, Celebration Theatre

The Scarlet Pimpernel, Performance Riverside

1776, Reprise!Broadway’s Best

Sweet Charity, Downey Civic Light Opera

Titanic, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities

Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

Triumph of Love, Performance Riverside

DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Jules Aaron, Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

Jeff Calhoun, Big River, Deaf West Theatre

Alan Coats, Crazy For You

Jan Duncan, Jekyll & Hyde

Jon Engstrom, Sweet Charity

Robert Falls, Aida

Gordon Hunt, 1776

David James, Hair

Gary Krinke, Triumph of Love, Performance Riverside

David Lee, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia!

Michael Michetti, Titanic

Grant Rosen, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Mark Savage, Pinafore!

Arthur Allan Seidelman, The Most Happy Fella

John Vaughan, Anything Goes

ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

George Ball, The Most Happy Fella

Orson Bean, 1776

John Bisom, The Will Rogers Follies, Cabrillo Music Theatre

Patrick Cassidy, Aida

Stan Chandler, Into the Woods, Performance Riverside

James Benjamin Cooper, A New Brain, West Coast Ensemble

Anthony Crivello, Do I Hear a Waltz?

David Engel, Crazy For You

Tyrone Giordano, Big River

Gordon Goodman, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Musical Theatre Guild

T. Eric Hart, Jekyll & Hyde

Richard Israel, Where’s Charley, Musical Theatre Guild

John Massey, Jr., The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Performance Riverside

Lance Roberts, Honk!, Music Theatre of Southern California

Christofer Sands, Pinafore!

Edward Staudenmayer, The Scarlet Pimpernel

ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Eydie Alyson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Eileen Barnett, Plain and Fancy, Musical Theatre Guild

Anastasia Barzee, The Most Happy Fella

Kirsten Benton, Into the Woods, Performance Riverside

Stephanie Block, Crazy For You

Cynthia Ferrer, Anything Goes

Kim Huber, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Tracy Lore, Into the Woods, Performance Riverside

Rebecca Lowe, Jekyll & Hyde

Bets Malone, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Louise Pitre, Mamma Mia!

Debbie Prutsman, Into the Woods, Moonlight Amphitheatre

Alyson Reed, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Lea Salonga, Flower Drum Song, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre

Simone, Aida

Victoria Strong, Jekyll & Hyde

Tami Tappan, Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

Jill Van Velzer, Camelot, Performance Riverside

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Bob Amaral, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Eric Anderson, The Scarlet Pimpernel

David Burnham, Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

Mark Capri, Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

Don Cummings, A New Brain

Ira Denmark, Crazy For You

Kevin Earley, The Most Happy Fella

Kevin Earley, 1776

Kevin Earley, Titanic

Rodney Gilfry, The Most Happy Fella

James Gleason, Where’s Charley?

LaQuin Groves, Honk!

Will Kemp, The Car Man, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre

Michael Kostroff, Triumph of Love, Music Theatre of Santa Barbara

John LaLonde, Honk!

Dink O’Neal, Anything Goes

Patrick Richwood, Triumph of Love, Music Theatre of Santa Barbara

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Sandra Allen, Flower Drum Song

Stephanie Block, Triumph of Love, Music Theatre of Santa Barbara

Misty Cotton, Plain and Fancy

Kelli Fournier, Aida

Danette Holland, Honk!

Meg Howrey, Contact. Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre

Marsha Kramer, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Robin La Valley, The Pirates of Penzance, Limon/Carr Productionsv

Carol Lawrence, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Jodi Long, Flower Drum Song

Tracy Lore, Crazy For You

Tina Maddigan, Mamma Mia!

Bets Malone, 1776

Jennifer Leigh Warren, The Most Happy Fella

CHOREOGRAPHY

Wayne Cilento, Aida

Kay Cole, The Grave White Way, Hudson Backstage Theatre

Jon Engstrom, Sweet Charity

Leanne Fonteyn, The Towering Inferno-The Musical!, Opiate of the Masses

Rikki Lugo, Anything Goes

Kathleen Marshall, Kiss Me Kate, Shubert Theatre

Lee Martino, Camelot

Susan Stroman, Contact

Anthony Van Laast, Mamma Mia!

MUSICAL DIRECTION

Steven Applegate, Hair

Paul Bogaev, Aida

David Chase & Charles duChateau, Flower Drum Song

Nick DeGregorio, Sweet Charity

Brad Ellis, The Boswell Sisters, Globe Theatres

Martin Koch, Mamma Mia!

Lee Kreter, Jekyll & Hyde

Steven Landau, Titanic

Jo Monteleone, Swingtime Canteen, Fullerton Civic Light Opera

Peter Matz, 1776

Steven Smith, Crazy For You

Elise Unruh, Triumph of Love, Music Theater of Santa Barbara

MUSIC & LYRICS

William Finn, A New Brain

Elton John and Tim Rice, Aida

Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, Do I Hear a Waltz?

George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Honk!

Jeffrey Stock & Susan Birkenhead, Triumph of Love

Joe Patrick Ward, The Grave White Way

DRAMA PRODUCTION

Antigone .tertiary .sexxx, Oasis Theatre Company

Copenhagen, Wilshire Theatre

Corpus Christi, The Lillian Backstage

Dearboy’s War, The Lillian Backstage

A Delicate Balance, South Coast Repertory

The Laramie Project, La Jolla Playhouse

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, El Portal Center for the Arts

Mrs. Feuerstein, Padua Playwrights Productions

The Price, Laguna Playhouse

Road to a Revolution, Deaf West Theatre

Rope, PCPA Theaterfest

DIRECTOR OF A DRAMA

Martin Benson, A Delicate Balance

Michael Blakemore, Copenhagen

Kristin Hanggi, Corpus Christi

Moises Kaufman, The Laramie Project

Danny LeClair, Dearboy’s War

Art Manke, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Wendy McClellan, Antigone .tertiary .sexx

Mark Medoff, Road to a Revolution

Roxanne Rogers, Mrs. Feuerstein

Jack Shouse, Rope

Richard Stein, The Price

ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Chad Allen, Dearboy’s War

Allan Arbus, The Price

Darryl Armbruster, Dearboy’s War

Len Cariou, Copenhagen

Tim Casto, Rope

Mark Bradford Hill, What Every Woman Knows, Theatre 40

Nicholas Hormann, A Delicate Balance

Michael Lightsey, The Sum of Us, The Little Door Productions

Herb Mendelsohn, The Price

John Spencer, Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum

Hank Stratton, Copenhagen,

ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Deanne Bray, Road to a Revolution

Kandis Chappell, A Delicate Balance

Lynnda Ferguson, Mrs. Feuerstein

Phyllis Frelich, Road to a Revolution

Linda Gehringer, A Delicate Balance

Ann Hearn, What Every Woman Knows

Marci Hill, A Mislaid Heaven, Road Theatre Company

Laurie Metcalf, Looking for Normal, Geffen Playhouse

Maria O’Brien, Mrs. Feuerstein

Marcia Rodd, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Nathan Anderson, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Tom Astor, The Glass Menagerie, Rubicon Theatre Company

Jack Betts, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Jordan Bridges, Looking for Normal

Alan Brooks, Rope

Aric Cushing, The Sum of Us

Richard Doyle, A Delicate Balance

David Fofi, Dearboy’s War

Tony Foster, Dearboy’s War

Derek Sitter, The Dead Boy, Laurelgrove Theatre Company

Steve Vinovich, The Price

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Hope Alexander, A Delicate Balance

Rene Augesen, A Delicate Balance

Dorothy Constantine, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Marilyn Fox, The Price

Mariette Hartley, Copenhagen

Michael Learned, Looking for Normal

Dinah Anne Rogers, What Every Woman Knows

Becky Wahlstrom, Looking for Normal

COMEDY PRODUCTION

The Birthday Party, Matrix Theatre Company

The Boys Next Door, Rubicon Theatre Company

The Circle, South Coast Repertory

Hay Fever, A Noise Within

The Lonesome West, South Coast Repertory

A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream, Troubador Theatre Company

Much Ado About Nothing, South Coast Repertory

The Odd Couple (Female Version), Classic American Theatre

On Golden Pond, PCPA Theaterfest

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, Geffen Playhouse

The Towering Inferno-The Musical!, Opiate of the Masses

DIRECTOR OF A COMEDY

Martin Benson, The Lonesome West

Roger DeLaurier, On Golden Pond

Patricia Kane, The Odd Couple(The Female Version)

Rod Lathim, The Boys Next Door

Art Manke, Hay Fever

Bill Robens and Steve Marca, The Towering Inferno-The Musical!

Andrew J. Robinson, The Birthday Party

Mark Rucker, Much Ado About Nothing

Arthur Allan Seidelman, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Warner Shook, The Circle

Matt Walker, A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream

ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Dirk Blocker, The Boys Next Door

Jospeh Fuqua, The Boys Next Door

Stacy Mathewson, The Towering Inferno-The Musical!

Rod McLachlan, The Lonesome West

Paul O’Brien, The Lonesome West

David Hyde Pierce, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Jack Powell, On Golden Pond

Michael Rothhaar, Death Defying Acts, International City Theatre

Douglas Sills, Much Ado About Nothing

Matt Walker, A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream

Paxton Whitehead, The Circle

Rudolph Willrich, The Boys Next Door

ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Nancy Bell, The Circle

Jenna Cole, Hay Fever

Abby Craden, Trelawny of the Wells, A Noise Within

Nike Doukas, Much Ado About Nothing

Uta Hagen, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Denise Kudla, The Odd Couple(The Female Version)

Christine Miller, The Odd Couple(The Female Version)

Jessica Powell, On Golden Pond

Carole Shelley, The Circle

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

J. Todd Adams, The Lonesome West

Robertson Dean, Hay Fever

Joshua Fardon, Much Ado About Nothing

William Dennis Hunt, Trelawny of the Wells

Pat McGinnley, On Golden Pond

Brian McGovern, Hay Fever

Grinnell Morris, The Boys Next Door

Lance E. Nichols, The Boys Next Door

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Amy Chaffee, The Lonesome West

Abby Craden, Hay Fever

Amy Ecklund, The Boys Next Door

Jill Hill, Trelawny of the Wells

Ann Marie Lee, Hay Fever

Kathleen Mary Mulligan, On Golden Pond

Heidi Tokheim, Hay Fever

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

John Bisom, Heather Lee, Beth Malone, Mary Jo Mecca, Lisa Robinson, K.T. Vogt, and Wendy Worthington, Bingo, Hermosa Beach Playhouse

Lisa Akey, Gloria Dorson, Robin Gammell, Gregory Itzin, Jay Karnes and Armin Shimerman,

The Birthday Party

Michelle Duffy, Elizabeth Ward Land and Amy Pietz, The Boswell Sisters

Scott Allgauer, James Issac Barry, Adam Donshik, Nicholas Downs, Matt Huhn, Alec Ledd, Aaron Lohr, Derrick McMillon, Leigh Miller, Scott Paetty, Justin Rubin, John David Shepherd and Agustine Welles, Corpus Christi

Craig A. Curtis, Joshua Finkel, Lesli Margherita, Amy Rutberg, Shannon Stoeke and Joe Patrick Ward,

The Grave White Way

Stephen Belber, Amanda Gronich, Mercedes Herrero, John McAdams, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts and Kelli Simpkins, The Laramie Project

Peggy Ayn Maas, Kelli Maguire, Jo Monteleone, Karen Oster and Teri Ralston, Swingtime
Canteen

Misty Cotton, Eden Espinosa, Steve Glaudini, Paul Green, Michael G. Hawkins, John Massey,
Jr. and Debbie Prutsman, Triumph of Love, Performance Riverside

PLAYWRITING

Richard Alfieri, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Mike Ambrose, Dearboy’s War

Jane Anderson, Looking for Normal

Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

Martin McDonagh, The Lonesome West

Mark Medoff, Road to a Revolution

James Prideaux, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

SCENIC DESIGN

Thomas Buderwitz, Titanic

Roy Christopher, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Bob Crowley, Aida

Ralph Funicello, The Circle

Don Gruber, The Price

John Howell Hood, Rope

Ray Klausen, Big River

Dwight Richard Odle, Jekyll & Hyde

R. Eric Stone, On Golden Pond

Mark Thompson, Mamma Mia!

COSTUME DESIGN

Gregg Barnes, Flower Drum Song

Bob Crowley, Aida

Randy Gardell, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Walker Hicklin, The Circle

Walker Hicklin, Much Ado About Nothing

Shon LeBlanc, Sweet Charity

Sharell Martin, Jekyll & Hyde

Neverland, Hair

Mark Thompson, Mamma Mia!

Mary Vogt, Hay Fever
LIGHTING DESIGN

Christopher Akerlind, Much Ado About Nothing

Jay Bolton, Corpus Christi

Bo Crowell, Hair

Chris Davey, The Car Man

Michael Gilliam, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Howard Harrison, Mamma Mia!

Natasha Katz, Aida

Donna Ruzika, Jekyll & Hyde

Steven W. Wallace, Road to a Revolution

Steven Young, The Scarlet Pimpernel

SOUND DESIGN

Andrew Bruce & Bobby Aitken, Mamma Mia!

Tony Edwards, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Steve C. Kennedy, Aida

Damon Intrabartolo, Corpus Christi

B.C. Keller, Much Ado About Nothing

Dion Smith, Hair