This year, a few Avonlea alumni are among this year’s Gemini nominees!
David Fox is up for Best Actor in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries for Across the River to Motor City; Megan Follows is up for Best Actress in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries for Booky and the Secret Santa (she will be up against her co-star Rachel Marcus in this category); and RH Thomson is a nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries for The Englishman’s Boy.
Motor City received a total of 12 nominations — more than any other TV movie or miniseries this year. The Englishman’s Boy is up for seven trophies. Booky and the Secret Santa is nominated for four awards.
Select awards will be handed out in untelevised ceremonies between October 21 and 23 in Toronto. The Broadcast Gala, also in Toronto, will be televised on November 28 at 9 pm ET on E! Canada and Showcase.
Gemini Awards
Congratulations to Lally Cadeau (Best Actress, General Theatre division, for Rose) and everyone involved with the touring production of The Drowsy Chaperone on their Dora wins.
Top Girls, which was up for seven Doras (including one for Megan Follows, who was up against herself for Three Sisters), went away with only one trophy — one for Best Direction, given to Alisa Palmer.
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Torontoist
The nominees for this year’s Dora Awards — which honours Toronto’s theatre and opera scene — have been announced.
Lally Cadeau and Megan Follows are among the nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role in a Play — Lally for her role in Rose, and Megan a double nominee for Top Girls and Three Sisters.
Top Girls is up for seven awards overall, also including Outstanding Production of a Play. Rose received five nominations.
Also among the nominees with an RTA connection is David Ferry (Stuart McRae), who is up for Outstanding Performance by a Male in the Independent Theatre division for his role in Lullaby. It was also announced that Fiona Reid (Maude Craig) would receive the Barbara Hamilton Award, which honours excellence and advocacy in the performing arts.
The awards will be handed out, untelevised, on June 30 in Toronto.
2008 Dora nominees list (Canadian Press)
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More than in years past, 2007 was a huge year for not only Anne and RTA alumni, it was also a big year for fans as well, particularly for fans of Anne.
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Buoyed by its success in 2007, Soulpepper will be remounting Top Girls with its original cast — including Megan Follows — for their 2008 season.
Before its remounting in late October, however, Megan will perform alongside her mother, Dawn Greenhalgh, in the play ‘night, Mother. The Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) drama by US playwright Marsha Norman deals with the relationship between a daughter and mother, as the daughter slowly reveals her plans to kill herself by day’s end.
‘night, Mother will be performed from May 13 to June 21, 2008, at the Young Centre; Top Girls‘ remounting takes place from October 25 to November 22, 2008, venue unknown at this time.
Soulpepper
