Photo: Thingamajig Theatre Company actors, directors and designers received an impressive 16 nominations for awards in the prestigious 2024 statewide contest currently being conducted by BroadwayWorld Denver. Nominations include three for “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” which will be presented again this month at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
Thingamajig Theatre Company actors, directors and designers received an impressive 16 nominations for awards in the prestigious 2024 statewide contest currently being conducted by BroadwayWorld Denver.
Voting is underway now, providing you the opportunity to help the talented artists who make our live professional nonprofit theatre so remarkable receive the recognition they deserve. No purchase or payment of any kind is needed to vote.
Thingamajig Theatre is located in the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
Here are the Thingamajig people and productions that made it to the final ballot in this respected competition:
- Best play: Marrow
- Best musical: Beautiful
- Best ensemble: All is Calm
- Best performer in a play: Craig MacArthur, Marrow
- Best performer in a musical: Margot Grom, Beautiful
- Best supporting performer in a play: Scott Morehead, Tiny Beautiful Things
- Best supporting performer in a musical: Cassandra Brooks, Beautiful
- Best direction of a play: Melissa Firlit, Marrow
- Best direction of a musical: Andrew Barratt Lewis, All is Calm
- Best scenic design of a play or musical: JD Madsen, Margaritaville
- Best lighting design of a play or musical: Elaine Wong, Marrow
- Best costume design of a play or musical: Nanette Cheffers, All is Calm
- Best choreography of a play or musical: Davey Burton Midkiff, Beauty and the Beast
- Best sound design of a play or musical: Matthew Bitner, Marrow
- Best music direction: Dominic Girolami, Beautiful
- Favorite local theatre: Thingamajig Theatre
How to vote
Online voting is underway now. It’s a very narrow window for voting this year, as voting runs only through December 31. Winners will be announced in January.
To vote for your Thingamajig favorites, here is the link.
Be sure to fill out the Required Information boxes at the end of the ballot or your vote will not be counted.
Reaction from Thingamajig
The BroadwayWorld nominations provide an opportunity to celebrate the impressive talents of the actors, directors and production experts who helped us put on so many amazing live-theatre shows over the past year, according to Tim Moore, artistic director and cofounder of Thingamajig with his wife Laura.
“This summer at our theatre was nothing short of incredible, building on the remarkable momentum of our entire year that ranged from a serious drama like ‘Marrow’ about tolerance and respect, the meaning of true camaraderie in ‘All is Calm,’ and the lessons about how to really listen in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’” said Tim Moore. “Then came our highly popular summer musicals – ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Story,’ Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Margaritaville’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
“These 16 BroadwayWorld nominations from our audience are great feedback.
“We’re especially pleased that ‘All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914’ received three important nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Costume Design of a Musical,” Moore said. “Our community will get a second chance to see this remarkable true story — told in the words and songs of Allied and German soldiers — when Thingamajig brings back the production from December 13-28, with many of the original cast…”
‘All is Calm’ opens as German soldiers initiate an informal truce by emerging from the infamous trenches of the war, singing ‘Stille Nacht.’ For one extraordinary night, the shooting stops as the enemies enjoy camaraderie, music and peace in No Man’s Land.
High-caliber competition
BroadwayWorld oversees the largest theatre audience awards on the globe, covering Broadway in New York, the West End in London and more than 100 key artistic locations in the U.S. and worldwide including in Australia, Canada, Central and South America, Europe and Asia.
Thingamajig competes in the impressive Denver regional professional theatre market, with nominees also coming from Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Vintage Theatre, Merely Players, Front Range Theatre Company, Arvada Center, Boulder Dinner Theatre, Cherry Creek Theatre and many more. This means that the caliber of the competition is extremely high.