TheDailyCity.com Best of Orlando 2012 | PERFORMING ARTS







Readers of The Daily City were able to vote starting Friday, December 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM EST through Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 11:59 PM EST. Winners were announced Friday January 6, 2012.

Best Professional Theater
1 - Mad Cow Theatre
2 - Orlando Shakespeare Theater
3 - Orlando Repertory Theatre

Best Community Theater
1 - Theatre Downtown
2 - Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park
3 - Greater Orlando Actors Theater

Best Playwright
1 - Michael Wanzie
2 - John DiDonna
3 - Stephen J. Miller

Best Educational Theater
1 - Theatre UCF
2 - Orlando Youth Theatre
3 - Annie Russell Theatre

Best DPAC Already Here
1 - Stardust Video & Coffee
2 - Urban ReThink
3 - Lowndes Shakespeare Center

Best New Play (2011)
1 - "Dog Powered Robot and the History of the Future" by Joshua Geoghagan (Miga Me)
2 - "Superman Drinks" by Chase Padgett (Chase Padgett Productions)
3 - "onomatopoeia" by Antony Bolante (ToBo Productions)

Best New Musical (2011)
1 - "Bitches of the Kingdom" by Dennis Giacino and Fiely Matias (The Oops Guys)
2 - "Blue and Tod Kimbro's Big Queer Hootenanny" (Baby Blue Starr and Tod Kimbro)
3 - "Anne Frank Superstar" by James Brendlinger (Penguin Point Productions)

Best Performance by a Female Actor (2011)
1 - Michelle Knight as Snow White in "Bitches of the Kingdom" (The Oops Guys)
2 - Marty Stonerock as Marty in "Circle Mirror Transformation" (Mad Cow Theatre)
3 - Peg O'Keef as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Mad Cow Theatre)

Best Performance by a Male Actor (2011)
1 - Dennis Neal as Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser in "Satchmo at the Waldorf" (The Riverton Playground Theatre and RedMoonJoint Entertainment)
2 - Rus Blackwell as Alan Raleigh in "God of Carnage" (Orlando Shakespeare Theater)
3 - Antony Bolante as the Hobo in "onomatopoeia" (ToBo Productions)

Best Dance Company
1 - Orlando Ballet
2 - DRIP
3 - Voci Dance

Best Poet
1 - Tod Caviness
2 - Curtis X Meyer
3 - Jesse Bradley

Best Independent Movie Theater
1 - Enzian Theater
2 - Dr. Phillips CineDome (Orlando Science Center)
3 - Colonial Six Cinemas

Best National Movie Theater
1 - Cobb Theatres Plaza Cinema Cafe 12
2 - AMC Universal Cineplex 20
3 - Regal Pointe Orlando Stadium 20 & IMAX

Best Concert Venue (Non-Smoking)
1 - The Social
2 - The Beacham
3 - The Plaza Live

Best Concert Venue (Smoking)
1 - Will's Pub
2 - Backbooth
3 - The Peacock Room

Best Improv Troupe
1 - Power 2 Improv
2 - Absent Minded Improv
3 - The Early Show (SAK Comedy Lab)

Best Improviser
1 - Jim Doyle
2 - Mike Carr
3 - Chris Dinger

Best The Nutcracker
1 - Orlando Ballet
2 - Central Florida Ballet
3 - Russian Ballet of Orlando
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