Keala Settle's Tony-nominated musical was commissioned by what playhouse?
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Keala Settle Keala Settle (born November 5, 1975) is an American singer and actress. Settle originated the role of Norma Valverde in "Hands on a Hardbody", which ran on Broadway in 2013, and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
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Hands on a Hardbody (musical) Hands on a Hardbody is a musical based on the documentary film "". The book is by Doug Wright, music by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, lyrics by Amanda Green. The documentary was adapted into a musical commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California.
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Covedale Center for the Performing Arts The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts is a live theater venue located at 4990 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The building was originally built by the Ackerman Family and opened as a cinema on March 21, 1947 with 924-seat movie house. In the 1970s a wall was erected down the middle to allow for a two-screen set-up. In 1998 the movie house was converted into a Cinema Grill, offering second-run movies and a dinner. That shut down a year later. The grill reopened in 2000 but went out of business again. The building was purchased by Cincinnati Young People's Theatre and opened on July 26, 2002 with the musical production "West Side Story".
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Children's Theatre Company The Children's Theatre Company (formerly known as The Moppet Players from 1961 to 1965) is a regional theatre established in 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in plays for families, young audiences and the very young. The theatre is the largest theatre for multigenerational audiences in the United States and is the recipient of 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. The founding is credited to John Clark Donahue and Beth Linnerson. Many productions are adaptations from children's literature including Pippi Longstocking, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, "Cinderella", How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad and "Alice in Wonderland" that have been in the company's repertoire for many seasons. Among their early premiere productions was Richard Dworsky's musical version of "The Marvelous Land of Oz", which was one of several productions to be issued on video in the early 1980s. The casts themselves are a mix of adult and young adult performers.
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Donald Holder Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for "The Lion King". He won a second Tony in 2008 for the revival of "South Pacific". His lighting design for "Ragtime" has been nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for "Best Lighting Design of a Musical". Additional Broadway credits include: "Big Fish," "Annie (2012 Broadway revival)", "Golden Boy", "", "Arcadia", "The Motherf**cker With The Hat", "Promises, Promises", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", "Radio Golf", "The Little Dog Laughed", "Movin' Out", "The Times They Are a-Changin'", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Holiday","Cyrano de Bergerac", and "Prelude to a Kiss".He was the theatrical lighting designer for seasons one and two of the NBC-Universal Television Series: 'Smash.'
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The Araca Group The Araca Group is a Tony Award-winning live entertainment merchandise and production company founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego, and Hank Unger. First achieving notoriety as producers of the musical "Urinetown", the company has gradually become more involved in merchandising following the success of "Wicked".
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Tony Award for Best Musical The Tony Awards are yearly awards that recognize achievement in live Broadway theatre. The award for Best Musical is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. It is the final award presented at the ceremony. The award goes to the producers of the musical. The musicals that are nominated for this award are performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical.
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American Repertory Theater The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is a professional not-for-profit theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, the A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music–theater explorations; to neglected works of the past; and to established classical texts reinterpreted in refreshing new ways. Over the past thirty years it has garnered many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize (1982), a Tony Award (1986), and a Jujamcyn Award (1985). In December 2002, the A.R.T. was the recipient of the National Theatre Conference's Outstanding Achievement Award, and in May 2003 it was named one of the top three theaters in the country by "Time" Magazine. The A.R.T. is housed in the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. The A.R.T. houses the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club.
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Tony Award for Best Sound Design The first Tony Award for "Best Sound Design of a Play" and "Best Sound Design of a Musical" was given in the 2007-2008 season. In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014-2015 season the Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Play/Musical would be eliminated. The Tony Administration Committee may bestow a Special Tony Award to a production when it determines that extraordinary sound design has been achieved.
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Kearsarge Arts Theatre Company The Kearsarge Arts Theatre (KAT) Company is a long-established, non-profit summer program for children interested in the arts. Based in the New London area of New Hampshire, KAT operates out of the Kearsarge Regional High School annually for the entire month of July. Classes primarily run Monday through Thursday, and give students a wide variety of classes, including Chorus, Dance, Visual Art, Photography, Acting, Improv, Costuming, Technical Theatre, and much more. Depending on the class offerings, students have the option of taking up to two morning classes and one afternoon class. The end of the month culminates in performances for those in the higher-level performing arts classes, and are treated as a community or even small professional musical production, open to the public.
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The House Theatre of Chicago The House Theatre of Chicago is a non-profit, ensemble theatre company in Chicago, IL. The House was founded in 2001 by a group of friends from the British American Drama Academy and Southern Methodist University with the mission of exploring the ideas of Community and Storytelling in order to create a unique theatrical experience for audience members. Since becoming eligible in 2004, The House has been nominated for more than 40 Joseph Jefferson Awards. In 2007, The House became the first recipient of Broadway in Chicago's Emerging Theater Award. Performances currently take place at the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park.
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The Playhouse Company The Playhouse Company Cheltenham is an amateur dramatics company founded in 1958. It is one of the several resident companies at The Playhouse.
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Winnipesaukee Playhouse The Winnipesaukee Playhouse is a 200+ seat courtyard style theater located in Meredith, New Hampshire, United States, in the heart of New Hampshire's Lakes Region. The Playhouse produces both a professional summer stock season as well as a community theater season, and is arguably the only theater in the United States to do so. The Winnipesaukee Playhouse is the recipient of 46 New Hampshire Theater Awards over the past eight years, more than any other theater in the state during this time period, and in 2009 it was selected by "New Hampshire Magazine" as the best professional theater in New Hampshire. In 2013 the Winni Playhouse moved from Weirs Beach in Laconia to the former Annalee Dolls campus in Meredith. The new theater has 200 seats as well as support spaces such as offices, dressing rooms, and a lobby, which the previous theater did not have.
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La Jolla Playhouse La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California San Diego.
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Bronzeville (play) Bronzeville is an original play written by Tim Toyama and Aaron Woolfolk. It was developed and produced by the Robey Theatre Company. The original production and two subsequent revivals were directed by Ben Guillory. The play had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles, California on April 17, 2009 and enjoyed an extended, sold-out run. Woolfolk and Toyama were subsequently nominated for an Ovation Award, and they and Guillory were nominated for NAACP Theatre Awards.
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Rachel Rockwell Rachel Rockwell is an American theater director, choreographer and performer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) and has a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville (IN). She moved to Chicago in 1991 and began performing and choreographing. She has appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and the national tours of Mamma Mia! (Equity Dance Captain); and Harold Prince's Showboat. In 2010, she was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine. and Chicagoan of the Year: Theater 2012 by the Chicago Tribune. In July 2014, Goodman Theatre, in association with Liza Lerner and Kevin McCollum, produced the first major revival of Brigadoon in two decades—directed and choreographed by Rockwell, who, with Brian Hill (author), updated the book, with permission from the Lerner and Loewe estates. In his New York Times review, Charles Isherwood called her production "a first-class revival that boasts an infectious buoyancy of spirit and a welcome absence of postmodern flourishes." Her productions of "Ride The Cyclone" and "Billy Eliot" were named two of the Top Ten productions in Chicago for 2015. Her U.S. premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of "Ride The Cyclone" was then produced Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and named Best of 2016 by the New York Times. She directed the World Premiere of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" at Minneapolis Children's Theatre in April, 2016.
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Into the Hoods Into the Hoods -- "An Urban Fairy Tale" is a hip hop/musical created by London-based hip hop dance troupe ZooNation, and conceived and directed by the choreographer Kate Prince. The basic premise of the show is a hip hop take on the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. The plot follows two children as they get lost in the hood and try to retrieve an iPod, a weave, a pair of trainers, and a hoodie, in exchange for a way home. On their travels they meet a variety of characters, each with his or her own story.
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Playhouse Theatre (Seattle) The Playhouse Theatre (later University of Washington Playhouse Theatre, now officially Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse) is a theater located at 4045 University Way NE (41st St) on The Ave in the University District, Seattle, Washington. It was converted from a tile warehouse in 1930 by Burton and Florence James, who set up the Seattle Repertory Playhouse with multi-ethnic performers and audiences.
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Drayton Entertainment Drayton Entertainment is an award-winning, not-for-profit professional theatre company based in Southwestern Ontario operating seven venues across the province: the original Drayton Festival Theatre in Drayton, Huron Country Playhouse and Playhouse II in Grand Bend, King’s Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene, Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs, St. Jacobs Country Playhouse in Waterloo, and Dunfield Theatre Cambridge in Cambridge.
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Oscar Theatre Company The Oscar Theatre Company is a theater company operating in Brisbane, Australia. It is interested in the provision of further work opportunities for Queensland professional and emerging artists. The company seeks to introduce and engage youth with contemporary theatre, by offering live performance as an alternative in the Brisbane social scene. Oscar receives no funding and relies heavily on corporate sponsorship and patron support.
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Ogunquit Playhouse The Ogunquit Playhouse is a regional theater at 10 Main Street (United States Route 1) in Ogunquit, Maine. The Ogunquit Playhouse is one of the last remaining summer theatres from the Straw Hat Circuit, also referred to as Summer Stock, still producing live musical theatre. The theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2015, the listing was raised to National Level of Significance "in consideration of the significant contributions made by its founder Walter J. Hartwig and the Playhouse to Performing Arts Education throughout the nation."
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Regional Theatre Tony Award The Regional Theatre Tony Award is a special non-competitive Tony Award given annually to a regional theatre company in the United States.