Old Globe Gets 24 Nominations From Critics

SAN DIEGO —  The Old Globe Theatre dominated the sixth annual San Diego Theater Critics award nominations with 24 nominations for eight plays in the October, 1988, through Sept. 16, 1989, season.

The La Jolla Playhouse, which presented fewer than half the plays the Globe did, picked up 14 nominations for five plays. The San Diego Repertory Theatre gathered 10 nominations for four plays.

The awards ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Abbey Restaurant in Hillcrest.

The show with the most nominations was “Burning Patience,” the first foray by the San Diego Repertory Theatre into bilingual productions. “Burning Patience” picked up six nominations for best production, best director (Doug Jacobs and Jorge Huerta), best actor (Leon Singer), best supporting actress (Yolanda Lloyd-Delgado), best set (Victoria Petrovich) and best lighting (John B. Forbes).

Two directors better known for their work on the national, rather than local scene, also got best-director nominations.

In his first outing as an independent director in 25 years, Adrian Hall, who resigned this year as the longtime artistic director of Trinity Repertory Theatre and then was fired from his new post as artistic director of Dallas Theatre Center, picked up a best director nomination for “Measure for Measure” at the Old Globe Theatre.

Hall’s replacement at Trinity Rep, former UC San Diego professor Anne Bogart, also received a best director nomination for her work on “Strindberg Sonata” at UC San Diego theater department.

“Measure for Measure” received five nominations in all, for best production, best direction, best supporting actor (James Winker), best costumes (Lewis Brown) and best lighting (Peter Maradudin).

“Strindberg Sonata” received four nominations for best production, best director, best new play (Bogart, Jeff Halpern et. al.) and best set (J. Michael Griggs).

Three of the plays nominated for best road show are now on the road to their Broadway premieres: “Dangerous Games” and “The Grapes of Wrath” (at La Jolla Playhouse) and “The Piano Lesson” (at Old Globe Theatre).

The 12 voting members of the San Diego Critics Circle are: Don Braunagel, Variety and Daily Variety; Frances Bardacke, San Diego Magazine; Nancy Churnin, Los Angeles Times; Carol Davis, San Diego Jewish Times; William E. Fark, Escondido Times-Advocate; Welton Jones, San Diego Union; Patricia Morris, North Coast Newspapers; Christopher Schneider, La Jolla Light; Jeff Smith, Reader; Eileen Sondak, Heritage Press; D. Larry Steckling, Dramalogue; Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union.

The nominees are:

DIRECTOR

Anne Bogart, “Strindberg Sonata,” UCSD drama department; Adrian Hall, “Measure for Measure,” Old Globe Theatre; Douglas Jacobs, Jorge Huerta, “Burning Patience,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; Craig Noel, “The School for Scandal,” Old Globe Theatre; Les Waters, “Nebraska,” La Jolla Playhouse.

LEAD ACTRESS

Ivonne Coll, “Orinoco,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; Lynne Griffin, “The School for Scandal,” Old Globe Theatre; Zoe DuFour, “She Loves Me,” Lawrence Welk Resort Theatre; Patricia A. Milkie, “Gertrude Stein and a Companion,” Sweetooth Comedy Theatre; Sada Thompson, “Driving Miss Daisy,” Old Globe Theatre.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sue Giosa, “Breaking Legs,” Old Globe Theatre; Robin Bartlett, “Nebraska,” La Jolla Playhouse; Erin Kelly, “Italian American Reconciliation,” Bowery Theatre; Yolanda Lloyd-Delgado, “Burning Patience,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; Gabrielle Sinclair, “The Wake of Jamey Foster,” Gaslamp Quarter Theatre.

LEAD ACTOR

Don Alan Croll, “I’m Not Rappaport,” Gaslamp Quarter Theatre; David Darlow, “The Misanthrope,” La Jolla Playhouse; James Morrison, “Down the Road,” La Jolla Playhouse; Leon Singer, “Burning Patience,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; Paxton Whitehead, “The School for Scandal,” Old Globe Theatre.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Rodger Bumpass, “The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Tobey Trollope,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; Jeffrey Allan Chandler, “Waiting for Godot,” Old Globe Theatre; Mike Genovese, “Breaking Legs,” Old Globe Theatre; Richard Kneeland, “Waiting for Godot,” Old Globe Theatre; James Winker, “Measure for Measure,” Old Globe Theatre.

CHOREOGRAPHY

Larry Anhorn, “Utopia Ltd.,” San Diego Gilbert and Sullivan Company; Judy Ann Bassing, “She Loves Me,” Lawrence Welk Resort Theatre; David Storey, “A . . . My Name is Alice,” Old Globe Theatre; Javier Velasco, “In Trousers,” Potpourri Productions/Two on the Aisle Productions; Don and Bonnie Ward, “My One and Only,” Starlight Musical Theatre.

SOUND DESIGN

Mark Coterill, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Lamb’s Players Theatre; Lawrence Czoka, “Italian American Reconciliation,” Bowery Theatre; Bob Jewett, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” San Diego Repertory Theatre; John Kilgore, “Down the Road,” La Jolla Playhouse; Fred Lanuza, “The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Tobey Trollope,” San Diego Repertory Theatre.

NEW PLAY

Lee Blessing, “Down the Road,” La Jolla Playhouse; Anne Bogart, Jeff Halpern et al, “Strindberg Sonata,” UCSD drama department; Karen Finley, “We Keep Our Victims Ready,” Sushi Performance Gallery; Tom Dulack, “Breaking Legs,” Old Globe Theatre; Keith Reddin, “Nebraska,” La Jolla Playhouse.

PRODUCTION

“Burning Patience,” San Diego Repertory Theatre; “Measure for Measure,” Old Globe Theatre; “The Misanthrope,” La Jolla Playhouse; “The School for Scandal,” Old Globe Theatre; “Strindberg Sonata,” UCSD drama department.

MUSICAL

“A . . . My Name is Alice,” Old Globe Theatre; “Dreamgirls,” Starlight Musical Theatre; “42nd Street,” Starlight Musical Theatre; “My One and Only,” Starlight Musical Theatre;’ ‘She Loves Me,” Lawrence Welk Resort Theatre.

ROAD SHOW

“Blood Wedding,” co-production of Great Lakes Theatre Festival and Old Globe Theatre;”Dangerous Games,” co-production of the American Music Theatre Festival in Philadelphia, Spoleto Festival, USA and La Jolla Playhouse; “The Grapes of Wrath,” Steppenwolf Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse; “The Piano Lesson,” Yale Repertory Theatre at Old Globe Theatre; “1,000 Airplanes on the Roof,” presented by San Diego Foundation for the Performing Arts at Symphony Hall.