LA Stage Launches New 'OVATION RECOMMENDED' Program

The start of the 2009-10 Ovation Awards voting season brought with it a new element of the program: 'Ovation Recommended.' A production will receive this honor during their run when the LA Stage Alliance Ovation voters have determined through their votes cast on these productions that they are ranked in the top 20% of all registered shows in the 'Overall Production' voting category.

Ovation Recommended status is determined as follows: Once a production has had at least eight (8) Ovation voters attend and cast their ballots, it is eligible to become 'Ovation Recommended.' After that point, if at any time the average overall production score for that production rises to the level that would have placed it in the top 20% of productions for the previous Ovation season, it will become 'Ovation Recommended.' Once a production gains 'Recommended' status, it cannot lose that status, even if subsequent voters score the production poorly and its average overall production score declines.

It should be noted that being 'Ovation Recommended' does not guarantee a production Ovation Award nominations at the end of the season. There will be 'Recommended' productions that do not receive any nominations at all. Similarly, since the 'Recommended' status is only based on the 'Overall Production' score, there will be productions which are not 'Ovation Recommended,' but which will receive Ovation Award nominations due to high achievement in an individual category, such as acting or design.

'Ovation Recommended' status is only to help communicate to the general public, during a show's run, that the production is highly successful 'overall.'

Each Tuesday morning, any show that has achieved 'Recommended' status will be posted on LAStageBlog.com.

Since the voting season began on September 1, the following productions have received the honor of becoming 'Ovation Recommended':

Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins (West Coast Ensemble)
Chesapeake (Syzygy Theatre Group)
Children of the Night (Katselas Theatre Company)
Eclipsed (Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre)
Gogol Project (Bootleg Theater)
Life Could Be A Dream (David Elzer, Peter Schneider and Crooning Crabcakes, LLC)
Louis & Keely, Live at the Sahara (Geffen Playhouse)
Oedipus the King, Mama! (Troubadour Theater Company)
Parade (Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum)
Peace (The J. Paul Getty Trust)
Ruby, Tragically Rotund (Playwrights' Arena)
Shining City (Fountain Theatre)
Solitude (Los Angeles Theatre Center)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The Production Company)
The Crossing (Sidewalk Studio Theatre)
Wonder of the World (Seaglass Theatre)

 

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