Young Glammies 07-08

 

Following the success of the dancing at our special GDL 60th anniversary Glammies last year, we decided to keep the revised format for this year - and once again, it worked a treat!

Around 150 people arrived at our new venue, The Electricity Club, on 17th May, in all their finery, for the annual overview and celebration of the best of amateur theatre in Glamorgan. The competition was once again fierce, especially in the adult section, with 11 strong productions in the field. Also, unsually, there were more entries in the youth drama section than in the musicals this year: the first time that has ever happened.

Below you'll find all the award winners, shortlisted and nominated individuals from the Youth Glammies. Click here for the shortlists/winners of the adult categories.

The shortlists and winners of the acting awards are here.

Other, non-acting awards are here.

This is where you can see all the people on the longlist for the acting awards.

Lots of wonderful talent. Well done everyone.

The photogallery of the night is available.

We started with the usual big singing and dancing numbers, but this year, the opening company was newcomers STARS Performing Arts from Cardiff, who performed exceprts from their production Romeo and Juliet, recently seen at the One-Act Festival in Swansea. They also performed a number from their forthcoming entry Alice in StarsLand, which they will be entering in next year's Glammies. Then, a series of songs from regulars The Unknown Theatre Company, who gave some rousing numbers from their Glammies musical entry Return to the Forbidden Planet.

There were the usual awards, following overview speeches from Youth Moderator, Teri McCarthy and Adult Moderator, Lon David, and once again the whole evening was held together by anecdote and good humour from friend of the GDL, actor and playwright Greg Ashton. We tried another experiment this year: mixing up youth and adult awards together, so that all the acting awards were together, Best Production etc. This worked to great effect, and kept everyone focussed (and listening!) right the way through to the end.

The dancing, as mentioned, once again provided a super way to end the evening, and this time, the band had a singer: Andrew Machin of The Unknown Theatre Company, fresh from receiving his award as Best Actor in a Youth Drama.

All went smoothly technically this time (which is not to be sniffed at, in the light of recent years), even if the floor was rather slippery and the steps to the stage had a life of their own! But no-one fell over, and we all made it through to the end of the night in one piece. Many thanks are due to Andrew Merrell and Sam from Swansea Little Theatre, who worked so hard to make all look so easy. Thanks too to the allegedly retired Geoff and Barbara Lake, who did so much behind the scenes organisation - again - to make the evening happen in the first place.

The only downside to the evening was the miscalculation of the buffet: for the first time this year, we bought in the buffet, rather than making it ourselves, and it ran out about 30 people before the end. Some very miserable - and hungry - faces at the end of the evening. But this was the main lesson there was to be learned from being in our new venue, and we'll be sure to have it right for next time!

Many thanks are due to Cowdery Brawn who sponsored the 2008 Glammies evening.
Their contribution made a great difference to the evening, and we are really grateful for their support.

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Youth Acting Shortlists

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Best Actor: Musical    Best Actress: Musical    Best Actor: Drama    Best Actress: Drama

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Shortlisted for Best Actor in a Musical
Joseph Painter (Chino) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School
Adam King (Ariel) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
Andrew Machin (Cookie) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
Ben Reynolds (Captain Tempest) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
Shortlisted for Best Actress in a Musical
Alicia Lownsborough (Anita) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School
Kelly Littlechild (Navigation Officer) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
Melissa Moore (Miranda) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
Jenna Lane (Science Officer) Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company
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Shortlisted for Best Actor in a Play  

Julian Lewis (Wackford Squeers)

Nicholas Nickleby The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy
Rhys Edwards (Tom) This Property is Condemned The Unknown Theatre Company
Andrew Machin (A) Crave The Unknown Theatre Company
Adam King (B) Crave The Unknown Theatre Company
   
Shortlisted for Best Actress in a Play  
Nadia O'Neill (Mrs Squeers) Nicholas Nickleby The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy
Lorun Roberts (C) Crave The Unknown Theatre Company
Bethan Thomas (M) Crave The Unknown Theatre Company
Rhianna Davies (Willie) This Property is Condemned The Unknown Theatre Company

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Other Youth Awards

Winner of Youth Moderator's Award
Rhys Matthews for his performance as Jack Spratt The Fairyland Detective Agency The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy
Winner of the Geoff Lake Award for Innovation
The Company War Peace Love Laughter STARS Performing Arts
Shortlisted for Best Youth Drama
The Fairyland Detective Agency Dylan Thomas Youth Academy
War Peace Love Laughter STARS Performing Arts
This Property is Condemned The Unknown Theatre Company
Nicholas Nickleby The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy
Rose! and the Wicked Wolfeeee! The Unknown Theatre Company
Crave The Unknown Theatre Company
Shortlisted for Best Youth Musical

West Side Story

St Illtyd's High School, Cardiff
Return to the Forbidden Planet The Unknown Theatre Company

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Performances nominated for acting awards

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Youth Nominations

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Best Actor: Musical
Best Actress: Musical

Best Actor: Drama
Best Actress: Drama

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Nominated for Best Actor in a Musical
Sean Cleary (Doc) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School
Daniel Hawkins (Tony) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School
Joseph Painter (Chino) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School
Niall Shanahan (Riff) West Side Story St Illtyd's RC High School

Adam King (Ariel)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

Andrew Machin (Cookie)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

Ben Reynolds (Captain Tempest)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

   
Nominated for Best Actress in a Musical  
Alicia Lownsbrough (Anita)

West Side Story

St Illtyd's RC High School

Jade Lownsbrough (Anybodys)

West Side Story

St Illtyd's RC High School

Amber Norris (Maria)

West Side Story

St Illtyd's RC High School

Jenna Lane (Science Officer)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

Kelly Littlechild (Navigation Officer)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

Melissa Moore (Miranda)

Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Unknown Theatre Company

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Nominated for Best Actor in a Play  

Julian Lewis (Wackford Squeers)

Nicholas Nickleby

The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy

Rhys Matthews (Jack Spratt)

The Fairyland Detective Agency

The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy

Niall Sheehan (Pixie 1)

Rose! and the Wicked Wolfee!

The Unknown Theatre Company

Adam King (B)

Crave

The Unknown Theatre Company

Andrew Machin (A)

Crave

The Unknown Theatre Company

Rhys Edwards (Tom)

This Property is Condemned

The Unknown Theatre Company

   
Nominated for Best Actress in a Play  

Nadia O'Neill (Mrs Squeers)

Nicholas Nickleby

The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy

Ayse Gundz (Tinkerbell)

The Fairyland Detective Agency

The Dylan Thomas Youth Academy

Elle Rose Farrah (Mother)

Rose! and the Wicked Wolfeee!

The Unknown Theatre Company

Eva Ahia (Grandmother)

Rose! and the Wicked Wolfeee!

The Unknown Theatre Company

Rhianna Davies (Willie)

This Property is Condemned

The Unknown Theatre Company

Lorun Roberts (C)

Crave

The Unknown Theatre Company

Bethan Thomas (M)

Crave

The Unknown Theatre Company

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Entries for the Young Glammies 2007-08 were:

8 April 2008 This Property is Condemned drama The Unknown Theatre Company
7 April 2008 Crave drama The Unknown Theatre Company
6 April 2008 Return to the Forbidden Planet musical The Unknown Theatre Company
5 March 2008 Rose and the Wicked Wolfeee! drama The Unknown Theatre Company
4 March 2008 The Fairyland Detective Agency drama Swansea Little Theatre
3 March 2008 Nicholas Nickleby drama Swansea Little Theatre
2 July 2007 West Side Story musical St Illtyd's High School
1 June 2007 War Peace Love Laughter drama Stars Performing Arts

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