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Tri-City talent up for Ovation! awards

This week, the Applause! Musicals Society listed the nominees for best musical shows in the Lower Mainland in 2017.
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Colton Fyfe and Elyse Maloway as Prince Eric and Ariel in The Little Mermaid, which was presented last year by the Coquitlam-based Align Entertainment at the Michael J. Fox Theatre.

Several Tri-City talent — and a Coquitlam-based theatre company — are up for Ovation! awards later this month.

This week, the Applause! Musicals Society listed the nominees for best musical shows in the Lower Mainland in 2017, for its 14th annual event happening Jan. 28 at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

Align Entertainment, which was co-founded by Chad Matchette of Lindbjerg Academy of the Performing Arts in Coquitlam, is up against the Royal City Musical Theatre (Anything Goes); Theatre Under the Stars (The Drowsy Chaperone); and URP (Jesus Christ Superstar) for its production of The Little Mermaid, which ran at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby.

It is named in the Outstanding Production (large theatre) category.

Port Moody jazz musician Diane Lines is nominated for her musical direction in Bittergirl: The Musical for the Arts Club Theatre while Port Coquitlam resident Valerie Easton is in the Outstanding Choreography category for her steps in Anything Goes.

Coquitlam’s Shannon Hanbury — a graduate of Archbishop Carney regional secondary school in PoCo — faces tough competition in the category of Outstanding Lead Performance (female/large theatre) for her portrayal of Janet Van de Graaff in TUTS’ The Drowsy Chaperone.

And Nicholas Bradbury is nominated (with Kai Bradbury) for Outstanding Supporting Performance (male) for his role as a gangster in Chaperone while Gleneagle secondary grad Jennifer Gillis, also from Coquitlam, is listed in the Outstanding Supporting Performance (female) for her part in Thoroughly Modern Millie with Exit 22/Capilano University.

Meanwhile, in the youth category, Port Moody’s Nolen Dubuc, a student at the Caulfield School of Dance, is up for a prize for playing the son Michael Banks in TUTS’ Mary Poppins.

Another Gleneagle secondary graduate, Lyndsey Britten, is recognized for her choreography in A Little Night Music and Cabaret in the Outstanding Newcomer (female) category.

The Ovation! awards show will be emceed by Chris Adams and Erik Gow. To vote on an audience favourite (open until Jan. 22), visit applausemusicals.com.

jcleugh@tricitynews.com