A Port Moody student at Eagle Mountain middle clinched an Ovation award last night (Sunday) for his performance in Billy Elliot last year.
Nolan Fahey was named Outstanding Newcomer for playing the lead role in the Arts Club Theatre Company production, which ran in Vancouver. The 14-year-old shared the accolade with Valin Shinyei, who portrayed Michael in the same show.
A student of the Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts in Coquitlam, Fahey also played Charlie Bates in Theatre Under the Stars' Oliver! in 2015. And he has been cast in two Align Entertainment productions: The Addams Family and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Billy Elliott was choreographed by Port Coquitlam's Valerie Easton.
The 13th annual Ovation awards, which took place Sunday at the Vancouver Academy of Music, recognizes the best from the 25 musicals presented in the Lower Mainland last year.
Royal City Musical Theatre's Fiddler on the Roof received the top prize for Outstanding Community Production (large theatre); it included Tri-City actors Erin Palm, Owen Scott, Arta Nehahpan, Lucas Crandall and Peter Stainton and was directed and choreographed by Easton.
The show beat out Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Align, a Coquitlam-based company, as well as Exit 22's Cabaret — featuring Lindbjerg talent Nicholas Bradbury, Jenna Testani and Emily Matchette — and TUTS' Beauty and the Beast featuring Bradbury and Shannon Hanbury, a graduate of Archbishop Carney regional secondary school in Port Coquitlam.
For the complete list of Ovation award winners, visit applausemusicals.com.
