MIDLAND ― Winners were announced Sunday for the Henry Mancini Awards celebrating outstanding student achievement in high school musical theater in Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties.
The nominees gathered at the annual Mancini Awards ceremony at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland to perform musical numbers from their spring musicals and to learn who earned coveted Mancini trophies.
This year's Mancini winners:
Best Actor: Anderson Franco, Slippery Rock High School for "Disney's Newsies."Best Actress: Bella McKivigan, Freeport Area High School for "Chicago: Teen Edition."Best Supporting Actor: Pietro Pucci, Ambridge Area High School, for "The Drowsy Chaperone."Best Supporting Actress: Lauren Howard, Knoch High School for "Hello, Dolly!"
Best Ensemble Budget 1: Beaver Falls High School, "Elf the Musical."Best Ensemble Budget 2: Slippery Rock.Best Ensemble Budget 3: Mars Area High School, "Mary Poppins".Best Choreography Execution Budget 1: Western Beaver Jr./ Sr. High School, "Disney's Newsies."Best Choreography Execution Budget 2: Slippery Rock.Best Choreography Execution Budget 3: Mars Area.Best Crew/ Technical Execution Budget 1: Riverside High School, "The Addams Family."Best Crew/ Technical Execution Budget 2: Slippery Rock.Best Crew/ Technical Execution Budget 3: Mars Area.Best Execution of Direction Budget 1: Riverside.Best Execution of Direction Budget 2: Slippery Rock.Best Execution of Direction Budget 3: Mars Area.Best Student Orchestra: Mars Area.Best Scenic Design Budget 1: Riverside.Best Scenic Design Budget 2: Ambridge Area.Best Scenic Design Budget 3: New Castle High School, "Anything Goes."Best Costume Design Budget 1: Riverside.Best Costume Design Budget 2: Ambridge Area.Best Costume Design Budget 3: Mohawk High School, "Shrek the Musical."Best Lighting Design Budget 1: Western Beaver Jr./ Sr. High.Best Lighting Design Budget 2: Ambridge Area.Best Lighting Design Budget 3: Mohawk.Best Musical Budget 1: Riverside.Best Musical Budget 2: Slippery Rock.Best Musical Budget 3: Mars Area.Special Judge Award: Mars Area.
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The two Pittsburgh CLO Academy Scholarship winners were Mars High's Dominic Speranza andSlippery Rock's John Barkley.
Mars Area took home the most Mancini awards with seven. Riverside topped all Beaver County schools with five.
Sixteen schools participated this year.
The Best Actor and Best Actress winners earn a spot in thr National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The Jimmy Awards), a nine-day experience including private coaching, master classes and rehearsals with theater professionals. Their journey concludes with a production on stage at Broadway’s Minskoff Theater, home of Disney’s "The Lion King."
Scott Tady is entertainment editor at The Times and easy to reach at stady@gannett.com.
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