Wanda's World, our 2007-2008 Mainstage show,
received Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Off-Broadway Musical and for Best Choreography,
a Drama Desk nomination for Eric Weinberger
for Best Book of a Musical and Lynne Taylor-
Corbett received the Joseph A. Calloway Award
for Excellence in Stage Directing and Choreography.
In June 2005, Amas Chairman Eric Krebs
received the Encore Business Volunteer of
the Year Award, given by the Arts and Business
Council of New York for his work with Amas.
Lone Star Love, or "the Merry Wives of Windsor
Texas," Amas' Fall 2004 Mainstage production,
received two Lucille Lortel Award nominations
for Outstanding Musical and Outstanding
Choreography and an Outer Critics Circle
nomination for Best Off-Broadway Musical.
The director Michael Bogdanov and the
choreographer Randy Skinner were nominated
for the 2005 Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers Foundation Callaway Awards
for "Excellence in the Craft of Direction and
Choreography."
The Off-Broadway run of Zanna, Don't! was
singled out by The New York Times as the
Best Musical of the Season, won the Lucille
Lortel Award for Best Choreography, and the
2003 GLAAD Award for Best Production of
the Year.
The 2003 Amas Mainstage Production of
From My Hometown received eight Audelco
Awards nominations, including Best Musical
Production.
Actors Equity Association acknowledges
Rosetta LeNoire and Amas' contribution to the
American theatre by bestowing a yearly
award in her honor, making her the first
recipient. Producers and theatre companies
who exemplify Rosetta's commitment to
multicultural production and casting in the
theatre are annually given the treasured
Rosetta LeNoire Award.
"For her pioneering work with Amas Musical
Theatre," Rosetta was awarded the 1999
National Medal of Arts, cited by President
Clinton as "an individual deserving of special
recognition by reason of her outstanding
contributions to the excellence, growth,
support, and availability of the arts in the
United States."
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