Musical Nominations for Hershey Theatre Apollo Awards

Hershey Theatre Apollo Awards are pleased to announce that fourteen high schools have entered this spring's evaluation process. Each of these schools had four evaluators sent to see each production. Input from the evaluators determined the nominations in the following categories: Outstanding Student Orchestra, Outstanding Dance Number, Outstanding Female and Male in a Supporting Role, Outstanding Female and Male in a Leading Role, and Outstanding Musical. Recipients of these awards along with five awards for Plays will be announced at the gala event on May 18, 2009 - The Hershey Theatre Apollo Awards. Plan to join us this exciting evening at the Hershey Theatre beginning at 7:00 PM.

Outstanding Musical

Boiling Springs - Little Women
Camp Hill - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Hershey - The Sound of Music
Lower Dauphin - The Pajama Game
Susquehanna Township - Guys and Dolls

Outstanding Student Orchestra

Bishop McDevitt High School – Footloose
Boiling Springs High School – Little Women
Camp Hill High School – Thoroughly Modern Millie
Elizabethtown High School – Guys and Dolls
Hershey High School – The Sound of Music

Outstanding Dance Number

Bishop McDevitt – “Holding Out for a Hero” from Footloose
Camp Hill – “Forget About the Boy” from Thoroughly Modern Millie
Elizabethtown – “Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat” from Guys and Dolls
Hershey – “Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music
Northern Lebanon – “Thoroughly Modern Millie” from Thoroughly Modern
Millie

Leading Actor in a Musical

Tony B. – Rev. Shaw Moore (Bishop McDevitt)
Andrew B. – Sky Masterson (Susquehanna Township)
Alec B. – Sid Sorokin ( Lower Dauphin)
Connor L. – The Cat in the Hat (Big Spring)
Joseph M. – Jimmy Smith (Camp Hill)

Leading Actress in a Musical

Carly H. – Maria (Hershey)
Gabriela M. – Chariy Barnum (Lebanon)
Gina M. – Jo March (Boiling Springs)
Caroline R. – Millie Dillmont (Camp Hill)
Taryn S. – Ariel Moore ( East Pennsboro)

Supporting Actor in a Musical

Collin S. – Laurie/ Rodrigo (Boiling Springs
Jon T. – Pres (Lower Dauphin)
Ryan W. – Trevor Graydon (Northern Lebanon)
Drew W. – Hinzie (Lower Dauphin)
Colin Y. – Willard (Bishop McDevitt)

Supporting Actress in a Musical

Betsy C. – Mother Abbess (Hershey)
Shannon M. – Mayzie (Big Spring)
Devon P. – Miss Dorothy (Camp Hill)
Kelsee S. – Miss Adelaide (Susquehanna Township)
Rachel T. – Rachel Perlman (ELCO)