Re the Encores awards sharing the wealth - they're not a patch on the butt cheeks of the various and sundried Los Angeles theater awards - best this, best that, best supporting, best ensemble, best debut, best ensemble of an ensemble, best supporting of a supporting and on it goes - I always say it's almost impossible NOT to get nominated for something, and yet I have done that repeatedly and so have the great casts of my shows. However, it's pretty simple - in order to be nominated, for example, for an Ovation award, actual Ovation voters (most are actors and writer and directors - not necessarily working) must see your show and, in my case, they usually don't, although why enough Ovation voters wouldn't have seen What If is a mystery to me - because I will never understand how that show's cast could not have received a single nomination for anything - they were really good and the nominees and winners that year were the usual crop of suspects who are always nominated. For me, the most amusing wins for the Ovation awards are choreography - usually given to one of the CLO shows and usually to a person who has simply recreated the original production's choreography - that year it was The Will Rogers Follies - where someone got the award for staging Tommy Tune and Jeff Calhoun's work.
