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Wild Bird Productions' latest production, Opa! earned 14 nominations in the Midtown Theatre Festival's annual awards ceremony which lauds the Best of Fest.
Congratulations to our designers, cast, creative team and crew!

The Nominations

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical
Cleopatra
Eighty-1
Love, Inc.
Opa!

Outstanding Music & Lyrics
Cheryl E. Kemeny for Cleopatra
Mari Carras, Nicholas Carras and Nicholas Kitsopoulos for Opa!
Marc Castle for Love Incorporated
Mary Stewart David and Clive Chang for Eighty-1

Outstanding Costume Design
Holly Cain for OPA!
Irma Escobar for The Higher Education of Khalid Amir
Isabelle Fields for My Life as a Bald Soprano
Katie Gunning for Writer's Block
Cheryl E. Kemeny, Debra Poruban, Elizabeth Lyons and Alexandrea Kemeny for Cleopatra
David Withrow for Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants

Outstanding Scenic Design
Anne Allen Goelz for Opa!
Eliza Brown for Couldn't Say
Steph Tucci for The Wendy Complex
Mira Gibson and Michelle Crouse for Childhood Montana
Ji-Youn Chan and Lauren Rockman for Exit Cuckoo
Tony Zimbradi for Love Inc.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Joseph Callari for the role of Costa in Opa!
Daniel Lincoln for the role of Phileas Fogg in Eighty-1
Kyle Minshew for the role of The Mirror in My Life As a Bald Soprano
Jonathan Rayson for the role of Casey in Love, Incorporated
Matthew Surapine for the role of Caesar, Quintus Delius in Cleopatra

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
Cidalia Alves for the role of Mardian in Cleopatra
Jennifer Blood for the role of Faith Stillman in Love, Incorporated
Carolee Goodgold for the role of Sophia in Opa!
Melissa Labbadia for the role of Cleopatra in Cleopatra
Nicole Weiss for the role of Fixey Fix in Eighty-1

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical
Brayden Hayde for the role of JP Passepartout in Eighty-1
Costa Nicolas for the role of Panayiotis/Young Costa in Opa!
Patrick Riviere for the role of Manos in Opa!
Eric Ruben for the role of the Priest in Opa!
Tally Sessions for the role of Landon/Bragg/Various in Love, Incorporated

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical
Jenn Anaya for the role of Princess Aleysha in Eighty-1
Abigail Hardin for the role of Eleni in Opa!
Jane Leslie Harding for the role of Xenia/Young Xenia in Opa!
Hollis Scarborough for the role of Aura/Jen in Love, Incorporated
Jennifer Van Buskirk for the role of Soothsayer/Ponthinus/Fulvia in Cleopatra

Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical
-Cidalia Alves, Kyle Brenn, Daniel Hague, Gregory Kisken, Samantha Kulish, Jessica Labbadia, Melissa Labbadia, Laura Piacenza, Joseph Santaniello, Matthew Surapine, Jennifer Van Buskirk, and David Vogel for Cleopatra
-Jennifer Blood, Jonathan Rayson, Hollis Scarborough, and Tally Sessions for Love, Incorporated
-Demetrios Bonaroa, Joseph Callari, Michael Dionissiou, Carolee Goodgold, Abigail Hardin, Jan Leslie Harding, Michael Alan Jacobs, Deborah Litwak, Costa Nicolas, Patrick Riviere, Eric Ruben, Louis Michael Sacco, and Natasha Tabandera for Opa!
-Daniel Lincoln, Nicole Weiss, Brayden Hayde, Jen Anaya, David Albiero, and John Anthony Lopez for Eighty-1

Outstanding Choreography (Fight/Dance/Physical Movement)
Jeremy Bloom for the physical movement choreography of The Wendy Complex
Igor Goldin for the musical staging of Love, Incorporated
Kate Loprest for the musical staging of Eighty-1
Merete Muenter for the Dance Choreography of They Walk Among Us
Wendy Waring for the Dance Choreography of Opa!

Opa!

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This where I'll be Saturday night in NYC. You should come join us. There's a rumor we're going Greek dancing afterwards!

Time Out NY called it a "...gleefully goofy, shamelessly entertaining neolounge"

"Hole-O-Matic!"

by the MAC award-winning duo of Karen Mack and Michael Holland

NYC club favorites Michael Holland and Karen Mack return in a "you pick the hits" format of their multi-award-winning mix of music and madness! Each night's selections cover about 300 different artists and five decades of the best (and worst) of past, present and future pop. Expect deranged medleys, lush harmonies, dubious trivia and a rockin' good time.

Saturday evening, June 14 at 7:30 pm
at the Duplex - upstairs at the Cabaret
61 Christopher St. @ 7th Avenue

The evening will benefit the upcoming production of Opa! at TBG Theatre in the Commercial Division of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. All tickets include show and 2 drinks.

Tickets: $85 or be an Opa! Patron for $125
(patron ticket includes premium seating and a ticket voucher for Opa! Show)

If you can't attend, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support the production. (All donations in excess of $50 will automatically be entered in our TONY pool)

For reservations: OpaTheMusical@gmail.com or 347-524-4264

For more information about the show please visit www.OPAtheMusical.com or email me!

Tickets for Opa! now on sale at www.TicketCentral.com
Show dates for Opa! July 19 – August 6

Thank you to Opa! sponsors:

JaM for Life Foundation

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Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it.

Thank you, Hillary!

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