Inaugural Star Awards Dinner 2008
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The Society would sincerely like to thank Travel Angels for being the overall sponsors of this event and thank you also to all the sponsors listed below.
Best Newcomer..........................................................sponsored by The Frome Times
Nominees: Nicola Chatfield for Beauty & The Beast, Leigh Walker for Beauty & The Beast and Audrey Hutchison for Showstoppers
BEST NEWCOMER WINNER: Nicola Chatfield
Best Dancer................................................................ sponsored by Danceworks
Nominees: Ellie Taylor-Roberts for Anything Goes, Alex Williams for Anything Goes and Emily Scott for The King & I
BEST DANCER WINNER: Ellie Taylor-Roberts
Best Comic Performance.......................................... sponsored by Lesleys Florists
Nominees: Humphrey Barnes for Beauty & The Beast, Ben Griffiths for Anything Goes and Leigh Walker for Beauty & The Beast
BEST COMIC PERFORMANCE WINNER: Leigh Walker
Best Male Singer......................................................... sponsored by 3TR FM
Nominees: Colin Parsons for Showstoppers, Nevil Poole for Beauty & The Beast and Alex Williams for Anything Goes
BEST MALE SINGER WINNER: Nevil Poole
Best Female Singer................................................... sponsored by Pang Leisure
Nominees: Stephanie Hoar for The King & I, Rachael Lawson for The King & I and Nicola Chatfield for Beauty & The Beast
BEST FEMALE SINGER WINNER: Stephanie Hoar
Best Male Actor........................................................... sponsored by FDC Law
Nominees: Nick Caffreys for Beauty & The Beast, Nevil Poole for Beauty & The Beast and Andrew Carpenter for The King & I
BEST MALE ACTOR WINNER: Andrew Carpenter
Best Female Actor....................................................... sponsored by Orchardleigh House
Nominees: Lottie Mole for Anything Goes, Dora Bishop for The King & I and Rachael Lawson for The King & I
BEST FEMALE ACTOR WINNER: Rachael Lawson
Unsung Hero/Heroine................................................ sponsored by White Row Country Foods
UNSUNG HEROINE WINNER: Elisabeth Lang-Brown
Award of Excellence.................................................... sponsored by The Fosse Way Magazine
Nominees: Dora Bishop for The King & I, Simon Joyce for Beauty & The Beast and Lottie Mole for Anything Goes
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE WINNER: Simon Joyce
Outstanding Contribution........................................... sponsored by Salisbury Printing
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION WINNER: Darren Bishop
Best Overall Performance.......................................... sponsored by Somerset Standard
Nominees: Maggie Lobb for Showstoppers, Rachael Lawson for The King & I and Humphrey Barnes for Beauty & The Beast
BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE WINNER: Humphrey Barnes
Lifetime Achievement Award....................................... sponsored by Travel Angels
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER: Kerry Bishop
About the Star Awards...
Andrew Carpenter had the idea in 2007 of an Awards Ceremony for the Frome Operatic Society to acknowledge high quality performance in the many and varied productions we now perform in any given year. His original idea was to have an Autumn event but his colleagues on the Executive Committee considered that the Annual Dinner Dance needed 'pepping up' and so for 2008 the events were combined.
To be able to achieve the quality of award and event that Andrew was looking for, it was evident that we would require sponsorship and he was overwhelmed by the response from local businesses when he went searching with his begging bowl. Andrew is indeed indebted to all the generous sponsors and in particular Travel Angels who have shown huge support for the awards by becoming our overall event sponsor.
Forget the Brit Awards and the Oscars, the FAOS Star Awards will soon become the most sought after awards in Frome and Andrew hopes that the Society will take these to their hearts and embrace them for years to come. If successful it may be that in future years they are extended to include other groups in the town such as the Frome Drama Club and the Frome Pantomime Company but for now they sit very firmly with us in the Operatic Society.
We are grateful to our judges Bob Stannard, Alex Ruddick, Reg Evans, Roni Wakeling and Karen Harley for their time and their expert judgement and feel sure all their choices will be universally endorsed by the full Society. They were asked to choose winners on individual performance and not to take into account age. Therefore if a Spellbound member has won an award it is because he/she has deserved it on merit in comparison with his/her adult colleagues.
We are also indebted to the organising Committee of Steph Hoar, Jo Windel, Karen Harley, Lyn Waller and Nevil Poole who have sweated blood to ensure the Inaugural Awards ceremony is a huge success.
This was written by Andrew Carpenter, FAOS Chairman
The Mack & Mabel Dinner & Star Awards 2009 is going to take place on Saturday 18th April at Standerwick
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