The Butties 2022 – Nominees and Winners (in bold type)
There are certainly mistakes in the names – taken from all the programmes this season. Feel free to correct in the comments, if you need to!
Best Show
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): 31%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): 20%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): 14%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): 13%
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): 12%
Best director
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): Csaba Bartos: 29%
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Andrew Fisk, Josephine Draycott, Steven De Mesmaeker: 21%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Cath Howdle, Andrew Fisk: 14%
Summer Festival – Yellow (BSS, Jun 2022): Geoffrey Mamdani: 13%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): Angela Lowe, Tony Lowe, Lionel Bams: 12%
Best actor
Neale Mcdonald: 29%
John Baldwin: 24%
Thomas Landsbert-Noon: 19%
Caraigh McGregor: 17%
Geoffrey Mamdani: 6%
Best actress
Lyn Wainwright: 27%
Emily Bowles: 22%
Abi Greef: 18%
Emma Quaedvlieg: 13%
Robynn Colwell: 10%
Best production team
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Barbara Bauer, Alexander Just: 29%
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): Eileen Sutton: 22%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Patrick Stephenson: 20%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Andy Fisk, Josephine Draycott, Hannah Riley, Kerry Lydon: 17%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): France Calder: 8%
Best stage Management
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Marie Rousseaux: 29%
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): Eileen Sutton: 19%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): Patrick Stephenson: 14%
Augustus Does His Bit (ITG, Nov 2021): Alice Perry: 14%
Someone Borrowed, Something New (ECC, May 2022): Andy Ing: 13%
Best set construction and design
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): Simon Smith, Andrew Johnson, France Calder, Catriona White, and co.: 41%
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): John Hiley, Janet Gray, Alan Gray, Picabia Horn Gehrke, and co.: 29%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Cat Harris: 12%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): Marie Rousseaux, John Hiley, Diana Gray, Oliver Wright, and co.: 7%
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): Lyn Wainwright, Simeon Holdship, William Mulhern, Andrew Johnson, and co.: 6%
Best lighting
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Chris Harding: 35%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Steve O’Byrne, John Brigg, Andrew Williams, Andrew Williams, and co.: 24%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): Steve O’Byrne: 13%
Someone Borrowed, Something New (ECC, May 2022): Steve O’Byrne: 12%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Andy Williams: 11%
Best sound
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Steve O’Byrne, Lexie Norman: 26%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Steve O’Byrne, Alex Diaconu, Esther Pozo Vera, Peter Muller: 22%
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Umberto Braun, Jeremy Thomas: 20%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): 17%
Music and Madness (ETC, Oct 2021): 8%
Best costumes
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Sara Hammerton, Joanna Jack, Teresa Lopez Garcia, Mary Wiklander-Williams: 45%
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Ingvild Horn, Niki Marlow, Claire Thomas, Carla Ferreira, and co.: 32%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): Ingvild Horn: 10%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Sara Hammerton, Sheila Hewitt, Fiona McGinnis, Kate Goddard: 5%
Best hair and make-up
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Françoise Salter, Filipa Ferraz, Laraine Alder, Alice Ferreira, and co.: 41%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Gemma Santasusanna Portella, Monica Toboiu, Nada Alkayat, Eva Bordes: 30%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Andrew Budds: 9%
Music and Madness (ETC, Oct 2021): Elea Despinoy: 8%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): 8%
Best props
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Cath Howdle, Bettina Kendip, Lawrence Kelly, Andrea Edwards, and co.: 29%
After September (ECC, Mar 2022): France Calder, Lyn Wainwright: 22%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Cat Harris, Sandy Holderbach: 15%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Francis Calder, Stephen Challens, Sara Hammerton, Esther Pozo Vera, and co.: 13%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): Isabelle Deneyer, Chris Smith, Lawrence Kelly, Peter Mountain, and co.: 12%
Best publicity
The Addams Family (BLOC, Nov 2021): Eva Konrad-Just: 29%
Summer Festival (BSS, Jun 2022): Emily Bowles, CK Brown, Marianne Farrar-Hockley: 22%
The Pirates of Penzance (BLOC, May 2022): Eva Konrad-Just: 19%
Fly Me to the Moon (ITG, Apr 2022): 17%
Sleeping Beauty (ECC, Jan 2022): Hannah Riley, Kerry Lydon: 8%
Newbie
Emma Quaedvlieg: 32%
Thomas Kaye: 29%
Matilda Lindell: 14%
Marc Fournier: 10%
Megan Graham: 8%
Alan Kenway Memorial Award for life-long service
Sue Botterell: 38%
Tim Myers: 19%
Tony Lowe: 17%
Boff Muir: 10%
Conrad Toft: 9%
Golden Butt for going above and beyond
Steve O’Byrne for keeping the lights burning and all the sets: 33%
Conrad Toft for stepping in at the last minute to replace Geoffrey Mamdani at FEATS: 28%
Andy Fisk for stepping in as the director of The Addams Family: 17%
Patrick Stephens for pulling it all together: 11%
Tim Myers for directing, fight training, programming, box-officing, giving notes all over the place: 6%