LANDSAMERCY! Can you b’lieve we won all them ARTY AWARDS? I want ta thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of my heart. I feel so ungrateful fer all this attention. Humility is a virtue that all Latter-day Saints must work hard ta cultivate in our hearts and minds.
BUT LANDS IT FEELS SA GREAT TA WIN BIG!!
Thank you City Weekly fer nominating us! And THANK YOU readers and fans who voted fer The Passion! And thanks ta my co-stars dear ole Dartsy and the Divine Fem! Also thanks ta Franny Pruyn and Laurie “Glad Ta” Meachum! And EVERY member of the PYG crew! I love them all!
Now fer those of you who missed the opportunity ta see our “Tour De Fierce” — we’ve got some SECOND HELPINGS lined up fer you in October! Getcher tickets NOW kid! Cause they’re going ta go quick!
THE ARTY AWARDS 2009
By Scott Renshaw
BEST PRODUCTION
Pygmalion Theatre
BEST PERFORMANCE
Charles Lynn Frost
BEST ORIGINAL PLAY
Troy Williams & Charles M. Frost, The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon
It’s like Titanic: You get the feeling if there had been a Best Original Song category, Sister Dottie might have won that one, too. And it’s easy to understand why Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production— which followed the tragic-comic personal journey of “Spanish Fark’s” favorite devout Mormon housewife and proud mother of a gay son—became such a sensation this spring. Troy Williams & Charles Frost created a narrative that took Sister Dottie’s satirical Utah malapropisms and fiery conviction and added a potent emotional element. Frost’s dynamic performance found the genuine, conflicted human soul in a woman trying to reconcile her faith with her love for her child. And co-directors Fran Pruyn and Laurie Mecham crafted a staging that gave the Rose Wagner Center’s sometimes-cavernous Studio Theatre space a surprising intimacy. We laughed, we cried … and with a revival/sequel planned for October, we’ll get the chance to do it all again.
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