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TATE awards
Published: 6/24/2012 11:45 PM
Last Modified: 6/24/2012 11:45 PM

For the second straight year, the Playhouse Tulsa won two awards at the Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence -- first place and $10,000 for "The Unmentionables" and third place and $2,500 for "The Tempest."

Odeum Theatre took second prize and $5,000 for its production of "Gruesome Playground Injuries."

Clark Theatre won Outstanding Youth Production for the fourth year in a row, with its "The Wizard of Oz."

Last year, Playhouse won for itts productions of "Macbeth," which won the first place award, and "Shining City," whcih came in second. Heller's "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" was third.

I wasn't at all surprised that Playhouse's "The Unmentionables" won this year's top award. It was easily the best local theatre performance I saw this season -- a challenging script superbly performed. I also thought "Gruesome Playground Injuries" deserved awards for the show's actors unflinchingly presented this very unusual love story.

But I did have hopes that the TATE wealth would be spread a little more widely -- to include, perhaps, Theatre Pops' "Dinner with Friends," which was a highly polished and effective production, or the Midwestern Theater Troupe's take on "The Frogs" -- irreverant and low-budget, but often winningly theatrical.

Ah welll. The awards have been presented. The crowds have gone home. But the shows -- by all of Tulsa's theatre groups -- will go on....as they should.

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