DOSCARS

Category Unplanned or changed exits…… Nominees Claire Willmer – You Can’t Stop the Beat Winners Leighton and Megan for exit from ‘Without Love’ in the dress rehearsal

Category Changed lyrics and lines…… Nominees Sam – ‘la la la’ in ‘Baltimore Crabs’ Julian – ‘its just us boys in The Big Dollhouse’ Omar – ‘who’d have thought I’d love a girl who’s skin was black as winters snow Ben – ‘Amber, its Amber the talent scouts came to see’ Andrew – ‘Well I am big, and if you say I’m big….’ Winners Elaine for her version of ‘Good Morning Baltimore’ – ‘someone bite me before I drop dead’

Category Best wig…… Nominees Megan for her ‘Wicked’ inspired finale wig Amber and Velma for their pageant wigs Winners Matthew for the taming of his natural ‘wig’ (special mention to Nick for his assistance)

Category Best stand in…… Winners Kemi for being the voice of Motormouth and Julian for being Spritzer, Guard and Mr Pinky

Category Jo’s favourite moment of the show / rehearsals…… Nominees Rumour about the offstage mics – actual message sent backstage was that a mic was live offstage. Through various iterations this became ‘the sound desk is broken and the engineer has lost the ability to turn off any mics for the whole show’ – signs were put up on the walls and the full company were silent backstage for the entire show – even Stevie was asked to turn off his Disney music! Technical rehearsal – ‘they can stop us from singing but they can’t stop us from singing’ …….and we’ll cut it there….. Winners Kat….for her answer to ‘what is ‘Without Love’ about?

Category Lost props…… Nominees Megan for losing her bell Claire for losing her bracelet Winners Joe for losing bell (in slightly more spectacular and obvious flourish than Megan)

Category SFX…… Nominees Alarm clock – different time every morning….. Record shop people in technical – ‘Listen Miss Motormouth its on the radio’ – actually that’s a police siren….. Winners Andrew – for constantly having a double ringing phone after picking up the receiver.

Category Outstanding cameo role…… Nominees Hayley for the Matron Claire Willmer for the Beatnick Winners Sasha for outstanding improvement and ‘sass’ throughout the show

Category Things that grew during the show…… Nominees The companies waistlines due to the copious amounts of Walker baking! Number of wigs Megan wore throughout the show Willmer’s laugh in the record shop Winners The ‘chest off’ – Ben to claim the prize on behalf of the chest off ‘team’

Category Soldiering on in the face of adversity…… Nominees Tina for dancing with someone’s lost show in ‘Mama I’m A Big Girl Now’ Full company for continuing to dance even though the confetti bomb went off early Winners Hannah Mundy for the ‘microphone incident’ in the record shop

And that concludes this years awards…… All prizes can be claimed at singing rehearsals for Me and My Girl….