While major theater awards organizations focus on the best lead and supporting performances each year, at least the stage actors' union recognizes its own hardworking chorus members who toil outside the spotlight. The cast of Disney’s Tony Award-winning “Newsies the Musical” will receive the Actors’ Equity Association’s Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs’ sixth annual Acca Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus, Equity announced today. According to Equity, this award is the only industry honor of its kind, recognizing the original chorus members of a Broadway musical.“This award acknowledges and honors the enormous talent and contributions members of a chorus make to a Broadway production,” Rebecca Kim Jordon, Equity second vice president and Acca chair, said in a statement. “The chorus members of ‘Newsies’ are gifted professionals who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and talent it takes to be outstanding in a Broadway musical.”The award will be presented in New York on Tuesday,...
- 11/26/2012
- backstage.com
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