Updated 2/19/13 to reflect extended submission deadline:
Attention Rochester Theater Community:
City Newspaper is getting ready to induct new members into
the Rochester Theater Hall of Fame, and we need your nominations. We want you
to tell us who you think is the best of the best in the local theater world. We
want to hear about actors, directors, musicians, stage managers, set designers,
costume designers, producers, and other prominent members of the Rochester
theater scene.
A panel of judges will select inductees based on their innovation,
dedication, passion, quality of their work and their lasting contribution to
local theater. Previous inductees include Adele Fico, Herb Katz, and Jack Haldoupis.
Inductees will be announced at the 2013 TheatreROCS
Showcase, scheduled for Saturday, April 13, at the JCC’s Hart Theater.
You may nominate yourself, or another member of the local
theater community.
Submissions should be 400-500 words in an essay format. In
the essay, please describe why your nominee deserves this award, citing
specific examples of the person’s work and how they meet the criteria above.
E-mail your nominations to eric@rochester-citynews.com with the subject line
“Rochester Theater Hall of Fame”; or send the old-fashioned way to
our office:
Rochester Theater Hall of Fame
c/o City Newspaper
250 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
Submissions are due by Friday, March 1.
Questions or concerns? Email eric@rochester-citynews.com.
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2013.
Arnold Rothschild of RBTL should be nominated. Also, Don Jeffries as well.
The most important actor on the Rochester theater scene in the past year was Mayor Richards who had the guts and the fiscal common sense to call the RBTL’s bluff when they threatened to pull up stakes and move to Irondequoit.
Said Richards, “I’m trying to be consistent with respect to what I think the civic responsibility is to this project…It would be nice if [the theater] was downtown. It would be nice it if was in Midtown. But not at any price. Because while it’s important, it’s not necessarily the most important thing….I’m not going to get into a stampede, where somebody says, ‘Oh my gosh, it might go out to Irondequoit. You’ve got to come up with $80 million…If they can get some guy to pay for the whole thing and subsidize them, I guess that’s where they’re going to go.”