Tri-Cities High School Receives 3 Nominations for a Georgia High School Musical Award

The drama students at Tri-Cities High School continue to impress theater lovers throughout the state of Georgia, as they have just received 3 nominations for a 2013 Shuler Award.

"Fashioned after Broadway's Tony Awards, the Shuler Hensely Awards are part of the National High School Musical Theater Awards, designed to celebrate and recognize excellence in Georgia's high school musical theater programs,' says the Shuler Hensley organization.

Tri-Cities received 3 nominations in 2013 for their production of Chicago:

1. Best Ensemble (Honorable Mention)
2. Best Orchestra - Tarik Rowland
3. Best Choreography - Dawn Axam

The Shuler Awards is open to any Georgia high school that produces a musical theater production from September through March.

Chicago is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal." The original Broadway production opened in 1975 at the 46th Street Theater and ran for 936 performances until 1977.

According to a press release on Broadway's production of the famous play, "Chicago won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for actors Bebe Neuwirth and James Naughton, director Walter Bobbie, lighting designer Ken Billington and choreographer Ann Reinking. The original production was directed and choreographed by the late Bob Fosse. The modern classic has music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and book by Ebb and Fosse."

Congratulations to the teachers and students that had anything to do with the Tri-Cities production of Chicago!