CARBONELL AWARDS Announce Finalists for 2023-2024 Theatre Season

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Sept. 17, 2024 - PRLog -- (South Florida – September 16, 2024) Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida's Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the top six finalists in 20 competitive categories for the 2023-2024 theater season. A total of 89 professional productions at 29 theatres were evaluated by a diverse group of more than 40 judges representing all three participating counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach).

Slow Burn Theatre Company topped the list with 28 finalists, followed by Maltz Jupiter Theater with 22, 15 for Zoetic Stage, 14 for Miami New Drama, 13 for The Wick Theatre, nine for GableStage, five for Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, four for Palm Beach Dramaworks, three for both Theatre Lab and Ronnie Larsen Presents/Plays of Wilton!, and one each for Broadway @ LPAC and True Mirage Theater. Collectively, 120 nominations were distributed among 13 different theaters.

Carbonell finalists with multiple nominations include Patrick Fitzwater (4), Laura Turnbull (3), and (2) each for Jeni Hacker, Bruce Linser, Stuart Meltzer, Rick Pena, Reynel Reynaldo, Heather Jane Rolff, Clifford Spulock, and Michael Ursua.

The 47^th Annual Carbonell Awards will be presented on Monday, November 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center at 3800 NW 11^th Place, Lauderhill, FL 33311. Tickets are only $40 each (including facility fee) and are available for purchase online at https://www.showpass.com/47th-annual-carbonell-awards/.

The Carbonell Awards Ceremony on November 11 is being produced by celebrated playwright, actor, and designer Michael McKeever and Stuart Meltzer, the founding artistic director of Zoetic Stage—both of whom have won multiple Carbonell Awards and previously produced and directed numerous Carbonell Ceremonies. Caryl Fantel, another Carbonell Award recipient, is returning as Music Director.

Attached Images of 2024 Carbonell Award Nominees for

Outstanding Production, Musical:

1.   FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Wick Theatre, with Carbonell Award finalists Patti Gardner and Bruce Sabath

(Photo Credit: Amy Pasquantonio)

2.   42^nd STREET at Maltz Jupiter Theatre

(Photo Credit: James Nuttle Photography)

3.   I LOVE A PIANO at The Wick Theatre

(Photo Credit: Amy Pasquantonio)

4.   INTO THE WOODS at the Slow Burn Theatre Company

(Photo Credit: Larry Marano)

5.   THE LITTLE MERMAID at the Slow Burn Theatre Company, with Carbonell Award finalists Wilkie Ferguson and Heather Jane Rolff

(Photo Credit: Larry Marano)

6.   THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at the Slow Burn Theatre Company with Carbonell Award finalist Brian Klimowski and Company

(Photo Credit: Larry Marano)

Available for interview:

Gary Schweikhart, President

The Carbonell Board of Directors

561.756.4298 / gary@pr-bs.net