The Actors Equity Association has announced the nominees for this season's ACCA Award for Excellence in Broadway Chorus, which honors choral performers in Broadway shows. This year's nominees are the following choirs:
hell's kitchen
heart of rock and roll
Outsider
give water to elephant
The ACCA Awards, sponsored by Equity's Choral Affairs Advisory Committee, are the only industry honors of their kind that recognize the outstanding talent and contributions of original chorus members of Broadway musicals.
“This has been an incredibly exciting season for the choir,” said Al Bandonis, second vice president of the Actors Equity Association and ACCA president. “In fact, more eligible companies participated than in any other year since the ACCA Awards for Outstanding Broadway Chorus began. They are important to the industry as a whole, and their contributions need to be recognized. We hope you will join us in celebrating these talented professionals for their talent and passion.”
Nominations for the ACCA Awards were decided by Equity Chorus Trustees who are members of ACCA and viewed all eligible works. The award is determined by a vote of ACCA members and past recipients of Equity's Legacy Robe, which is presented to the chorus member of each show with the most chorus credits on Broadway. When judging each nominated chorus, voters will consider the chorus requirements created by each production's director, choreographer, and musical director. The level of technical skill used to carry out those requirements. and the unique contribution that the entire chorus brought to the piece as a whole.
The winners of this year's ACCA Awards will be announced on Friday, June 14th, and the award will be presented along with this year's Actors Equity Foundation Award at a ceremony on June 24th in New York City.
Previous ACCA Award winners include Legally Blonde (2007), In the Heights (2008), West Side Story (2009) and Fela! (2010), Scottsboro Boys (2011), Newsies (2012), Pippin (2013), Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (2014), An American in Paris (2015), Shuffle Along, or the Making of a Musical Sense 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (2017), Once on This Island (2018), Hadestown (2019) ), “New York, New York” (2023). In 2022, ACCA awarded two special awards. One award went to every Broadway choir that worked during the pandemic-interrupted 2019-2020 season, and the other went to a choir that worked on the 2021-2022 season that brought Broadway back.
.png) |
.png) |
