Fighting Chance Productions Nominated for 11 Ovation Awards!
17 01 2010We are thrilled that Fighting Chance Productions has been nominated for 11 Ovation Awards, and that the choice is now up to you, our audience, as to who wins.
For the next two weeks you can vote at http://www.applausemusicals.com for your favourite musical theatre shows that played in 2009!
We are happy to announce the following nominations!
Community Production – Rent
Ensemble Production – tick… tick… BOOM!
Director – Ryan Mooney, Rent
Musical Director – Sarah Jaysmith, Rent
Lead Male – Brandyn Eddy, tick… tick… BOOM!
Supporting Female – Jacqueline Breakwell, Rent
Supporting Male – Nick Fontaine, Rent
Gypsy Female – Andrea Bailey, Rent
Gypsy Male – Tyson Coady (Rent), Arne Larsen (Rent), Cesar Erba (Rent)
We’d also like to congratulate the following performers or artists who have worked on Fighting Chance Productions shows in the past:
* Mandana Namazi (Side by Side by Sondheim, remount) for her role in APPLAUSE! Musicals in Concert “Passion”
* Sean Parsons (Rent) for his role in Joint Effort’s “Reefer Madness”
* Anna Kuman (The Musical of Musicals: The Musical) for her roles in A Chorus Line, The Fully Monty and White Christmas
* Cathy Wilmot (Rent, Forbidden Broadway) for her role in Pipedream’s “A New Brain”
Congratulations to ALL the nominees. We hope you’ll take a minute to vote for your favourites and perhaps even attend the event on January 31st!
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January marks our 3 year anniversary of the start of Fighting Chance Productions and I’m thrilled that we’ll be celebrating with our production of Forbidden Broadway, our second show in our 2009/2010 season. This time last year I would never have thought we’d be presenting a season of shows, but here we are, doing so with great joy and excitement.
This does not even include the 100+ actors who have had the opportunity to appear on stage in 
There seems to be a common perception that Fighting Chance Productions is a successful company that is making money hand over fist. This seems to be common because I keep hearing that we must be doing just this. We are apparently a company with a mass marketing machine, and that’s what drives people to our shows. The truth is, we are a company run out of an apartment. That our mass marketing machine is me, sitting at my laptop. For every financial success we have had (Rent, Dog Sees God, The Laramie Project, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical), we have shows that struggle financially (The Distance from Here, tick… tick… BOOM!, some girl(s), Catholic School Girls, 
It’s not inexpensive to put on a show, and at Fighting Chance we truly try to compensate our artists (both on-stage and off) as frequently as we can. A show like Rent with 25 sold out performances may seem like a financial success, 
Following that, of course, you’re going to want to make sure you put some money aside for the future, so you ensure that you’re not in this same position a few shows down the road. All in all, the costs can be staggering. When you’re looking at the sold out houses you may have dollar signs in your eyes, but those quickly fade when the invoices and receipts start to come in.
I’ve also put together an artistic advisory committee. These are people whose artistic vision I believe in and who, believe in the company. They are actors, producers, directors, and production team members whose vision melds with mine and whom I am thrilled to have on board as well.
