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School Awards 2014

School Awards

Update – Sept, 2024

School Awards application process is changing to make it easier for you to apply! Stay tuned for updates.

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School Awards

Rainbow Stage is pleased to encourage excellence for both high school and middle school musical theatre productions by awarding annual recognition! A Rainbow Stage committee, comprised of Board members along with dedicated and knowledgeable community members, from many walks of life, all with a passion for musical theatre, will attend and adjudicate your school musical. Every aspect of the production will be assessed: casting (leads and chorus), direction, choreography, staging, music, sets, house/stage/crew management, props, program, lighting, sound, and costumes. Winners will be selected from amongst the schools that apply and contacted by Rainbow Stage staff. The winners will be invited to participate in a reception and award ceremony in August, where they will receive their School Performance Award certificate, along with a cash grant.

–Corinne Barrett DeWiele, 2023-2024 Education & Outreach Committee Chairperson

Guidelines

Important Criteria for Award Applications

The following types of productions are eligible:

  •  ‘Book Show’
  • ‘Original Work’ in the form of a musical. Musical Revue with a storyline – Variety shows, Theatre Reviews or Talent shows are not eligible

General Guidelines

School Awards are available for middle years and high schools in Manitoba. For applicant schools located more than 250km from Winnipeg, special arrangements will be made for video submissions. Videos must be submitted one week after the final production of the applicant’s show via YouTube link emailed to: education@rainbowstage.ca

Any school outside the perimeter of the City of Winnipeg must submit a YouTube video link of the production to the Rainbow Stage office (to education@rainbowstage.ca). The video link will be circulated to committee members only for adjudication purposes.

Applications must be received (1) month prior to production performance dates

  • Up to (3) awards given to high schools, each to a maximum value of $1000
  • Up to (2) awards given to middle schools, each to a maximum value of $750

Applicants must provide attending committee members with the following:

  • Reserved seating in a prime, central area that is far enough back to view the production in its entirety, but close enough to see the dancers’ feet
  • A free, printed program for each attending member, listing production credits

Applicants will be critiqued on their overall production including, but not limited to:

  • Performances and overall direction
  • Production elements (Sets, Lighting, Wardrobe, Props, Hair, Makeup design)
  • Music, choral direction and general sound quality
  • House and backstage efforts and management
DISCLAIMER:

The Committee reserves the right not to issue an award, as well as to reallocate an award, if productions do not meet minimum quality standards.  The Committee’s choice of award winners is final.

SHOW PROGRAM SAMPLE

Below is a sample of a show program. This is not a template that you must follow, but rather an example if you need a starting point for creating a program for your school musical!

 

Past Recipients

2024
SCHOOLSHOW
Collège Garden City CollegiateMean Girls – High School Edition
Collège Sturgeon Heights CollegiateNewsies Jr.
J. H. Bruns CollegiateMamma Mia
Transcona CollegiateUnpenned – A Hero’s Musical
Lincoln Middle School *Newsies Jr.
Seven Oaks Middle School *Shrek Jr.
2023
SCHOOLSHOW
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate InstituteShrek the Musical
Linden Christian SchoolBeauty and the Beast
Mennonite Collegiate Institute (Gretna, MB)Little Women
Highbury SchoolSeussical Jr.
Amber Trails Community SchoolDo You Wanna Dance?
2019
SCHOOLSHOW
Linden Christian SchoolRodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate InstituteOliver!
Westgate Mennonite Collegiate25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Highbury School*The Lion King Jr.
École Leila North Community School*Mary Poppins Jr.
Lincoln Middle School*Beauty and the Beast Jr.
2018
SCHOOLSHOW
Garden City CollegiateLittle Shop Of Horrors
Glenlawn Collegiate InstituteThe Wedding Singer
Virden CollegiateThe Addams Family
Lincoln Middle School*Disney’s High School Musical Jr.
Parkland Elementary School*Mary Poppins Jr.
Shamrock School*Disney’s Alice In Wonderland Jr.
2017
SCHOOLSHOW
Glenlawn CollegiateShrek: The Musical
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate InstituteWilly Wonka
Linden Christian SchoolMary Poppins
Daniel McIntyre Collegiate InstituteShrek: The Musical
Lincoln Middle School*Madagascar Jr.
2016
SCHOOLSHOW
Westwood CollegiateWest Side Story
Garden City CollegiateOnce on This Island
Virden Collegiate InstituteAida
Lincoln Middle School*Shrek Jr.
Parkland Elementary School*Lion King Jr.
2015
SCHOOLSHOW
Westwood CollegiateAida
Mennonite CollegiateBeauty and the Beast
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate InstituteBeauty and the Beast
Lincoln Middle School*Aladdin Jr.
Highbury School*Disney’s Peter Pan Jr.
2014
SCHOOLSHOW
College Sturgeon HeightsSHREK The Musical
Highbury School*Disney’s Aladdin Jr.
Glenlawn CollegiateCrazy for You
Westwood CollegiateLegally Blonde: The Musical
2013
SCHOOLSHOW
Highbury School*Disney’s High School Musical Jr.
Garden City CollegiateGrease
Westwood CollegiatePhantom of the Opera
MBCIThe Sound of Music
Edmund Partridge*The Wizard of Oz
2012
SCHOOLSHOW
Ecole Morden Middle School*Annie Jr.
Westwood CollegiateLes Miserables
West KildonanLittle Shop of Horrors
Edmund Partidge*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
MCIPirates of Penzance
2011
SCHOOLSHOW
J.H. BruhnsGodspell
Murdoch MacKay Collegiate InstituteSeussical The Musical
Edmund Partridge*Willy Wonka
MBCIFiddler on the Roof

*Middle School

Rainbow Stage is committed to promote equal engagement opportunities by inclusive casting of artists who self-identify as diverse in roles where ethnicity, gender, age, the presence or absence of a disability, or any other ground of discrimination prohibited by law, is not prescribed