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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 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Collège Garden City Collegiate | Mean Girls – High School Edition |
| Collège Sturgeon Heights Collegiate | Newsies Jr. |
| J. H. Bruns Collegiate | Mamma Mia |
| Transcona Collegiate | Unpenned – A Hero’s Musical |
| Lincoln Middle School * | Newsies Jr. |
| Seven Oaks Middle School * | Shrek Jr. |
| 2023 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute | Shrek the Musical |
| Linden Christian School | Beauty and the Beast |
| Mennonite Collegiate Institute (Gretna, MB) | Little Women |
| Highbury School | Seussical Jr. |
| Amber Trails Community School | Do You Wanna Dance? |
| 2019 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Linden Christian School | Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella |
| Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute | Oliver! |
| Westgate Mennonite Collegiate | 25th 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 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Garden City Collegiate | Little Shop Of Horrors |
| Glenlawn Collegiate Institute | The Wedding Singer |
| Virden Collegiate | The 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 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Glenlawn Collegiate | Shrek: The Musical |
| Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute | Willy Wonka |
| Linden Christian School | Mary Poppins |
| Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute | Shrek: The Musical |
| Lincoln Middle School* | Madagascar Jr. |
| 2016 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Westwood Collegiate | West Side Story |
| Garden City Collegiate | Once on This Island |
| Virden Collegiate Institute | Aida |
| Lincoln Middle School* | Shrek Jr. |
| Parkland Elementary School* | Lion King Jr. |
| 2015 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Westwood Collegiate | Aida |
| Mennonite Collegiate | Beauty and the Beast |
| Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute | Beauty and the Beast |
| Lincoln Middle School* | Aladdin Jr. |
| Highbury School* | Disney’s Peter Pan Jr. |
| 2014 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| College Sturgeon Heights | SHREK The Musical |
| Highbury School* | Disney’s Aladdin Jr. |
| Glenlawn Collegiate | Crazy for You |
| Westwood Collegiate | Legally Blonde: The Musical |
| 2013 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Highbury School* | Disney’s High School Musical Jr. |
| Garden City Collegiate | Grease |
| Westwood Collegiate | Phantom of the Opera |
| MBCI | The Sound of Music |
| Edmund Partridge* | The Wizard of Oz |
| 2012 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| Ecole Morden Middle School* | Annie Jr. |
| Westwood Collegiate | Les Miserables |
| West Kildonan | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Edmund Partidge* | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat |
| MCI | Pirates of Penzance |
| 2011 | |
| SCHOOL | SHOW |
| J.H. Bruhns | Godspell |
| Murdoch MacKay Collegiate Institute | Seussical The Musical |
| Edmund Partridge* | Willy Wonka |
| MBCI | Fiddler 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