3rd Helpmann Awards

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| name = 3rd Helpmann Awards

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| date = 19 May 2003

| location = Star City Show Room, Sydney

| host = Simon Burke

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| main = Helpmann Awards

| previous = 2nd

| next = 4th

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The 3rd Helpmann Awards ceremony was presented by the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA) (currently known by its trade name, Live Performance Australia (LPA)), for achievements in disciplines of Australia's live performance sectors. The ceremony took place on 19 May 2003 at the Star City Show Room.{{cite web|url = https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/107830|title=Helpmann Awards 2003|publisher=AusStage|access-date = 15 September 2015 }} During the ceremony, the AEIA handed out awards in 35 categories for achievements in theatre, musicals, opera, ballet, dance and concerts.{{cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2003/past-nominees-and-winners/dance-physical-theatre|title=Helpmann Awards Past Nominees and Winners|publisher=Helpmann Awards|access-date =15 September 2015}}

Winners and nominees

In the following tables, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.{{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com/2003nominees.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030717140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24614/20030718-0000/www.helpmannawards.com/2003nominees.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2003|title=Australian Web Archive 2003 Helpmann Awards Nominees |publisher=Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive |access-date=15 September 2015}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com/2003winners.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030717140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24614/20030718-0000/www.helpmannawards.com/2003winners.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2003|title=Australian Web Archive 2003 Helpmann Awards Winners |publisher=Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive |access-date=15 September 2015}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

=Theatre=

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style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Play

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Direction of a Play

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Copenhagen – Sydney Theatre Company
The Comedy of Errors – The Bell Shakespeare Company
Soft – Back to Back and Melbourne Festival
Waiting for Godot – Company B Belvoir and Sydney Festival

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Michael Blakemore – Copenhagen
Neil Armfield – Waiting for Godot
Simon Phillips – The Blue Room (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Simon Phillips – Great Expectations (Melbourne Theatre Company)

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Female Actor in a Play

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Male Actor in a Play

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Rachel Griffiths – Proof (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Deborah Mailman – Seven Stages of Grieving (Sydney Theatre Company)
Miranda Otto – A Doll's House (Sydney Theatre Company)
Sigrid Thornton – The Blue Room

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Colin Friels – Copenhagen
Max Cullen – Waiting for Godot
Marcus Graham – The Blue Room
Benjamin Winspear – Great Expectations

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play

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Jane Harders – Copenhagen
Julie Forsyth – Great Expectations
Deborah Kennedy – Soulmates (Sydney Theatre Company)
Angela Punch McGregor – Great Expectations

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Peter Carroll – Endgame (Sydney Theatre Company)
Paul English – Rapture (Playbox Theatre)
Christopher Gabardi – Cloud Nine (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Jean-Marc Russ – The Messiah (Queensland Theatre Company)

=Musicals=

colspan=2 style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Musical
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colspan=2 valign="top" \| Cabaret – IMG and Barry & Fran Weissler Man of La Mancha – SEL & GFO Oliver! – Cameron Mackintosh and IMG The Witches of Eastwick– Jacobsen Entertainment
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Direction of a Musical ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Choreography in a Musical
valign="top" \| B.T McNicholl, Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall – Cabaret Graham Gill and Sam Mendes – Oliver! James Powell – The Witches of Eastwick Nadia Tass – The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates) \| valign="top" \| Cynthia Onrubia and Rob Marshall – Cabaret Kelly Abbey – Footloose (SEL & GFO) Geoff Garratt and Matthew Bourne – Oliver! Stephen Mear and Bob Avian – The Witches of Eastwick
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Female Actor in a Musical ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Male Actor in a Musical
valign="top" \| Tamsin Carroll – Oliver! Lisa McCune – Cabaret Caroline O'Connor – Man of La Mancha Marina Prior – The Witches of Eastwick \| valign="top" \| Toby Allen – Cabaret Paul McDermott – The Witches of Eastwick Anthony Warlow – Man of La Mancha John Waters – Oliver!
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
valign="top" \| Nadine Garner – Cabaret Judi Connelli – Cabaret Geraldine Turner – The Witches of Eastwick Queenie van de Zandt – Oliver! \| valign="top" \| Henri Szeps – Cabaret Philip Dodd – Oliver! Simon Gleeson – Mamma Mia! (Judy Craymer, Richard East and Bjorn Ulvaeus in association with Universal and Dainty Consolidated Entertainment) Tony Sheldon – The Witches of Eastwick

=Opera=

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style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Opera

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Direction of an Opera

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – Opera Australia
Il Trovatore – West Australian Opera, State Opera of South Australia & Opera Queensland
Love in the Age of Therapy – OZOpera, Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne Festival & Sydney Festival
The Marriage of Figaro – Opera Australia

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Neil Armfield – The Marriage of Figaro
Elke Niedhardt – Il Trovatore
Patrick Nolan – Love in the Age of Therapy
Francesca Zambello – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Female Performer in an Opera

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Male Performer in an Opera

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Elizabeth Whitehouse – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Elizabeth Campbell – Il Trovatore
Joanna Cole – Lindy (Opera Australia)
Elizabeth Connell – Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Australia)

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Peter Rose – Der Rosenkavalier (Opera Australia)
Julian Gavin – Andrea Chenier (Opera Queensland and The Opera Conference)
Michael Lewis – Il Trovatore
Glen Winsdale – Lohengrin (Opera Australia)

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Male Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera

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Lisa Harper-Brown – The Marriage of Figaro
Natalie Jones – Ariadne auf Naxos
Helen Noonan – Motherland (Chamber Made and Melbourne Festival)
Elisa Wilson – La Boheme (West Australian Opera)

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Jonathan Summers – Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Opera Australia)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering – Der Frieschutz (Opera Australia)
Andrew Schroeder – La Boheme

=Dance and Physical Theatre=

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Ballet or Dance Work ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production
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valign="top" \| Swan Lake – The Australian Ballet The Age of Unbeauty – Australian Dance Theatre Ellipse – Sydney Dance Company Walkabout – Bangarra Dance Theatre \| valign="top" \| Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish – Windmill Performing Arts Circus Oz 2003 Season – Circus Oz Still Angela – Playbox Theatre Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters – Zen Zen Zo
colspan="2" style="background:#C4C3D0;" \| Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
colspan=2 valign="top" \| Graeme Murphy – Swan Lake Stephen Page and Steven McTaggart – Walkabout - 'Rush' Garry Stewart – The Age of Unbeauty Frances Rings – Walkabout - 'Rations'
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Female Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Male Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work
valign="top" \| Simone Goldsmith – Swan Lake Wakako Asano – Ellipse Jayne Cooper – Black Cake From United! (West Australian Ballet) Kimberley Davis – The Big 3 (Queensland Ballet) \| valign="top" \| Russell Page – Walkabout Bradley Chatfield – Ellipse Steven Heathcote – Swan Lake Steven Heathcote – Totem (The Australian Ballet)

=Other=

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style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Classical Concert Presentation

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Contemporary Music Presentation

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The Soldier's Tale – Australian Chamber Orchestra and The Bell Shakespeare Company
The Kancheli Festival – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
La Pasion Segun San Marcos– Sydney Festival
Turangalila - Symphonie – Melbourne Festival and Melbourne Symphony

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Soweto Gospel Choir – International Concert Attractions and Hocking & Vigo
Fiddler's Bid – Melbourne Festival and national partners
George and Special Guest Jon Lord with the Sydney Symphony – Sydney Festival and Sydney Opera House in association with Sydney Symphony
Women in Voice 11 – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Folk Federation & Annie Peterson

style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Presentation for Children

! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | Best Special Event or Performance

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Fish – Windmill Performing Arts
Aesop and His Fables – Barking Gecko Theatre Company
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates
Out of the Blue – Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

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Celebrating Samuel Beckett – Sydney Festival
Long Way to the Top – Michael Chugg Entertainment, Jacobsen Entertainment and Jack Utsick
The Man From Snowy River – Jacobsen Entertainment and David Atkins Enterprises
My Life, My Love – State Theatre Company of South Australia and Tutti Ensemble in association with the Adelaide Festival

=Industry=

colspan=2 style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best New Australian Work
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colspan=2 valign="top" \| Walkabout – Bangarra Dance Theatre Bill and Mary – Queensland Theatre Company Love in the Age of Therapy Oboe Concerto for Diana Doherty – Sydney Symphony
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Original Score ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Musical Direction
valign="top" \| Steve Francis – *Walkabout* Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith – Love in the Age of Therapy Andree Greenwell – Volpone (Sydney Theatre Company) Ian McDonald – Great Expectations \| valign="top" \| Richard Hickox – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Julia de Plater – Love in the Age of Therapy Richard Gill – Lindy Michael Tyack and Julain Bigg – The Witches of Eastwick
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Costume Design ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Scenic Design
valign="top" \| Julie Lynch – The Way of the World (Sydney Theatre Company) Bob Crowley – The Witches of Eastwick Dale Ferguson – Great Expectations Kristian Fredrikson – Man of La Mancha \| valign="top" \| Kristian Fredrikson – Swan Lake Stephen Curtis – The Blue Room Dan Potra – Love in the Age of Therapy Tony Tripp – A Doll's House
style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Lighting Design ! style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| Best Sound Design
valign="top" \| Matt Scott – The Blue Room David Hersey and Jenny Kagan – Oliver! Nigel Levings – Copenhagen Nick Schlieper – Great Expectations \| valign="top" \| John Scandrett and Julian Spink – Cabaret Paul Charlier – Buried Child (Company B Belvoir) Peter Grubb – The Witches of Eastwick Peter Grubb and Shelley Lee – Oliver!

=Lifetime Achievement=

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style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" \| JC Williamson Award
valign="top" \| Wendy Blacklock AM John Robertson OAM

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style="background:#C4C3D0;width:50%" | JC Williamson Award

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Wendy Blacklock AM
John Robertson OAM

References

External links

Category:Helpmann Awards

Helpmann Awards

Helpmann Awards, 3rd

Helpmann Awards