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The Cappies have 33 38 award categories that are determined by the votes of the critics. Each of these categories has eligibility rules, along with guidelines for the critics to use when watching and scoring shows. Please read these pages carefully. If you wish, you are welcome to share them with your cast and crew, so they will know what critics are being encouraged to observe or hear.
Before starting work on your Cappies show, please consult the Award Category Guide. Note, for example, that if an adult sings a full song (or is otherwise in a featured role), the show cannot be considered in the "musical" (or "play") categories.
Pay particular attention to the eligibility rules for non-performing categories, like Costumes, Props & Effects, Costumes, Choreography, Orchestra, and Creativity. If you wish to qualify your students for award consideration in those categories, you must provide information prior to the show. For your students to be eligible for the tech award categories, it's important to take care not to have too much adult participation.
Please read carefully, and complete, the Award Category Eligibility form. You must give this form to the Editor Mentor not later than 30 minutes prior to curtain. On this form, note that any item marked with an asterisk (***) must be answered, prior to a show, for a student who does that work to be considered for award eligibility in that category. This is required for categories (i.e., Costumes, Props & Effects, Orchestra, Choreography, Creativity, Dancer) where it is helpful, and sometimes essential, for critics to know what to consider—and, especially—what is and is not the work of students—as they watch and listen to a show. If that information is provided after that, the Mentors will decide how necessary it was for critics to have it in advance, and whether the show should be declared eligible or ineligible in that category.
For each non-performing category that involves a group of more than four persons (like an orchestra), please provide a name for the group. You can list no more than four individual names in any one category.
If you wish, you may share the Award Criteria Guide with your cast and crew. That would enable them to see what the critics are being asked to keep in mind, look and listen for, and consider when scoring.
In preparing for a Cappies show, and in the show itself, a cast and crew can feel a (gentle) taste of what it feels like to prepare and perform a critically-reviewed show in a professional theater environment. Some directors use the prospect of Cappies reviews as a way of encouraging performers and tech workers to take direction and rehearse seriously—and to focus on aspects of their work that might be improved, as the date of the Cappies show approaches.
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The non-performing categories include marketing and publicity, sound, lighting, make-up, costumes, sets, props & effects, special effects and/or technolopgy, stage crew, choreography, orchestra, and creativity (which includes student directing, composing, playwriting, lyric-writing, and musicianship).
The performing categories include ensemble in a play, ensemble in a musical, featured actor and actress, male and female dancer, male and female vocalist—and comic, supporting, and lead actors and actresses for plays and musicals.
A student may only be nominated once (per show) in the non-performing categories, and once in the performing categories. If a program allows two shows per school, a student may be nominated once for each show in the non-performing categories, and once in the performing categories. (Critic awards are treated separately.)
There are four overall school awards: song, play, and musical.
Depending on the Cappies program, there can be from three to five critics' awards, including critics team, and individual critic awards determined by gender or year in school.
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