It’s finally that time of year again in the Lehigh Valley-The Freddy Awards. Known as the Freddys by many local theater lovers, the Freddys highlight some of the county’s best high school productions with schools such as Emmaus, Bangor, Liberty, and Parkland being featured. On May 12th, WFMZ live-streamed the nominations with the official list coming out at noon. Musicals such as The Sound of Music, The Addams Family, Little Shop of Horrors, Chicago, and Parkland’s own Mamma Mia!  were nominated. Listed below are the nominees for the 20th Freddy Awards Ceremony. Tune in LIVE from The State Theatre in Easton on May 26 at 7 p.m. or stream it on WFMZ-TV, WFMZ.com, or WFMZ+.
Congratulations and best of luck to all of the nominees!

Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra

• Bangor Area: Les Miserables
• Easton Area:  42nd Street 
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Freedom: Curtains 
• Hackettstown: Sister Act 
• Liberty: The Sound of Music 
• Nazareth Area: Little Shop of Horrors
• Phillipsburg: Guys & Dolls
• Southern Lehigh: Bye Bye Birdie

Outstanding Use of Scenery 

• Bangor Area: Les Miserables
• Dieruff: Godspell
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Freedom: Curtains 
• Liberty: The Sound of Music 
• Nazareth Area: Little Shop of Horrors 
• Parkland: Mamma Mia! 

Outstanding Use of Costumes

• Bangor Area: Les Miserables
• Dieruff: Godspell
• Emmaus: The Addams Family 
• Liberty: The Sound of Music
• Parkland: Mamma Mia! 
• Southern Lehigh: Bye Bye Birdie

Outstanding Performance by a Male Ensemble Member

• Charlie Strzelecki as Chef Louis/Pilot, Allentown Central Catholic Disney’s Little Mermaid 
• Josh Raub as Enjolras/Bishop, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Elijah Cooke as “We Beseech Thee” Soloist, Belvidere Godspell
• Joseph Valentin as Male Characters, Catasauqua Chicago
• Lucas Nowak as Lurch, Emmaus The Addams Family
• Tyler Borneo as Benny Southstreet, Phillipsburg Guys & Dolls
• Clayton Washburn as Mal Beinke, Wilson Area The Addams Family

Outstanding Performance by a Female Ensemble Member

• Julia Ruhf as Bambi Bernet, Freedom Curtains
• Ellie Prendergast as TJ, Hackettstown Sister Act
• Keira Smith as Hebe Porter, Moravian Academy HMS Pinafore
• Kaylee Babiak as Alice Beineke, North Warren Regional The Addams Family
• Jenna Seasholtz as Ursula Merkle, Southern Lehigh Bye Bye Birdie
• Adneiry Mercedes Diaz as Marty, William Allen Grease
• Denay White as Grandma, Wilson Area The Addams Family

Outstanding Use of Lighting

• Bangor Area: Les Misérables
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Freedom: Curtains
• Liberty: The Sound of Music
• Moravian Academy: HMS Pinafore
• Nazareth Area: Little Shop of Horrors
• Whitehall: Godspell

Outstanding Small Ensemble Performance

• Mak Cerrada-Shapiro, Juli VandeVeegaete, Alex VandeVeegaete, Josie Ruppert, Kavanna “Relic” Little, “On the Willows”  Belvidere, Godspell\
• Jacob Klinedinst, Payton McGlory “Live Before We Die” Emmaus, The Addams Family
• Aaron Louw, Henry Grimm “Mushnik and Son” Nazareth Area, Little Shop of Horrors
• Molly McGorry, Aine Demko, Chloe Schoemaker, Charlize Bobbyn “One Boy” Northwestern Lehigh, Bye Bye Birdie 
• Katarina O’Mara, Jared Sussman “Take a Chance On Me” Parkland, Mamma Mia!
• Jake Delesky, Tyler Borneo “Guys & Dolls” Phillipsburg, Guys & Dolls

Outstanding Choreography

• Belvidere: Godspell 
• Dieruff: Godspell
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Freedom: Curtains 
• Liberty: The Sound of Music
• Parkland: Mamma Mia! 
• Whitehall: Godspell

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Elizabeth Rutt as Madame Thenardier, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Rachel Williams as Maggie Jones, Easton Area 42nd Street
• Madeline Kemler as Wednesday Addams, Emmaus The Addams Family
• Laurel Bendetti as Tanya, Parkland Mamma Mia!
• Keiran Lencheski as Lumiere, Notre Dame Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
• Maya Marino Cappello as Miss Adelaide, Phillipsburg Guys & Dolls

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Mak Cerrada-Shapiro as John the Baptist/Judas, Belvidere Godspell
• Brendan Branosky as Billy Lawlor, Easton Area 42nd Street
• Aiden Panko as Pugsley Addams, Emmaus The Addams Family 
• Joey Oltman as Sir Joseph Porter, Moravian Academy HMS Pinafore
• Jared Sussman as Bill Austin, Parkland Mamma Mia!
• Jacob Ten Bosch as Nathan Detroit, Phillipsburg Guys & Dolls

Outstanding Performance by a Featured Dancer 

• Sarah Horvath as Featured Dancer, Belvidere Godspell
• Julia Ressler as 42nd Street Thief, Easton Area 42nd Street
• Ashley Westgate as Flapper Ancestor, Emmaus The Addams Family
• Julia Ruhf as Bambi Bernet, Freedom Curtains
• Elise Stefankiewicz as The Moon, North Warren Regional The Addams Family
• Kayla Beam as Greek Spirit of Nightmares, Warren Hills Regional Mamma Mia!
• Giovanni Failla as Giovanni, Whitehall Godspell

Outstanding Chorus

• Bangor Area: Les Misérables
• Dieruff: Godspell
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Parkland: Mamma Mia!
• Southern Lehigh: Bye Bye Birdie
• Whitehall: Godspell

Vic Kumma Award for Outstanding Solo Vocal Performance

• Elena Wenrich-Quinones “Part of Your World” Allentown Central Catholic Disney’s Little Mermaid 
• Charles “CJ” Fassl “Bring Him Home”, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Rebekah “Bex” Vermuelen “The Sound of Music”, Liberty The Sound of Music
• Alicia Gordon “Sorry Her Lot”, Moravian Academy HMS Pinafore
• Paige Horvath “Somewhere That’s Green”,  Nazareth Area Little Shop of Horrors
• Maya Marino Cappello “Adelaide’s Lament”, Phillipsburg Guys & Dolls

Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actor

• Robert Ruhl as Cornelius Hackl Bethlehem Catholic Hello Dolly!
• Aidan Heil as Billy Flynn, Catasauqua Chicago
• James Myers as Lt. Frank Cioffi, Freedom Curtains
• Jacob Kremer as Audrey II Voice, Nazareth Area Little Shop of Horrors
• Jackson Hunsicker as William Barfee, Northern Lehigh 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Jake Delesky as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Phillipsburg Guys & Dolls
• Ryan Lauer as Harry MacAfee, Southern Lehigh Bye Bye Birdie

Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actress

• Kaylee Holland as Eponine, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Hannah Kurczeski as Velma Kelly, Catasauqua Chicago
• Payton McGlory as Morticia Addams, Emmaus The Addams Family  
• Katarina O’Mara as Rosie, Parkland Mamma Mia!
• Gabriella Lozada as Mimi Marquez, Salisbury RENT
• Alana Weirbach as Fiona, Saucon Valley DreamWorks’ Shrek the Musical
• Kayla Lebby as Rose Alvarez, Southern Lehigh Bye Bye Birdie 

Outstanding Production Number

• Bangor Area: “One Day More”, Les Misérables
• Catasauqua: “They Both Reached for the Gun”, Chicago
• Nazareth Area: “Downtown/Skid Row”, Little Shop of Horrors
• North Warren Regional: “Full Disclosure”, The Addams Family
• Southern Lehigh: “The Telephone Hour” Bye Bye Birdie

Outstanding Stage Crew

• Bangor Area: Les Misérables
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Liberty: The Sound of Music
• Moravian Academy: HMS Pinafore
• Northampton: Mamma Mia!
• Parkland: Mamma Mia!
• Southern Lehigh: Bye Bye Birdie

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Elena Wenrich-Quinones as Ariel Allentown Central Catholic Disney’s The Little Mermaid
• Angelina Dries as Roxie Hart, Catasauqua Chicago
• Rebekah “Bex” Vermuelen as Maria Rainer, Liberty The Sound of Music
• Alicia Gordon as Josephine, Moravian Academy HMS Pinafore
• Paige Horvath as Audrey, Nazareth Area Little Shop of Horrors
• Brenna Pelizzoni as Sophie Sheridan, Parkland Mamma Mia!

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Charles “CJ” Fassl as Jean Valjean, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Evan Finkbeiner as Javert, Bangor Area Les Misérables
• Owen Gately as Jesus, Belvidere Godspell 
• Jacob Klinedinst as Gomez Addams, Emmaus The Addams Family
• Andrew Merkle as Gomez Addams, North Warren Regional The Addams Family
• Grant Neff as Albert Peterson, Southern Lehigh Bye Bye Birdie 

Outstanding Overall Production by a Smaller School

• Allentown Central Catholic: Disney’s The Little Mermaid
• Belvidere: Godspell 
• Catasauqua: Chicago 
• Hackettstown: Sister Act
• Moravian Academy: HMS Pinafore
• Wilson Area: The Addams Family

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical

• Bangor Area: Les Misérables
• Emmaus: The Addams Family
• Liberty: The Sound of Music
• Parkland: Mamma Mia!
• Phillipsburg: Guys & Dolls
• Southern Lehigh: Bye Bye Birdie