The musical went home with four Doras on Monday night – more than any other play or musical from the 2023-24 season
Marcus Nance and Hailey Gillis in a scene from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. The musical took home the Dora Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical on Monday night.Although Mirvish Productions dropped out of consideration for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards this season, the commercial theatre company still came out a big winner at Toronto’s theatre, dance and opera awards on Monday night.
In a season that saw some companies cancelling shows amid inflation, and others setting attendance records, the work at Soulpepper and Crow’s Theatre was deemed the strongest by the peer juries who vote on the Doras in the general theatre division as well.was named the top show of the season. Director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu’s production of this classic play by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Nigerian-born British playwright Inua Ellams won outstanding production and outstanding ensemble for a stacked complete cast, including Toronto stage stars such as Akosua Amo-Adem, Virgilia Griffith, Oyin Oladejo and Amaka Umeh.
Umeh, meanwhile, walked away a double winner Monday night, picking up the outstanding individual performance award for playing Styles inIt was Andrew Kushnir, however, who won the outstanding direction award for the Canadian premiere of the Ukrainian war play, Michael Healey’s hit comedy about Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs fiasco based on a book by The Globe and Mail’s Josh O’Kane, was named outstanding new play.
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