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MIAMI BEACH, April 3 - Carbonell Awards president Leslie J. Feldman tonight announced Coconut Grove Playhouse producing artistic director Arnold Mittelman as the recipient of the 2006 George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, at the Carbonell program's annual Nominee and Sponsors' gala reception at Barton G's restaurant on South Beach.
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The Abbott Award, Feldman told the Barton G audience, is the 30-year-old Carbonell program's highest individual honor.
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The rise of independent productions, large scale regional shows and coproductions led the Carbonell Awards' to re-establish a full slate of Stock/Roadshow awards this year, according to board president Leslie J. Feldman, publisher of Playbill Magazine in southern, southwest and midwest regions.
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The Carbonell Awards are the first to recognize this emergence of a new tier in American national theater, Feldman said.
In addition, the Grove's production of "Tuesdays With Morrie" was picked up by LiveNation for its Broadway Across America touring series in several markets, further blending the contemporary regional-stock-touring market.
Large LORT and other heavily-capitalized regional theaters in major regional theater markets have uneasy relationships with resident theaters and regional theater awards programs.The Walnut Street Theatre does not participate in Philadelphia's Barrymore Awards, the Goodman briefly seceded from Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Awards, and the Denver Center Theatre Company has had adversarial relationships with other local troupes in that area's awards, among other examples.
While the Carbonell "Stock/Roadshow" awards borrow traditional labels, Feldman said the new definition recognizes the most up-to-date developments in American theater where local, regional and national interests converge.
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The 30th Annual Carbonell Awards, originally scheduled for Nov. 7, 2005 at the Broward Center, have been rescheduled for Monday, April 10, 2006 in the center's Amaturo Theatre as part of the program's ongoing reorganization, it was announced today by Carbonell board president Leslie J. Feldman.
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The shift to a calendar year recognizes that South Florida has long-since evolved from a winter resort to a year-round cultural community, said Feldman, who is publisher of Playbill's southern, southwestern and midwest regions.
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The ceremony's move to high season is also designed to assist the board's efforts to raise the profile of the scholarship program throughout the region's educational and philanthropic communities, said Feldman.
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The board's action, proposed by President Leslie J. Feldman, was based upon evolution of the regional theater strata--and in a sense a return to practices of 30 years ago.
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Feldman cited the Carbonell program's decades-old precedent as a practical solution to a knotty philosophical problem that deserves further study.Feldman is Publisher of Playbill Magazine for its Southern, Southwest and Midwest regions of the U.S
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LESLIE J. FELDMAN
Elected President
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Fort Lauderdale, August 31, 2004-- Leslie J. Feldman was elected president of the Carbonell Awards' Board of Trustees at the board's summer meeting today at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Feldman is Publisher of Playbill Magazine for its Southern, Southwest and Midwest regions of the U.S. and has been actively involved in the arts locally and nationally for decades.The board's vote marked a sweet homecoming.
Feldman was the Carbonell Awards' first-ever executive director in 1982, and his firm was an original contributor to the program's scholarship goals.
Feldman also guided the program's initial incorporation as a not-for-profit arts institution at that time, while it was administered by local arts critics and reporters.
Feldman takes the president's mantle from Jay Harris, who guided the program's reorganization in recent years to a public arts organization.
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"I remain committed to the Carbonell program and its twin goals to provide arts scholarships as well as provide recognition for excellence in South Florida's arts community," Feldman said.
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In addition to preparations for the 29th annual award ceremonies in November, Feldman and the trustees plan an expansion of the board itself from its current nine members to a maximum of fifteen representing the tri-county South Florida area.
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