In the Wings

Producer Danielle Rudess tells me we can announce the nominees for the 13th Metropolitan High School Theater Awards here at noon on Monday. So check back then.

There are five schools from Rockland, 20 from Westchester and 13 schools from Bergen participating in this year’s Metropolitan Awards. Here they are, by county:

Westchester County: Archbishop Stepinac’s “Beauty and the Beast”; Blind Brook’s “Urinetown”; Briarcliff’s “The Pajama Game”; Edgemont’s “Grease!”; Hastings’ “Oklahoma!”; Hendrick Hudson’s “Hello, Dolly!”; Kennedy Catholic’s “On the Town”; Lakeland’s “Anything Goes”; Peekskill’s “Seussical”; Pleasantville’s “The Wizard of Oz”; Port Chester’s “A Chorus Line”; Rye Neck’s “Footloose”; Salesian’s “Bye Bye Birdie”; Solomon Schecter’s “Fiddler on the Roof”; Somers’ “The Drowsy Chaperone”; Tuckahoe’s “Guys and Dolls”; The Ursuline School’s “Anything Goes”; Walter Panas’ “Hairspray”; Westlake’s “Footloose”; and Woodlands’ “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.”

Rockland County: Albertus Magnus’ “Bye Bye Birdie’; Clarkstown South’s “Once in this Island’; Rockland Country Day School’s “Guys and Dolls”; Spring Valley’s “The Drowsy Chaperone” and Tappan Zee’s “Sugar Babies.”

Bergen County: Academy of the Holy Angels’ “Kiss Me Kate”; Bergen County Academies’ “42nd Street”; Don Bosco Prep’s “Jekyll and Hyde”; Emerson’s “No, No Nanette”; Fair Lawn’s “Bye Bye Birdie”; Glen Rock’s “Fiddler on the Roof”; New Milford’s “Into the Woods”; Northern Highlands’ “Seussical”; Paramus’ “Bye Bye Birdie”; Ramsey’s “The Drowsy Chaperone”; River Dell’s “Grease”; Saddle River Day’s “Into the Woods”; and St. Joseph Regional’s “Les Miserables.”