The 10th Annual Helpmann Awards for live performance in Australia were held on 6 September 2010 at the Sydney Opera House.
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| 10th Helpmann Awards |
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| 6 September 2010 |
| Sydney Opera House |
| David Campbell |
| http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/ |
| Studio |
The 10th Annual Helpmann Awards for live performance in Australia were held on 6 September 2010 at the Sydney Opera House.
In the following tables, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The nominees are those which are listed below the winner and not in boldface.
| Best Play | Best Direction of a Play |
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| Richard III – Melbourne Theatre Company | |
| August: Osage County – Melbourne Theatre Company | |
| The Book of Everything – Company B Belvoir & Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image | |
| Happy Days – Malthouse Theatre | Simon Phillips – Richard III |
| Neil Armfield – The Book of Everything | |
| Michael Kantor – Happy Days | |
| Thomas Ostermeier – Hamlet (Schaubuhne Berlin presented by Sydney Festival) | |
| Julie Forsyth – Happy Days | |
| Kathryn Hunter – Kafka's Monkey (Arts Projects Australia in association with Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre) | |
| Jane Menelaus – August: Osage County | |
| Robyn Nevin – August: Osage County | Ewen Leslie – Richard III |
| Paul Blackwell – The Hypochondriac (Brink Productions) | |
| Robert Menzies – The End (Company B Belvoir) | |
| Toby Schmitz – Ruben Guthrie (Company B Belvoir) | |
| Alison Whyte – Richard III | |
| Jennifer Hagan – Richard III | |
| Deborah Kennedy – The Book of Everything | |
| Yael Stone – The Book of Everything | Humphrey Bower – Richard III |
| Charlie Garber – Gethsemane (Company B Belvoir) | |
| Arky Michael – Love Me Tender (Company B Belvoir) | |
| Dennis Olsen – King Lear (State Theatre Company of South Australia) | |
| Best Musical | |
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| Jersey Boys – Dodger Theatricals, Rodney Rigby, Dainty Consolidated Entertainment, Joseph J Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group & Michael Watt in association with Latitude Link & Rick Steiner | |
| Avenue Q – Arts Asia Pacific and Power Arts | |
| The Drowsy Chaperone – Melbourne Theatre Company | |
| The Wizard of Oz – Windmill Theatre | |
| Jonathan Biggins – Avenue Q | |
| Des McAnuff – Jersey Boys | |
| Rosemary Myers – The Wizard of Oz | |
| Simon Phillips – The Drowsy Chaperone | Kelley Abbey – Fame the Musical (John Frost) |
| Andrew Hallsworth – The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Sergio Trujillo – Jersey Boys | |
| Nathan M. Wright – Avenue Q | |
| Michala Banas – Avenue Q | |
| Delia Hannah – Cats (The Really Useful Company Asia Pacific in association with Lunchbox Theatrical Productions and David Atkins Enterprises) | |
| Christie Whelan – The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Ursula Yovich – The Wizard of Oz | Mitchell Butel – Avenue Q |
| Michael Cormick – Mamma Mia! (Judy Craymer, Richard East and Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal and Michael Coppel with Louise Withers & Associates) | |
| Bobby Fox – Jersey Boys | |
| Geoffrey Rush – The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Christina O'Neil – Avenue Q | |
| Lisa Adam – Jersey Boys | |
| Jaz Flowers – Fame the Musical | |
| Jude Henshall – The Wizard of Oz | Luke Joslin – Avenue Q |
| Adam Murphy – The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Scott Johnson – Jersey Boys | |
| Geoff Revell – The Wizard of Oz | |
| Best Opera | Best Direction of an Opera |
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| Peter Grimes – Opera Australia | |
| Bliss – Opera Australia | |
| Le Grand Macabre – Adelaide Festival in association with State Opera of South Australia | |
| King Lear – Ten Days on the Island | Neil Armfield – Peter Grimes |
| Neil Armfield – Bliss | |
| Chris Drummond – The Flying Dutchman (State Opera of South Australia) | |
| Alex Olle and Valentina Carrasco – Le Grand Macabre | |
| Emma Matthews – La sonnambula (Opera Australia) | |
| Takesha Meshé Kizart – Tosca (Opera Australia) | |
| Lorina Gore – Bliss | |
| Susan Gritton – Peter Grimes | Stuart Skelton – Peter Grimes |
| Peter Coleman-Wright – Bliss | |
| John Wegner – The Flying Dutchman | |
| John Wegner – Tosca | |
| Taryn Fiebig – Bliss | |
| Catherine Carby – Peter Grimes | |
| Taryn Fiebig – La sonnambula | |
| Tiffany Speight – Così fan tutte (Opera Australia) | Andrew Foote – Peter Grimes (West Australian Opera and Perth International Arts Festival in association with the Australian Youth Orchestra) |
| Paul Biencourt – Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera) | |
| Barry Ryan – Bliss | |
| Stuart Skelton – The Flying Dutchman | |
| Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms – Sydney Festival with the Sydney Symphony and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | |
| La Serenissima – Ten Days on the Island | |
| Sydney Symphony Power and Panache – Sydney Symphony | |
| Tchaikovsky's Symphony Pathetique – West Australian Symphony Orchestra | Imogen Cooper in recital as part of the Sydney Symphony International Pianist in Recital Series – Sydney Symphony |
| Great Romantics Tour – Australian Chamber Orchestra | |
| Les Voix Humaines – Melbourne Recital Centre | |
| London Sinfonietta – Programs 1 & 2 – Adelaide Festival | |
| Imogen Cooper – Imogen Cooper – Recital (Melbourne Recital Centre) | |
| Calvin Bowman – Bach Marathon (Melbourne International Arts Festival and City of Melbourne) | |
| Alexander Gavrylyuk – Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 with the Sydney Symphony (Sydney Symphony Prokofiev Festival) (Sydney Symphony) | |
| Philippe Jaroussky – Vivaldi Olympia (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra) | |
| Best Ballet or Dance Work | Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production |
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| FIRE – Bangarra Dance Theatre | |
| Dyad 1929 – The Australian Ballet | |
| Harakiri – a rite – STRUT dance | |
| Körper – Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sasha Waltz | |
| Danielle Rowe – Dyad 1929 | |
| Deborah Brown – FIRE | |
| Lucinda Dunn – The Silver Rose (The Australian Ballet) | |
| Tara Soh – Be Your Self (Australian Dance Theatre in association with the Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre) | Richard Cilli – We Unfold (Sydney Dance Company) |
| Daniel Gaudiello – The Silver Rose | |
| Matthew Morris – Harakiri – a rite | |
| Kimball Wong – Be Your Self | |
| Stephen Page – FIRE | |
| Phillip Adams – Miracle (BalletLab) | |
| Didier Theron – Harakiri – a rite | |
| Wayne McGregor – Dyad 1929 | |
| Best Australian Contemporary Concert | Best Contemporary Music Festival |
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| The Man in Black: The Johnny Cash Story – Sydney Opera House in association with Folsom Prison Productions | |
| Dirty Three & Laughing Clowns – Sydney Festival by arrangement with ATP and Feel Presents a Don't Look Back concert | |
| John Farnham – Live by Demand – Glenn Wheatley – Talentworks | |
| The RocKwiz National Tour 2010 – Renegade Films and RocKwiz Touring | Big Day Out 2010 – Vivian Lees and Ken West |
| Homebake Music & Arts Festival 2009 – The 15th Anniversary – Domestic Music Concepts | |
| 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival – Melbourne International Jazz Festival | |
| WOMADelaide – WOMADelaide Foundation | |
| Pink – Funhouse Tour – Michael Coppel Presents | |
| AC/DC Black Ice Tour – Garry Van Egmond & Chugg Entertainment | |
| Beyonce – Michael Coppel Presents | |
| George Michael – Live – Dainty Consolidated Entertainment | |
| Best Cabaret Performer | Best Comedy Performer |
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| iOTA – Smoke & Mirrors (Sydney Festival) | |
| Paul Capsis, Martin Martini, Le Gateau Chocolat, Lady Carol, Christine Johnson, Simone Page Jones – A Company of Strangers (Strut n Fret) | |
| Moira Finucane – The Burlesque Hour (Finucane & Smith with fortyfivedownstairs, Auspicious Arts Projects and The Street Theatre) | |
| Meow Meow – Meow to the World: Crisis is Born (Again) (Sydney Opera House presents) | Wil Anderson – Wilful Misconduct |
| Kitty Flanagan – Charming and Alarming | |
| Fiona O'Loughlin – On a Wing and A Prayer | |
| Hannah Gadsby – The Cliff Young Shuffle | |
| Sonya Hartnett's Thursday's Child – Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People | |
| The Book of Everything – Company B Belvoir & Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image | |
| Shape of a Girl – Sydney Opera House presents | |
| The Wizard of Oz – Windmill Theatre | True Stories – Bangarra Dance Theatre |
| The Age I'm In – Force Majeure and Performing Lines | |
| The Kursk – Critical Stages and Matrix Theatre | |
| Letter's End – Spoon Tree Productions | |
| Festival First Night – Sydney Festival | |
| A R Rahman – Sydney Festival | |
| Dirtsong – Arts House and Melbourne International Arts Festival | |
| La Fura dels Baus – Lotterywest Opening Celebration – Perth International Arts Festival | |
| Best New Australian Work | |
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| Craig Ilott & iOTA – Smoke & Mirrors (Sydney Festival and Spiegeltent International) | |
| The Black Arm Band with Steven Richardson and Alexis Wright – Dirtsong (Arts House and Melbourne International Arts Festival) | |
| BalletLab and Phillip Adams – Miracle (BalletLab) | |
| Brett Dean and Amanda Holden – Bliss | |
| iOTA with Tina Harris, Joe Accaria, Chris Ball and Martin Hailey – Smoke & Mirrors | |
| Brett Dean – Bliss | |
| Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez – Avenue Q | |
| Taikoz – Pericles (Bell Shakespeare in association with Taikoz) | Ron Melrose & Luke Hunter – Jersey Boys |
| Mark Wigglesworth – Peter Grimes (Opera Australia) | |
| Nicolette Fraillon – Dyad 1929 (Steve Reich) (The Australian Ballet) | |
| Iain Grandage – Wunderschon (Perth International Arts Festival in association with the National Academy of Music) | |
| Dale Ferguson – August: Osage County | |
| Roger Kirk – The Silver Rose (The Australian Ballet) | |
| Brian Thomson – Bliss | |
| Klara Zieglerova & Michael Clark – Jersey Boys | Gabriela Tylesova – Così fan tutte |
| Dale Ferguson – The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Roger Kirk – The Silver Rose | |
| Tess Schofield – Peter Grimes | |
| Nigel Levings – Bliss | |
| Nick Schlieper – Richard III | |
| Howell Binkley – Jersey Boys | |
| Geoff Cobham – The Flying Dutchman | Paul Charlier – A Streetcar Named Desire (Sydney Theatre Company) |
| BalletLab and David Chisholm / Myles Mumford – Miracle | |
| Steve Canyon Kennedy – Jersey Boys | |
| Bob Scott – Bliss | |
| JC Williamson Award | Sue Nattrass Award |
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| Tony Gould AN D UNIV | |
| Brian Nebenzahl OAM RFD | |
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