{"id":570433,"date":"2026-05-07T04:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:21:17","slug":"north-west-awards-delight-for-talented-stars-of-lancaster-musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570433\/","title":{"rendered":"North West awards delight for talented stars of Lancaster musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/
\n Abi Jones and Ashleigh Hartin were both winners at the NODA North West Awards. Photo credit: MY Theatre and Morecambe Warblers<\/p>\n

\n Talented performers in Lancaster musicals have scooped awards at a ceremony crowning the best in the North West.\n <\/p>\n

Ashleigh Hartin won Best Leading Female in a Musical at the NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association) North West Awards over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Ashleigh won for her performance as ‘Narrator’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat last year at the Lancaster Grand Theatre, for the Morecambe Warblers.<\/p>\n

Abi Jones also won Best Vocal Performance in a Youth Production for her role as Elle Woods in ‘Legally Blonde Jnr’ for MY Youth Theatre in Morecambe. The show was performed last year at The Dukes in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

Abi, 13, was the first ever winner in the brand new category.<\/p>\n

Another local performer, Alice Helm, won Best Vocal Performance by an Adult for her portrayal of Yum Yum in The Mikado, by Staveley Amateur Operatic Society.<\/p>\n

Alice Helm. Photo: Staveley Amateur Operatic Society<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Silverdale Village Players also won Best Revue for \u2018Miscommunication\u2019.<\/p>\n

Many other local stars of musicals were nominated for NODA North West Awards having won at the District 11 NODA Awards in March.<\/p>\n

At the District 11 Awards, Benji Pollitt (Joseph) won\u00a0Best Youth Performance of a Male Character in an Adult Production for Joseph; The Brothers won Best Ensemble Performance and Angela Potter won Best Musical Director.<\/p>\n

Annie by MAODS (Morecambe Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society) at the Lancaster Grand, won Best Staging of a Musical; Mark Elliott won Best Leading Male in a Musical for his performance as Mr Warbucks and Abi Jones (Annie) won\u00a0Best Youth Female Performer in an Adult Production.<\/p>\n

Suzanne Ward won Best Director of a Musical for LADOS’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Grand, Holly Brown won Best Choreographer of a Musical and Neil Townsend (Grandpa Joe) won Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.<\/p>\n

MY Theatre won\u00a0Best Youth Musical for Legally Blonde Jnr; Best Leading Female in a Youth Musical (Abi Jones as Elle Woods); Best Supporting Female in a Youth Musical (Iya Doctor as Vivienne); Best Comedy Performance in a Youth Musical (Amber Harvey as Paulette); Best Director of a Youth Musical (Sophie Butler) and\u00a0Best Musical Director of a Youth Musical (Claire Allcock).<\/p>\n

Kira Cherrington won ‘Best Supporting Female’ for her role as Judy in ‘9 to 5’ at the Lancaster Grand for Lancaster Red Rose AODS.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Award success for Lancaster and Morecambe’s talented musical theatre stars – Beyond Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abi Jones and Ashleigh Hartin were both winners at the NODA North West Awards. Photo credit: MY Theatre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[57043,57044,27074,57042,57046,96,4584,37387,8929,1382,57045,57047,128,57049,2186,57050,57048,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-103-5fm","tag-107-5fm","tag-beyond","tag-beyond-radio","tag-carnforth","tag-entertainment","tag-lancashire","tag-lancaster","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-morecambe","tag-morecambe-bay","tag-music","tag-north-lancashire","tag-radio","tag-south-cumbria","tag-station","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}