2015 Helpmann Awards nominees announced

Battlelines are drawn between three very different musicals, while Brisbane Baroque performs strongly in its first year.

22 Jun 2015 12:00

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Les Misérables image via Facebook

Musical juggernaut Les Misérables has picked up 12 nominations in the 2015 Helpmann Awards, closely followed by the far more intimate, smaller-scale musical, Once, with nine nominations.

Another musical, Opera Australia and John Frost’s remount of Anything Goes, also received nine nominations.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts