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Canada's Capital Cappies (or CCC) is the name given to the Cappies program operating in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, ON

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

2007-08 Season

The 2007-08 season, Ottawa's third Cappies season, featured 32 shows performed by 30 schools across the city. With the addition of two private schools and two Gatineau

Gatineau

Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...

schools, this was the first year to include schools from outside Ottawa's public and Catholic boards.

Schools and Shows

Date	School	Show
2007-11-22	Cairine Wilson Secondary School Cairine Wilson Secondary School Cairine Wilson Secondary School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Canada. It is the main English language school in the eastern suburb of Orleans. It is located on 975 Orleans Boulevard in the northern edge of the suburb, near the Ottawa River. The school opened...	The Worst High School Play in the World
2007-11-24	Earl of March Secondary School Earl of March Secondary School Earl of March Secondary School is a high school in the suburb of Kanata, in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school was opened in 1970 and is located in Kanata's Beaverbrook neighbourhood...	Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
2007-11-27	All Saints Catholic High School All Saints Catholic High School (Ottawa) For other schools with a similar name see All Saints High School.All Saints Catholic High School, opened September 2002, is a secondary school in Kanata, Ontario, a district of Ottawa. The school is located in the Kanata North area of Kanata Lakes and serves the communities of Kanata and West...	Comic Potential
2007-11-29	South Carleton High School South Carleton High School South Carleton High School is a high school situated in the southwestern sector of the city of Ottawa, in the village of Richmond, Ontario. The school is under the jurisdiction of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. The SCHS attendance boundaries cover a major section of the southern part of...	The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
2007-12-05	John McCrae Secondary School John McCrae Secondary School John McCrae Secondary School is a public secondary school in Nepean, Ontario, Canada.It supports grades 9-12. Built in 1999, it was the public high school in Barrhaven, replacing its predecessor, Confederation High School....	High School Musical High School Musical High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
2007-12-07	Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School (Ottawa) Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and it is located in the neighbourhood of Fallingbrook, in the suburb of Orleans, in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Since 2009, the school's principal has been Ruggles Pritchard.-History:Sir Wilfrid Laurier was...	The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
2007-12-13	St. Matthew Catholic High School	Twelfth Night
2007-12-15	Immaculata High School Immaculata High School (Ottawa) Immaculata High School is a Roman Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. It is currently located along the Rideau Canal in Old Ottawa East neighbourhood of Ottawa...	Flowers for Algernon
2008-02-16	Elmwood School Elmwood School (Ottawa) Elmwood School is an independent day school for girls located in Rockcliffe Park in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in 1915 and is an International Baccalaureate World School...	Schoolhouse
2008-02-21	Ashbury College Ashbury College Ashbury College is an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the...	Columbinus Columbinus columbinus is a play sparked by the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, probes the psychological warfare of alienation, hostility and social pressure that goes on in high schools across America.-Information:...
2008-02-28	St. Joseph High School St. Joseph High School (Ottawa) St. Joseph High School, referred to as St. Joe's by the local community of Barrhaven, Ontario, is a Roman Catholic high school run by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. In athletics, the school teams are referred to as the St. Joseph Jaguars and the school mascot is a jaguar named McJagger. St...	Leader of the Pack Leader of the Pack (musical) Leader of the Pack is a musical with liner notes by Anne Beatts and additional material by Jack Heifner, music by Ellie Greenwich, and lyrics by Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector, George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Kent, and Ellen Foley.-Background:...
2008-03-01	St. Peter High School St. Peter High School (Ottawa) St. Peter Catholic High School is a catholic high school located in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans. The current principal is Norma McDonald. The school offers grades 7-12 and a daycare service. The current school population rests at 1900 students with 420 staff members.-Academic Program:St. Peter...	Grease Grease (musical) Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
2008-03-28	All Saints Catholic High School All Saints Catholic High School (Ottawa) For other schools with a similar name see All Saints High School.All Saints Catholic High School, opened September 2002, is a secondary school in Kanata, Ontario, a district of Ottawa. The school is located in the Kanata North area of Kanata Lakes and serves the communities of Kanata and West...	Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
2008-03-29	D'Arcy McGee High School	Footloose Footloose (musical) Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow , the lyrics by Dean Pitchford , and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.-Act 1:...
2008-04-04	Lisgar Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Lisgar Collegiate Institute, one of the country's best regarded public schools, is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal and is only a few blocks from Canada's Parliament Hill...	Damn Yankees Damn Yankees Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League...
2008-04-09	Canterbury High School Canterbury High School (Ottawa) Canterbury High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in the Elmvale Acres neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.It is an arts magnet school, and located at 900 Canterbury Ave...	The Triangle Factory Fire Project
2008-04-10	Mother Teresa High School	Arsenic and Old Lace Arsenic and Old Lace (play) Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...
2008-04-11	Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School	A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
2008-04-22	Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School (Ottawa) Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and it is located in the neighbourhood of Fallingbrook, in the suburb of Orleans, in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Since 2009, the school's principal has been Ruggles Pritchard.-History:Sir Wilfrid Laurier was...	The Music Man The Music Man The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...
2008-04-23	Philemon Wright High School Philemon Wright High School Philemon Wright High School is an anglophone high school located in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is administered by the Western Quebec School Board and named after Philemon Wright, founder of Hull. Philemon Wright High school also offers an Enriched French program course to...	Disney's Aladdin, Jr.
2008-04-24	Merivale High School Merivale High School Merivale High School is a secondary school, located at the intersection of Merivale Road and Viewmount Drive in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The school is known for its gifted student program, but also runs French Immersion programs and extensive visual art, music, and co-operative education...	Bat Boy: The Musical Bat Boy: The Musical Bat Boy: The Musical is a musical with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, based on a June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat, dubbed "Bat Boy", found living in a cave....
2008-04-25	Gloucester High School Gloucester High School (Ottawa) Gloucester High School is a high school in the Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Canada neighborhood of Gloucester, in the city of Ottawa. Their mascot is the Gator, and the school can harbor approximately 2000 students...	The Matchmaker The Matchmaker The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842...
2008-04-25	Woodroffe High School Woodroffe High School (Ottawa) Woodroffe High School is a secondary school situated in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. Woodroffe High School an extensive variety of 20 school clubs, organizations and inter-school and intramural athletics are offered. Woodroffe High School is a secondary school with high academic standards, a...	Once Upon a Mattress Once Upon a Mattress Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...
2008-04-26	St. Mark Catholic High School St. Mark Catholic High School (Ottawa) Opened in 1980, St. Mark Catholic High School is located in Manotick, a neighbourhood in the city of Ottawa. Its enrollment is currently around 900 after losing about 600 students to St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School in 2009 & 2010, after the completion of its construction in 2009. St....	The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a short comedy by John Bishop. The play was first performed at the Circle Repertory Company in their theatre at 99 Seventh Avenue South in New York City, later moving to Broadway, opening on April 6, 1987, in The Longacre Theatre. The both productions were...
2008-04-26	St. Paul High School St. Paul High School (Ottawa) St. Paul High School is a Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 2007-2008 school census indicated that about 1,300 students were enrolled, but the estimate for the 2008-2009 year is about 1,450.- History :...	Be Aggressive
2008-04-29	Hillcrest High School Hillcrest High School (Ottawa) Hillcrest High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in the Elmvale Acres neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school was opened in 1961, and has over 1100 students. Its sports teams are nicknamed "The Hawks". Hillcrest High School is a very ethnically diverse...	The Laramie Project
2008-05-01	Notre Dame High School Notre Dame High School (Ottawa) Notre Dame High School is a Catholic high school in Ottawa's west operated by the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board. The school is one of the first in the area to use a uniform and one of the first in the board to ban the use of cell phones and MP3 players on the campus.The school is mainly two...	Ax of Murder
2008-05-02	A. Y. Jackson Secondary School A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Ottawa) A. Y. Jackson Secondary School is a community high school in the Glen Cairn neighbourhood of Kanata, a suburb in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. It is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and was first opened in 1976. The school was named after A. Y...	Back to the 80's
2008-05-03	Holy Trinity Catholic High School	The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
2008-05-08	St. Patrick's High School St. Patrick's High School (Ottawa) St. Patrick's High School, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Catholic high school publicly funded under the Ontario school system as part of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board...	Harvey Harvey (play) Harvey is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Chase. Produced by Brock Pemberton and directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15, 1949. The original production...
2008-05-09	Sacred Heart High School	Murder on Centre Stage
2008-05-14	Nepean High School Nepean High School (Ottawa) Nepean High School is a high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Westboro, at 574 Broadview Avenue. There are 1180 students enrolled for 2006-2007. Rene Bibaud is the current principal . The two vice principals are Peter Wilson and Jean Fulton-Hale.The school began as a continuation...	Chicago Chicago (musical) Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

Award Winners

The annual Cappies Gala was held on June 24, 2008 at the National Arts Centre

National Arts Centre

The National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...

located in downtown Ottawa. The following winners were announced for each of the 36 award categories. The award winners were decided by nearly 220 critics using a complex online voting system, with the exception of the awards given to the critics themselves. Critic awards were awarded in accordance with a mathematical formula taking into account the number of shows reviewed and the number of times published.

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! Award
! Winner(s)
! School
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| Male Critic||Jacob Scott||Lisgar Collegiate Institute
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| Female Critic||Claire Frampton||St. Paul High School
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| Critic Team||Claire Frampton (Lead Critic)
Jessica Anderson
Nicole Crozier
Kelsea Harris
Michelle Morton
Sarah Thuswaldner
Anastasia Zubrycky||St. Paul High School
|- valign="top"
| Sound||Alex Griffith||Ashbury College
|- valign="top"
| Lighting||Philip Schleihauf||Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Sets||Katherine MacGregor||Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Costumes||Rebecca Anne Ireland||St. Mark High School
|- valign="top"
| Makeup||Lauren McCarter||Holy Trinity Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Props and Effects||Christina Chin
Jocelyn Cheung
Victoria Courtney
Elizabeth Dong||Merivale High School
|- valign="top"
| Stage Crew||Emma Roblin
Andrew Woodhead||Nepean High School
|- valign="top"
| Orchestra||Damn Yankees Orchestra||Lisgar Collegiate Institute
|- valign="top"
| Choreography||Kathleen Carkner
Lindsay Coderre
Tessa MacNeil||Nepean High School
|- valign="top"
| Creativity||Laura Bidner (Composing)||Canterbury High School
|- valign="top"
| Ensemble (Play)||Vanessa Doucet-Roche
Jessica Fitzpatrick
Bridget Hall
Katherine Inniss
Alessia Lupiano
Ana Machado
Kelly McNamee
Jessica Wagstaff
Christine Wilson||Canterbury High School
|- valign="top"
| Ensemble (Musical)||Emily Keilty
Kyra Weichert||A. Y. Jackson Secondary School
|- valign="top"
| Cameo Actress||Alex Beraldin||Hillcrest High School
|- valign="top"
| Cameo Actor||Tom Holmes||Hillcrest High School
|- valign="top"
| Female Dancer||Candice Campo||Woodroffe High School
|- valign="top"
| Male Dancer||Thomas Shapiro||Earl of March Secondary School
|- valign="top"
| Female Vocalist||Yasmine Saad||St. Joseph High School
|- valign="top"
| Male Vocalist||Matt Taronno||All Saints Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Comic Actress (Play)||Katie Cunningham||St. Matthew Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Comic Actor (Play)||Matt Taronno||All Saints Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Comic Actress (Musical)||Sarah Swire||All Saints Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Comic Actor (Musical)||Connor Flack||A. Y. Jackson Secondary School
|- valign="top"
| Featured Actress (Play)||Devon O'Reily||Canterbury High School
|- valign="top"
| Featured Actor (Play)||David Scrivens||Ashbury College
|- valign="top"
| Featured Actress (Musical)||Alexandra Augustine||Nepean High School
|- valign="top"
| Featured Actor (Musical)||Ian Geldart||Philemon Wright High School
|- valign="top"
| Lead Actress (Play)||Sarah Swire||All Saints Catholic High School
|- valign="top"
| Lead Actor (Play)||Justin Reekie||Ashbury College
|- valign="top"
| Lead Actress (Musical)||Katie Ryerson||Earl of March Secondary School
|- valign="top"
| Lead Actor (Musical)||Brandon Stouffer||Merivale High School
|- valign="top"
| Song||Cell Block Tango||Nepean High School
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| Play||Columbinus||Ashbury College
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| Musical||Chicago||Nepean High School
|}

2008-09 Season

The 2008-09 season, Ottawa's fourth Cappies season, featured 35 shows performed by 30 schools across the city. This season included two private schools, two Gatineau

Gatineau

schools, and a 26 schools from both of Ottawa's public and Catholic boards.

Schools and Shows

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! Date
! School
! Show
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| 2008-11-26||South Carleton High School

South Carleton High School

South Carleton High School is a high school situated in the southwestern sector of the city of Ottawa, in the village of Richmond, Ontario. The school is under the jurisdiction of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. The SCHS attendance boundaries cover a major section of the southern part of...

||May The Farce Be With You
|- valign="top"
| 2008-11-28||All Saints Catholic High School

All Saints Catholic High School (Ottawa)

For other schools with a similar name see All Saints High School.All Saints Catholic High School, opened September 2002, is a secondary school in Kanata, Ontario, a district of Ottawa. The school is located in the Kanata North area of Kanata Lakes and serves the communities of Kanata and West...

||City of Angels
City of Angels (musical)
City of Angels is a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart. The musical weaves together two plots, the "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and the "reel" world of the fictional film.-Productions:City of Angels...

|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-02||Cairine Wilson Secondary School

Cairine Wilson Secondary School

Cairine Wilson Secondary School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Canada. It is the main English language school in the eastern suburb of Orleans. It is located on 975 Orleans Boulevard in the northern edge of the suburb, near the Ottawa River. The school opened...

||Lysistrata
Lysistrata
Lysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...

|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-03||Bell High School

Bell High School (Ottawa)

Bell High School is a high school located in Bells Corners of Ottawa, Canada. Established in 1962 by the Carleton Board of Education as a public high school, it currently serves as one of the only two facilities with the prestigious OCDSB Gifted Program...

||Hot Mikado
Hot Mikado
Hot Mikado is a musical comedy, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, adapted by David H. Bell and Rob Bowman...

|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-04||Lisgar Collegiate Institute

Lisgar Collegiate Institute

Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Lisgar Collegiate Institute, one of the country's best regarded public schools, is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal and is only a few blocks from Canada's Parliament Hill...

||Jabberwock
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-05||Nepean High School

Nepean High School (Ottawa)

Nepean High School is a high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Westboro, at 574 Broadview Avenue. There are 1180 students enrolled for 2006-2007. Rene Bibaud is the current principal . The two vice principals are Peter Wilson and Jean Fulton-Hale.The school began as a continuation...

||A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...

|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-06||Immaculata High School

Immaculata High School (Ottawa)

Immaculata High School is a Roman Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. It is currently located along the Rideau Canal in Old Ottawa East neighbourhood of Ottawa...

||Class Dismissed
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-10||Canterbury High Schooll

Canterbury High School (Ottawa)

Canterbury High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in the Elmvale Acres neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.It is an arts magnet school, and located at 900 Canterbury Ave...

||Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-11||St. Patrick's High School

St. Patrick's High School (Ottawa)

St. Patrick's High School, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Catholic high school publicly funded under the Ontario school system as part of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board...

||Hook'd
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-12||St. Matthew High School

St. Matthew High School (Orleans, Ontario)

St. Matthew Catholic High School is located at 6550 Bilberry Drive in Orléans, Ontario, Canada. The current principal is Christopher Mes. The school offers grades 7-12. The current school population rests at about 1400 students with about 120 staff members....

||Peter Pan
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-13||Woodroffe High School

Woodroffe High School (Ottawa)

Woodroffe High School is a secondary school situated in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. Woodroffe High School an extensive variety of 20 school clubs, organizations and inter-school and intramural athletics are offered. Woodroffe High School is a secondary school with high academic standards, a...

||Pippin
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-13||Holy Trinity Catholic High School||Twelve Angry Jurors
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-16||D'Arcy McGee High School||Pride & Prejudice
|- valign="top"
| 2008-12-17||St. Joseph High School

St. Joseph High School (Ottawa)

St. Joseph High School, referred to as St. Joe's by the local community of Barrhaven, Ontario, is a Roman Catholic high school run by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. In athletics, the school teams are referred to as the St. Joseph Jaguars and the school mascot is a jaguar named McJagger. St...

||The Pink Panther Strikes Again
|- valign="top"
| 2009-02-07||Earl of March Secondary School

Earl of March Secondary School

Earl of March Secondary School is a high school in the suburb of Kanata, in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school was opened in 1970 and is located in Kanata's Beaverbrook neighbourhood...

||Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

|- valign="top"
| 2009-02-24||Ashbury College

Ashbury College

Ashbury College is an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the...

||Acts of God
|- valign="top"
| 2009-03-04||Elmwood School

Elmwood School (Ottawa)

Elmwood School is an independent day school for girls located in Rockcliffe Park in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in 1915 and is an International Baccalaureate World School...

||Treasure Island
|- valign="top"
| 2009-03-05||Mother Teresa High School||Caesar
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-01||Yitzhak Rabin High School||The Dybbuk
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-03||Gloucester High School

Gloucester High School (Ottawa)

Gloucester High School is a high school in the Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Canada neighborhood of Gloucester, in the city of Ottawa. Their mascot is the Gator, and the school can harbor approximately 2000 students...

||Oliver!
Oliver!
Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-04||Lisgar Collegiate Institute

Lisgar Collegiate Institute

||Hayfever
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-07||Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School (Ottawa)

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and it is located in the neighbourhood of Fallingbrook, in the suburb of Orleans, in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Since 2009, the school's principal has been Ruggles Pritchard.-History:Sir Wilfrid Laurier was...

||You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...

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| 2009-04-16||All Saints Catholic High School

All Saints Catholic High School (Ottawa)

||The Foreigner
The Foreigner (play)
The Foreigner is a play by Larry Shue.Set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the comedy revolves around two of its guests, Englishman Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak...

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| 2009-04-17||A. Y. Jackson Secondary School

A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Ottawa)

A. Y. Jackson Secondary School is a community high school in the Glen Cairn neighbourhood of Kanata, a suburb in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. It is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and was first opened in 1976. The school was named after A. Y...

||A Few Good Men
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-23||St. Patrick's High School

St. Patrick's High School (Ottawa)

St. Patrick's High School, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Catholic high school publicly funded under the Ontario school system as part of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board...

||Stage Door
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-24||Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School||Dracula
|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-25||St. Paul High School

St. Paul High School (Ottawa)

St. Paul High School is a Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 2007-2008 school census indicated that about 1,300 students were enrolled, but the estimate for the 2008-2009 year is about 1,450.- History :...

||Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...

|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-27||D'Arcy McGee High School||Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

|- valign="top"
| 2009-04-28||Notre Dame High School

Notre Dame High School (Ottawa)

Notre Dame High School is a Catholic high school in Ottawa's west operated by the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board. The school is one of the first in the area to use a uniform and one of the first in the board to ban the use of cell phones and MP3 players on the campus.The school is mainly two...

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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where reading is outlawed and firemen start fires to burn books...

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| 2009-04-29||Philemon Wright High School

Philemon Wright High School

Philemon Wright High School is an anglophone high school located in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is administered by the Western Quebec School Board and named after Philemon Wright, founder of Hull. Philemon Wright High school also offers an Enriched French program course to...

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Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

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| 2009-04-30||Merivale High School

Merivale High School

Merivale High School is a secondary school, located at the intersection of Merivale Road and Viewmount Drive in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The school is known for its gifted student program, but also runs French Immersion programs and extensive visual art, music, and co-operative education...

||Urinetown
Urinetown
Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...

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| 2009-05-01||Holy Trinity Catholic High School||The Hollow
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| 2009-05-02||St. Mark Catholic High School

St. Mark Catholic High School (Ottawa)

Opened in 1980, St. Mark Catholic High School is located in Manotick, a neighbourhood in the city of Ottawa. Its enrollment is currently around 900 after losing about 600 students to St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School in 2009 & 2010, after the completion of its construction in 2009. St....

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| 2009-05-02||Sacred Heart High School||A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....

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Award Winners

The annual Cappies Gala was held on June 7, 2009 at the National Arts Centre

National Arts Centre

The National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...

located in downtown Ottawa. The following winners were announced for each of the 36 award categories. The award winners were decided by nearly 210 critics using a complex online voting system, with the exception of the awards given to the critics themselves. Voting took place at Ottawa's Confederation High School on May 9, 2009.

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! Award
! Winner(s)
! School
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| Male Critic||Edward Roué||Merivale High School
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| Female Critic||Sarah Thuswaldner||St. Paul High School
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| Critic Team||Jacob Scott (Lead Critic)
Vicky Brook
Haley Rosenthal Dubarsky
Lisa Le
Edward Roué
Mallory White
Katelyn Fallon
Rebecca Fisher
Cassandra Lee||Merivale High School
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| Sound||Kim Milligan
Ryan Reid
David Scrivens||Ashbury College
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| Lighting||Roxy Griffith
Dumaresq de Pencier||Ashbury College
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| Sets||Katherine MacGregor||Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School
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| Costumes||Becca Ireland||St. Matthew High School
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| Makeup||St. Pat's Hair & Makeup Crew||St. Patrick's High School
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| Props and Effects||Tim Bettino
Ashley Boivin||Holy Trinity Catholic High School
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| Stage Crew||Josh Bloess
Taylor Bourdeau
Catherine Labrecque
Katherine MacGregor
||Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School
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| Orchestra||The Earl of March Pit Band||Earl of March Secondary School
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| Choreography||Marissa Shabinsky||Merivale High School
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| Creativity||Tim Bettino (Directing)||Holy Trinity High School
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| Ensemble (Play)||Clancy Adami
Hilary Smith||St. Paul High School
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| Ensemble (Musical)||Annie Clarke
Jesse Bergeron||Philemon Wright High School
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| Cameo Actress||Alexandra Augustine||Nepean High School
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| Cameo Actor||Zachary Raynor||St. Patrick's High School
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| Female Dancer||Kalli Koch||Sacred Heart High School
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| Male Dancer||Thomas Shapiro||Earl of March Secondary School
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| Female Vocalist||Leah MacQuarrie||Gloucester High School
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| Male Vocalist||Bradley McDermid||Philemon Wright High School
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| Comic Actress (Play)||Noushig Rita Kadian||Elmwood School
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| Comic Actor (Play)||Jeff Donaldson||All Saints Catholic High School
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| Comic Actress (Musical)||Kylie Bignell||Earl of March Secondary High School
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| Comic Actor (Musical)||Arthur Burrows||Bell High School
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| Featured Actress (Play)||Chelsea Ernhofer||All Saints Catholic High School
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| Featured Actor (Play)||David Scrivens||Ashbury College
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| Featured Actress (Musical)||Sarah Swire||All Saints Catholic High School
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| Featured Actor (Musical)||Sam Toews||Merivale High School
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| Lead Actress (Play)||Cindy Ma||Lisgar Collegiate Institute
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| Lead Actor (Play)||Jon Margeson||All Saints Catholic High School
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| Lead Actress (Musical)||Emily Bozik||Philemon Wright
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| Lead Actor (Musical)||Torin McClellan||Gloucester High School
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| Song||Reviewing the Situation||Gloucester High School
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| Play||Acts of God||Ashbury College
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| Musical||Thoroughly Modern Millie||Earl of March Secondary School
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