{"id":489,"date":"2019-05-12T18:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-05-12T18:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T18:16:44","slug":"batss-steel-magnolias-scoop-the-best-drama-award-at-the-east-region-noda-awards-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"BATS&#8217;s &#8220;Steel Magnolias&#8221; scoop the &#8220;Best Drama Award&#8221; at the East Region NODA Awards today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60306953_10157250067948156_2453625781532753920_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-487 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60306953_10157250067948156_2453625781532753920_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60306953_10157250067948156_2453625781532753920_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60306953_10157250067948156_2453625781532753920_n-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60306953_10157250067948156_2453625781532753920_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>It was such an honour and a privilege to be at the helm of this fantastic play last year. a phenomenal cast and crew team. so much talent on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Today we found ourselves at the NODA awards, 7 months on, having been nominated in Best Drama and Best Panto for &#8220;Cinderella&#8221;. Such an honour to be nominated let alone to win one of the categories.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lovely day, with all of us looking tippy in our finest. \u00a0Food was excellent. It was truly fantastic to be in a room with 450 other exceptionally talented people of all ages, shapes, sizes and backgrounds. And such a great mix of fantastic shoes as well!<\/p>\n<p>i couldnt be more proud of our achievements and this love story i have had with this play for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Kay Young earlier today &#8211; \u00a0&#8220;We winned!!! Yay go us!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Now, all i can think of is <a href=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-486 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60012224_10156427327800829_6552198778730840064_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>what should be next and<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-484 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60013708_10157249832823156_4921622665371844608_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60013708_10157249832823156_4921622665371844608_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60013708_10157249832823156_4921622665371844608_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60013708_10157249832823156_4921622665371844608_n-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60013708_10157249832823156_4921622665371844608_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0&#8220;how do we top that&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-485 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60014697_10157250245033156_1804321065334210560_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was such an honour and a privilege to be at the helm of this fantastic play last year. a phenomenal cast and crew team. so much talent on the stage. Today we found ourselves at the NODA awards, 7 months on, having been nominated in Best Drama and Best Panto for &#8220;Cinderella&#8221;. Such an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/?p=489\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bats-theatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}