Please note that the listings below are NOT nominations. The following names are the choices the critics made on Cappies show night. These names will be the names on the ballot from which the top five nominees will be selected.

2023-2024 Season Critics Choices for Lead Actor in a Male Role in a Musical


Donovan Furey, Bishop Ireton High School, Into the Woods
Andre Jones, Centreville High School, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
Will Sanfilippo, Chantilly High School, Anything Goes
Josh Starzyk, Colgan High School, Rent School Edition
Alejandro Cahoon, Fairfax High School, Anastasia: The Musical
Colt Armstrong, Falls Church High School, Annie
Will Johnson, Hayfield Secondary School, Les Misérables School Edition
Ethan Hardy, Herndon High School, Fiddler on the Roof
James Gilliam, Mount Vernon High School, The Addams Family
Alejandro Gonzalez Ramirez, Osbourn Park High School, The SpongeBob Musical
August Rivers, South Lakes High School, Big Fish School Edition
Gabriel Martinez, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Into the Woods
Christopher LaStrape, Thomas A Edison High School, The Addams Family School Edition
Ella Tysse, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, The SpongeBob Musical
Ethan Heinrich, Wakefield High School, The Prom School Edition
Ryan Robbins, Walt Whitman High School , Cabaret
Christopher Seeger, West Springfield High School, Sweeney Todd School Edition
Alyce Visioli, Woodson High School, 1776
Matthew Aslaksen, Yorktown High School, Les Misérables School Edition

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