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.

2017-2018 Season Critics Choices for Lead Actor in a Musical


Samuel Intrater, Albert Einstein High School, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Kyle Dalsimer, Annandale High School, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jake Carlo, Bishop Ireton High School, The Addams Family
Saidou Sosseh, Clarksburg High School, The Addams Family
Eli Nygaard, Fairfax High School, Disney's The Little Mermaid
Patrick Kearney, Falls Church High School, Into the Woods
Miles Jackson, George Mason High School, Monty Python's Spamalot
Corbin Farrell, Hayfield Secondary School, RENT
Nick Trusty, Heritage High School, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Sam Wells, J.E.B. Stuart High School, Disney's The Little Mermaid
Mark Bosset, Langley High School, Evita
Blake Carlson, Loudoun Valley High School, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Samuel Zarek, Mount Vernon High School, Bye Bye Birdie
Parker Waters, Oakton High School, Titanic
Jordan Drake, Osbourn High School, Fiddler on the Roof
Robert Liniak, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, The Music Man
Ben Gherman, Poolesville High School, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Daniel Williams, Robinson Secondary School, Monty Python's Spamalot
Parker Koch, Rock Ridge High School, Mary Poppins
Kevon Thompson, South County High School, Legally Blonde
Jalen Robinson, South Lakes High School, Phantom
Joshua Mutterperl, Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci/Tech, Mary Poppins
Max Ramsay, Thomas S. Wootton High School, The Music Man
James Sheppard, Tuscarora High School, Disney's The Little Mermaid
Jack Hopewell, W. T. Woodson High School, Pippin
Ethan Chow, Wakefield High School, The Drowsy Chaperone
Josh Stein, West Potomac High School, Dogfight
Stephen Perkins, West Springfield High School, Into the Woods
John Henry Stamper, Westfield High School, The Phantom of the Opera
Lukas D'Errico, Woodgrove High School, The Addams Family
William Wright, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, Legally Blonde

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