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2009 Ovation Awards

2009 Awards

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ16972670 ↗
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The nominees for the 2009 Ovation Awards were announced on October 19, 2009, at A Noise Within in Glendale, California. The awards were presented for excellence in stage productions in the Los Angeles area from September 1, 2008, to August 31, 2009, based upon evaluations from members of the Los Angeles theater community.

The winners were announced on January 11, 2010, in a ceremony at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach, California.

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The public source identifies “2009 Ovation Awards” as 2009 Awards. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ovation and Awards.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ovation and Awards providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2009 Ovation Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.