Photo Coverage: Tennessee's Theaterati Celebrate Halloween 2012

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Ah, Halloween...the theaterati's favorite holiday (right after Tony Awards Day and, in Tennessee of course, First Night Day!)...gives everyone the opportunity to show off their inner characters and unknown doppelgangers. So how did Tennessee's theater types celebrate the day? Dress up with some place to go...

Wes Richardson (as himself) and Virginia Richardson (as young Elphaba)

Trish Crist as Annie...at 44!

Travis Harkins, Bryce Conner and Amanda Lamb (as Honey Boo-Boo)

Todd Rowan and friend

Todd Rowan and another friend, apparently

Natalie Hale and her friends as Superheroes

Natalie Hale as Frank N Furter

Lucy Turner, about to head out for some trick-or-treating or to audition for the role of Little Red in yet another production of Into the Woods

Laura Crockarell and her sister as the female versions of Supernatural's Sam and Dean Winchester

Laura and Jessi Higgins

LaQuita James

Katie Gant, Bryce Conner and Jennifer Richmond

Kaila Brooke as Merida

Joy Tilley-Perryman channels Flo from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva and Bryce Conner flank an unidentified reveler.

Jeff Ward and Angela Gimlin, as Prince Charming and Snow White, naturally

Another Honey Boo-Boo? Halee Culicerto!

Graham, Virginia and Wes Richardson

David Arnold and Cat Arnold as Hercules and Megara, wearing costumes designed by Cat, of course!

One thing about theater folk and Halloween: Plenty of opportunities to be every character you want. Here's David Arnold and Cat Arnold as pirates.

Bryce Conner and Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva

Blair Allison (as How I Met Your Mother's Robin Sparkles), along with her friends Black Widow, Tony Stark, Magenta, and Austin Powers.

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Jeffrey Ellis is a Nashville-based writer, editor and critic, who's been covering the performing arts in Tennessee for more than 25 years. He is the recipient of the Tennessee Theatre Association's Distinguished Service Award for his coverage of theatre in the Volunteer State and was the founding editor/publisher of Stages, the Tennessee Onstage Monthly. He is a past fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and is the founder/executive producer of The First Night Honors, held during Labor Day Weekend, which honor oustanding theater artists in Tennessee in recognition of their lifetime achievements and includes The First Night Star Awards and the Most Promising Actors. Midwinter's First Night, held the first Sunday in January after New Year's Day, honors outstanding productions and performances throughout the state. Further, Ellis directed the Nashville premiere of La Cage Aux Folles, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and An American Daughter, as well as award-winning productions of Damn Yankees, Company, Gypsy and The Rocky Horror Show, with Ellis honored by The Tennessean as best director of a musical for both Company and Rocky Horror.

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