McAnuff scores award

Legit helmer Des McAnuff will get the 2012 National Arts Center Award, the exclusive Canuck kudo presented included in the country's Governor General's Carrying out Arts Honours. Trophy, which recognizes achievement within the carrying out arts throughout yesteryear year, designated McAnuff for recent works such as the well-received revival of "Jesus Celebrity" -- which just started a Broadway transfer following its Canadian preem -- in addition to productions of "Faust" (in the Metropolitan Opera), tuner "Physician Zhivago (which opened up this season in Seoul) along with a Christopher Plummer-toplined "Twelfth Evening" in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where McAnuff is really a.deb. The director is going to be honored throughout the Governor General's Honours Carrying out Arts Gala May 5 in the National Arts Center in Ottawa. Selected yearly with a jury of NAC program executives, those who win from the award get a cash prize of $25,000, an authentic work by Quebec-based ceramic artist Paula Murray along with a medal in the Royal Canadian Mint. McAnuff is really a regular presence around the Rialto, where his credits range from the still-running "Jersey Boys" in addition to "The Who's Tommy," "700 Sundays" and also the 1995 revival of "How to achieve Business Without Really Trying." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com