69th Annual Theatre World Awards: Winners and Photos

Lea Salongo & Anne Sayre - Photo: Sue Coflin/Max Photos

Winners of the 69th Annual Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway debut performances during the 2012-2013 theatrical season were celebrated on Monday night at the Music Box Theatre. A number of soap stars were in attendance including AS THE WORLD TURNS' Colleen Zenk (Barbara Ryan), Anne Sayre (Mitzi Matters) and Lea Salonga (Lien Hughes), and ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Patricia Elliott (Renee Buchanan), Thom Christopher (Carlo Hesser) and Jackie Hoffman (Eunice Burns).

Check out more photos below and a full list of award winners.

NEWS ROUNDUP: Frank Dicopoulos' New Career; Plus, Lenny Platt, Tonya Pinkins, Michael Forest

GUIDING LIGHT alum Frank Dicopoulos 'Discovers' new career
Unable to find many acting jobs and concerned about providing for his family, which includes his wife, Teja Anderson, and children Jaden, 18, and Olivia, 15, Dicopoulos, 55, decided it was time for a career change.

“I had to reinvent myself,” he says.

Today he serves as the host of NJ Discover's ARTISTS AGAINST THE ODDS, a show about local artists facing tough obstacles, and EARTH TREASURES, a reality show set at the Earth Treasures jewelry store in Eatontown, which Dicopoulos describes as ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW meets PAWN STARS.

Jackie Hoffman On How To Lose A Viewer After 30 Years

is known to Broadway audiences as Prudy Pingleton in Hairspray and Calliope in Xanadu.  She is best known to soap viewers as the primary prickly protester of gay marriage on ONE LIFE TO LIVE's infamous gay wedding episode [the one who ended up getting a huge smackaroo from Roxie at the end].  On a fabulous interview with our friends at Feast of Fun on 11/23, she discussed her role on ONE LIFE, and how ALL MY CHILDREN lost a loyal viewer of 30 years!

"I watched ALL MY CHILDREN and I did a few spots on ONE LIFE TO LIVE.  I gave up watching ALL MY CHILDREN because it became so baby-centric.  Everybody became, “I have to have a baby, I want a baby, I want a baby.  If I don’t have a baby, I’m not fulfilled.  If I don’t have a baby, I’m not a woman.” I was like "Fuck off", and I stopped watching it after 30 years. You are too baby-centric for my ass!

Press here to listen to the entire fascinating and entertaining interview.