This year's winners and runners-up at the Bolton Evening News Amateur Stage Awards and Bolton Amateur Theatre Societies' Dinner

Best Set/Design/Costume

Winner: New Rosemere Amateur Operatic Society for The Mikado.

Runners-up: Horwich AODS -- Jesus Christ Superstar; Farnworth Little Theatre -- Gaslight.

Readers' Choice

Winner: Horwich AODS -- Jesus Christ Superstar.

Runners-up: Farnworth Performing Arts Company -- Kiss Me Kate; Farnworth Little Theatre -- Billy Liar.

Best Pantomime

Winner: Tyldesley Little Theatre.

Runners-up: Victoria Halls ADS -- Aladdin; Trinity Methodist ADS -- Aladdin.

Best Choreography

Winner: St Paul's AODS for Guys and Dolls.

Runners-up: Horwich AODS -- Jesus Christ Superstar; St Catherine's AMS -- Half a Sixpence.

Best Actress in a Musical

Winner: Natalie Kirkbright as Nancy in Oliver, Bolton Premier Productions.

Runners-up: Katherine Henrys -- Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, St Philip's AODS; Clare Unsworth -- Anna in the Merry Widow, Bolton Catholics MCS.

Best Actor in a Musical

Winner: Steve Benson as Fred Graham/Petrucio in Kiss Me Kate, Farnworth Performing Arts Company.

Runners-up: Tim Shorten -- Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, St Paul's AOS; John A Wood -- Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Horwich AODS.

Best Actress in a Play

Winner: Cath Blower as Meg in Beauty Queen of Leenane, Bolton Little Theatre.

Runners-up: Samantha Taylor -- May in The Accrington Pals, Phoenix Theatre Company; Jenni Whitehead -- Catherine Winslow in The Winslow Boy, New Egerton Players.

Best Actor in a Play

Winner: Jason Crompton as Alfie in Alfie, the Marco Players.

Runners-up: Jonathan Simmons -- Sir Robert Morton in The Winslow Boy, New Egerton Players; Stephen Stubbs -- Ken Harrison in Whose Life is it Anyway, Farnworth Little Theatre.

Best Drama

Winner: Alfie by The Marco Players.

Runners-up: Up 'n' Under -- Phoenix Theatre Company; The Herbal Bed -- Bolton Little Theatre.

Best Musical

Winner: The Mikado by New Rosemere AOS.

Runners-up: Jesus Christ Superstar -- Horwich AODS; Kiss Me Kate -- Farnworth Performing Arts Company.

Bolton Evening News Special Award

Winner: Cath Blower of Bolton Little Theatre.