The cast, crew, and directors of Friendswood High School’s Oklahoma! have received  12 Tommy Tune Award Nominations.  They will be performing at the Tommy Tune Award Ceremony on April 20, 2010 at the Hobby Center.  It will be televised the next weekend. 
           Friendswood High School's production was nominated in the following categories:

Best Musical
Best Direction
Best Choreography
Best Musical Direction
Best Orchestra
Best Scenic Design
Best Lighting Design
Best Ensemble
Best Supporting Actor - Jeffery Allison
Best Supporting Actress - Teagan Batts
Best Supporting Actress - Lizzy Conger
Best Featured Performer - Mason Conrad
           The Theatre Under The Stars Tommy Tune Awards recognize and reward excellence in the production of musical theatre by high school students and their teachers in the greater Houston metropolitan area.
           Out of seven years of the competition, FHS has been nominated six times for Best Musical. Each year the FHS casts have been nominated for 9-15 categories.
           In 2004 and 2005, FHS won Best Choreography. The musicals those years were Good News! and Lil’ Abner respectively. In 2006, FHS’ South Pacific won Best Musical, Best Scenic Design and Best Supporting Actress. In 2009, an FHS actor was a winning scholarship recipient.
           The awards are named in honor of Tommy Tune, who is a nine-time winner of the Tony Award, Broadways’ highest honor for outstanding work, and who is also a graduate of Lamar High School in Houston. Tune has been honored as a performer, director, and choreographer, and works in which he has starred or directed and choreographed include Seesaw, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Nine, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Grand Hotel, and The Will Rogers Follies.