The Bainbridge High School production of “Return to Forbidden Planet” has received one nomination and two honorable mentions in the recently announced 2015 “5th Avenue Awards” by Seattle’s renowned 5th Avenue Theater.

The 5th Avenue Awards honors outstanding achievement in high school musical theater and celebrates the hard work and dedication students and educators put forth to make their school productions a success.

Officials saw more than 100 productions before finalizing their nominations, according to theater officials.

The BHS show received a nomination for “Best Supporting Actress” for Lesley Lemon’s performance, as well as honorable mention accolades for “Best Orchestra” (musical director Corinna Lapid Munter on keyboard with accompanying students Teddy O’Mara, Sienna Mander, Nick Stahl and Sam Holder), “Best Lobby Display” (theater booster parents headed by Tanya Howlett, Deborah Fuller, Cary Melia and Virginia Konig) and “Best Supporting Actor” for the performance of Alex Fuller.

“To receive an honorable mention is of course an honor,” said Linda Lemon, founder of the BHS theater boosters. “To receive a nomination is gold.”

It is a truly record-breaking event for the school’s theater program, she explained.

“Mrs. Baker, our retiring costume designer, told me recently that we only secured at most one honor in any given year,” Lemon said. “Alex and Lesley alone broke the record for BHS. The orchestra and lobby recognitions just added to the list, though adult-driven.

“Not bad for a little unknown musical in this country where staging was a challenge,” she added.

Competition throughout the region is incredibly stiff, Lemon added, saying that the BHS program did much more with much less than most schools on the nomination list.

“Our competition [are] schools with $50,000 budgets, state-of-the-art equipment, a complete stage and a comprehensive performing arts curriculum that doubles as rehearsals,” she explained. “They tend to dominate the awards.”

The official awards ceremony was held at the Fifth Avenue June 8.

“Return to Forbidden Planet” was chosen by the students of the BHS theater program as the spring production this year in place of “Footloose,” the originally intended show.

A retro sci-fi comedy musical, “Return to Forbidden Planet” is based very loosely on William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and the classic 1956 film, “Forbidden Planet,” with a soundtrack that features lots of vintage American rock.