Somehow the wrong words appeared in my last post. Here is the real response. Art retired the award when he found that there were no acts which merited the award. He might have given it this year to Steven Ragatz. I did not see the Bix show so I don't know about that act. Here are Art's criteria as I recall them: The act must tell a story. It must move you. It must take you on an emotional journey and let you down gently at the end. There must be costuming, attention to detail, care for the audience, respect for the props and the space. There must be a beginning, a middle, and an end. There must be no drops. Or if there are any drops they must be covered up with drop lines or moves which make the audience say, "I wonder if he dropped it on purpose." Frankly it was those criteria that we used in putting together Dorothy's two acts, her swing dance routine in Montreal and her Hawaiian number in Madison. That was the motivation behind our family act, "The Finnigan Family Hits the Beach." I felt the only award wort ever striving for was the Founders Trophy, and I believe we should revive it.