To make the cut, each student first won a competition as the best male or female high school performer in one of 31 regions. After the ceremony, Ms. Faye reunited with her high school teachers and family members and tried to catch her breath. “She said to me a year and a half ago, ‘I love musical theater, but I’m going into law,’” her high school’s music director, Marty Gregory, said. The prizes are known as the Jimmy Awards, in honor of the Broadway producer and theater owner James M. Nederlander, 94. Dream the dream.’”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Strobl, by contrast, was more interested in singing in alternative-rock bands until an audience member at a show encouraged him to give musical theater a shot.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 21:24 UTC