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Fashioned after Broadway's Tony Awards, the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards (GHSMTA) program celebrates excellence in high school musical theatre. The Awards are named in honor of actor/singer and Georgia native, Shuler Hensley, winner of the prestigious Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award. The year-round program embodies a spirit of camaraderie and celebration for the arts in high schools across Georgia. From volunteer training and high school theatre adjudication, to the Student Ensemble, S.T.A.R. Council, scholarship program to the weeklong training with industry professionals and much more, nearly 5,000 students participate annually in the life-changing program. ArtsBridge has several alumni who have gone on to Broadway and other professional arts opportunities, and numerous others who have simply discovered gifts and talents! Our program is part of the National High School Musical Theatre Awards - The Jimmy Awards program of the Broadway League of New York City, NY and is proud to announce it has had two national winners! Atlanta's Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre provides a beautiful, state-of-the-art home for the GHSMTA. The televised show has received 12 nominations and has won the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024 Southeast Emmy Awards!
Feel the energy of hundreds of talented student performers, representing over 90 participating Iowa high schools, as they share highlights from their award-winning school musicals. This broadcast features highlights from the May event at the Des Moines Civic Center celebrating the contributions of Iowa's high school drama programs and the people involved.
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Feel the energy of hundreds of talented student performers as they share highlights from their award-winning school musicals at the 2024 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase.
Iowa PBS is proud to present an exclusive livestream of the full event on iowapbs.org on Thursday, May 30 at 7 p.m. A 2-hour highlights special will air Tuesday, July 9 at 8 p.m. and be rebroadcast Sunday, July 14 at 4 p.m. The special will also be available for a limited time for on-demand streaming on iowapbs.org and the PBS App.
Throughout the school year, workshops led by theater professionals help students grow. While some sessions focus on performance skills, others focus on technical areas such as lighting design, scenic design, and stage management. Many opportunities connect students directly with Broadway professionals.
Select participating musical productions receive a professional review. Panels of performing arts educators and professionals (adjudicators) attend exhibiting schools' musicals and provide feedback on individual actors' performances, orchestra, set, lighting, costumes and more. Teachers and students use these insights to make their next show even stronger. Schools participating year over year have seen dramatic transformations in skill, student enthusiasm, and community support.
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That means I was one of the millions of fans who tuned in to watch these movies whenever they would premiere on the Disney Channel. I was there the day High School Musical 2 broke records, in the theaters when High School Musical: Senior Year came out, and was first to watch High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney+. I freaking loved these movies and honestly, I stand by them as being fun musicals to watch, no matter how cliche they can be.
One of the biggest gripes I had with this film series is that Sharpay was painted as someone who was a jerk for wanting to have major roles in a musical, something she has done since she was a child. Let me tell you how this story really goes:
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"It's doubtful that showtunes will ever be cool among teens and tweens, but Disney Channel certainly makes a convincing case for the return of the musical with an original pic from "Dirty Dancing's" Kenny Ortega. Featuring an immensely appealing cast and some highly clever, toe-tapping tunes, "High School Musical" should strike the right chord with Mouse fans."
Written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega, the astronomical success of this 2006 movie feels like something out of a Disney original. Set in a high school with shockingly strict rules about cliques and soft spot for elaborate musical numbers, the first High School Musical told the Romeo and Juliet story of Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). He was a basketball player who belonged with the jocks. She was the brainy new kid. Naturally the only way they could connect was through the magic of musical theatre.
Nominations for the 22nd Metro Awards, honoring high school musicals from the Lower Hudson Valley and Bergen County in New Jersey, will be livestreamed exclusively on lohud.com at 7:30 p.m., Monday, May 15, from the stage of Tarrytown Music Hall, the event's new venue.
But 2023 sees a new production team running things for Metros producer Danielle Rudess of Nyack's Helen Hayes Youth Theatre. Blake Spence and Jordan Singer will join me in announcing the nominees in 35 categories, everything from lobby display to outstanding overall production.
This year's home for the Metros is the 843-seat Tarrytown Music Hall. With 529 fewer seats than the 2019 home at Purchase College's PAC Concert Hall, it'll make for a tougher ticket, something Spence said he is stressing to schools that are about to find themselves nominated.
Other categories have been renamed "in keeping with the times," Spence said. For example: "outstanding performance by a performer in a leading female-identified role" and "outstanding performance by a performer in a supporting male-identified role."
Metros night will still be a raucous night of showtunes, of kids hearing their names announced and then running down from the balcony, arriving breathless at the podium to thank their directors, their parents, their casts and crews. There might be promposals.
Viewing parties: The livestream on lohud.com has inspired viewing parties, with theater kids huddling to watch on the big screen. But everyone at the party also uses their own devices to watch along, to register their support.
The menu: Tradition holds that casts and crew gather around pizza, wings and paninis to find out who'll be nominated. Extra points (and possible livestream shoutouts) are given to those whose feasts are show-specific.
The Metros were last held in 2019 at the expansive Concert Hall at Purchase College's Performing Arts Center, with Sleepy Hollow High School's production of "Hello, Dolly!" taking top honors. When the global pandemic struck in March 2020, it caught some schools hours before opening curtains, and the rest of the season was canceled.
In 2021, some schools pivoted to Zoom musicals, or ambitious green-screen productions. In 2022, some schools were back on stage, with actors wearing face shields. But Metros producer Rudess kept the awards show dark.
It was at the urging of Spence and Singer, Rudess said, that she decided to pass the baton to a new generation, after 21 years of helming the awards as head of the Nyack-based Helen Hayes Youth Theatre.
Singer, who coordinates after-school theater programs across Westchester for KJK Productions, has been a Metros judge for years, and coordinated the judges this year. Spence teaches at Lyndhurst High School in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and is the artistic director of theater at Madison High School in Morris County.
The Metros have been held at a host of different venues through the years. They began in Nyack, then were held jointly in Nyack and White Plains Performing Arts Center (linked by a satellite feed), then at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, then Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, last at the massive Concert Hall at Purchase College Performing Arts Center.
High School Musical is an American media franchise centered on a series of musical romantic comedy-drama films created by Peter Barsocchini. The franchise also includes stage musicals, books, comics, live shows, video games, and a television series.
The first film was released simply as a Disney Channel Original Movie, but after its huge success, it was followed by a television sequel. The third film received a theatrical release. Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman starred in the trilogy. Tisdale and Grabeel reprised their roles as Sharpay and Ryan Evans in a spin-off on the series titled Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure,[1] ultimately released as both a direct-to-video film and a Disney Channel Original Movie. The franchise has developed a cult following.[2]
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