Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Spotlight Showcase Awards

Quick Notice! With over 700 students from around the state the state was alive at the Hennepin Theatre Trust Spotlight Musical Theatre Awards Program. They sang and dance and performed beautiful music and great for for the entire evening. southwest produce "Hairspray" thie year. The honors for the cast and crew include: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Overall Performance, Outstanding Student Orchestra Performance. Numerous individual awards were presented to individual cast members. More will be reported later. One special presentation was made to Hairspray star John Jamison. He received special notice and was singled out for a special trip to Nre York City to work with an actor training group, meet agents and explore the options. Jamison and the cast brought the house down with melody of numbers from the show and then blasted over the top with individual interview and selections. He was an audience favorite. Will report more in coming days. It was a great Southwest evening. Congratulation John Jamison and the entire cast, crew and Directors of Haurspray.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It was simply awesome and John deserved all the rousing applause he received. What a great night - so proud of our SWHS kids!

Barb Nicol, parent of a soon-to-be senior