{"id":142889,"date":"2026-02-23T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:20:06","slug":"roger-rees-awards-alumni-will-reunite-for-2nd-annual-benefit-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142889\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Rees Awards Alumni Will Reunite for 2nd Annual Benefit Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">The Broadway Education Alliance just\u00a0announced the 2nd\u00a0Before Broadway &amp; Beyond Benefit Concert,\u00a0a special one-night-only concert featuring a 21-member ensemble of talented New Yorkers who are gathering to support the 16th\u00a0season of The <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Roger-Rees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roger Rees<\/a> Awards for Excellence in Student Performance, the Greater New York Regional Awards of The National High School Musical Theatre Awards known as The Jimmy\u2019s. This annual fund-raising event will take place on\u00a0Saturday, March 14th\u00a0at 7:30 p.m. at the <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Leonard-Nimoy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leonard Nimoy<\/a> Thalia at <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Symphony-Space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Symphony Space<\/a> (250 West 95th\u00a0Street, New York City).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Directed by <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Theo-Lencicki\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Theo Lencicki<\/a>, this concert features <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Roger-Rees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roger Rees<\/a> Awards alumni from eleven previous seasons who are now working across Broadway, national tours, film and television. \u201cBeyond showcasing these remarkable performers, this event is a celebration of the importance of theater arts education and the long-term impact it has on developing skilled artists and building their audiences,\u201d remarks Lencicki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The cast in alphabetical order includes:\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Savannah-Lee-Birdsong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Savannah Lee Birdsong<\/a>,\u00a0Jack Ceglie,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Sarah-Chiu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarah Chiu<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Michaela-DeJoseph\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michaela DeJoseph<\/a>,\u00a0Ashlee Fucarino,\u00a0Jeremy Fuentes,\u00a0Liam Ginsburg,\u00a0Meredith Heller,\u00a0Grace Kiamie,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Mateo-Lizcano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mateo Lizcano<\/a>,\u00a0Keenan Lyons,\u00a0Lauren Marchand,\u00a0Alyssa Mcdonald,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Drew-Minard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew Minard<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Nirvaan-Pal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nirvaan Pal<\/a>,\u00a0Theo Pearson,\u00a0Ryan Rodi\u00f1o,\u00a0Maddie Rudin,\u00a0Gabbie Sansone,\u00a0Celia Stafford, and\u00a0Tyler Turetsky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Roger-Rees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roger Rees<\/a> Awards for Excellence in Student Performance\u00a02025-2026 season will feature students from 103 high schools located within the Greater New York area. The Awards Showcase will be held on\u00a0Sunday, May 17th\u00a0at\u00a0<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Symphony-Space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Symphony Space<\/a>, 2537 Broadway at 95th\u00a0Street in New York City. The event begins at 7:00 pm. The <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Roger-Rees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roger Rees<\/a> Awards is the Greater New York Regional Award of The National High School Musical Theatre Awards aka The Jimmy Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broadway Education Alliance just\u00a0announced the 2nd\u00a0Before Broadway &amp; Beyond Benefit Concert,\u00a0a special one-night-only concert featuring a 21-member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-142889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}