MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Two Wisconsin students are advancing to the 17th annual Jimmy Awards in New York City.<\/p>\n
Ava Greenberg from Middleton High School and William Kastner from Kettle Moraine School for Arts and Performance were selected as part of the local Jerry Awards to move on to the national level of competition.<\/p>\n
Overture Center for the Arts hosts the Jerry Awards every year to showcase high school musical theater students in Wisconsin. This year\u2019s awards took place on June 7, where both Greenberg and Kastner performed.<\/p>\n
The two were part of 74 students from across the state to receive an \u201cOutstanding Lead Performance\u201d award. Those were determined after reviewers went to schools to see each of their productions.<\/p>\n
Greenburg got her award for her portrayal of \u00a0Eurydice in \u201cHadestown: Teen Edition,\u201d while Kastner got his for Hunk\/Scarecrow in \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d and Cpt. Joseph Riser in \u201cThe Hello Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two will now head to New York to perform on June 22 at Broadway\u2019s Minskoff Theatre. The winners get awards and scholarships and can help launch a career in the film, television, music or Broadway industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Two Wisconsin students are advancing to the 17th annual Jimmy Awards in New York City.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[472,25,4982,9,24,55,54,12,56,101686,27,27929],"class_list":["post-261885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-top-stories","tag-arts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-rachel-ryan","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261885","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=261885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}