{"id":651019,"date":"2026-05-18T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:49:08","slug":"blumey-awards-winners-announced-wfae-90-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651019\/","title":{"rendered":"Blumey Awards winners announced | WFAE 90.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blumenthal Arts honored top high school musical theater students from across the Charlotte region Sunday night at the 2026 Blumey Awards at Belk Theater. Weddington High School won the Tier 1 Best Musical award for &#8220;Legally Blonde: The Musical&#8221;, while North Lincoln High School took the Tier 2 honor for &#8220;Hadestown: Teen Edition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>North Lincoln\u2019s Harold Garcia was named Best Actor for his role as Orpheus, and Carmel Christian\u2019s Anna Jernigan won Best Actress for her performance in \u201cFootloose.\u201d Organizers say a record 59 schools participated this year, with awards recognizing achievement in performance, design, direction and production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blumenthal Arts honored top high school musical theater students from across the Charlotte region Sunday night at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-651019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}