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Las Vegas students will represent on Broadway

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Winners of the 2016 Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards stand on Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall stage with the contest judges.
Geri Kodey

The performer’s journey to the Great White Way starts long before 42nd Street, and for a pair of young Nevadans, it began during May’s fourth-annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards at the Smith Center. Las Vegas Academy’s Deimoni Brewington and Calvary Chapel Christian School’s Mariah Martin took the regional competition’s top prizes and will represent the Silver State June 27 at the national awards, where they’ll perform on Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre stage. The local students are being sent off to NYC with a massive vote of confidence—the judges who chose them included Rachel Tyler of Steve Wynn’s ShowStoppers (who performed in Miss Saigon on London’s West End) and Vegas! The Show’s Josh Strickland (who played Disney’s Tarzan on Broadway).

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