Photo Coverage: Constantine Maroulis & Deborah Cox Host High School Jimmy Awards!

Last night, June 25, the stars of the upcoming revival of Jekyll & Hyde, Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages) and Grammy Award Nominee Deborah Cox (Aida), hosted the 4th annual National High School Musical Theater Awards at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. The show featured 60 of America's most talented young musical theater performers vying for the "Jimmy Award" for Best Performance by an Actress and Best Performance by an Actor. This year, Elizabeth Romero, Joshua Grosso were crowned the night's big winners. Each received $10,000 scholarship awards for their efforts. Runners up, who each recieved $2,500 in scholarships, were Evan Greenberg, Drew Shafranek, Nicolette Burton, and Erica Durham. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.

The event is a celebration of outstanding student achievement in vocal, dance and acting. Students performed songs from the role that earned them top honors at their regional high school musical theater awards competitions.

Winners of the Jimmy Awards were chosen by a panel of industry experts including Scott Ellis (Roundabout Theatre Company); Kent Gash (New Studio on Broadway, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Drama); Tony Award-nominee Montego Glover (Memphis); Rachel Hoffman (Telsey + Company); Alecia Parker (NAMCO); Nick Scandalios (Nederlander Organization) and Bernie Telsey (Telsey + Company and MCC Theater).

The 4th Annual National High School Musical Theater Awards will be the subject of the upcoming PBS documentary, "BROADWAY OR BUST," premiering in September.

For more information on the National High School Musical Theater Awards, visit www.nhsmta.com.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

Deborah Cox

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox, Nick Scandalios

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox, Frank Wildhorn, Nick Scandalios

Constantine Maroulis

Nick Scandalios, Deborah Cox, Constantine Maroulis, Alecia Parker, Kent Gash

Shauni Ruetz

Kara Oates, Tyler Merna, Camille Mancuso, Annie Baltic and Nia Ashleigh

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox, Camille Mancuso, Kara Oates, Annie Baltic, Nia Ashleigh, and Tyler Merna

Krysta Rodriguez

Roger Rees, Rick Elice

Montego Glover

Kids from The Lion King

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox, and the students

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox

Jimmy Award finalists and students

Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox

Drew Shafranek

Van Kaplan, James L. Nederlander

Malia Morley

Kyle Conroy

Elizabeth Romero, Morgan Kirner

Rising Juniors

Jimmy Awards finalists

Joshua Grosso

Elizabeth Romero

Elizabeth Romero, Joshua Grosso

Elizabeth Romero

Full cast of student performers

BWW Hi-Res Gallery - Original Version

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Jennifer was given her first camera at the age of eight, and has had one in her hand ever since. For the duration of her college career, she was an event photographer--capturing guest speakers, musicians, and performances. She is now a concert and event photographer, taking in all that New York City has to offer for entertainment.

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