Broadway/San Diego just announced the 5th annual Broadway/San Diego High School Musical Theatre Awards, sponsored by San Diego County Credit Union®, taking place on Sunday, May 27, 2018 where twenty nominated Students will compete for two spots on an all-expenses paid trip to The Jimmy Awards (National High School Musical Theatre Awards®) in New York in June.
High school productions are currently being scored in a competitive Tony® Awards style adjudication process, to find the top school musical theater talent in San Diego County. The top two winners for Best Actor and Best Actress will each win $1,000 towards a college scholarship and one school will be chosen for Best Musical Production, also winning $1,000 for their theatre department.
Leading up to the awards, nominees will take part in a week-long intensive consisting of individual coaching sessions singing, movement, acting and special workshops with local theatre practitioners.
Categories this year include:
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Musical Production
Best Theatre Teacher
The Broadway/San Diego High School Musical Theatre Awards will be held at the Historic Balboa Theatre in Downtown San Diego on Sunday, May 27th. It will include twenty leading Best Actress and Best Actor nominees, along with awarding Best Musical, and Best Drama Teacher.
The winning Best Actor and Best Actress performers will be flown to New York for a week of intensive training before they compete in the national finals, The Jimmy Awards, on a Broadway stage for $10,000 toward a college scholarship on Monday, June 25, 2018.
Participating San Diego County High Schools
Academy of Our Lady of Peace
Mary Poppins (Fall)
The Addams Family (Spring)
Canyon Crest Academy
Into the Woods (Fall)
Jekyll & Hyde (Spring)
Cathedral Catholic High School
Grease (Spring)
42nd Street (Spring)
Classical Academy High School
Drowsy Chaperone (Spring)
Coronado School of the Arts
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Fall)
City of Angels (Spring)
La Costa Canyon High School
Les Miserables (Spring)
La Jolla High School
Grease (Spring)
Mira Mesa High School
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Spring)
Mission Hills High School
American Idiot (Spring)
The O'Farrell Charter School
West Side Story (Spring)
Pacific Ridge School
Once on this Island (Spring)
Patrick Henry High School
Shrek the Musical (Spring)
Point Loma High School
Rent: School Edition(Spring)
Rancho Buena Vista
Bring It on! (Spring)
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts
Chorus Line (Spring)
San Dieguito Academy
Berger (Fall)
Chicago: School Edition (Spring)
Santa Fe Christian School
Mary Poppins (Spring)
Scripps Ranch High School
Legally Blonde (Spring)
Steele Canyon High School
The Sound of Music (Spring)
University City High School
Bye Bye Birdie (Spring)
West Hills High School
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Fall)
Westview High School
Legally Blonde (Spring)
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