Tickets on Sale Now for First Diamond High School Musical Theater Awards
The musical theater showcase and awards ceremony will feature performances by Diamond Award finalists.
Tickets are on sale now for the 2024-25 Walton Arts Center Diamond Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 4 at 4 pm. The musical theater showcase and awards ceremony will feature performances by Diamond Award finalists. Tickets are just $10.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, Walton Arts Center's Diamond Awards recognizes achievement and excellence in musical theater among local high school students. The Diamond Awards celebrate the power of the arts in education and motivate support for and interest in high school musicals.
Ten high school theater programs that produced full-length musicals are participating in the inaugural Diamond Awards. Industry professionals are in the process now of adjudicating students' performances in their high school musicals. The schools and their qualifying musical productions are:
Alma High School - Newsies
Arkansas Arts Academy – Alice By Heart
Bentonville High School – SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical
Bentonville West High School – The Addams Family School Edition
Clarksville High School – Matilda the Musical
Farmington High School – The Addams Family
Fayetteville High School - Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Fort Smith Southside/Northside High School – Tuck Everlasting
Siloam Springs High School – Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Van Buren High School – The Lightning Thief
The showcase will feature performances by cast members from the productions, and awards will be presented for best actor, actress, supporting performers and ensemble performance. A Sparkle Award recognizing an outstanding educator will also be presented during the ceremony.
The Diamond Awards qualify the best actress and actor winners to receive training from Broadway professionals and compete alongside nominees from 54 other regional high school musical theater awards competitions in New York City at the Broadway League Foundation's National High School Musical Theatre Awards, “The Jimmy Awards" this summer. Walton Arts Center will cover the cost of the trip for the two Diamond Awards winners.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting waltonartscenter.org, by calling 479.443.5600 weekdays 10 am until 5 pm or in-person at the Walton Arts Center Box Office weekdays 10 am until 2 pm.
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