Photography by Carla McDonald

The Orpheum Theatre Group hosted the 16th annual Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards on May 22. Talented students from 48 participating schools across Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri gathered on the Orpheum stage to celebrate their peers' on and off-stage achievements in musical theatre. The evening was a culmination of a year-long program bringing students from all over the Mid-South together for an intensive week of team building, collaboration, and celebration of all things musical theatre. Award recipients for Lead Actor and Lead Actress – Bradley Bolden* (as Aldolpho - St. Mary's Episcopal School - The Drowsy Chaperone; Bradley is a student at White Station High School) and Alyssa McNinch (as Carmen Bernstein - Bartlett High School - Curtains) will represent the Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards at The Jimmy Awards, The National High School Musical Theatre Awards, at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway on June 23. We are giving each of these accomplished students a well-deserved standing ovation! orpheum-memphis.com