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The Hult High School Musical Theatre Awards — set for June 2 — will host students from 18 Oregon high schools, with three local high school productions earning nominations.
Oregon’s top musical theater kids will descend on downtown Eugene next month for the Hult High School Musical Theatre Awards, a high-stakes awards ceremony and showcase recognizing the state’s best performances and stagecraft.
Participating students come from 18 high schools across Oregon, and a number of those come from high school productions in Lane County.
Lane County nominees come from three productions: Sheldon High School’s “Newsies,” Churchill High School’s “Urinetown” and South Eugene High School’s “The Addams Family: School Edition.”
Sheldon’s “Newsies” has six nominations:
- Outstanding overall musical production
- Male identifying outstanding performer in a leading role: Charlie Stanford as Jack Kelly
- Male identifying outstanding performer in a supporting role: CJ Jones as Davey and Nick Guldager as Crutchie
- Outstanding performance by an ensemble group
- Outstanding performance by an orchestra
- Outstanding costume design
South Eugene’s “The Addams Family: School Edition” has four nominations:
- Female identifying outstanding performer in a leading role: Sydney Therrell as Wednesday Addams
- Male identifying outstanding performer in a leading role: Nate Rosenfeld as Gomez Addams
- Outstanding scenic design
- Outstanding costume design
Churchill’s “Urinetown” has three nominations:
- Outstanding stage crew
- Outstanding scenic design
- Outstanding costume design
This year marks the first Hult High School Musical Theatre Awards. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. June 2, part of a larger, longer-running showcase competition for youth musical theater talent.
Evaluators for the nominees watched and scored each submitted musical, grading the shows for different aspects of the productions. (Schools detail their production budgets, to inform evaluators on any individual school’s available resources to fund the production.)
Two students from the Hult Awards will be named state winners for outstanding performers in a lead role. They will become Oregon’s representatives at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, often called the Jimmys, on June 22 in New York City.
The Jimmys, which began as a ceremony in 2009, are known as the most prestigious awards in American youth theater. Winners and participants have gone on to careers on Broadway and beyond; “Mean Girls” actress and pop star Reneé Rapp won a top prize in 2018.
How to attend the Hult High School Musical Theatre Awards
Tickets are available online through the Hult Center’s website, on a “Choose What You Pay” model with a suggested price of $10. Proceeds from tickets purchased for more than $10 will go toward the Hult’s Community and Creative Learning Department.
