Please join us for Honors Night on December 14th at 5:00pm between the matinee and evening performances of Beautiful, The Carole King Musical. This long-standing tradition at CMT, Honors Night celebrates outstanding work by our Rising Stars and Mainstage performers, as well as the past year’s Legacy Robe Recipients. We also honor the memories of five young men who, despite losing their lives far too soon, remain forever a part of CMT history. We are honored to recognize our newest generation of performers in their names:
Honors Night 2024
The 2024 Joshua Grant Brawn Award
Leon Crisan
Maxwell Hamilton
Brennan Klotzbach
Mateo Lovato
Da-Ni Lin
Ethan Mutchnik
The Joshua Grant Brawn Award
The Joshua Grant Brawn Award recognizes those “rising stars” at CMTSJ. These nominees’ contributions, work ethics, talents, and positive attitudes provide a roadmap by which other Junior Talents and Rising Stars might find a path to success. Past recipients include Alicia Bosco, Emily Krolak, Chelsea Stock, Sarah Statler, Nick Spangler, Alex Brightman, Danielle Coleman, Tiffany Tanquary, Tristan Crisol, Ryan Vasquez, Joey Dippel, Michelle Martinelli, Myha’la Herrold, Ryan Ballard, Jaime Landrum, Trent Brunngraber, Maddie Ballard, Emily Murray, Fiona Pestana, Charlotta Lebedenko, Peyton Herzog, Ginger Hurley, Sebastian Young, Bella Esler, Jenika Fernando, Neal Sampson, and Saidee Avila.
The 2024 John Ignacio Award
Rebecca Borrison
Chloe Porria
Courtney Porria
Kai Scharlin
Sabrina Self
The John Ignacio Award
The John Ignacio Award recognizes outstanding senior dancers. These athletes balance precision and energy, style and innovation, and their skills onstage are rivaled only by their winning attitudes offstage. The following nominees are among the finest dancers that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Whitney Stock, Chris Magovern, Aaron Albano, Leta Soza, Dennis O’Bannion, Jennifer Taylor, Lauren Ivie, Caitlin Jamello, Cynthia Pariente, Kelly Jamello, David Gromik, Patrick Ball, Elena Granadino, Kylie Brunngraber, Glenn delos Santos, Rudy Fuentes, Amanda McDonell, Alex Cortinas, Andrew Lucero, Claire Nguyen, Katarina Kelly, Jake Chen, JP Micallef, Isabella Story, and Max Hofmann.
The 2024 Frank Frye Award Nominees
Alana Arney
Alexa Cruz
Maya Drake
Amyrah Furaha
Nylah Smith
The Frank Frye Award
The Frank Frye Award recognizes a senior Children’s Musical Theater performer who has thrilled audiences with outstanding vocal performances; who has demonstrated an obvious passion for communicating with the gift of song; and who understands and rises to the challenges of performing in musical theater. Role models for our future performers, these nominees represent the finest singers that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Josh Dazel, Katrina Rodriguez, Katie Cole, David Sanchez, Colette Froehlich, Sarah Statler, Adam Campbell, Danelle Medeiros, Sarah Castro, Ashley Bawdon, Eric Krop, Julie Thomas, Brittany Ogle, Ryan Vasquez, Adrienne Eller, Kristen Hermosillo/Alia Hodge (a tie), Nina Feliciano, Jason Rehklau, Brent Miller, Katherine Hauge, Cristina Oeschger, Mercedes Dawnte Long, Armand Akbari, Ande Burns, Niko Raiyawa, Isabella Esler, and Daniel Smith.
The 2024 Brian Alfred King Award
Korinna Dunn
Jonah Horowitz
Jack Gunter
Katie Mariucci
Daniel Smith
The Brian Alfred King Award
The Brian Alfred King Award recognizes a senior CMT performer who has created powerful, detailed acting performances, demonstrated dedication and attention to his or her work, while remaining, throughout the process, a true team player. Role models for future performers, these nominees represent the finest actors that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Doug Santana, Tony Panighetti, Jacob Vega-Canote, Nick Ceglio, Josh Miyaji, Andrew Ceglio, Carter Skeath, Adam Barry, Nick Spangler, Matt Sobel, Alex Brightman, David Clift, Jordan Corey, Matt Hill, Joyah Spangler, Kyle Hauge, Adrienne Eller, Tyler Miclean, Rudy Fuentes/Joey Pisacane(a tie), Shawn Clifford, Katherine Hauge, Jack Bloome, Valeria Johnson, Meaghan Schapelhouman, David DeRuiter, Leandro Bilello, and Maya Drake.
The Andrew Strickland Legacy Robe
The 2024 Andrew Strickland Legacy Robe Recipients
Junie B. Jones Jr.– Patrick Tsui
Freaky Friday – Jaeda McKinney
Seussical – Cara Borders
Mean Girls – Norah Heller
School of Rock – Kies Heinschel
Honk – Alice Jacobs
Pippin. – Rebecca Borrison
Madagascar Jr – Alex Flagg
Crazy for You – Jillian Mendelson
Rent – Korinna Dunn
Honors Night is a complimentary event hosted by our outstanding CMT Staff and Team CMT. It features a touching multimedia component, as well as presentations and performances by many of our favorite CMT personalities, old and new. We welcome all of our families to attend the event, to honor the memory of these five extraordinary gentlemen, and to celebrate the wonderful work of so many of our performers from last season. You won’t want to miss it!