Tonight at 7 p.m.: Metro nominations announced live on lohud
Tonight's the night theater kids across Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Bergen counties have been looking forward to, when they learn if their musicals will be nominated for Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, the Metros, the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards for New York City's suburbs.
The names will be read off starting at 7 p.m., during a webcast on lohud.com, the event's official media sponsor.
There will be nominees in 36 categories, from child actor and duet to chorus and orchestra, from stage crew to hair and makeup. Student pit musicians will be nominated, as will performances by those in leading female- and male-identified roles. The final list of nominees will be in the overall production of a musical.
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The nominations will be announced from the site of last year's ceremony — Tarrytown Music Hall — but this year's Metro Awards will be held at the 1,372-seat Concert Hall at Purchase PAC at SUNY Purchase on June 10. Tonight's webcast will have another reveal: the names of the ceremony's hosts, typically actors from Broadway.
Producers Blake Spence and Jordan Singer will join lohud's Peter D. Kramer in announcing the nominees.
Judges fanned out across the region to take in performances from January to May at participating schools, and students in technical categories submitted portfolios for review. Not every school musical is considered for the Metros; schools must pay to enter the competition.
The list of schools participating in the 2024 Metro Awards shows the diversity of theatrical offerings on high school stages, which have roared back from the pandemic pause that shuttered full productions for years. Here's a look at the 63 schools in the running tonight.
Westchester (29 schools): Archbishop Stepinac, “Catch Me If You Can”; Blind Brook, “Mamma Mia!”; Briarcliff, “Chicago”; Dobbs Ferry, “Fiddler on the Roof”; Eastchester, “The Addams Family”; Greeley, “The Addams Family”; Harrison, “Mean Girls”; Hastings, “Urinetown”; Hendrick Hudson, “The Little Mermaid”; Kennedy Catholic, “Matilda”; Lakeland, “Chicago”; Leffell School, “Freaky Friday”; Mamaroneck, “Newsies”; Masters School, “Into the Woods”; New Rochelle, “Young Kind of Love”; North Salem, “Hello, Dolly!”; Ossining, “Sister Act”; Pelham, “Into the Woods”; Pleasantville, “Footloose”; Port Chester, “Legally Blonde”; Rye, “Mamma Mia!”; Rye Country Day, “Into the Woods”; Rye Neck, “Beauty and the Beast”; Sleepy Hollow, “Cinderella”; Somers, “The Addams Family”; Tuckahoe, “Annie”; Valhalla High School, “Footloose”; Westlake, “Beauty and the Beast”; White Plains, “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Bergen (25 schools): Academy of the Holy Angels, “Urinetown”; Bergen County Academies, “Something Rotten!”; Bergenfield, “Once on This Island”; Don Bosco, “Guys and Dolls”; Dumont, “Mean Girls”; Dwight-Englewood, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”; Fair Lawn, “Legally Blonde”; Fort Lee, “Mean Girls”; Glen Rock, “Beauty and the Beast”; Immaculate Heart Academy, “Mamma Mia!”; Lodi, “Spamalot!”; Lyndhurst, “Legally Blonde”; Mahwah, “Les Miserables”; Midland Park, “The Addams Family”; New Milford, “Beauty and the Beast”; Northern Highlands, “Mamma Mia!”; Northern Valley/Old Tappan: “Cats”; Pascack Hills, “Cinderella”; Pascack Valley, “High School Musical”; Ramapo (NJ), “The Drowsy Chaperone”; Ramsey, “Legally Blonde”; Rutherford, “The Lightning Thief”; Saddle River Day School, “Shrek”; St. Joseph Regional, “Les Miserables”; Westwood, “Annie.”
Rockland (6 schools): Clarkstown North, “The Addams Family”; Clarkstown South, “Newsies”; North Rockland, “Chicago”; Nyack High School, “Grease”; Ramapo (NY), “Urinetown”; Tappan Zee, “Mamma Mia!”
Putnam (3 schools): Brewster, “Anything Goes”; Carmel, “How to Succeed…”; Putnam Valley, “Rent.”
Watch the Metro nominations live
What: The nominations for the 2024 Metro Awards.
When: 7 p.m., May 14.
Where: On lohud.com, live from the stage of the Tarrytown Music Hall.
Who: Producers Blake Spence and Jordan Singer will join lohud.com reporter Peter D. Kramer.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Metro Award nominations live on lohud.com 7 p.m.
