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'It's such a dream': Top high school performers step out on Broadway'It's such a dream': Top high school performers step out on Broadway toggle caption José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR For more than 100 high school theater stars, tonight is shaping up to be the biggest night of their young lives. The performers are in New York City for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards. Each year, the event brings the nominees to Broadway to put on a show – in just 10 days. "It's hard," says Hayden Poe, nominated for his performance as Hermes in Dalton (Ga.) High School's production of Hadestown: Teen Edition. "We work our voices and we work our bodies, but the kindness and the love and the friendship gets us through." The competition starts with about 150,000 students from schools across the nation. After regional competitions, a select few make it to New York to perform in the awards show at the Minskoff Theatre. The top two awards of the night – best actor and best actress in a musical – are named after Broadway legend Jimmy Nederlander. For the past 16 years students have competed for the chance to bring home a Jimmy of their own. For a little over a week, the students rehearse at The Juilliard School in preparation. Jayden
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