Cheer on Chicago-area high school students Payton Fraser and Will Gonzalez as they compete on Broadway for the Jimmy Awards!
Two Chicago-area teens are competing after winning Broadway In Chicago High School honors.The young artists told Hosea Sanders about this chance of a lifetime on the Great White Way.Payton Fraser's world reflects her passion, the moments of her young life echoing the choice she's made for "always." Her musical "career" at Joliet West High School is Broadway-bound.
"Once I got the realization, I'm good at what I do and I can do this well and venturing out of my comfort zone, the feeling of being in the spotlight was, maybe this is OK after all," said Fraser, a Jimmy Awards finalist and musical theatre student.RELATED: Joliet high school student Payton Fraser will perform on Broadway at Jimmy Awards
"Everything just disappears, you can't think of anything else on stage except what's going on in that exact moment," Fraser said. "Everything just melts away anything that was worrying me or stressing me out, the school work I have to do, it just goes away; that's all I have to do in that moment. I just have to be a good storyteller."
Will Gonzalez spent hours studying music, playing instruments and exploring his talent, and he's now winning awards for it."I just had to pick what I found that I could really see myself doing and what I really loved," said Gonzalez, a Jimmy Awards finalist and musical theatre student."I like baseball, but towards the end I was not prepared to give all my time and effort to it," Gonzalez said.
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