Please join us for Honors Night on December 9th at 5:00pm between the matinee and evening performances of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. 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 2023
The 2023 Joshua Grant Brawn Award
Saidee Avila
Leon Crisan
Noah Espinoza
Kies Heinschel
Lily Karp
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, and Neal Sampson.
The 2023 John Ignacio Award
Max Hofmann
Kea Joaquin
Jake Miller
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, and Isabella Story.
The 2023 Frank Frye Award Nominees
Ellie Carolyn Lucas
Melissa Orlando
Daniel Smith
James Trujillo
Callie Watson
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, and Isabella Esler.
The 2023 Brian Alfred King Award
Maya Drake
Jonah Horowitz
Ethan Le
Grey Stachnick
Kyle Strenfel
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, and Leandro Bilello.
The Andrew Strickland Legacy Robe
The 2023 Andrew Strickland Legacy Robe Recipients
The Big One-Oh Jr.– Sage Elizabeth
The Wizard of Oz – Naomi Espinoza
The Sound of Music – Lucia Raines
Head Over Heels – Bella Pappas
Schoolhouse Rock Live – Sarabi Muñoz
Cinderella – Dale Clark
Finding Nemo Jr. – Natalie Brown
13 – Dylan Breiten
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Casey Staub
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!