Southern Door senior Hunter Malvitz, who you knew on stage as Gomez Addams in Southern Door’s The Addams Family, is nominated for the Outstanding Performance in a Lead Role award at this year’s Center Stage Award Showcase.
Malvitz is one of a handful of carefully selected male and female performers from a total of 31 competing schools in the program and will perform as a soloist at the showcase. He will also go through an interview along with a dancing and singing audition before ultimately finding out on May 6th at the Center Stage showcase if he will be one of the two nominees to attend the Jimmy Awards in New York. The Jimmy Awards are the high school version of the Tony Awards, where nominees from all around the nation are recognized. Malvitz said the reactions he has gotten from others and even from himself have been unexpected.
Malvitz will be joined by another local performer looking to win the award, as Luxemburg-Casco's Joseph Thuecks, who played Harry in their production of Mamma Mia was also nominated. The ensemble from L-C was nominated for the Outstanding Ensemble award as well.
The Center Stage Awards Showcase is set for May 6th at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students.
Photo courtesy of Hunter Malvitz
