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Tonight marked the second annual Ameriprise Financial Ivey Awards – a celebration of Twin Cities theatre. Solera hosted a pre-show VIP reception. Attendees included Mayors R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis and Scott Coleman of St. Paul; representatives from KARE 11, WCCO, the Pioneer Press, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine; and Sun Country’s CEO Shaun Nugent. Scott Mayer, one of my judges at Miss Twin Cities, coordinated the event – and did a fabulous job with it.
The show itself was spectacular. There are 64 participating theatre organizations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area (selling more seats per capita than any other American city besides New York), and each was represented. My favorite performance of the evening was the final number: a 26-member youth ensemble comprised of members of all the children’s theatre companies in the area. They performed “The New World” from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World with intense energy and excitement. As emcee Isabel Monk O'Connor said, “If these youth represent the future, then the future is bright indeed.”
The show itself was spectacular. There are 64 participating theatre organizations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area (selling more seats per capita than any other American city besides New York), and each was represented. My favorite performance of the evening was the final number: a 26-member youth ensemble comprised of members of all the children’s theatre companies in the area. They performed “The New World” from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World with intense energy and excitement. As emcee Isabel Monk O'Connor said, “If these youth represent the future, then the future is bright indeed.”
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