Broadway Supports LIHSA Returned November 6, 2023!

Broadway Supports LIHSA returned this year on November 6 and was a spectacular day-into-evening event.

Early in the day, the actors arrived by bus and worked with LIHSA tech students to rehearse and sound check their numbers. Hewlett senior Niko Matos worked backstage on stage crew. He said he enjoyed watching the Broadway singers perform.

After the rehearsal, actors hosted a Q&A/Talk Back with LIHSA Students.

Grace Lavergne, a junior from Kings Park studying dance said, “they gave us good advice about our future after high school.”

Megan Hartman, a senior from Long Beach agrees,” They talked about how to get ready for auditions and how to do side jobs, go to college and still be an actor and be on stage. They gave good advice about how to keep on doing what we’re interested in doing!”

Abigail Colfer, a senior from Massapequa, shared there was “a lot of design work leading up to the show.” She added “Everyone was very nice and it was generally a lot of fun.”

Thank you to Co-Directors and Producers Stephen DeAngelis and Jerome Vivona. We would also like to thank Michelle Vivona for teaching original choreography from “Thoroughly Modern Millie” to our dance students and LIHSA faculty Kim Larkin and accompanist Francis Lees for all of their work preparing students for their vocal performances. And of course, a thank you to everyone involved in the entire event, especially the visiting Broadway actors:

SHANEL BAILY

Select Credits: The Book of Mormon, Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies

EMILY BAUTISTA

Select Credits: Miss Saigon; Les Miserables

STACIE BONO

Select Credits: Parade; Sweeney Todd; Avenue Q

NAJAH HETSBERGER

Select Credits: Little Shop of Horrors

AVIONCE HOYLES

Select Credits: Titanique!; Bat Out of Hell; Memphis the Musical; Jesus Christ Superstar

THAYNE JASPERSON

Select Credits: Hamilton; Matilda The Musical; Newsies

MATEO LIZCANO

Select Credits: Dear Evan Hansen; Kimberly Akimbo

BRIAN O’BRIEN

Select Credits: Chicago; Beauty and the Beast; Promises, Promises; Annie Get Your Gun; Steel Pier; The Pirate Queen

SARAH PARNICKY

Select Credits: Desperate Measures

DIANE PHELAN

Select Credits: Into the Woods; The King and I; School of Rock

JELANI REMY

Select Credits: Back To the Future-The Musical; Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations; The Lion King

VANESSA SIERRA

Select Credits: A Beautiful Noise-The Neil Diamond Musical; The Gardens of Anuncia

The evening included songs from:

Hamilton; Dear Even Hansen; Les Miserables; The Book of Mormon; Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations; Chicago; Into the Woods; A Chorus Line; Jesus Christ Superstar; South Pacific; Once on This Island; The Prom; and Thoroughly Modern Millie.