Denton ISD Our Impact In Your Community Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 10

Catching Up

....with Katelyn Cave
Who:

of

2015 Graduate
Guyer High School

Hometown:

Denton

Age:
18

W

hat’s up? Last April, the Guyer High
Theater Troupe joined 70 other high
schools from across North Texas at the
Dallas Summer Musicals High School
Theatre Awards. Judges, most from the
professional theatre industry, watched
high school shows and gave rankings
and critiques. Shows were nominated for
things like best set design, choreography
and direction.

Individual performers are also ranked
and selected, and nine actresses and
actors were named finalists. Winners then
prepared a medley, performing a song
from the part they got the nomination for
as well as an entirely different song from
another musical to showoff their acting
and singing range.

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What happened? Katelyn was named
Best Actress of the Dallas Summer Musical
Theater Awards, for her role as “The
Leading Player” in Guyer High’s Pippin. As

part of this honor, she earned a trip to New
York and the opportunity to perform on
Broadway. She spent a week attending
rehearsals and musical workshops with 52
other nominees from across the country.
In her words.... How was the trip? We
rehearsed every day to craft a stunning
show to put up on Broadway. Just like
back in Dallas we were grouped up
and taught a medley to sing solo as the
character we were nominated for. Once
again we brought another solo song with
us from any other show to show off our
range of performance.
The direction we received ranged from
big time Broadway producers, actors that
won a Tony (award), choreographers that
teach across the world, and many other
famous artists. We also got the chance to
see An American in Paris, (first Broadway
show I ever saw) at the Palace Theatre
and eat at the famous Sardi’s restaurant