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Indiana high schools dominated the third annual Lake Michigan College WAVE Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre, which honor high school theater students and arts educators.Concord High School's production of Fiddler on the Roof took home three awards, including Outstanding Musical Production, while Edwardsburg High School's production of Beauty and the Beast took home three awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical for Kyle Rehnlund, per the Detroit Free Press.
New Buffalo High School's production of Mamma Mia! took home one award, while Hartford High School's production of The Music Man won two.
"Each year, this event keeps getting bigger and the stakes for the talent keep getting higher," Kristopher Zook, LMC's Dean of Arts & Sciences and founder of the WAVE Awards, says in a press release.
"The LMC Visual & Performing Arts team is thrilled to be able to support our arts community and help to foster the next generation of performers and thinkers creative."
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