Young actors would love the chance to act with Broadway talent.
Well, it happened in Jessamine County.
As theater director Austin Yale brought Broadway star Christina Allan and two other actors to Kentucky for a benefit concert with local talent ranging from elementary school to college and beyond.
Take a step into the spotlight for this week's Tapestry.
Indigo This thing closes and you realize you didn't know anything.
We have some good talent here in Lexington, and I was very impressed, and I'm very happy to be singing with them and sharing the stage.
Oh, with a stranger.
So I met Austin, Amy.
I came and worked with the Company of Mean Girls, was happening here in Jackson County in the summer.
And to be here with these students that were so excited about learning and about doing the show and I just felt super connected.
And I reached out to Austin.
We were like, Let's try to do something else with your contacts to benefit.
Let's raise money.
Our training is so, so important and it's a huge passion of mine and this county and this area is so supportive of the arts in that way.
And so I just felt like this would be such a good opportunity for us to do something for the community and for the arts programing here in.
This county and this concert in particular is benefiting just me County Arts, a program that I have worked alongside of pretty much since my eighth grade year here at west of the Mill school.
And yeah, it's just a great way to help support local theater.
I think it is good for everybody to at least do one theater production in their lifetime.
I think it is just a great experience.
There's really nothing else like it and just being able to stand up on stage and just express yourself and just put yourself out there is just the best feeling ever.
My Oh.
I really think it's important to support your local community artists and your local community theaters because they're sort of the gateway.
Especially if you don't get a chance to travel as much.
You can bring the world to them and you can sort of experience what it's like to be a part of a different culture.
For example.
A whole new world and new fantastic point of view.
No one to tell us no where to go or say.
We're only.
Touring.
At first I was I was really nervous, but very excited.
And then I was really nervous last night when we all rehearsed gether and then we all saying the other name was awesome and they were great.
It's incredible.
Choreography, man.
I think I got most of the nerves going yesterday, singing in front of them already there.
They're so supportive and so sweet, so they easily get all the jitters away.
They get into.
Whether you're a student who's going to go on to become a Broadway actor or a stage manager or something totally unrelated.
You're going into nursing, you're going into athletics.
Like theater teaches you the art of cooperation and of public speaking, of confidence, of schoolwork.
It's not about getting them to this place.
It's not about you should want this, or your kids can be on Broadway.
That is a goal for some people and not for others.
The thing that they should want is to watch their child be on stage in a community safe atmosphere, or that is encouraging them to share their voice.
That is beneficial no matter what the goal is for them to just keep showing up to things like this.
They don't have to want to be a Broadway star.
They don't have to want to turn it into a job.
It's just a chance to think creatively.
It's so vital.
Wow, what an incredible experience.
Jessamine County Arts hopes to make Love Broadway an annual event.