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Ben Platt, Stephanie Styles & More Celebrate High School Musical Theatre at Jimmy Awards 2019!

Ben Platt is dapper in a suit while hitting the red carpet at the 2019 Jimmy Awards held at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday (June 24) in New York City.

The 25-year-old entertainer was joined at the event by Kiss Me Kate‘s Stephanie Styles, Be More Chill‘s Jason Tam and George Salazar, Dear Evan Hansen‘s Andrew Barth Feldman, Montego Glover, Jagged Little Pill‘s Derek Klena, Mean GirlsKyle Selig and Erika Henningsen, SpongeBob SquarePantsEthan Slater, The Cher Show‘s Micaela Diamond and King Kong‘s Christiani Pitts.

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The 11th annual Jimmy Awards are also known as National High School Musical Theatre Awards.

Top prizes went to Ethan Kelso, winning Best Performance by an Actor for his work as Will Bloom in Big Fish at Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts in Logan, Utah, and Ekele Ukegbu, who won Best Performance by an Actress, having played Aida in Aida at Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School in Nassau County, New York. Both were awarded $25,000 scholarships.

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Broadway's 'King Kong' Stars Celebrate at Opening Night Party!

Eric William Morris and Christiani Pitts pose for photos at the opening night party for their Broadway musical King Kong on Thursday (November 8) in New York City.

The actors were joined by co-stars Erik Lochtefeld and Casey Garvin for the celebration after the performance.

King Kong is a $35 million production that is one of the most ambitious shows ever to be staged on Broadway. The Kong puppet is 20-feet-tall, weighs 2,000 pounds, and requires around a dozen actors to make him come alive.

“Watching [the puppeteers] work is fascinating, and the result is an inanimate object that feels alive — his facial expressions, his movements, the chest beating, that roar. At the preview performance I attended, the audience went, well, wild for it,” EW‘s theater critic wrote in her review.

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'King Kong' Broadway Musical Debuts First Look Photo!

King Kong is heading to Broadway this Fall and a first look photo from the upcoming musical has been released!

In the photo, Christiani Pitts is seen in costume as Ann Darrow in the hands of King Kong.

The story follows a young actress, Ann Darrow (Pitts), and a maverick filmmaker, Carl Denham (Eric William Morris), as they voyage from the bustling streets of 1930s New York to an uncharted island to capture the world’s greatest wonder.

A 20-foot high, 2,000 pound gorilla is brought to life on stage by a team of seamlessly integrated artists and technicians. You can see photos of King Kong in the Australian production in the gallery.

King Kong begins preview performances on October 5 and the official opening night is November 8.

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