The National Society of Arts & Letters Florida East Coast Chapter has announced their 3rd Annual Star Maker Awards will be held at The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton on Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 6:30pm. During the event, NSAL scholarship and competition winners will perform, and Broadway legend Avery Sommers will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her tremendous contribution to the arts. Tickets for the event are $250 per person and include supper, dessert and valet parking. visit www.nsalfloridaeast.org for details.

Thanks to the tremendous support of NSAL members, scholarships will be awarded to students from Lynn Conservatory of Music, FAU School of Music and the Frost School of Music. In addition, NSAL competition and scholarship winners from around the state will be recognized for their achievements in voice, visual arts, piano & strings, and musical theatre.
This year’s national competition is in musical theatre, and the winner of this chapter’s competition will receive a $2,000 prize, in addition to an all-expense paid trip to Chicago to compete in May for a $15,000 prize.

Sommers starred on Broadway in the long running, critically acclaimed musicals, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Showboat, in addition to starring in the national tours of Chicago and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Sommers also is a star of film and television and has a tremendous following of jazz and blues fans who clamor to see her local shows and performances in New York City’s finest cabarets.