HARTFORD, Vt. (WCAX) – A young Vermont actress with hopes to make it to the Broadway stage is one step closer to her dream.
Macy Bettwieser, a senior at Hartford High School, is a top ten finalist for Broadway’s Next on Stage high school competition.
She says she submitted an audition just to see what would happen and got an email about making the top 15 out of 250 people who applied.
She filmed another audition and found out she made it into the top 10.
Bettwieser is the only New Englander to make it this far. “I basically revolved my entire life around music, so it’s nice to have gotten this far and be like, Oh, maybe I picked the right career,” she said
The next steps are in the hands of the voting public. If Bettwieser makes it to the top three, she will fly to the Big Apple to sing at a famous theater and learn from a professional voice coach.
The winner gets a scholarship to a New York performing arts conservatory.