New York City high school students, from both public and private schools, should start applying in the next few days for a program in which they will learn to report and comment on entertainment events. For the fourth year, Camp Broadway and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association will sponsor a Spring edition of their popular Stringers program to help train the next generation of media critics and arts journalists. Applications will be accepted with a postmark of no later than April 11, 2005.
While the lines of screaming girls from his pop star days are in the past, Drew Lachey honors them with a T-shirt he wears while sitting on the stage of the Nederlander Theater. "I ROCK CATHOLIC GIRLS," proclaims the Navy blue chemise. Since September 2004, Lachey has been rocking much more than Catholic girls while playing Mark Cohen in the late Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent. He has exchanged the world of pop music for the vigorous audiences of Broadway.
Sitting in a room cluttered with props, costumes and makeup, Karmine Alers laughs, recalling how little sleep she gets. "I love to do so many things," she says, "I love to go to movies; it's my way of shutting down my brain."