Sustaining a daytime suburban bash is no easy feat, and it’s certainly a world apart from the big club gigs on the Strip with which Romano is familiar.
Dakota Renteria: actor, musicianSinging His Heart Out or Pouring Himself into a Character, He’s Always FearlessRecent Las Vegas Academy graduate Dakota Renteria is literally one to watch as I write this. He’s in New York City competing in the Jimmys, a choir-camp-meets-Broadway affair officially called the National High School Theater Awards, and I’m compulsively checking Instagram to see if he wins. Ninety-two high school students from around the country have been selected by participating theaters in their region ours is The Smith Center to spend eight days being groomed and trained by Broadway professionals before vying for scholarships and, perhaps more importantly in their presumed line of work, recognition.“Obviously, I would love to win,” Renteria says. “That would be amazing. But honestly, if I can just learn a bunch and make some great connections with people in this industry, no matter what the outcome is, the opportunity is the most amazing thing I could have