REVIEWS 2016

"J.R. Heckman, winner of the 2016 Playhouse Square’s Dazzle Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance of Donkey in Solon High School’s Shrek the Musical, is an especially talented young performer who sings, dances and acts with total competence. His Flounder was absolutely charming. Watch for this kid’s name in Broadway lights."
- Roy Berko, member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle

J.R. Heckman, 15, a freshman from Cleveland and the youngest boy in the group, was unabashedly star-struck, both by his fellow students and his coach, the Broadway performer Howard McGillin. "To get personal feedback from the Phantom of the Opera is amazing," he said.
- John Leland, The New York Times, June 28th 2016