Kaelyn Freeman planned to stay seated during the awards ceremony Saturday night at the annual Alabama Conference of Theatre’s High School Walter Trumbauer Festival — but those plans changed.
After performing a classical monologue performance of Madam X from August Strindberg’s The Stronger! Freeman, a junior, was slightly disappointed after her name wasn’t called first as they worked up to first place.
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