The NC6 camera lingers on her face after she walks offstage. She isn’t smiling anymore. She looks at the floor. Her mother grabs her wrist. Hard.
"I’m the one who watches."
. At the time, she was a freshman in the musical theater program at the University of Cincinnati’s College‑Conservatory of Music (CCM). Her talent performance, singing “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from the musical Funny Girl , helped her secure thousands of dollars in scholarship funds, eventually totaling $53,000. Everman later went on to a successful Broadway career, performing in Wicked and understudying Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree . Other notable state winners that year included Michelle Fortner of Hendersonville (overall talent winner), Bethany Schneider (overall fitness winner), and Julie Tilson of Cleveland (overall poise winner). junior+miss+pageant+1999+series+vol1+part1+nc6+exclusive
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