As the curtain goes down on 2010, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year and to reveal their hopes for 2011. Check out what they had to say, and have a Happy New Year!

MATTHEW HYDZIK (Tony in West Side ...

As the curtain goes down on 2010, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year and to reveal their hopes for 2011. Check out what they had to say, and have a Happy New Year!

NATALIE CORTEZ (Anita in West Side ...

As the curtain goes down on 2010, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year and to reveal their hopes for 2011. Check out what they had to say, and have a Happy New Year!

SARAH AMENGUAL (Maria in West Side ...

The fabulous La Contessa was back at The Center on December 6 for a return sold-out one-night-only engagement of La Contessa’s Christmas Carol: A Benefit Musical Frolic. A cheeky, campy swirl on the Dickens classic, the festive show is the brainchild of Broadway’s Hector Lugo, who also created his alter ego, self-dubbed as “The Puerto Rican Dame Edna ...

Age: 21

Hometown: Parkland, Florida

Currently: Making her Broadway debut as Maria, the bright-eyed young lover caught in the turf wars of West Side Story.

Movin’ On Up to the West Side: Want to hear a fairy tale? Sarah Amengual’s got a good one for you. The young actress auditioned to play Maria before she’d even graduated ...

After understudying the part, Natalie Cortez has mambo-ed her way into the leading role of Sharks girl Anita in West Side Story, and she invited Broadway.com to come check out her new digs at the Palace Theatre. “It’s the biggest dressing room I’ve ever had,” the dancer tells us. Cortez made her Broadway debut in the 2008 ...

A new Maria stepped out onto the fire escapes of West Side Story on September 21, in the form of Broadway newcomer Sarah Amengual. It’s a dream come true for the recent University of Miami graduate, who took over the role from Tony nominee Josefina Scaglione. The "ridiculously blissful" Amengual—who has graduated from college, gotten married and booked ...

The Broadway revival of West Side Story will play its final performance on January 2, 2011. The show, which has been gracing the stage of Broadway’s Palace Theatre since February 23, 2009, will close after 27 previews and 748 regular performances.

Josefina Scaglione will play her final performance as Maria on September 19 and Sarah Amengual will assume the ...

Tony winner Karen Olivo and her former In The Heights co-star Lin-Manuel Miranda are readying to wow the Broadway on Broadway concert crowd this weekend with the ever-popular Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song “Empire State of Mind,” and the actress cannot wait to salute New York in style.

“It’s going to be amazing to sing those lyrics right in ...

Sarah Amengual will take over the role of Maria in West Side Story beginning September 21 at the Palace Theatre. Josefina Scaglione, who received a 2009 Tony nomination for her performance, will play her final show on September 19.

West Side Story will mark Amengual's Broadway debut. A recent graduate of the University of Miami, she has appeared in ...