In March of 2020 the effects of COVID-19 forced The Music Center to close its doors and cancel scheduled productions. The Spotlight Grand Finale was at risk of being one of these cancelled shows, which would have been devastating to the 14 high school finalists who have worked for years to try and make it to this point. A key group of dedicated professionals including myself worked tirelessly to transition this program into a digital format on the fly and keep the finalists’ dream alive. What you see above is an absolute labor of love that was produced in only a few weeks time. This resulted in giving the finalists a worldwide audience and a larger viewership that the program has ever experienced.