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IKTR! 11-Year-Old Known For Singing Show Tunes Earns Opportunity To See His First Broadway Musical

<p>While Nathan Broxton&&num;8217&semi;s mother has quite the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;listen-lil-durk-song-preview-stirs-gunna-diss-debate-on-social-media-what-happened-to-virgil-he-probably-gon-tell&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">social media<&sol;a> following&comma; he recently stole the show through his beloved rendition of Broadway hits&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Nathan Went Viral By Belting Out Musical Bops<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Nathan&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Samantha &lpar;aka <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;raisingself&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;raisingself<&sol;a>&rpar;&comma; began uploading videos of the 11-year-old singing show tunes a couple of weeks ago&comma; noting that they&&num;8217&semi;d become an &&num;8220&semi;obsession&&num;8221&semi; for her son&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One video showed him jamming out to a song featured in <em>Hamilton<&sol;em> after seeing it live&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7182538200362126635" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some bops from <em>Roald Dahl&&num;8217&semi;s <&sol;em><em>Matilda the Musical<&sol;em> got a shoutout&comma; too&excl; In fact&comma; one video was captioned&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s just call this Nathan&&num;8217&semi;s audition&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7186067828171132202" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7186824962467056939" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Leslie Odom Jr&period; Gave Him A Shoutout<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Notably&comma; various people in the theater world—including Leslie Odom Jr&period; and journalist Ayanna Presley—praised Nathan on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Odom warmly remarked&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Young brother is far more committed than I even dreamt of being at his age&period; This is conviction&excl; And I love to see it&period; On this trajectory&comma; he’ll eclipse me in no time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1612865475280764928" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for Presley&comma; she reshared a video of Nathan and noted&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We love to see the rise of a new theater kid&period; Protect him&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1612434722830835719" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; we should add that the Twitter account for the Broadway production of <em>A Strange Loop<&sol;em> hopped beneath Presley&&num;8217&semi;s tweet and appeared to express interest in potentially casting Nathan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1612664150928359429" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Delta Offers To Fly The Family To Broadway &amp&semi; Nathan Preps For TV Audition<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>With all the buzz surrounding Nathan&&num;8217&semi;s love of show tunes&comma; Delta Air Lines decided to get in touch with his mother in order to send his whole family to see a Broadway musical&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Samantha shared the news on Twitter&comma; and she noted that the surprise left her &&num;8220&semi;in shock&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1613523642746392577" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she noted that they wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be going right away&comma; as they were going to &&num;8220&semi;have to be patient&&num;8221&semi; and wait to see what musicals are lined up for the future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1613323024232779776" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; though&comma; the family is busy preparing for Nathan to &&num;8220&semi;audition for an award-winning TV show&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1613940060503801856" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shoutout to Nathan Broxton&comma; 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