Formally known as the Helen Hayes Theater Company High School Theater Awards, this event, now in its sixth year, combines some remarkably professional performances with the exuberance and speech patterns of teenagers.
On the contrary, the standards at which young dancers in this country and abroad are performing can be outstanding and on a par with professional companies, with the added exuberance and freshness that younger artists can bring, as our new annual Apex Rising youth dance festival, which just opened Sadler's Wells autumn/winter season, aims to illustrate.
Each time market forces begin correcting the excesses of "irrational exuberance" those same professionals will boldly gobble up the bargains thus reinflating the market.
In the hypercorporate, highly sterile world of professional sports, few teams have as much youthful exuberance.
Even if they could do so through mutual funds, many highly successful professionals rely on advisers to counsel against irrational exuberance in bull markets and excessive pessimism in bear markets.
But on rare occasions we get to see a moment of unadulterated joy - a personal, professional and artistic triumph - that expresses itself in humility, exuberance, and gratitude.
Even in online fan discussions these past few weeks, talk of the future is restrained and the unbridled exuberance usually displayed in honor of Colbert's professional victories is absent.
Relaxed and professional in the paddock, Frankel showed no hint of the bubbling exuberance that often prefaced his appearances last season.
But with a thread-thin book and stereotypical characters unfleshed out in professional but largely uninspired performances, the show possesses little of the exuberance and momentum it pretends to.
With the exuberance of youth, though, they also play and act like seasoned professionals.
Shares of LinkedIn, the professional social network, more than doubled on their first day of trading, a surprising debut that both echoed the giddy exuberance of the last tech boom and heralded the coming of several multibillion-dollar Internet companies, like Facebook, that are expected to go public in the next 12 months.
