Local Girl Competes in National Contest

Elita Ernsteen has been a professional singer and actress for four years which is quite an accomplishment for a seventh grader.

Not only is Elita currently performing in “The Gingerbread House” at the Red Tape Theater in Chicago, she is competing in the online Tween Girl Magazine talent contest. She is in second place at the moment, according to her mother, Stephanie Ernsteen.

Voting continues through the end of the month. Anyone who wants to hear the contestants perform online and cast a ballot can go to the magazine’s website.

Elita got her professional start in the 2008 Asian tour of Sound of Music. She was a munchkin in the national tour of the Wizard of Oz. She has had dramatic roles as well like the young Molly in the Neil Simon play Jake’s Wome, at the Citadel Theater.