The Fidelity FutureStage Playwriting Contest is a new extension of the program this year, created to give additional students throughout the NYC metro area encouragement and opportunity to participate in the theater arts.
The Fidelity FutureStage Finale gala event on June 15th will showcase a total of six student-written 10-minute plays from the program - five selected from the program's 10 FutureStage schools, and the sixth from this year's Fidelity FutureStage Playwriting Contest. All of the plays featured in the June 15th finale will be published by Samuel French, the premier play and musical publishing and licensing company serving the Broadway community.
For more information, visit www.FutureStage.com.
About Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of over $2.5 trillion, including managed assets of over $1.2 trillion as of January 31, 2009. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to 24 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the largest mutual fund supermarket and a leading online brokerage firm. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.
About Billy Elliot the Musical
The multi-award winning Billy Elliot the Musical opened to rave reviews at Broadway's Imperial Theater in November 2008. Based on the critically acclaimed film of 2000, Billy Elliot is the funny, heart-warming tale of a young boy with a dream, and a celebration of his triumph against the odds. Set against the historic British miners' strike of the 1980s, the story follows Billy's journey as a boy in a small mining town who, after stumbling across a ballet class while on his way to a boxing lesson, realizes that his future lays not in the boxing ring but on stage as a dancer. Billy Elliot is brought to life by the film's original creative team - director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling, and writer Lee Hall - joined by music legend Elton John who wrote the score. The show has played to over 3 million people worldwide since its London premiere in 2005. Billy Elliot the Musical is presented by Universal Pictures Stage productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment, based on the Universal Pictures/Studio Canal film. In support of the Fidelity FutureStage Playwriting Contest, Billy Elliot the Musical is offering a special discount ticket rate for students, starting at $40. Group rates for classes are also available. For more information, visit www.billyelliotbroadway.com.
About Camp Broadway
Founded in 1995, Camp Broadway is a leader in theatre arts programming, special events administration, and curriculum development as publisher of StageNOTES®: A Field Guide for Teachers. The company serves as a vital link between Broadway's many theatrical productions, estates and libraries to families, schools and social organizations. Now in its 14th year, Camp Broadway has hosted almost 10,000 kids from every state and over 40 countries at its annual summer camps in New York and around America, and has provided first-time Broadway show experiences to over 200,000 students through its workshops and community outreach programs. For more information, visit www.CampBroadway.com.
Fidelity FutureStage is a community arts education initiative of Fidelity Investments.
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