FCLO Music Theatre Fullerton, CA John Raitt Awards For Youth May 31
North Shore Music Theatre Beverly, MA North Shore Music Theatre
Spotlight Awards June 2
Helen Hayes Youth Theatre Nyack, NY The Metropolitan Awards June 8
Paper Mill Playhouse Millburn, NJ Rising Star Awards June 16
The National High School Musical Theater Awards are based on Pittsburgh CLO's annual "Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater." This program has served as a model for dozens of theater companies across the country to create their own local awards program. In 2007, over 54,000 students at 900 high schools in 30 communities across the United States participated in these programs.
For more information on this program, visit www.nhsmta.com or contact Kiesha Lalama-White at (412) 281-2234 or klalama-white@pittsburghclo.org.
Who's Who in the National High School Musical Theater Awards
Pittsburgh CLO has been a driving force behind the preservation, creation and promotion of live musical theater since 1946. As one of the largest regional musical theater organizations in the United States, Pittsburgh CLO appreciates the support of nearly 200,000 patrons each year. In addition to producing fresh new productions of Broadway classics, the not-for-profit's mission is to develop new works and showcase new talent. The organization's dedication to the musical theater art form extends beyond its main-stage season with the CLO Cabaret Theater, the Pittsburgh CLO Academy of Musical Theater, the Construction Center for the Arts, and the acclaimed Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater, a19 year-old program and the first of its kind in the country. For more information please visit www.pittsburghCLO.org.
Nederlander Presentations, Inc. is a producing arm of a family company prominent for three generations in management and operation of theatres and productions of distinguished entertainment. The Nederlander Organization owns and/or operates nine Broadway theatres and runs a notable chain of legitimate theatres around the world. The company is currently represented on Broadway by Walt Disney's The Lion King; Guys and Dolls and West Side Story. Broadway productions include: Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Rent, Wicked, The Drowsy Chaperone, Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid, Movin' Out, Copenhagen, The Will Rogers Follies, Me and My Girl, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Breaking the Code, La Cage aux Folles, Benefactors, Annie, Noises Off, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, My Fat Friend, Seesaw, Applause, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Dresser, Nine, Woman of the Year and many revivals including Sweet Charity, Hello, Dolly!, Porgy and Bess and Peter Pan.
THE Jack H. Skirball CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT NYU
The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, is the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing arts events at NYU and lower Manhattan. Located at 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), it provides a large-scale performance space for university events and live professional performances from around the world. The 860-seat theater opened in October 2003 and hosts the only major university-based professional multi-arts presenting program in Manhattan. As a result, one natural and continuing mission of the Skirball Center is to build young audiences for live performance through a broad range of compelling performance events at affordable ticket prices. For more information and a current schedule of events, visit www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu.
