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Junior Theater Celebration

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Arts Engagement and Education
Overview

Shea’s Performing Arts Center and iTheatrics join forces to offer schools and arts organizations the opportunity to participate in Shea’s Junior Theater Celebration. Traditionally, all organizations and schools that produce a musical with upper elementary and middle school students in the greater Buffalo area are invited to apply.

2025-2026 Program

Information and details regarding our 2025-2026 Junior Theatre Celebration will be coming soon!

FAQs

Schools and organizations who apply to participate in the program must:

 

  • Be available from early morning to late afternoon for a roughly 6-hour program
  • Provide transportation for their participants to Shea’s 710 Theater for the celebration
  • Ensure lunches are provided for their students
  • Provide chaperones for their students
  • Rehearse and prepare one musical theater number, which must be performed to a recorded music file (i.e. mp3, m4a, wav, etc.) sent ahead of time.

Participating Schools (2014 - 2024)

A Touch of Dance

Aaron Mossell Junior High School

Academy of Theatre Arts

Amherst Middle School Drama Club

Belfast Central School

Bemus Point Elementary School

Calkins Road Middle School

Charlotte Avenue Elementary School

Creative Allusions Productions

Connor Middle School

Cuba-Rushford Middle/High School

DeSales Catholic School

Dunkirk Middle School

Eggert Road Elementary School

Ellicott Elementary School

Elmwood Franklin School

Encore Experience

Fillmore Central School

Frontier Middle School

Gaskill Preparatory School

Gowanda Middle School

Heim Middle School

Holmes Total Child Theatre

International Preparatory School PS #198

Iroquois Middle School

King Center Charter School

Ledgeview Musical Theater Workshop

Lindbergh Elementary School

MEL’s School of Music and Theater

Mill Middle School

Roosevelt Early Childhood Center PS #65

South Davis Elementary School

Spotlight Studios for the Performing Arts

St. Aloysius Regional School

St. Amelia School

St. Andrew’s Country Day School

St. Christopher School Bound for Broadway

St. Mary’s School for the Deaf

St. Peter Roman Catholic School

Sweet Home Middle School

Teal’s Niagara Theatre

Transit Middle School

West Elementary School

West Seneca East Middle School

West Seneca West Middle School

Westminster Community Charter School

Winchester-Potters Elementary School

Windermere Boulevard School Musical Theater Club

Windom Elementary


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About iTheatrics

Founded in 2006, iTheatrics is the world’s leading authority on musical theatre education. They adapt Broadway musicals for young people to perform and have over one hundred different titles currently available. It is estimated that over 36 million people attend a performance of an iTheatrics adaptation each year, which is three times the number of people who see a Broadway show. Additionally each year iTheatrics trains thousands of teachers to become skilled musical theatre educational practitioners, and works to build sustainable musical theatre programs in underserved schools across the world with the goal of making the world a better place, one musical at a time.

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