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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.

    Registration

    Interested organizations and schools should submit the registration form using the link below. Registration opened on Monday, November 25th, 2024, at 9:00am. Registrations will be accepted until all spaces are filled or through the May 1, 2025 deadline.  Questions about the Junior Theater Celebration should be directed to Arts Engagement Coordinator, Alicia Rainey at [email protected].

    June 5th Registration June 6th Registration
    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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