School #6: Kipp Bridge Charter School
Oakland, CA
REPORTED BY: Timothy Allen McDonald, Founder and CEO iTheatrics
January 27, 2012
After a remarkable day working with Place Bridge Magnet school in Denver, we journeyed to Oakland, California to work ...
Saturday night, January 14, 2012. Every participant at the Junior Theater Festival has seen at least eight segments compete with MTI’s Jr. musicals. But eight is not enough.The ballroom at the Atlanta Renaissance Waverly is packed with ...
Wheaton High School
Silver Spring, MD
Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher
January 26, 2012
A strong work ethic is not something I think about regularly, but it was the theme of my “NBC’s ...
Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Junior Theater Festival. The students from all 63 schools and after-school musical theater programs have completed their presentations. If the kids were sky-high before their performances, they’re even more ...
School #4: Place Bridge Academy
Denver, Colorado
REPORTED BY: Timothy Allen McDonald, Founder and CEO iTheatrics
January 25, 2012
In scouting for Denver schools for the NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program, in which we are building musical ...
When we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year’s Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they’d perform what could be called junior versions of Broadway Jr. musicals: up to 15 minutes worth of ...
W.H. Oliver Middle School, Nashville, TN
January 24, 2012
Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher
Close up on an urban middle school in the heart of 'Music City USA’, better known as Nashville, TN. ...
Independence Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
January 20, 2012
Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher
Day #2 of the NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program and I am still digesting the ...
Leadership and Public Service High School, New York, NY
January 19, 2012
Reported by: Tim McDonald, Founder and CEO, iTheatrics
We launched our first NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program in our hometown, New York City. This initiative ...
Nothing’s officially happened yet. It’s 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, and the stage of the vast MTIShowSpace Theater at Atlanta’s Hotel Renaissance Waverly is empty. But the house itself is filling up, en route to accommodating nearly 3,000 ...
