Rural and Community Art Project Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The 2016 Ely Community Spring Musical will be Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," in its updated, 2013 Broadway version, which includes messages about social justice and respect for differences. The goal of this production is to present an outstanding production while bringing together groups in our community through collaboration and cooperation, including community members, college students, K-12 school children and their families, as cast members and audience members. We will meet these goals by cast
Our goal was to connect the community, the college and the local K-12 students through theater while exploring issues of social justice and respect for others. We engaged community members through casting adult and senior community members in on-stage, off-stage and in musical instrumentalist roles (40). We cast college students in on-stage roles, and used college students in off-stage, tech and box-office support positions (8). We cast Elementary, Middle and High School students in on-stage roles (18). We connected with K-12 students through pre-questions in the classrooms, through a "teaser" performed at the school, followed by a Q and A at the school (approximately 200), and offered college students and families discounted tickets. College students wrote up reviews and response papers for courses and instructors and K-12 students wrote responses to specific follow-up questions having to do with specific behavioral initiatives in the district related to social civility and responsibility. We kept track of ticket sales and numbers of student (41) and family (58) family passes used.
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