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Amy Weinstein
Jessica Rothman
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 Since 1998, StudentsLive’s Award-Winning Broadway programs have attracted over 500,000 participants of all ages to select Broadway shows from the widest range of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These participants have come from as far away as Guam, The UK, Italy, and from all across the United States. The League of American Theatres and Producers and Theatre Development Fund have awarded StudentsLive grants six years in a row for Outstanding Education Programs on Broadway. StudentsLive’s programs are now attracting adult groups and single ticket buyers and tour nationally with Broadway shows in collaboration with Presenters all across the country.
Guest Speakers and supporters at their high profile Exclusive Student Matinees and Workshops on Broadway have included Judge Judy, Geraldine Ferraro, Criminal Defense Attorneys Mickey Sherman and Johnnie Cochran, Tommy Hilfiger, Rikki Klieman of Court TV, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, WNBA star Tameka Dixon, Kathy Lee Gifford, Susan Lucci, and Sheriff Michael Hennessey in San Francisco, to name a few. Broadway and Film Actors who have participated in their workshops have included George Hamilton, Chazz Palminteri, Reba McEntire, Bernadette Peters, Jasmine Guy, Charlotte D’Amboise, Joey Fatone, Scary Spice, Brenda Braxton, Michael McElroy, and others. StudentsLive’s programs have been recognized as vital to New York City’s Arts and Education Initiatives nationally by Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Giuliani, and have received letters of support and praise from Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hilary Clinton, respectively. Their programs have also been covered and written about in national and local print and electronic media by The New York Times, The Jane Pauley Show, Court TV, Variety, The Daily News, The New York Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN, Channel 1, Playbill Online, and BroadwayWorld, to name a few.
Past shows and select Broadway partnerships have included a wide range of National Actors Theatre Productions including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring Al Pacino and Judgment at Nuremberg starring Maximillian Schell, Broadway Productions of A Class Act, Annie Get Your Gun, The Civil War, Def Poetry Jam, The Exonerated, Metamorphoses, Flower Drum Song, Baz Lurhman’s Production of Puccini’s La Boheme, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Urban Cowboy, The Miracle Worker, I Am My Own Wife, Movin’ Out, Peter Pan (National Tour with Cathy Rigby), Wonderful Town, Seussical, Little Women: The Musical, Cookin’, Sweet Charity, Avenue Q, The Phantom of the Opera and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (National Tour, League Grant 2006).
Current and continuing partnership shows include Wicked, In the Heights, Grease, Chicago, and Rent .
StudentsLive supports alternative learning and cross cultural and interdisciplinary opportunities for students, and provides educators with expert consultation, staff support and informational materials and resources.
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