Producing partners include The
Cleveland Music School Settlement, Great Lakes Theater Festival,
The Human Fund,
The Musical
Theater Project and
CLEVELAND, OH –
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will present its ninth annual All-City Musical, Dreamgirls to
crown the District’s 2007-08 series of All-City Arts Programming. The production features the talents
of over fifty CMSD students from
across the District and will take place on the stage of the Ohio Theatre at
The ninth annual
All-City Musical is presented with generous support from The Human
Fund which contributed $150,000 to the school
District for a third consecutive year to fund its All-City Arts
Programming. “It is truly exciting to fund things that introduce
students to their creative possibilities. We look forward to expanding those
possibilities as we work to create a new model in career development that
hopefully other cities will emulate,” said Human Fund co-founder and
co-chairman, Heather Guess regarding
the aim of the funds. Other
producing partners for the All-City Musical include The
Dr.
Eugene T.W. Sanders, CEO of the
The All-City Musical is a
rewarding experience for the students involved as well as for the professional
artists that collaborate to produce the production, according to Tony Sias, the
director of the production for the sixth consecutive year. “The All-City Musical is an
extraordinary program that provides students with a structured arts-based
experience that refines individual talents, stimulates critical thinking,
focuses
creativity, strengthens social skills and affords students an informed
perspective on the world that they might not have had if they were not involved
in the program,” said Sias in a recent interview about the upcoming
production. “These young people are
amazing. As a member of the
production team, I find it immensely rewarding to witness and play a significant
role in the growth and development that these students experience over our
intensive All-City Musical rehearsal process. They work diligently, remain focused and
emerge from the program with the ability to demonstrate the skill and the
discipline that it takes to be an artist in the theater. It is deeply satisfying to be able to
share this leg of their journey with them.”
A Tony
award-winning Broadway musical, Dreamgirls is a tale of dreams, stardom,
and the high cost of success in the challenging recording
industry. The time is the
1960s, and three singers are about to find out just what it's like to have their
wildest dreams come true.
Discovered at a local talent show, the trio known as "the Dreamettes" is
soon molded into an unstoppable hit machine by their manager and propelled into
the spotlight. But the girls
quickly find their bid for the big time taking priority over personal
friendship. As their crossover act
continues to dominate the airwaves, the small-town girls with big-city dreams
slowly begin to realize that the true cost of fame may be higher than any of
them ever anticipated. The original
Broadway production was directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. Dreamgirls was originally produced on
Broadway by Michael Bennett, Robert Avian, Geffen Records and The Schubert
Organization.
The production
team for the ninth annual All-City Musical is a distinguished group of
professional artists from across
Opening
Night for the eighth
annual All-City Musical Dreamgirls is
scheduled for Friday, May
30th at
All tickets for
the ninth annual All-City Musical, Dreamgirls are $15 and are
available by phone at (216)
241-6000, online at www.playhousesquare.org or by visiting
the Playhouse Square Ticket
Office. All seating is general
admission.
The primary goal
of the
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