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6th Annual FREDDIE G FELLOWSHIP
Music Theatre International Chairman and CEO
Freddie Gershon and his
wife Myrna just hosted eight outstanding
educators from schools and
performing arts centers around the country
for four days of classes
and activities honoring them for working to
make a difference for
their students and communities through the
process of staging musical
theatre productions in their schools and
educational theatre groups.
The event knows as the 6th Annual FREDDIE G
FELLOWSHIP culminated in a
gala dinner at Chez Josephine July 11th.
Joining the festivities were
Broadway greats Bernadette Peters and Brian
d’Arcy James.
This year teachers were selected earlier this
year at the Junior
Theater Festival, the largest such festival
of its kind. While in New
York the teachers attended special workshops
led by Tony Honor®
winning director and choreographer Jeff
Calhoun, Tony Award® and
Oscar® winning composer Stephen Flaherty,
Tony Award® winning
director, choreographer and actor Christopher
Gattelli, Tony Award®
winning lighting designer Ken Billington and
Broadway sound designer
Matt Kraus.
They join the tradition of Broadway professionals who have
given workshops and joined the Freddie G
winners in prior years
(including Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori,
Warren Carlyle, Baayork
Lee, Chad Beguelin, Nell Benjamin and
Laurence O’Keefe.
“The four days fully engaged the winning
teachers in the Broadway
musical theatre world and provided
one-of-a-kind learning
opportunities for them to take back to their
schools, students and
communities,” says Gershon. “These teachers
perform inspiring work
with limited financial resources. We want to
give them the opportunity
to live the Broadway experience and interact
with qualified
professionals to reward them for all they do
to introduce the next
generations to live theatre and
simultaneously enhance their
knowledge, skills and experience.”
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