Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!

By: May. 29, 2012
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Earlier today, Nick Jonas – the popular singer/songwriter who was most recently seen in the Tony-nominated How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying – served as master of ceremonies as hundreds of students from middle and intermediate New York City Public Schools in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan made their Broadway debut on stage at the Shubert Theatre, the culminating event of the 7th annual Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. Student Program. The students performed a song from their school's production of a student version of a Broadway musical, including Annie JR., Once on this Island JR., Disney's Aladdin JR., Guys and Dolls JR., Bugsy Malone JR., Meredith Willson's The Music Man JR., Dear Edwina JR., Fame JR., Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka JR., and Thoroughly Modern Millie JR.

BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities and brings you photos from the event below! 

This special student Broadway performance is the year-end celebration of the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. Program, a ground-breaking musical theater mentorship program which builds self-sustaining theater programs in public schools that have limited arts programming. The program is sponsored by The Shubert Foundation, Music Theatre International (MTI) and The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). The May 29 event is produced by New York City's educational musical theater consulting firm iTheatrics. Use of The Shubert Theatre has been provided by The Shubert Organization.

The program was founded in the 2005-2006 school year. To date, 34 schools have participated in the program. Twenty-two schools are currently involved in the 2011-2012 program, including six first-year schools; three second-year schools; and 13 'graduated' schools that have worked to develop and building sustainable theater education programs.

The Shubert Foundation is the nation's largest private foundation dedicated to unrestricted funding of not-for-profit theatres, with a secondary focus on dance, and is especially interested in professional resident theatres that develop and produce new and significant work that expands the American theatrical repertoire. The Foundation is also committed to making quality theatre accessible nationwide, by extending support to theatre companies and groups that work on behalf of the underserved populations. The Shubert Foundation, Inc. was established in 1945 by the legendary team of the brothers Lee and J.J. Shubert who produced more than 520 plays, musicals and revues as well as owned and operated a nationwide network of legitimate theatres. For more information visit, www.shubertfoundation.org.

Music Theatre International (MTI) www.mtishows.com, is one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries. MTI is particularly dedicated to the idea of theatre as education and has created special collections for younger audiences including The Broadway Junior Collection® which features 60-minute adaptations of major musicals designed for middle school children to perform, and the MTI KIDS Collection®, which provides 30-minute musicals for performance by elementary school children. MTI also hosts MTI ShowSpace, www.mtishowspace.com, a free online community giving thespians and fans a space to connect with anyone and everyone involved in the theatrical process.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas, Freddie Gershon

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Paul King, Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas, Freddie Gershon, Peter Avery

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Paul King, Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas, Freddie Gershon, Peter Avery, Timothy Allen McDonald

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Paul King, Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas, Freddie Gershon, Drew Cohen, Peter Avery, Timothy Allen McDonald

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Freddie Gershon, Nick Jonas, Drew Cohen

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Marty Johnson, Amy Dorfman Wine, Nick Jonas, Edward Miller, Peter Avery

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Steven Tennan, Robert Wankel, Freddie Gershon, Nick Jonas, Drew Cohen, Timothy Allen McDonald

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Robert Wankel, Nick Jonas, and Broadway Jr. Students

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Lindsay Weiner

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Robert Wankel

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Peter Avery

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Freddie Gershon

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!
Nick Jonas and Broadway Jr. Students

Photo Coverage: Inside Broadway Jr. Festivities with Nick Jonas!



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