Teachers,
We hope one of school matinees will fit your field trip schedule this year!  All of our musicals are held in the Mary Jane Teall Theater in Century II, a 623-seat theater. 

• School matinees are $5 per student or parent, teachers and/or staff are free.
• Reservations are required, and seats are assigned when payment is received.

If your students are interested in performing, auditions for the productions are open to all young people from age 7 through high school seniors.  Our April production is by enrollment – no audition needed!  A performance fee is charged if cast in a musical, but generous need-based scholarships are available.  We also offer summer and winter camps.

SCHOOL MATINEE SCHEDULE

Hello Dolly!  Thursday and Friday, October 6 and 7, 2009 10:00 a.m.  Dolly is the hilarious and thought provoking story of matchmaker Dolly Levi who always seems to leave a whirlwind of merry mix-ups in her wake. Set in 1890's new York the audience will experience that era's matchmaking practices, money management, court processes, and class and gender struggles. These lessons are brought home through the song and dance of a cast of elementary school through high school students.   

Celebrate '09!  Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4, 2009 10:00 a.m.  Celebrate! The Journey of Christmas will take a journey around the world for the audience to experience a multi-cultural delight of Christmas song, dance and storytelling.  Various genres to be explored include 1950's, Old Fashioned, Southern, and from many different countries.  Bring your students to see how songs are inspired by different regions/areas/eras/ and people, performed by 7-18 year olds.

Thoroughly Modern Millie  Friday, March 5, 2010 10:00 a.m.  Millie is a high-spritied musical romp that tells the story of a small-town Kansas girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City in 1922 at the height of the Wall Street boom. She assumes the modern look of a "flapper" and is determined to marry for money instead of love.  Filled with great songs, fabulous dance numbers and of course, a great love story, this all-teen cast is sure to please audiences of all ages..

Li'l Abner  Friday, April 23, 2010 10:00 a.m.  The stage musical adaptation of Al Capp's wildly popular syndicated comic strip is centered on the town of Dogpatch, declared to be the "most unnecessary town" in the U.S. and therefore is to be turned into a nuclear testing site.  The baby tonic Abner has been fed all his life is discovered to be a potion that makes men strong and handsome, but utterly uninteresting. Come see how the town is ultimately saved while your students learn that problems can be solved when people pull together!  Performed by elementary through high school students.

Email your reservation – the name of the school, how many students and free staff seats are needed, which performance, and your name and contact phone number to – mtyp@mtypks.org, or just give us a call!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL US AT 262-MTYP!