ArtSpeak! News:
ArtSpeak! is a program that brings artists from Broadway and around the country into our schools. Each artist talks about his or her career, answers questions from the audience, performs, and signs autographs. Held at nearby Poe Middle School in Annandale, this program is intended for both middle school and high school students with their families. It allows high school students to learn from and ask questions of some of the leading actors in the world. Performances are FREE. This program is underwritten by a corporate grant from Shugoll Research.
2007 - 2008 ArtSpeak! Schedule
ArtSpeak! returns for its 11th season!Lea Michele - This 22 year old currently stars on Broadway as Wendla in Spring Awakening. Michele practically grew up on stage, making her Broadway debut at age 8 as Young Cosette in Les Mis followed by her creation of the role of Tateh’s daughter at age 11 in Ragtime. She also appeared in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. In the DC area, she starred at Round House Theatre as Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank.
Come hear her sing, talk about her unique career, answer you questions, and sign autographs. You might be picked from the audience to play "Three Questions" and win an autographed CD. Everyone can play ArtSpeak! trivia and win prizes. The first 100 students get an ArtSpeak! bracelet. AHS choral student Jane Rabinovitz co-hosts this program (so come see her in action!).
Friday, June 6, 2008, 7:30pm, (note the unusual time) Poe Middle School Lecture Hall. Free.
Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody - this husband and wife team of Broadway stars come to ArtSpeak! together.
Come hear them sing and tell how they've managed to make a career (and a marriage) in theater.
- Hunter is opening Soon in Kiss of the Spider Woman at Signature Theatre. Broadway Roles Include Urinetown, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, Les Miserables, Grease, and Footloose.
- Jen appeared with Harry Connick, Jr. on Broadway in The Pajama Game. Other Broadway credits: Seussical, Taboo, Urinetown, Grease, Beauty and the Beast, and Cats.
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7:00pm, Poe Middle School Lecture Hall. Free.
Will Gartshore, DC's biggest musical theater star, comes to ArtSpeak! Come hear him sing and tell how he's managed to make a career in theater.
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 7:00pm, Poe Middle School Lecture Hall. Free.
- He has won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor in a Musical the last two years in a row (for Urinetown and Assassins at Signature Theatre).
- He just finished playing opposite AHS choral graduate Bayla Whitten in Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at Signature.
- He has appeared frequently at Signature in such shows as My Fair Lady, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Twentieth Century, Follies, Grand Hotel, Side Show, and Floyd Collins.
- He has worked on Broadway (in Jason Robert Brown's Parade), at the Kennedy Center (Sondheim's Passion, The Glass Menagerie), and at such area theaters as Round House Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, and Theatre J.
Broadway star Natascia Diaz - Come hear Natascia sing and tell us about her career.
DC credits: West Side Story (Anita, recent Wolf Trap run), Carnival, A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), The Music of Jonathan Larson (Library of Congress), Agamemnon and His Daughters (Arena Stage),Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 7:00pm, Poe Middle School Lecture Hall. Free.
Broadway: Seussical, Paul Simon's The Capeman, Man of La Mancha (with Brian Stokes Mitchell), Carousel (with Audra McDonald
Off Broadway: Jacques Brel..., Tick, Tick...Boom!
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