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I was watching SMASH last week as any theater person who cares about our industry(and NBC’s attempt to put us in the spotlight) should. Although SMASH sometimes takes liberties with the realities of show business to keep the plot and the drama going, in last week’s episode “The Read-Through” there was an interaction that I thought [...]
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Rebuilding Kicks-off at Long Island’s East Rockaway High School to Restore School Theater Destroyed by Hurricane Sandy NBC’s hit series “Smash,” home improvement retailer Lowe’s, and iTheatrics have partnered to help schools across America improve their theaters through the “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical constructed by Lowe’s” initiative. The program launched February 19th and will [...]
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SMASH is back with an all-new season and now you can get in on the action with the Smash Sensational Sweepstakes. Anxiously waiting to see Bombshell’s fate in the coming episodes may seem like an eternity but it only takes seconds to visit smashsweeps.com to enter for your chance to win the Grand Prize! The [...]
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The Season 1 finale of NBC’s Smash featured the first Boston preview of Bombshell with Karen stepping into the leading role at the last minute. The episode ended with Karen giving the preview of Bombshell and a fantastic ending with “Don’t Forget About Me.” We certainly haven’t forgotten about you Karen Cartwright! As we begin [...]
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“NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make A Musical” Beaver Falls Area Middle School Pittsburgh, PA Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher September 28, 2012 It’s a given. Football is big in western PA, and Beaver Falls is no exception. With Joe Namath as their hometown hero, the folks in Beaver Falls can lay [...]
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“NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make A Musical” La Grange High School Lake Charles, LA Reported by: Steven G. Kennedy, Resident Choreographer of the Broadway JR. Collection September 28, 2012 I was privileged to kick-off “NBC’s ‘SMASH’: Make A Musical” season in Lake Charles, LA! I have to admit I was struck with first-day-of-school jitters! But, I [...]
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“NBC’s ‘SMASH’: MAKE A MUSICAL” Vandercook Lake Middle School/High School Jackson, MI Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher September 28, 2012 I love watching students articulate their feelings about artistic experiences. After our “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical” workshop at Vandercook Lake Middle School/High School in Jackson, Michigan, I had the [...]
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Desert Wind Elementary School El Paso, Texas Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher September 21, 2012 Wow. It took one long trip to get to the Desert Wind School in the desert of El Paso, Texas. This community is just a stone’s throw to New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico. Desert [...]
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“NBC’s ‘SMASH’: MAKE A MUSICAL” Muskegon High School Muskegon, MI Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher October 1, 2012 Imagine you are doing some leisurely Saturday shopping in a suburban mall, when you find yourself in the middle of a freeze mob of High School students in matching shirts. [...]
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The stars are shining brightly at the Teaneck Community Charter School in Teaneck, New Jersey which has won one of ten grand prizes in the nationwide “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical” program. The philanthropic initiative, sponsored by NBC’s hit musical drama series “Smash” and administered by iTheatrics’ Junior Theater Project, works with under-served schools across [...]
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