Roundabout Announces Student Winners Of THE GLASS MENAGERIE Contest

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the winners of The Glass Menagerie student contest!

New York City students were invited to submit videos of their class interpreting a scene from Tennessee Williams famous play.

First prize has gone to students from the Manhattan Theatre Lab High School. They will receive a special workshop with a Roundabout education artist, tickets to see the show, autographed posters from the cast and a subscription to Roundabout Theatre Company for their teacher. Roundabout was a founding partner at Manhattan Theatre Lab High School.

Second prize has gone to students from the Manhattan East School for the Arts & Academics. They will receive autographed posters from the cast.

The video submissions from both schools can be seen at www.myroundaboutblog.com.

The Glass Menagerie is currently playing at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). The cast features Patch Darragh (Tom Wingfield), two-time Tony® Award winner Judith Ivey (Amanda Wingfield), Keira Keeley (Laura Wingfield) and Michael Mosley (Jim O'Connor). The limited engagement has been extended through June 13, 2010.

In this fresh interpretation of Williams' haunting memory play, Tom Wingfield (Darragh) sits writing in a hotel room, trying to forge his past into art. Soon Tom's space is overtaken by the cramped apartment he once shared with his mother Amanda (Ivey), his beloved sister Laura (Keeley) and unrequited dreams as fragile as Laura's collection of tiny glass animals. There, Tom relives the Gentleman Caller's (Mosley) visit - the night that changed his family forever.

Generous support for The Glass Menagerie provided by the Laura Pels Foundation.

EDUCATION@ROUNDABOUT:
Turning our theatres into classrooms and the classrooms of New York City into theatres - that is what the Education Department at Roundabout Theatre Company does each year for more than 5,000 New York City public school students and teachers. Through diverse educational initiatives, Roundabout strives to use theatre to deepen student learning and enhance teacher practice. For more information: http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/education.htm.

Roundabout gratefully acknowledges the following education funders: The Aeroflex Foundation, American Airlines, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Books of Wonder, Center for Arts Education, CIT, Citi Foundation, Con Edison, Cultural After-School Adventures, The Walt Disney Company, Dyson Foundation, Leah and Ed Frankel, The Hearst Foundation, The Heckscher Foundation for Children, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Muna and Basem Hishmeh Foundation, Alan and Marilyn Korest, David and Anita Massengill, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Mellam Family Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Assembly, New York State Council on the Arts, New York State Education Department, Charles R. O'Malley Charitable Trust, The Rudin Foundation, Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, The Honorable Jose M. Serrano, Patricia Stockhausen and Mike Emmerman, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, The Michael Tuch Foundation, Beth Uffner, Edward W. and Stella C. Van Houton Memorial Fund, The Honorable Helene E. Weinstein.

TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre box office (111 West 46 Street). Ticket prices range from $70-80.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
The Glass Menagerie plays Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.

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