Hennepin Theatre Sets 11-12 SpotLight Musical Theatre Program Schools
By: Gabrielle Sierra Oct. 17, 2011
Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced that a record 53 schools will participate in the 2011-12 SpotLight Musical Theatre Program, including 11 new schools and nine from greater Minnesota. Now in its seventh successful year, SpotLight is the Trust's flagship education initiative which honors, supports and advocates for Minnesota high school musical theatre students and programs. In a new partnership beginning in 2011, TCF Bank will become a SpotLight corporate sponsor. A full list of participants is included at the end of this press release and a fall 2011 performance schedule for SpotLight schools is available by request and online at HennepinTheatreTrust.org.
The SpotLight Musical Theatre Program honors high school musicals and students by formally recognizing the extraordinary achievements and contributing to the process of developing young talent in Minnesota's high school musical theatre programs. Statewide, SpotLight musicals are made possible by the collaboration of almost 5,000 students and are annually seen by an estimated 105,000 audience members. This year, highlights include the first high school performances in the nation of Caroline, or Change (St. Paul Conservatory for the Performing Arts), Legally Blonde (Minnetonka High School) and the musical version of A Christmas Carol (Eagan High School).School Participants in the 2011-12 SpotLight ProgramAndover High School: Annie Get Your Gun
Anoka High School: The Pirates of Penzance
Bemidji High School: White Christmas
Benilde-St. Margaret's (St. Louis Park): How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Blaine High School: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Blake School (Minneapolis): Grease
Cambridge-Isanti High School: Grease
Centennial High School (Circle Pines): Little Shop of Horrors
Chanhassen High School: Curtains
Chaska High School: Once Upon a Mattress
Chisago Lakes High School: Hello, Dolly!
Columbia Heights High School: TBA
Concordia Academy (Roseville): Peter Pan
Cretin-Derham Hall (Saint Paul): Sweet Charity
DeLaSalle High School (Minneapolis): Into the Woods
Eagan High School: A Christmas Carol
East Ridge High School (Woodbury): The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Eastview High School (Apple Valley): Beauty and the Beast
Edina High School: Urinetown
FAIR Downtown School (Minneapolis): TBA
Forest Lake High School: Guys and Dolls
Fridley Senior High School: Footloose
Glencoe-Silver Lake High School: Seussical
Hill-Murray School (Maplewood): Bye Bye Birdie
Irondale High School (New Brighton): How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jefferson Senior High School (Alexandria): TBA
Lakeville North High School: The Secret Garden
Lakeville South High School: Little Women
Main Street School of Performing Arts (Hopkins): The Producers
Maple Grove Senior High School: The Drowsy Chaperone
Minnehaha Academy (Minneapolis): Honk!
Minnetonka High School: Legally Blonde
Monticello High School: Singin' in the Rain
Moorhead High School: Children of Eden
Mound Westonka High School: The Drowsy Chaperone
New Life Academy (Woodbury): Beauty and the Beast
Norwood Young America High School: Little Shop of Horrors
Park High School (Cottage Grove): Blood Brothers
Richfield Senior High School: Little Shop of Horrors
Rogers High School: TBA
Shakopee High School: Grease
Southwest High School (Minneapolis): Hairspray
South St. Paul Secondary School: Fiddler on the Roof
St. Francis High School: Curtains
St. Louis Park High School: Little Shop of Horrors
Saint Paul Conservatory for the Performing Arts: Caroline, or Change
Tartan Senior High School (Oakdale): Once on This Island
Thomas Jefferson High School (Bloomington): All Shook Up
Totino-Grace High School (Fridley): Anything Goes
Washburn High School (Minneapolis): Fame
Wayzata High School: Brigadoon
White Bear Lake Area High School: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Winona Senior High School: The Secret Garden
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