SFArtsED PLAYERS to Perform FIORELLO! At Gala Performance Featuring B.D. Wong, 2/20

The San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) celebrates the ninth year of its musical theater company, The SFArtsED Players, with performances of Broadway's Pulitzer Prize winning, Fiorello! at San Francisco's Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson Street, between Front and Battery) for a three-week engagement beginning Friday, February 5 and continuing through Saturday, February 20. Tickets range in price from $10 for students and seniors to $15 for adults and are available by phone at 415-392-4400 and on the Web at www.cityboxoffice.com.

On Saturday, February 20, Tony-award winning actor, B.D. Wong will host the 2 p.m. benefit performance which raises money for scholarships for SFArtsED programS. Wong, currently starring in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, is a San Francisco native who attended public schools, and is a long-time activist for arts education and alternative families. SFartsED Artistic Director Emily Keeler said Wong will both welcome the audience and conduct a question and answer session before the performance.

"We are honored that the extraordinary performer B.D. Wong is supporting our work again this year. I know he sees in our programs a replica of the life changing experience he had with his mentor as a young teenager. He sees that SFartsED instill skills, confidence and commitment in our programs and joy for the form of live musical theater," said Keeler.

All of the SFArtsED performances of Fiorello! are a collaboration of SFArtsED, the School of the Arts High School Technical Theater program and Theatre Rhinoceros. The SFArtsED Players, featuring performers ranging in ages from nine through 15, will be sharing the Eureka Theatre performance space and a common set with Theatre Rhinoceros during its 2009-2010 season. The students from School of the Arts High School's (SOTA) program will design the technical aspects of the performances including the set and props and will be responsible for the stage management of the show, as part of SFArtsED's apprentice programs. Jon Lowe, Theatre Rhinoceros's lighting designer will mentor the SOTA theater apprentices, teaching the students lighting design and operational skills.

Fiorello! is playing at San Francisco's Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson Street, between Front and Battery) February 5 - 20. The performance schedule is:

Friday, February 5 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 6 at 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 7 at 2:00pm
Saturday, February 13 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, February 14 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, February 20 at 2:00 pm*
*Special Gala fundraiser

Tickets
Tickets to The SFArtsED Players' performances of Fiorello! are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Tickets for the Gala performance on Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. are $30. To purchase tickets, visit www.cityboxoffice.com or call 415-392-4400.

About The SFArtsED Players
The SFArtsED Players is a musical theater company that reflects San Francisco in all its diversity. Hailing from the neighborhoods of San Francisco, the SFArtsED Players is made up of 30 theater performers who come from SFArtsED's performing arts residencies as well as from the organization's summer arts intensive, called SFArtsED Summer, held each year at School District sites. The young performers are selected for their talent, enthusiasm and commitment for the musical theater form. They work with the directors of the company 10 hours each week, training as "triple threats" (actor/singer/dancers) and rehearsing for their performances. The company performs both original musicals and Broadway classics.

About Theatre Rhinoceros
Theatre Rhinoceros (John Fisher, Artistic Director), America's longest running professional queer theatre, develops and produces works of theatre that enlighten, enrich, and explore both the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of our queer community.

 

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