Friday, October 16, 2009
Adrienne Arsht Gives Kennedy Center $5 Million for Musical Theater
washingtonpost.com: "The role of Washington as a hotbed for musical theater advanced solidly Thursday when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced it had received a $5 million gift for that express purpose."
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This is great to hear because not only is Adrienne Arsht a supporter of musicals but she is a huge supporter of new theater experimental in nature. At the Arsht center in Miami she pushed and forced the touring production of "Fuerza Bruta" to stop in Miami and pushed for its extended period in Miami so more Floridians could experience the aw of Bruta- a show where the audience stands onstage watching the show happen on the walls around them and above their heads.
She has given money to the Kennedy center to promote that: new works of theater. IT is great to see her giving so much and look foward to what this money and her other efforts produce for the theater world.
I think people like Adrienne Arsht are instrumental in destroying the notion that NYC is the only place for musicals. People throughout the country, not just NYC, want to see these works. The demand is out there, just not the supply. Donations like this will start up programs to quench the thirst, and show the industry that the market exists in a lot of different places.
On a side note, 17% of American adults see professional musicals a year?!?! That is huge. I never thought that stats would be that high, but I am happy to see that theater is anything, but a dying art.
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