Tuesday, March 19, 2013
'Smash' and Lowe’s Team Up to Rebuild High School Theaters
www.backstage.com: Thirty high schools around the country, including three New York-based schools, are currently final contenders for the “Smash” Make a Musical campaign. The NBC musical show has partnered with the home improvement store Lowe’s to help high schools make much needed repairs to their theater spaces. The campaign is administered through iTheatrics, a program that develops theater works for elementary, middle and high school students. The five-winning schools will each receive a $3,000 gift card to Lowe’s.
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This is a really great cause. This issue really hits home with me, as I am from Long Island and have seen the effects of Hurricane Sandy in my hometown and beyond. Luckily, the damage was not too bad for my family or for my high school, but many schools and homes were completely destroyed from the storm. It is great that Smash and Lowe's are paying special attention to the theaters and auditoriums which were destroyed from the storm. I know that if the storm had hit when I was still in high school, and damage to my high school's theater prevented me from taking part in shows, I would be devastated. Theater can be such an important part of life for young students, and Smash and Lowe's are not only recognizing that, but are also encouraging others to follow suit.
This is beautiful. I love that a huge corporation such as Lowe's is reaching out to the arts and showing its support for theatre. In most contests such as these, it is for a gymnasium or a classroom to be redone, so it is wonderful that fine arts are being recognized and given a boost. When disaster strikes, it is always a pleasure to see people volunteering to help rebuild homes and businesses - all the necessities. But what is often overlooked are the parts of the community that make people happy. Maybe these are not the first priority because they are not needed direly, but such places are necessary in their own way because a huge part of recovery is morale and feeling as though life is put back together. And everyone needs art in their lives.
This is awesome and I am supper pumped to know that people are giving back to the community. I am glad they are doing it to community and more important to the students and facility that desperately need the money. I find myself in a weird spot sometimes because I totally support free trade but then I look at a article like this and think to myself if all 30 schools are really that worthy what is $90,000 to Lowes and NBC (Smash's Network??) or what about a a true rebuild about 50 grand. So the space could actually have something serious done. I guess where I fall is that I like the free trade I just want people to want to give their money way. Ps anyone that does read this. I give a decent portion of my personal money away.
It's always nice to see people in our industry doing good deeds in communities across the country, I remember an article earlier this year that touched on members of acting companies in NYC working with the Habitat for Humanity on their dark days. I think that Smash, its Network and it's producers are doing a wonderful thing here, not only does it promote our industry but it helps bring life to these programs in need. I hope the schools that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy benefit from this in some way, or can at least be rebuilt within time.
This is amazing. For the public school system I came from, the arts programs were kind of oppressed and no one from the school board really bothered with trying to rebuild any of it. To see organizations and people like this who don't work behind desks and who are actually physically going out there to help repair and restore a place for young people to rehearse and perform and learn and grow in the arts is truly remarkable. I wonder what other 27 schools are qualified for this prize, and what their arts programs are like and how passionate their kids are.
This is great. On top of Hurricane Sandy, many theatre and arts programs are getting cut from schools because they are deemed unimportant. With Hurricane Sandy, I am curious to see how many high schools are willing to rebuild their theatres and arts programs. I think it is great that Lowe's and Smash are giving to help these programs. The arts are so important because they bring kids together to create and understand the world around them. I hope the students get to help rebuild the theatres as well because that would be a great bonding experience, and they will also gain more knowledge about the theater itself.
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