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Latest News
Children's Theatre Company is auditioning by appointment only.
CTC New York, NY (Headquarters)
has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email New York Chapter Coordinator Rabilon Bucknor:
admin@childrenstheatercompany.org
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CTC Chapel Hill , NC has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email Chapel Hill Chapter Coordinator Suzan Kalantar:
suzan@klchildrenstheatre.org
CTC Long Island, NY has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email Long Island Chapter Coordinator Bushra Vahid:
admin@childrenstheatercompany.org
CTC Los Angeles, CA has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email Los Angeles Chapter Coordinator Anna De La Cruz:
adelacruzkarlsson@gmail.com
CTC Peekskill, NY has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email Peekskill Chapter Coordinator Ridvan Foxhall:
rfoxhall@gmail.com
CTC Providence , RI has auditions for Fall 09 Season.
Email Providence Chapter Coordinator Margie Maher:
mmsmargie@maherz.org
OTHER NEWS
Children's Theatre Company receives prestigious
National Endowment for the Arts's grant for Excellence and grant from the New York Council for the Arts.
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CTC's new musical, Henry "Box" Brown, debuts in June.
Broadway singers join the cast album, featuring performers from
Dream Girls, Aida, Ms. Saigon, Jewtopia, and Les Miserables.
New chapters launched in Valley Stream and Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Fundraiser
In February 2009, actors Rainn Wilson and Shohreh Aghdashloo co-hosted CTC's first annual fundraiser which was graciously hosted at the home of Haute Couture designer Simin and her husband Mehran Taghdiri. The evening was attended by several prominent Hollywood celebrities and featured a short performance by the CTC Los Angeles Chapter.
NY Daily News cover story about Mehr and CTC.
New Sponsors:
ABC Carpet and Home adopts CTC
Staples and
NY Health and Raquet Club join CTC's Local Heroes
Four Manhattan Restaurants sponsor CTC Season
CHAPTER NEWS
Los Angeles launched two consecutive seasons, staging four productions.
Excerpts from the First Season: Ugly Duckling & Kunka Bunka.
CTC at Guru Gobind Singh Foundation in Rockville, MD, launched to great success.
Click here for a pre-run article and here for a review.
About Children's Theatre -
WHAT THE NEW
YORK TIMES SAYS ABOUT CTC:
"...hilarious...."
"...stirring...."
"...intriguingly original..."
"...rousing songs..."
"... colorful and lighthearted..."
"...pithy statement on the abuses of power..."
"...acted with great brio..."
"...tuneful fairy tale..."
"...mature words that sound all the more stirring when uttered by young voices."
"….includes a civil rights medley, several
rousing songs by the group's music director, Eric Dozier..."
"Acted with great brio, this tuneful fairy
tale emphasizes the value of service without being preachy..."
"…an acrobatically enhanced King Kunka Bunka and the Rotten
Royal Rascals …an intriguingly original musical in rap
with rousing Russian-style music and dance…and a salsa-fied…
"Horton the Elephant…"
"They also present the mini-musical "Myrtle & Yertle," a pithy statement on the abuses of power.... Performed with hilarious music by Lory Lazarus, it includes a country-western odes by Mack and Jack, the turtles who are literally at the bottom of society."
-Laurel Graeber, THE NEW YORK TIMES
July
2007
July 2006
December
2005
WHAT A SESAME STREET DIRECTOR HAS SAID
"I was both impressed and touched by what I saw. The children are not only taught how to be a great performer, but they are taught a true sense of community... As the Casting Director for Sesame Street... [t]he transformation I saw these children go through in the 15-20 minutes Mehr worked with them in the audition was astounding!"
"[I]t was astounding to see some of the shy, timid kids from the audtion onstage with such confidence and talent."
"Watching the performance is more than entertaining, it is enlightening."
-Carrie Haugh, Casting Director, SESAME STREET PRODUCTIONS
WHAT OUR CELEBRITY FRIENDS HAVE SAID
James
Earl Jones
(Academy Award Winning Actor)
"I was very touched by the beauty and love behind the efforts of the Children's Theatre to provide children with a magical yet practical approach to life and a new way of viewing themselves as noble creations…"
(Photo: James Earl Jones and Laura A)
-Verizon Literacy Awards: Casey at the Bat
Harry
Belafonte
(Harry Belafonte [UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador] and his wife Julie
"The balance you create -- between seriousness and humor, roots of power and flights of optimism, intellect and unabashed joy -- is exquisite. What you are doing is truly wonderful and you should be very proud of your efforts and accomplishments."
-United Nations Say Yes Concert for Children's
Rights
(Photo: L. to R. Sarayah, Brittany, Vim, Fariba- at the close of the
gala concert)
Wynton
Marsalis (Pulitzer Prize Winning and 9 Time Grammy Award Winning
Trumpeter & Jazz Composer)
"Yours is an example of what service to the community
means. [CTC] serves as an example that our potentials are unlimited…"
(Mehr and Karida with Wyton Marsalis and CTC Kids)
Raffi
(World renowned & award winning children's songwriter & entertainer)
"Your work is easily among the most noble artistic endeavors I've ever seen. Not to mention totally entertaining and deeply touching. Few 'grown-up' performances have achieved as much. Your premise and practice of art & humanity is nothing shy of laying groundwork for future leaders of true peace."
Raffi with Mercy @ UN Special Session on Children:
WHAT THE
PRESS SAYS:
"Although politics is practiced by adults, it always has effects on children. Young performers from the Children's Theatre Company are exploring those realities now in a production that draws on the writings of sages ranging from Dr. Seuss to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"Their musical-theater adaptations of Dr. Suess's
The Sneetches and The Lorax emphasize the Doc's message of tolerance."
"One of New York's most successful working models of 'unity
in diversity'…"
Barbaria Aria, TIME-OUT NEW
YORK
"…a colorful and lighthearted way of
teaching children about the dangers of prejudice."
Shelly Goldberg, NY1 NEWS