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Children's Theatre Company is proud to collaborate with ABC Home and Planet Foundation's Gift of Compassion!!

Voices of Freedom - Empower a child from a low-income, minority community in New York City to become a voice of positive change by participating in a theater production that addresses urgent global issues.

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PROMO REEL (Good Morning America, United Nations with Nelson Mandela)

 

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 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