Shea’s Performing Arts Center and iTheatrics join forces to offer schools and arts organizations the opportunity to participate in Shea’s Junior Theater Celebration. Traditionally, all organizations and schools that produce a musical with upper elementary and middle school students in the greater Buffalo area are invited to apply.
Interested organizations and schools should submit this application form as soon as they are able. Applications will be accepted until all spaces are filled. An official deadline will be announced. Questions about the Junior Theater Celebration should be directed to Victoria Pérez-Maggiolo at vperez@sheas.org or 716-829-1203 or Alicia Rainey at arainey@sheas.org or 716-829-1174
Schools and organizations who apply to participate in the program must:
A Touch of Dance
Aaron Mossell Junior High School
Academy of Theatre Arts
Amherst Middle School Drama Club
Belfast Central School
Bemus Point Elementary School
Calkins Road Middle School
Charlotte Avenue Elementary School
Creative Allusions Productions
Connor Middle School
Cuba-Rushford Middle/High School
DeSales Catholic School
Dunkirk Middle School
Eggert Road Elementary School
Ellicott Elementary School
Elmwood Franklin School
Encore Experience
Fillmore Central School
Frontier Middle School
Gaskill Preparatory School
Gowanda Middle School
Holmes Total Child Theatre
International Preparatory School PS #198
Iroquois Middle School
King Center Charter School
Ledgeview Musical Theater Workshop
Lindbergh Elementary School
MEL’s School of Music and Theater
Mill Middle School
Roosevelt Early Childhood Center PS #65
South Davis Elementary School
Spotlight Studios for the Performing Arts
St. Aloysius Regional School
St. Amelia School
St. Andrew’s Country Day School
St. Christopher School Bound for Broadway
St. Mary’s School for the Deaf
St. Peter Roman Catholic School
Sweet Home Middle School
Teal’s Niagara Theatre
Transit Middle School
West Seneca East Middle School
West Seneca West Middle School
Westminster Community Charter School
Winchester-Potters Elementary School
Windermere Boulevard School Musical Theater Club
Windom Elementary
Founded in 2006, iTheatrics is the world’s leading authority on musical theatre education. They adapt Broadway musicals for young people to perform and have over one hundred different titles currently available. It is estimated that over 36 million people attend a performance of an iTheatrics adaptation each year, which is three times the number of people who see a Broadway show. Additionally each year iTheatrics trains thousands of teachers to become skilled musical theatre educational practitioners, and works to build sustainable musical theatre programs in underserved schools across the world with the goal of making the world a better place, one musical at a time.
