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...Another sign that high school musicals are growing up: they've acquired that inevitable trapping of sophistication, their own awards. The Cappies were created in 1999, after the Columbine massacre, to encourage and recognize achievement in high school theater. Now they've grown to 17 regions around the country and three cities in Canada. Schools that choose to participate submit one or two productions apiece (plays as well as musicals), which are reviewed by teams of student critics - who then vote electronically for their favorites. This year's nominations in 37 categories were just announced, and the awards will...
...vitality of high school musical theater can be traced, at least in part, to the popularity of reality TV shows like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, as well as to Broadway's new wave of family shows, from The Lion King to Wicked -which have turned on a new generation to the possibilities of theater. Also helping broaden the repertoire is the advent of specially adapted school versions of recent Broadway shows that are either too unwieldy - like Les Miz - or too racy - like Rent - for most schools. (Some shows even have elementary- or middle-school versions.) Some...
...entire school. It's about the kids involved doing the advertising, the marketing, the tech work, the costume work. And that extends out to the community, because they reach out to parents who also support in helping build stuff." Indeed, in sharp contrast to the cost-conscious commercial theater, high school directors seek out shows with the biggest casts possible. "You want as many opportunities for as many kids as you can have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year. "A lot of the older shows just don't have enough...
...Just as relevant to the kids, these hipper shows are helping move musical theater out of the nerdy backwater of the high school activities. "The homecoming king and queen at our school are both drama people ? not the football player and the cheerleader," says Stacy Hansen, theater director at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. "For so long, if you were in drama, you were a nerd. Now it's the cool thing...
Harlem's past and future coexist uneasily on 125th Street, where Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech still pours forth from speakers near the vaunted Apollo Theater. Pawnshops and hair-braiding parlors are increasingly giving way to Old Navy and Verizon outlets. In 2001 former President Bill Clinton opened his office here to great fanfare; last year the American Planning Association named it one of America's 10 Greatest Streets. But councilman Charles Barron, an opponent of rezoning, argues that the influx of major retailers has sanitized the neighborhood. "Harlem had a swagger...