Inside Broadway
Inside Broadway was founded by Presser in 1982, at the request of the late President of the Shubert Organization, Bernard B. Jacobs, to create a student ticket program for the Broadway musical Cats.
The company now develops touring musical productions and educational programs that allow students in New York to experience theatre firsthand and learn from performing arts professionals. Over 28,000 students in 75 schools in all five boroughs participate annually.
The repertory has included:
- Leonard Bernstein's On the Town
- Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
- George M. Cohan's My Hometown
- Marlo Thomas' Free to Be... You and Me
- Oscar Hammerstein's All Kinds Of People
- Irving Berlin's Land That I Love
- Richard Rodgers' Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, The Pirates of Penzance
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Inside Broadway receives funding from several New York City and New York State Government agencies.
In 2010 Presser received Theater Resources Unlimited's Humanitarian Award for his work with Inside Broadway.
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Famous quotes containing the word broadway:
“Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success—had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)