Billy Elliot Broadway Welcomes Budding NYC Playwrights
September 4, 2009
It’s not just Billy Elliot Broadway that’s attracting them to the Imperial Theatre this summer; Movie and music icon Queen Latifah recently hosted a gala event at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, home of the Tony-nominated production of the Billy Elliot Musical. Months of rigorous playwriting and production development went into the Fidelity FutureStage Finale, which marked Broadway debuts for six different student-written plays. In all, over 1,000 New York City area students participated in the 2009 program, which was a huge success. Queen Latifah said, “I am thrilled to help them celebrate a night they’ll always remember.” Six plays were selected from work entered by the 10 schools participating in the year-long Fidelity FutureStage school program. The event honored Madeline Hendricks, the overall winner of the Fidelity FutureStage Playwriting Contest, a joint effort by Fidelity Investments and Billy Elliot the Musical to bring out more creative playwriting from New York area schoolkids. Hendricks, 17, from Mamaroneck High School in Westchester, NY, triumphed through her comedy play, “Driver’s Education”. The play covered the life of an over-talkative New York cab driver who, together with his daughter and various passengers, swapped some fundamental life lessons as the coasted through the streets. “Driver’s Education” was staged at the Imperial Theatre, home of Billy Elliot the Musical, on June 15, 2009.
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