Broadway Dallas, Dallas Impartial Faculty District and a consortium of beneficiant underwriters introduced at present a district-wide STEAM schooling program themed across the Broadway musical AIN’T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS.
Over the course of a number of weeks, 3,400 theatre college students and academics from 25 Dallas ISD Excessive Colleges will take part in specifically created curriculum that pertains to the manufacturing, taught in school rooms by Broadway Dallas instructing artists. As a part of the lesson plan all of the taking part college students and academics will attend a devoted efficiency of AIN’T TOO PROUD on the Music Corridor at Honest Park, the place the present will play from September 6 – 18, 2022.

This system was borne of a rising partnership between Broadway Dallas and Dallas ISD, which strives to offer college students entry to “the spirit of Broadway” by way of a big selection of packages and initiatives. In 2021, this system featured the nationwide tour of HAMILTON.
“At Broadway Dallas, we function from a spot of 100% certainty that experiences in and round reside theatre have the capability to alter folks’s lives. At its core, reside theatre is a style that promotes empathy, offering those that attend a present the prospect to see the world by way of one other individual’s eyes,” mentioned Ken Novice, Broadway Dallas President and CEO.

“AIN’T TOO PROUD is the proper present for this program as it would permit our largely BIPOC Dallas ISD college students to see individuals who appear like them on stage portraying the meteoric and historic story of a gaggle of profitable Black males,” Novice added.

“Having personally skilled this present on Broadway a few years in the past, I’m thrilled for our college students to have this chance,” mentioned Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde. “The prospect to find out about reside theatre manufacturing from precise instructing artists is a real reward. This award-winning musical and the teachings it delivers – about historical past, music and the momentous Sixties – can be an expertise to cherish. We’re grateful to Broadway Dallas and their companions for making this occur.”

T.D. Jakes Basis is a Dallas-based nonprofit that focuses on being the bridge connecting underrepresented communities with life-changing alternatives. The Basis, as an extension of its STEAM Academy, joins Broadway Dallas once more this yr because the presenting sponsor of this system by way of a particular partnership with the Dallas Mavericks.

The Basis and the Dallas Mavericks are excited to announce their multi-year partnership that expands alternatives and permits extra younger folks to discover STEAM schooling and careers. The Dallas Mavericks’ sponsorship matches with its bigger MavsTakeACTION! program, which is designed to deal with racial inequalities, promote social justice, and drive change inside the Dallas-Fort Value space.

“T.D. Jakes Basis is dedicated to exposing college students, particularly these from underrepresented communities to the roles and expertise of the long run. It’s a dedication we share with our companions, the Dallas Mavericks,” mentioned T.D. Jakes, Chairman of T.D. Jakes Basis. “This distinctive program by Broadway Dallas for DISD college students is an ideal instance of the impression we search to have. We imagine “you possibly can’t be what you don’t see,” and that this program will create a spark in lots of younger lives that may lead college students to profession paths they may not ever have thought of.”

The curriculum was developed to arrange college students for faculty and Twenty first-century careers and features a sequence of lesson plans that may present college students with basic coaching in video enhancing, honing artistic and technical expertise on industry-leading instruments. Additionally included are contextual classes coping with the Civil Rights Motion and different traditionally vital occasions that passed off concurrent to The Temptations’ rise to prominence.

“The Dallas Mavericks are proud to accomplice with T.D. Jakes Basis as presenting sponsors on this vital instructional initiative that leverages the facility of the humanities, expertise and innovation for college students in our group,” mentioned Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. “And thru our long-term partnership with T.D. Jakes Basis, we anticipate having a good broader impression on generations of scholars.”

Impressed by the chance to create collective impression in serving the youth of our group, The Moody Basis and The Addy Basis have additionally made vital contributions to underwrite this challenge.

Further challenge funding is being supplied by Fichtenbaum Charitable Belief, H-E-B/Central Market, the Dallas Schooling Basis, and the Broadway Dallas Schooling Ensemble and its Give A Child A Seat marketing campaign.

AIN’T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS is the electrifying, Broadway musical that follows The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. With their signature dance strikes and silky-smooth harmonies, they rose to the highest of the charts creating a tremendous 42 Prime Ten Hits with 14 reaching primary.

Nominated for 12 Tony® Awards and the winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Greatest Choreography, AIN’T TOO PROUD tells the thrilling story of brotherhood, household, loyalty, and betrayal, because the group’s private and political conflicts threatened to tear them aside throughout a decade of civil unrest in America.

Written by three-time Obie Award winner Dominique Morisseau, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys), and that includes the Tony-winning choreography of Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, On Your Toes!), the unforgettable story of this legendary quintet is ready to the beat of the group’s treasured hits, together with “My Woman,” “Simply My Creativeness,” “Get Prepared,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and so many extra.