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Heroes Program 2021 TADA! Youth Theater presents HHEERROOEESS Music and Lyrics By Tammy Holder Book By Janine nina Trevens Based on a play by Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd July 30 & 31, 2021 Streaming online starting August 15 TADATHEATER.COM About TAdA! TADA! inspires young people from different backgrounds to be creative, learn, and think differently through high-quality musical theater productions and educational programs. TADA! is a unique, Drama Desk award-winning, nonprofit youth theater that produces original musicals for children, teens, and family audiences. TADA! offers a free, year- round pre-professional training and positive youth development program for the Resident Youth Ensemble of TADA! (RYET) (ages 8-18); musical theater classes/camps for the public; and musical theater residencies in NYC schools/community centers. Through TADA!’s high-quality work, young people gain integral skills in leadership, responsibility, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills that help with growing up and are essential to their success both in school and in life. Original Mainstage Musicals TADA!’s original thought-provoking and fun musical theater productions are commissioned specifically for performance by the Resident Youth Ensemble of TADA! (RYET). These musicals are written, scored, arranged, directed, choreographed, and designed by professional theater artists with credits from Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, music, or the film industry. TADA!’s themes often empower performers and audiences to realize that they are vital members of society who can make the world a better place. Productions are intended for family audiences. Themes such as self- acceptance, acceptance of others, challenges with family, fears of growing up, and bullying are subjects that members of the audience can relate to. Education at TADA! For more than 35 years, TADA! has offered year-round classes and camps at our onsite location as well as in-school residencies and after-school programming in both public and private schools across New York City. This year, we have proudly pivoted to providing online, synchronous classes to students across the world. But we are proud to announce that we are back in person this summer and fall! Musical theater and storytelling are the cornerstones of our work with young people. All TADA! programs are based in ensemble-building techniques that facilitate an active, equitable, and inclusive learning environment where cooperative, personal, and creative growth are fostered in a structured and supportive setting. TADA! Education is rooted in the core belief that we are better together. Through our Arts for All Scholarship, we commit to providing every interested child regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability, nationality, or immigration status, an affordable way to experience the joy of musical theater. For more information about TADA!'s Staff, Board, and Programming, please visit TADATHEATER.COM. HHEERROOEESS Music and Lyrics By Tammy Holder Book By Janine nina Trevens Based on a play by Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Steve o'Shea Ceanna Bryant*** Anthony Raddi*** Production Stage Manager production supervisor Ashley Knowles Cesar Renero Assistant Director Lauralie Mufute** Musical director Utsav Bhargava Director & choreographer Gabriela Gross*** The cast Jonathan.............................................................................................................Lukas Mufute* (Jersey City, NJ, 11) J.J.....................................................................................................................................Ameerah Mair (Brooklyn, 12) Terry.......................................................................................................................Marlena Vega** (Manhattan, 16) Kyla......................................................................................................................................Elisa Oh (Freehold, NJ, 12) Dylan.................................................................................................................Julien Jobson-Larkin* (Brooklyn, 10) Georgia...............................................................................................................................Katie Chan* (Queens, 13) Paula.............................................................................................................................Soleil Mar Perez* (Bronx, 14) Woman of Great Magic..............................................................................................Kiyo Garcia** (Brooklyn, 15) Guardian of the Water.........................................................................................Nolan Shaffer* (Manhattan, 16) The 4 Wonders of Winter (4WOW) Duke Lemmings................................................................................Oscar Segarra-Caussin** (Queens, 18) Irving Ash..................................................................................................................Mateo Aponte* (Bronx, 14) Cliff Michaels.........................................................................................................AJ Walker** (Manhattan, 17) Cal Wood.............................................................................................Jon Luc Jobson-Larkin** (Brooklyn, 14) Musical Numbers "Our Day in the Sun"......................................................................Kyla, Dylan, JJ, Terry, Jonathan, Paula, Georgia "I Want This".....................................................................................Kyla, Dylan, JJ, Terry, Jonathan, Paula, Georgia "We Can Be Heroes"...............................................................................................................Woman of Great Magic "Journey Song"....................................Woman of Great Magic, Kyla, Dylan, JJ, Terry, Jonathan, Paula, Georgia "Guardian Song"..........................................................................................................Guardian, Kyla, Dylan, JJ, Terry "Journey Song Reprise"..................................................................................................................Kyla, Dylan, JJ, Terry "Star You Are"........................................................................................................................................................4 WOW "Journey Song Reprise"...................................................................................................................Georgia and Paula "No Hero"........................................................................................................Jonathan and Woman of Great Magic "Heroes/Sunrise".......................................................................................................................................Full Company "Heroes/We Can Be Heroes Reprise"..................................................................................................Full Company TADA! Here We Are..................................................................................................................................Full Company Music & Lyrics by Joel Gelpe the band Keyboard.................................................................................................................................................Utsav Bhargava Percussion.....................................................,....................................................................................................Joe Brady Bass.......................................................................................................................................................Jeremy Nunez*** * Denotes Apprentice Ensemble Members ** Denotes Principal Ensemble Members *** Denotes Alumni Ensemble Members Who's Who RESIDENT YOUTH ENSEMBLE OF TADA! (RYET) (Cast) TAMMY HOLDER (Composer/Lyricist) is thrilled to see A completely free, year-round, award-winning pre- Heroes take the stage at TADA! again!! Tammy is currently professional training and positive youth development the Artist-In-Residence at the Broward Center for the program for talented kids ages 8-18 who thrive by being Performing Arts in Ft Lauderdale, FL following a 20-year immersed in musical theater. The 80 annual Ensemble career as a vocal coach/music director/teaching artist Members come from different ethnic and socio-economic based in New York City. Tammy has a long history with backgrounds and from all five boroughs of New York City, TADA! as a teaching artist and resident music director as well as local suburbs. They have access to performance and continues to be a huge fan! Tammy has also worked opportunities in TADA!’s main stage musicals and off-site as a teaching artist for City Center and Disney Theatricals performances, as well as free training in singing, dancing, and has music directed for the French Woods Festival of and acting, and a community of like-minded individuals. Performing Arts. She worked with Camp Broadway to teach the vocals for the opening number of the Macy's Membership in the Ensemble is by an audition process Thanksgiving Day Parade and has appeared on public that determines talent, drive, and potential. Positive youth television’s Sesame Street. Tammy has toured here in the development programming for Ensemble Members U.S. and around the world and has worked as a vocal includes: healthy snacks provided when members are on director for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and Jean Ann site, college
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