PRO MUSICA TOURS NEW YORK PERFORMING ARTS TOUR

CRONULLA SCHOOL APRIL 11-22, 2018

Wednesday, April 11

6:30 AM Arrival at Sydney Airport for group check in

9:35 AM Qantas Flight 11 departs for LAX

Stop over in LAX

4:40 PM Arrival in NYC – JFK Airport

Thia, your Pro Musica Guide will meet your group in baggage claim. She will be holding a sign that clearly reads “Cronulla High School.” She will assist you with luggage retrieval and coach loading. Thia will remain with you for the duration of the trip.

6:00 PM Arrival at The Watson Hotel. Located at 57th Street and 9th Avenue, The Watson is within walking distance to Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, Central Park, Times Square, and the Theater District.

8:00 PM Assemble in the hotel lobby and depart on foot for dinner in the heart of Times Square

8:30 PM Dinner at Hard Rock Café

10:00 PM Admission to The Top of The Rock After dinner, soar 70 floors above the city and experience the exhilarating joy of unobstructed 360º city views from the Top of the Rock Observation Deck. From the sweeping green of Central Park to the thrilling city skyline, nowhere else can you see New York so spectacularly.

Return to hotel on foot.

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Thursday, April 12

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

8:45 AM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and board private coach for tour

9:00 AM City Highlights Tour A must see tour for first-time New York visitors! Experience Manhattan's vibrant multicultural diversity and world-renowned landmarks and attractions. Visit Times Square, Chinatown, Little Italy, SoHo, Harlem, the Museum Mile, Rockefeller Center, South Street Seaport and many more!

1:00 PM End of tour

Lunch at leisure

1:45 PM Art students depart with Thia for the lower east side via subway

2:30 PM Art Students: Graffiti Tour With a mission to connect people with the street art and graffiti culture, your guide will introduce you to this misunderstood craft. This unique tour adapts to the art as it is being created and changed in the city, resulting in an ever evolving itinerary. Discover your own appreciation of street art via urban exploration showcasing murals, public art and illegal art, will learning about the artists and their process

2:15 PM Drama and Vocal/Music Students regroup with Patrick and depart on foot for Ripley Grier Studios

2:30 PM Drama Students: Voice Over Acting Master Class Roger Becker

Vocal and Music Students: Meet The Artist – Broadway Musician Tom Monkell

Dance Students: afternoon at leisure

5:30 PM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart on foot for dinner

6:00 PM Dinner at John’s Pizzeria

8:00 PM Broadway Performance: FROZEN Frozen is the timeless tale of two sisters, pulled apart by a mysterious secret. As one young woman struggles to find her voice and harness her powers within, the other embarks on an epic adventure to bring her family together once and for all. Both are searching for love. They just don't know where to find it.

10:30 PM End of performance Following the performance, Thia will escort the group back to the hotel.

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Friday, April 13

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

9:30 AM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart via subway for Park East High School

10:25 AM Student Exchange and Group Performance at Park East High School – Harlem

Noon Depart Park East High School

Lunch at leisure

Patrick will meet the art group and take them to the Guggenheim

1:30 PM Art Students – Guggenheim Tour and Workshop During this interactive 2.5-hour program, students explore the Guggenheim’s permanent collection and exhibitions, and engage in discussions as well as activities involving writing, drawing, or movement in response to works on view. Following the thematic gallery tour, students create their own works of art in the Guggenheim’s digital and studio art labs.

3:34 PM End of workshop Patrick will bring group back to hotel/midtown

Remainder of day and dinner at leisure

Saturday, April 14

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

8:15 AM Dancers meet Thia in the lobby and depart via subway for dance class

9:00 AM Broadway Dance Center Private Class Intermediate Jazz Funk with Chio

10:30 AM End of dance class

9:45 AM Vocal Students meet Patrick in the hotel lobby and depart for Broadway Vocal Class

10:00 AM Wicked Vocal Class Marty Thomas & Brad Ross

11:30 AM End of Master Class

Art Students: time at leisure

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Lunch at leisure

1:30 PM Entire group meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart on foot for Radio City Music Hall

2:15 PM Radio City Stage Door Tour On this insiders’ tour, groups will be guided behind the scenes of one of New York’s largest stages. Your group will get a chance to learn about the hydraulic stage, the private suite, home to “Roxy” Rothafel, inside the music hall, and much more. The tour concludes with the opportunity to meet a member of the world famous Rockettes.

Visit to St Patrick’s Cathedral and 5th Avenue

6:00 PM Dinner at Heartland Brewery and Rotisserie – Empire State Building

8:00 PM Broadway Performance: Waitress Based upon the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, the new musical with music by five-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles follows the story of Jenna an inventive waitress trapped in a small-town diner and a loveless marriage. Pregnant and lonely, Jenna finds relief in making creatively-titled pies — and in a budding romance with an unlikely newcomer. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna must weigh her commitments against a rare shot at freedom and recognition.

10:30 PM End of performance Following the performance, Thia will escort the group back to the hotel.

Sunday, April 15

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

Day at leisure

5:45 PM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart on foot for The Palace Theatre

6:30 PM Broadway Performance: SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, an unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage. Acclaimed Steppenwolf director Tina Landau and the groundbreaking designers behind Fun Home,Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Spring Awakening have reimagined Bikini Bottom for the Broadway stage, bringing the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and theatricality. With an original score featuring songs by Sara Bareilles, John Legend, the Flaming Lips, and more, SpongeBob SquarePants explodes with energy.

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9:00 PM End of performance Following the performance, Thia will escort the group back to the hotel.

Monday, April 16

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

9:30 AM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart on foot for Lincoln Center

10:00 AM Lincoln Center Tour This exploration of Lincoln Center begins at Avery Fisher Hall and offers an inside look at what happens on and off the stages of the complex’s prestigious venues, which include the Metropolitan Opera House, David Geffen Hall, David H. Koch Theater (previously New York State Theater), Vivian Beaumont Theater, and the dramatically transformed Alice Tully Hall. During the tour, your group will hear fascinating stories about Lincoln Center’s history and perhaps even catch a rehearsal in progress!

11:30 AM End of tour

Lunch at leisure

1:30 PM Load coach at hotel for transfer to Woodbury Commons Outlet Mall

Shopping Excursion!

6:00 PM Return to Manhattan Dinner and Evening at leisure

Tuesday, April 17

Breakfast

9:45 AM Dancers meet Patrick in the hotel lobby and depart for Ripley Grier Studios

10:00 AM Dance Master Class Wicked Choreography with Cast Member Lindsay Janisse

11:30 AM End of master class

11:15 AM The remainder of the group meets Thia in the hotel lobby and departs for the Museum of Modern Art

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Noon Private Guided Tour: Museum of Modern Art 54th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, this collection has grown to include more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects – one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art. From around the world.

5:30 PM Dinner at Southern Hospitality

7:00 PM Broadway Performance: Hello Dolly Featuring music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, Hello, Dolly! tells the story of an outspoken matchmaker and her attempts to marry "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Produced by Scott Rudin, the show has a book by Michael Stewart, based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder. It won a then-record 10 Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical, and ran 2,844 performances, making it briefly the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

9:30 PM End of performance Following the performance, Thia will escort the group back to the hotel.

Wednesday, April 18

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

9:00 AM Meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart via subway for Battery Park

10:00 AM Statue Of Liberty and Ellis Island Your group will travel by ferry to two of the country’s most famous landmarks, and have time to explore both Liberty Island and Ellis Island.

Lunch at leisure

1:30 PM Arrival to One World Observatory Positioned on top of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, on levels 100, 101, and 102 of the 1,776 foot tall One World Trade Center building, One World Observatory™ provides unique, panoramic views of New York City, its most iconic sites, and surrounding waters.

2:00 PM Vocal Group Performance – One World Observatory 2:15 PM End of performance

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Visit National September 11th Memorial A tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial design selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history.

Travel via subway to Chinatown

Chinatown/Little Italy Known today for popular restaurants, shops and tourism, the Manhattan neighborhoods of Little Italy and Chinatown boast some of New York City’s richest history. Both gritty and glamorous throughout the years, they are also home to excellent ethnic cuisine. While much of the ethnic identity of Little Italy has faded over the years, Chinatown remains strong. Chinatown, one of the oldest and largest concentrations of Chinese people outside Asia. Take in the colorful busyness of the streets lined with fish markets, produce stands, gift stores and small restaurants.

Dinner in Chinatown at Leisure

Return home via subway

Remainder of evening at leisure

Thursday, April 19

Breakfast at Hotel. (Served from 6:30am)

9:15 AM Band and Vocal students depart on foot for Lincoln Center 9:45 AM NY Philharmonic Open Rehearsal 12:30 PM End of open rehearsal

9:45 AM Drama students meet Patrick in the hotel lobby depart on foot 10:00 AM Audition Master Class Canedy Knowles – Chicago City Limits Improv

11:30 AM End of master class

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9:45 AM Art students meet Thia in the hotel lobby and depart via subway 10:30 AM Chelsea Gallery Tour On this 2-hour private guided tour of Chelsea’s huge collection of art galleries, you’ll visit 7 different galleries in the world’s center for contemporary art! Our director previews over 200 exhibits each month and selects the 8 most fascinating and varied ones to explore. You'll see the very newest in painting, sculpture, electronic media and photography, by American and international artists. If you wish, the choice of exhibits can be tailor-made according to the interests and backgrounds of the participants. At each stop, our guide helps explain the artwork and leads the group in lively discussion. The tour is about 6 blocks long and takes place no matter what the weather – rain, snow or shine – as you’ll be indoors 90% of the time. Come experience a world-class treasure of ever-changing art!

12:30 PM End of Gallery Tour

10:20 AM Dance students depart for Alvin Ailey on foot 10:30 AM Alvin Ailey Building Tour 11:30 AM Alvin Ailey Dance Class Contemporary

1:00 PM End of dance class

Lunch at leisure

2:30 PM Arrival at St. Malachy Church

3:30 PM Group Performance – St. Malachy Times Square

4:00 PM End of group performance

5:00 PM Farewell Dinner – Buca di Beppo Times Square

7:00 PM Broadway Performance: Wicked Gershwin Theatre

Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding musical in years. Over a decade into its incredible blockbuster run, Wicked continues to sell out one of Broadway’s largest houses nightly. Whether it’s the breathtaking stagecraft, the vocal pyrotechnics, or the lush score, something will reel you into this fresh twist on a classic story.

10:30 PM End of performance Following the performance, Thia will escort the group back to the hotel.

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Friday, April 20

Breakfast

9:00 AM Visit to Central Park New York City’s collective backyard, the most visited urban park in the United States and one of the most filmed locations in the world. No matter what time of year, the Park provides unique opportunities to its visitors from ice-skating, or the famous rowboats at the Loeb Boathouse, to free world class theatre.

Lunch at leisure

1:30 PM Return to hotel to collect luggage and board coach for transfer to airport

3:00 PM Group check in at JFK airport

6:10 PM Qantas Flight 12 departs NOTE LOSS OF DAY DURING INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

Sunday, April 22

6:30 AM Arrival in Sydney

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