Mean Girls Krystina Alabado. Watch the ceremony above beginning at 3:30 PM ET.
Closing out the weekend-long virtual celebration of all things youth theatre, the ceremony will celebrate the festival with performances of existing and soon-to-be-released Broadway Junior shows by festival attendees. Works set to be represented include
Something Rotten! JR. (The British Theatre Academy in London), Disney s
Camp Rock: The Musical (The LIghthouse Theater Company in Albertville, AL), Disney s
Freaky Friday (The PACT Company in Mobile, AL),
Hans Christian Andersen Online Edition (Spark of Creation Studios in South San Francisco, CA),
The Big One-Oh! JR (Eastern Shore Repertory Theatre in Fairhope, AL), and
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Artistic director Khalia Davis and music director Angel Adedokun with students, hearing comments online from JTF Australia adjudicators. (Contributed photo)
Students in the advanced performers program of Bay Area Children s Theatre traveled virtually to this year s Junior Theatre Festival Australia.
The local participants sixth- to 12th-graders from Pleasanton, Livermore, San Ramon, Orinda, Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda learned their song and dance routines online, recorded their parts individually in their own homes, then competed long-distance. The students had to be much more self-directed and had to work with technology because we weren t all in the room together, BACT artistic director Khalia Davis said. And we had to lean into the Zoom medium to make the performance better.
School of Rock), and Taylor Iman Jones (
Head Over Heels). Additional guests will be announced in the coming days.
Watch Brittney Mack s message to 2021 JTF attendees:
Playbill will be on hand to host the second annual JTF Theatre Trivia Showdown, with two student representatives from each attending group selected to participate and the entire festival invited to watch and play along on social media.
iTheatrics, the world s leading authority on musical theatre for young people and the force behind the Junior Theater Festival, has partnered with the Educational Theater Foundation to let Secret Santas send kids to this year s festival, which has shifted online for the first time in response to the current health crisis. Through January 3, each donation of $150 made to ETF s Jumpstart Theatre campaign will send one student or teacher to the JTF extravaganza at no charge to them. If you d like to participate, you can donate at EDTF.org, designating JumpStart Theatre.
Newsies), and Isabella Russo (
School of Rock) will all make appearances at the 2021 Junior Theater Festival Online Extravaganza. Shifted to an online event due to the health crisis, the three-day festival celebrating youth theatre is set for January 15-17. Registration for the festival, available for the first time to individuals as well as theatre groups, is open through January 4 at JuniorTheaterFestival.com.
iTheatrics, the world s leading authority on musical theatre for young people and the force behind the Junior Theater Festival, has also partnered with the Educational Theater Foundation to let secret santas send kids to this year s festival. Through January 3, each donation of $150 made to ETF s Jumpstart Theatre campaign will send one student or teacher to the JTF Extravaganza at no charge to them. If you d like to participate, you can donate at EDTF.org, designating JumpStart Theatre.