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The following appeared on the Broadwayworld.com on February 9, 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz Feb. 9, 2022
Producers Barry Diller, David Geffen, and Kate Horton announced today that the smash hit Broadway musical The Music Man is making available 10,000 tickets at just $20 each to New York City students, their families, and their teachers to help foster a love and appreciation for the arts by making Broadway more accessible. This broad effort, created and spearheaded by The Music Man‘s Black Theatre Coalition fellow, Amy Marie Haven, is built around partnerships with the New York City Department of Education and a dozen local youth non-profits, including Artists Striving to End Poverty, Art Start, Arts For All, Arthur Miller Foundation, On Broadway Performing Arts Training Program, Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Education Through Music, Rosie’s Theatre Kids, R Evolucion Latina, and Broadway Bridges.
The extensive effort will be accompanied by curated initiatives designed to engage with the community.
Haven commented, “For me, The Music Man is all about transformation. Theatre totally transformed my life. I was a displaced low-income student that ultimately became an arts teacher/ nonprofit administrator because of accessible programming. With The Music Man‘s Audience Development Initiative, we are hoping to plant the seed for further transformation- investing in and cultivating our next generation of citizens and storytellers.”
