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Posted by Gail M. Burns - December 2009
Author Gregory Maguire Part of Proctors Education Project
Thursday, December 10
11:00 am – 12 pm
Schenectady, NY – New York Times best-selling author Gregory Maguire, whose book was transformed into the Broadway musical Wicked, will speak at Proctors on Thursday, December 10 from 11 am to 12 pm to high school students on the process of transforming a literary work into a Broadway musical.
Mr. Maguire will speak to high school students from the Sayles School of Fine Arts as part of a Proctors Education project. This project entitled “A World of Difference: Teaching Tolerance With Wicked” is supported by a grant from The Broadway League. The project comes to fruition in the next few days with this talk and with student performances of life-changing stories of tolerance on Monday, December 14 at the Sayles School of Fine Arts.
Details of the project:
Using the musical Wicked and the popular novel Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Proctors has facilitated a unique exploration of arts, literature and human behaviors for 12th grade students at Schenectady High School to promote social change. Workshops have taken place with specially trained teaching artists using the novel, show, improv and storywriting techniques to focus on the show’s themes of popularity, power and diversity. The teaching artists used these themes to address the growing problem of bullying in schools and how people’s actions have consequences, creating life-changing events.
This is one of ten projects supported by The Broadway League’s Education grants program.