MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- Making Broadway more accessible. That's the goal of the Broadway Bridges program that allows 10th graders in any public high school in the five boroughs to buy a show ticket for $10.
A teacher or administrator at the High School must also be registered as a chaperone with the Broadway League.
"We want students and the teachers to know that Broadway is accessible to them. All of our demographic surveys indicate that if a student is taken to the theater as a young person, they're more than likely to go to the theater as they get older," Rachel Reiner, the Director of Audience Engagement at the Broadway League, told PIX 11 News.
"I love taking my students because when you go with the students, their energy is contagious," Ramona Fittipaldi, a math teacher at the Young Women's Leadership School in Harlem, told PIX11 News.
Without the Broadway Bridges program, "My students wouldn't necessarily be able to afford going to a Broadway show or may not even know about the opportunities out there," Fittipaldi said.
Twenty shows are partnering with the Broadway League and the United Federation of Teachers to make the $10 tickets possible. They are Aladdin & Juliet, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, Back to the Future: The Musical, Chicago, Hadestown, Harmony, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, How to Dance in Ohio, Kimberly Akimbo, Merrily We Roll Along, MJ, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, SIX, Spamalot, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King, The Outsiders, Water for Elephants and Wicked.
You can learn more about it at: https://www.broadwaybridges.org/
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