Broadway Dallas News | NOVEMBER 2024

Posted on November 25th, 2024

Dear Friends,

As Thanksgiving approaches, I am once again reminded how fortunate we at Broadway Dallas are.

We have a beautiful, historically and culturally significant home at the 99-year-old Music Hall at Fair Park (plus a gorgeous second home at the Winspear Opera House).

We have a dedicated team of full- and part-time employees who are committed to making every visit to the Music Hall enjoyable, comfortable, and safe.

We have an unwaveringly supportive family of donors and board members who selflessly give of their time and money to enable us to fulfill our mission to share the gift of Broadway – through our Education and Community Partnerships programs – with as many people as possible.

And finally, we have the most loyal, enthusiastic, show-loving, standing-ovation-giving audiences, without whom we quite simply wouldn’t exist.

For all these reasons and many, many more, I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving this year with deep and heartfelt gratitude.

Happy Thanksgiving!

See y’all in the lobby,

Ken Novice
Broadway Dallas President and CEO

DALLAS ISD DAY ANNOUNCEMENT

Broadway Dallas and Dallas ISD announced a district-wide Steam education program themed around the Broadway musical Hadestown. Over the course of multiple weeks, 3,400 theatre students and teachers from 26 Dallas ISD High Schools will participate in specially created curriculum that relates to the production.

This year, the curriculum was developed to prepare students for college and 21st-century careers and includes a sequence of lesson plans where students will learn the art and science of costume design. Students will utilize algebra and geometry to construct creative iterations of the New Orleans inspired Hadestown costumes. As part of the lesson plan all the participating students and teachers will attend a dedicated performance of Hadestown at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

FRISCO COLLABORATION

Announced last month, the City of Frisco plans to partner with Prosper ISD on a proposed Frisco Center for the Arts and collaborate with Broadway Across America / Broadway Dallas to create a ‘Broadway Frisco’ series to reside in the facility. “Reflecting the population growth and interest in arts and culture across North Texas, we look forward to creating a new Broadway Frisco series for the community while we continue to present Broadway Dallas at the Music Hall at Fair Park and the AT&T Performing Arts Center,” said Ken Novice, Broadway Dallas President.

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GRAND HOLIDAY ICE SHOW

Celebrate the holidays with us at Galleria Dallas for their Grand Holiday Ice Show! Enjoy a breakfast buffet, face painting, and other family-friendly activities. Then, experience the magnificent ice skating show with your family and friends from a private pod overlooking the Galleria’s ice rink. All proceeds from this event will support our Give A Kid A Seat fundraising campaign which provides free Broadway show tickets to underserved students in our community.

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SOULWORK INTENSIVE

This month we hosted our second annual two-day SoulWork Intensive with Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott and Tiana Kaye Blair! The 9-hour workshop dove deep into the SoulWork Method for professional theatre artists. SoulWork is a comprehensive method for making performance and training artists developed by Dr. Truscott from generations-old African American performance traditions and aesthetics. SoulWork empowers artists to engage the fullness of their identities by cultivating creative power through an inclusive, culturally-responsive, and socially-conscious studio practice.

BLACK NATIVITY

Inspired by Langston Hughes’s 1960 Broadway production, Black Nativity returns with hand clapping, toe-tapping, and finger-snapping theatrical wonderment for Bishop Arts Theatre Center’s 20th anniversary. This holiday favorite, playing December 5-22, is the heartwarming retelling of the Nativity story including Gospel music, dramatic dance, and biblical narrative.

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT

Broadway Dallas has been part of Encore Society charter member, Dr. Chris Salerno’s life since he moved to Dallas in 1981. Wanting to gift his parents experiences versus things, a newspaper ad led Chris to purchase a Broadway subscription for them. This was a perfect fit since his dad had been a nightclub and Broadway critic. His parents held that subscription for 20 years. With their passing, Chris and his partner Dr. John Dixon took over their seats. Since then, Broadway Dallas shows and Crystal Terrace dinners have been the highlights of their year. Chris believes strongly in giving back and serves as a Broadway Dallas Advisory Board member and an Ambassador volunteer at the Music Hall. When asked why he decided to leave a gift to Broadway Dallas in his estate plan through Broadway Dallas’ Encore Society, Chris said, “My parents introduced me to live theatre at age 2; I took it for granted that everyone else had it. Now, I can’t imagine kids without live theatre in their lives. Through my legacy gift, I hope to help make that a reality for more kids in the future”.

Like Chris, you can help ensure Broadway Dallas’ legacy continues for generations to come.

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Photo: Dr. John Dixon (L) and Dr. Chris Salerno (R)