Keywords
Children's theater -- Florida, Musical theater -- Florida
Abstract
In an age of standardized testing and quality-controlled classrooms, teachers have lost the freedom to integrate imagination and creativity in their lessons, ultimately cheating today’s youth. In the classroom, students no longer have the outlets that transport them from the harsh realities of life. This thesis is an attempt to provide a venue for the Orange County Public School System that will engage the imaginations of under-represented or underprivileged students. The thesis will chronicle the development of a script with the intent of producing it in Title I elementary schools located in lower socio-economic areas of Orlando, Florida. The script will be based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling.” The final product will be a musical theatre piece to take into the school system to be performed by the students. The body of the thesis will contain my prior experiences of bringing musical theatre to underprivileged youth. The document will also include chapters detailing the process of creating the script and composing the music. Research will determine the socio-economic challenges prevalent in the under-represented cultures in the urban schools of Orlando. Finally, the thesis will contain a section of the actual script and will conclude with a chapter summarizing the reactions to the first reading of the play
Notes
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Graduation Date
2010
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Boyd, Belinda
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Theatre
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003408
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003408
Language
English
Release Date
December 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Tsurumaki, Megan Wiley, "You Can't Stop The Beat Bringing Musical Theatre To Underprivileged Youth" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1689.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1689