[Capdist-auditions] DRAMAcademics fall production

[Ruth Henry]

For Immediate Release- August 7, 2010

 

"Steps to Suffrage", an original musical drama about women's suffrage, will
begin a 10-week production for home-educated students ages 8-16 on Wednesday
Sept 8 1- 4:30pm at 20 Delatour Rd (the Grace Fellowship Building) in
Latham. DRAMAcademics, an educational youth theater program for Capital
Region students since 2003, is producing the show, written and directed by
Loudonville resident Ruth E. Henry. Characters include Lucretia Mott,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Bloomer, Susan B.
Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Theodore Roosevelt. The show casts 20-30
students and contains excerpts from famous speeches and quotes of the day as
well as humor, choreography and song. Public performances are being
scheduled November 8-18 in libraries, schools and performance venues.
Tuition is $160.00 per student (10% sibling discount) and registration has
begun. All students who register will participate; lead roles are auditioned
the first and second week of rehearsal. For more information, visit
<http://www.dramacademics.com/> www.dramacademics.com or contact Director
Ruth E. Henry at 518-434-2704 or dramacademics at yahoo.com

 

This is Mrs. Henry's fourth original musical drama. "Steps to Suffrage"
originated from an email received by Henry in 2008 telling of the Night of
Terror in 1917 when women who were peacefully picketing the White House were
arrested, incarcerated, beaten and force-fed for pursuing the right to vote.
This report so surprised and shocked Henry that she vowed to tell the story
in a way American youth and especially girls could understand. "Somehow,
women's suffrage has been relegated to one or two obscure paragraphs in the
school text books, and that," says Henry, "is not sufficient to cover the
80-year struggle that our great-grandmothers endured to secure the right to
vote for half of the citizens of America." The show premiered as a pilot
this summer at The Boght Arts Center in Cohoes with 14 students. 

 

Mrs. Henry's previous scripts include "Sail, Henry Hudson!" (2008), "The
Amazing Erie Canal" (2007) and "Apples Arrows & Alps: the Musical Story of
William Tell" (2009). She is currently writing "Black Leonardo: The Musical
Story of George Washington Carver" for production in 2011.

 

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