The Junior Theater Festival is the world’s largest festival celebrating young people and the transformative power of musical theatre.
iTheatric Founding Chairman Timothy Allen McDonald officially opens the 2017 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival Atlanta.
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More than 6,000 students and educators gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, January 13–15 for the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival. The event, which is the largest of its kind, unites young theatre lovers for a weekend of performances, workshops, and special events with Broadway guest stars.
Among the highlights of JTF 2017 was the premiere of Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical, a live film of the hit Broadway musical featuring members of the original cast.
Disney Theatrical Group president and producer Thomas Schumacher delivered the JTF keynote address.
Flip through photos from the festival below:
Take a Look at the 2017 Junior Theater Festival
Take a Look at the 2017 Junior Theater Festival
The Junior Theater Festival is the world’s largest festival celebrating young people and the transformative power of musical theatre.
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iTheatrics founding chairman welcomes educators to a Friday night reception.
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Team iTheatrics launches its new textbook, The iTheatrics Method.
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Cade Garafola of Holy Ghost’s Spirit of the Stage in Hammond sings the National Anthem.
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iTheatric Founding Chairman Timothy Allen McDonald officially opens the 2017 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival Atlanta.
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iTheatrics Founding Chairman Timothy Allen McDonald and Luca Padovan (School of Rock The Musical) talk about EdTA’s JumpStart Theatre, a program which builds self-sustaining musical theatre programs in under-served schools.
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Parents and students wait to meet award-winning author Mary Pope Osborne and Will Osborne, co-writer and composer of the Magic Tree House musicals.
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Students surprise lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty with a performance of “Why We Tell The Story” from Once on this Island.
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Jodi Picoult, a #1 best-selling author of twenty-three novels signs her latest novel Small Great Things.Marcus Woollen/MTI
Conwell Kidz Drama Program from Jersey City, NJ, presented Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon KIDS for.
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Conwell Kidz Drama Program from Jersey City, NJ, presented Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon KIDS for.
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The Junior Theater Festival is sponsored by iTheatrics, along with Music Theatre International (MTI), Disney Theatrical Group, and Playbill, Inc.®.
Following JTF Atlanta, iTheatrics and the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) will debut the Junior Theater Festival West (#JTF17, #JTFWest) February 10-12, in Sacramento, California.
