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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington should be featured all over DC. [/quote]

This is a great point. I see many promos for Wilson and Deal musicals (which are really impressive!). Five (six) months into the school year - no play? Art show? Fall dance production? Either they have really bad promotion channels are appealing only to their pipeline funders. I live four blocks from the palace, I mean "place." My single encounter with DE students was Halloween when they came my door. Super-nice kids, loved my 9yos costume an in-character acting and won my heart with appreciation for our piano visible from the front door. But where are the performances at EVERY SINGLE public gathering? [/quote]

May sound counter-intuitive, but Ellington is a not a performance-based program. It is for instrumental, but for theater in particular it is a pre-professional training program focused more on the foundation of the craft for performance/directing/playwriting. The freshman year for example is more focused on theater history and learning how to understand character than playing those characters. The students do juried performances in-house to progress, but you should not be thinking of a school of the arts the same way you do your local neighborhood theater.[/quote]

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