When Tony Award-winning high school theater director Jason Zembuch Young and his students reached out to local community leaders asking if they would be willing to take the stage in support of arts in education, the answer was a resounding “yes!”
In May, the theater program at Dr. Joaquín García High School, known as the García Theatre Company, will be producing their first-ever musical: Disney’s High School Musical. Making their García Stage debuts with the company will be school board members Virginia Savietto and Marcia Andrews, Palm Beach County Mayor Maria Marino and Florida State Rep. Anne Gerwig. Additional guest performers will include teachers and staff from Dr. Joaquín García High School, as well as several faculty members from local feeder schools Discovery Key Elementary School and Woodlands Middle School.
Depending on guest performer preferences, roles will include everything from a simple cross on stage, without dialogue, to participating in a scene or two and joining the cast in some choreography…