On Tuesday, May 29, Nick Jonas served as master of ceremonies for the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. Student Celebration, to be held at the Shubert Theater.
The event featured hundreds of students from middle and intermediate New York City Public Schools in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, who made their Broadway debut as the culminating event of the 7th annual Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. Student Program, a musical theater mentorship program which builds self-sustaining theater programs in public schools that have limited arts programming.
The students performed a song from their school’s production of a student version of a Broadway musical, including Annie JR., Once on this Island JR., Disney’s Aladdin JR., Guys and Dolls JR., Bugsy Malone JR., Meredith Willson’s The Music Man JR., Dear Edwina JR., Fame JR., Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR., and Thoroughly Modern Millie JR.
