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Mean Girls, Frozen, and More to Participate in Fall 2018 Broadway Bridges Season

The Broadway League program aims to get every New York City public high school student into a Broadway show before graduation.

Frozen will be one of the participating Broadway shows of the Broadway Bridges fall 2018 lineup.
Frozen will be one of the participating Broadway shows of the Broadway Bridges fall 2018 lineup.
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The Broadway League, with the support of the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, has announced the lineup of participating shows for the fall 2018 season of Broadway Bridges, which is dedicated to giving every NYC public high school student the opportunity to see a Broadway show before graduating.

The participating shows include Aladdin, Anastasia, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Chicago, Come From Away, Frozen, King Kong, Kinky Boots, Mean Girls, School of Rock, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band's Visit, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Prom, and Wicked.

Offered to students throughout the five boroughs, Broadway Bridges provides $10 tickets to 10th graders. The program expects to bring 17,500 10th-grade students and chaperones to a show during the 2018-2019 season. This will bring the accumulative total of participants to 26,000 since the program's launch last year.