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STUDENT MATINEE SERIES
2024-2025 Season
Let the power of live theatre spark your students’ imaginations!
We invite you to join us for DTC’s 2024-2025 student matinee series! We are dedicated to offering creative cultural connections between young individuals and our greater community using the power and excitement of professional live theatre. We encourage you to extend your classroom with our shows to enhance your students’ curriculum, empathy, and cultural responsiveness.
Discounted ticket prices are offered with support from our program sponsors with the following price-per-ticket options for school groups. General public ticket prices range from $32 - $70.
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Private/Independent Schools: $16
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Public Schools and Homeschool Groups: $14
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Title I funded schools and other schools in need (based on % of students that receive free or reduced lunches)
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1%-50% $10
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51%-100% $5
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For every 20 tickets purchased, one is free
Teachers reserve HERE and send the form to education@delawaretheatre.org
Complimentary offerings include:
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Talkback with the actors and a member of DTC staff are available after each school matinee. If you are unable to attend the talkback, let us know so that we can dismiss your school before the talkback begins
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Evening and weekend performances can also be coordinated at DTC’s group rates
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Pre- or post-show classroom visits to prepare students for seeing the show or to expand their experience beyond the performance are available through arrangement with DTC’s Department of Learning and Community Partnerships
24/25 Season Student Matinees
All performance times are 10:30 AM
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS-IN THE 302
Tuesday 12/10 and Tuesday 12/17
Best for grades 5 - 12
Two friends get together for the holidays. It's the first holiday season since their other close friend has passed away, and they are devoted to the idea of throwing the holiday party that friend always threw. As they sort through the boxes in the friend's basement, looking for the decorations for the holiday party, memories are sparked, reminiscences abound, and musings
are inspired, each represented by an offering from one of the participating groups. We move from melancholy to nostalgia to celebration over the course of the performance. In the end, even though they haven't found all the decorations they hoped to find, friends and neighbors (performers from the various acts we've seen) show up to make the party happen, and we close on a note of festive community connectedness.
Local Artists: Christina Cultural Arts Center, Delaware Shakespeare, Elevate, Delaware Children’s Choir, Opera Delaware, Wilmington Children’s
SEL Connections: Relationship Skills, Social Connections
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Tuesday 2/25 and Tuesday 3/4
Best for grades 8 - 12
Directed by Matt Silva
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher & Mitch Albom
Based on the book by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie is the powerful and uplifting play about Professor Morrie Schwartz and his former student Mitch Albom, who reunite 16 years after college for one final lesson: The Meaning of Life. Based on the best-selling memoir of all-time, Tuesdays with Morrie is tender yet profound, recounting the two men reuniting as Morrie faces his own mortality. What starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a beautiful lesson in humanity, compassion, and friendship.
Curriculum Connections: ELA: Autobiography, Creative Writing, Point of View, Characterization, Conducting an Interview, etc.; Philosophy: The Existential Theory; Science: ALS-Neuroscience
SEL Connections: Relationship Skills, human connection, forgiveness, social connections, student/teacher relationships, self-management
WORLD PREMIERE!
STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY
Tuesday 4/29 and Thursday 5/1
Best for grades 4 – 12
Book by Phaedra Michelle Scott and Alan Govenar
Based on the book Stompin at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller
Collected and Edited by Alan Govenar, Published by Candlewick Press
Norma Miller has big dreams of becoming a dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in 1930s Harlem, the only dance floor in America where Blacks and Whites could mix. Her skill sharpens when she joins the Lindy Hoppers swing dance team and experiences the world. Norma learns life on the dance floor is far simpler than reality as she is pulled in multiple directions between family, dance, and love in this coming-of-age tale. Inspired by the story of dance legend Norma Miller, Stompin’ at the Savoy brings the Swing Era to life on stage, energized by the beat of the street, jump roping, and the intensity of the Lindy Hop, featuring new arrangements of iconic songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, and other Big Band hits.
Curriculum Connections: ELA: Autobiography of a Historical African American Woman, American History: Early 20th Century, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, Racism, Social Studies, Dance History, Swing Dancing, Jazz Music, DE HB 198
SEL Connections: Perseverance, Kindness, Self-management, Social Awareness, Family and Friends relationship skills, Equity
*Supports learning requirements of DE HB 198
Student Matinee performances are generously supported, in part, by:
This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com