Stages St Louis

Programs: Program 1 - musical theatre productionsin 2017, stages st. Louis produced broadway-quality musical theatre, presenting 141 performances from june through october to nearly 50,000 patrons at its mainstage and family theatre series (fts) productions. The stages annual fts production is an additional production to the regular three mainstage shows. It is a regional treasure that encourages multiple generations to attend professional, live musical theatre together as a family. The 2017 season productions were joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, 9 to 5 the musical, south pacific, and seussical. Every year since 2015, stages has presented a sensory-friendly performance of its fts show. This performance provides, to those on the autism spectrum and with other sensitivity conditions, an accessible, friendly experience of musical theatre without judgement. In 2017, this was done at a performance of seussical. The organization pledged $2,000,000 to the city of kirkwood, missouri to assist in the building construction of a performing arts center.

program 2 - performing arts academythe broadway quality of stages productions is matched in caliber by the stages performing arts academy's education and outreach programming. The academy is regionally renowned for its innovative programming and is the only performing arts academy in metropolitan st. Louis connected to a professional theatre company. No student is turned away due to financial need. In response to many schools scaling down or eliminating arts curricula, the academy has become a leader in addressing the arts gap in our community. Annually, academy and outreach programs reach more than 4,500 students with direct musical theatre instruction. In 2017, stages had arts education programs in 70 locations throughout metropolitan st. Louis.