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From the Artistic Director, Brett A. Bernardini
WELCOME!
I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to The Spirit of Broadway Theater. We have worked hard to create a unique, cutting-edge performing arts organization that defies description by words and finds definition only through experience.
This year, I have assembled a season of programming that dares to ask, “Who are we; not just as individuals but as a community, as a state, as a country?” The hallmark of our founding as a country has been our ability to debate, to examine, to study and to question. Yet, as our politics grow ever so more conservative we are losing the very rights upon which our government was founded, including freedom of speech.
After spending last season celebrating “the hero within,” it made sense to me to create a season where our productions provide our audiences with an opportunity to question the courage of our convictions. From Rebels to Assassins, our 2004 season is about the things we believe in and the things that scare us. It is a season of introspection, discovery and debate. It is a season of what we believe in and how our convictions define us, individually, regionally and as Americans.
I don’t expect you to like everything, I would hope that you would try it. If you don’t like what you see, turn in your tickets to the Box Office at intermission and we'll give you tickets for the next show for free. No questions. No hassles. Just another part of my conviction that theater requires trust. If you don’t trust me to deliver quality, innovative productions, I am out of a job.
The Spirit of Broadway Theater is probably not what you expect a theater to be. That’s a good thing. The fact is, we are everything that you don’t expect and then a whole lot more.
Thank you for joining us!
Mr. Brett A. Bernardini
Artistic Director / CEO
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