Summer Musical Theatre Experience
The 18th Annual High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience presents Disney's Beauty and The Beast!
The Summer Musical Theatre Experience (SMTE) provides the opportunity for local area high school students to work hands-on with some of the highest recognized local theatre professionals at the Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts.
For more information, contact the SMTE hotline at (904) 646-2347 or email wilson-center@fscj.edu
The 18th Annual High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast!
The Florida State College at Jacksonville High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience is celebrating its 18th year providing theatre opportunities to 6th-12th graders in the First Coast area. This summer, more than 70 student performers and technicians will train with professional theatre artists in preparation for our production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast!
Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, an international sensation that has been produced in 37 countries worldwide. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice. The original Broadway production ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
This "tale as old as time" is filled with spectacular costume and set opportunities or, even more simply staged, Disney's Beauty and the Beast offers a great opportunity to bring the entire community together for family theatre at its best.
Appropriate for all audiences and groups.
Performances: July 19 - 28, 2024
Where: Florida State College at Jacksonville, South Campus
FSCJ Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts
11901 Beach Boulevard
Jacksonville, FL 32246
If you have any questions, please call the SMTE Hotline at (904) 646-2347
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Check out the gallery of photos below from our past Summer Musical Theatre production Sister Act 2023
