Kristin Chenoweth, Kenny Ortega, Monarch Media Group For ‘1300 Miles To Broadway’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Chenoweth (Schmigadoon!), Kenny Ortega (Julie and the Phantoms) and producers Alan Powell, Steve Barnett and Vicky Patel of Monarch Media are teaming for the docuseries 1300 Miles to Broadway. Impressed by Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp, the collection introduces eighth to twelfth graders to the world of performing arts by means of grasp courses in performing, singing and dancing, and goes on the emotional journey with them as they put together for a future as performers.

Chenoweth launched Broadway Bootcamp on the Damaged Arrow Performing Arts Middle in her Oklahoma hometown of Damaged Arrow in 2015, to offer proficient native children a style of actual Broadway expertise, working with them one-on-one. She introduced Broadway director, actor and producer Richard Jay-Alexander into the fold 4 years in the past to strengthen this system. All editions of the camp have taken place in-person excluding 2021’s, which was held just about amidst the pandemic, with children from 33 states and eight nations taking part.

This yr, Chenoweth hosts two teams of scholars from around the globe for her one-of-a-kind camps, which occur within the Performing Arts Middle’s Kristin Chenoweth Theatre, having secured the participation of world class performing artists and lecturers from Broadway, tv and movie together with this yr’s Camp Director Ortega, in addition to Musical Director and Broadway Conductor Mary Mitchell Campbell, actor-musician Jordan Fisher, Kevin Chamberlin, Religion Prince, Owen Patrick Joyner, Booboo Stewart, Madison Reyes and Academy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning lyricist Stephen Schwartz.

Inside the course of 1 week at camp, the collection paperwork the life-changing breakthroughs and friendships made. Camp highlights embody college students taking part in grasp courses with Chenoweth and different high-level professionals together with Schwartz and Chenoweth’s vocal coach, Celeste Simone. The one-week camps for 13- to 15-year-olds and 16- to 18-year-olds culminate in an emotional and entertaining student-faculty stay efficiency.

Michael Orland, Nate Patten and Cynthia Kortman Westphal function the camp’s musical administrators and vocal coaches, with Tyler Hanes, Kelly Devine, Paul Becker, Deidre Goodwin, Kaitlyn Frank and Alif Sankey as its choreographers. Simone leads voice teaching, with Religion Prince, Lara Teeter, Zak Barnett and Kevin Chamberlin as performing lecturers.

Ortega is directing the collection and exec producing alongside Chenoweth, Powell, Barnett and Patel, with Paul Becker, Scott Lochmus, Louanne Madorma and Kim Vento producing. Monarch will take the mission to market.

Chenoweth says that with Broadway Bootcamp, she needed “to encourage youth from everywhere in the world,” having achieved that aim over the course of the final seven years. “It goes to indicate you irrespective of the place you’re from, when you do the work, you are able to do it,” she instructed Deadline. “My major aim at camp is to encourage, which is simple whenever you’re working with of us like Kenny Ortega, Paul Becker, Louanne Madorma, and Kim Vento. With assist from Alan Powell, Steve Barnett and Vicky Patel of Monarch Media, audiences will now be capable of see what makes the KCBBC expertise so magical.”

“The enjoyment I’ve felt working alongside Kristin and our Broadway Boot Camp staff has stuffed my coronary heart with an unforgettable life and artistic expertise. The love, creativeness, and aspirational power the children and school dropped at the camp every day appear to elevate us off the bottom. The music, laughter, breakthroughs, and private transformations have been life-changing,” mentioned Ortega. “I’m so grateful to Kristin for inviting me to be this yr’s camp and documentary director and to our Monarch companions produceorial and funding assist. It has put me in that artistic house that I stay for.

“We share the enjoyment of working with younger folks, offering them with a non-judgmental environment to develop as artists offering them with training, expertise and the instruments to personal the self-confidence wanted to pursue a profession within the performing arts. We look ahead to sharing this particular and distinctive camp expertise with the world and particularly with all of the Dreamers on the market,” continued the collection’ director-EP. “My favourite issues is “discovery” and this documentary and camp are loaded with it! Careers shall be born from this camp!”

“We’ll be rooting for these children as we see them day one coming into the theater, observing them in dance, performing, improv and music workshops, courses, and rehearsals,” added Monarch Media’s Powell. “The households be part of the children for the bootcamp live performance grand finale and it’s an extremely particular second.”

Chenoweth is an Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor and singer who co-stars on Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning musical comedy collection Schmigadoon!, which has been renewed for a second season. She just lately starred alongside Stephan James and J.Ok. Simmons within the STXfilms sports activities drama Nationwide Champions, additionally starring within the Netflix movie Holidate. Different notable credit embody Pushing Daisies, The West Wing, Glee, Disney’s Descendants and stage performances together with Kristin Chenoweth: For the Ladies, On the Twentieth Century and Depraved. Different latest releases from the multi-hyphenate embody her first image e-book What Will I Do with My Love Immediately and the vacation album HAPPINESS is…Christmas!.

Ortega is an Emmy- and DGA Award-winning director, producer and choreographer whose credit embody the Netflix collection Julie and the Phantoms, Disney’s Excessive Faculty Musical franchise, Hocus Pocus, Newsies, the Michael Jackson documentary That is It, and plenty of world occasions, live shows and theatrical productions.

Monnarch’s Barnett, Powell and Patel are at present in post-production on One thing Right here, a musical beforehand referred to as the Untitled Florida Georgia Line Challenge, and are prepping to shoot Highway to Bethlehem, which shall be directed by The Promenade‘s producer and government music producer, Adam Anders. They’re at present growing an English-language remake of the Spanish-language movie La Lista, from director Alvaro Diaz Lorenzo. Earlier credit embody the Netflix characteristic A Week Away.

Chenoweth is repped by CAA, 3 Arts Leisure and Schreck Rose Dapello; Ortega by McDonald Selznick Associates and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller