SUPPORT OUR HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS!
From their high school auditoriums to the Music Hall stage and potentially onto THE LION KING stage at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City, Broadway Dallas coaches, adjudicates, and celebrates more than 5,000 students from 75 school productions across North Texas each year through the High School Musical Theatre Awards (HSMTA).
Specifically from April 15th through April 29th, your gift to Dallas Arts Month will support Broadway Dallas' High School Musical Theatre Awards. HSMTA is one of the largest programs in the country out of a regional network of 51. School-year-long performances and training culminate in a Spring celebration – a cross between a pep rally and the Tony Awards® – where everyone walks the red carpet, outstanding awards are presented in 18 categories and more than $62,500 in college scholarships are awarded through the generosity of our community.
Outstanding Performer winners then head to Broadway for a chance to compete on the national Jimmy Awards stage.
Kids deserve a future that they view as limitless. During these turbulent times, young people are balancing the demands of growing up with the fallout from COVID and contentious debates surrounding racial inequalities, climate change, gun violence and immigration. This means we need performing arts more than ever because theater can connect different cultures, show new viewpoints, illuminate imaginations, and provide an outlet to experience and process complex emotions. Over the course of just one performance, young audiences and performers experience joy, wonder, compassion, empathy, hope, surprise, and excitement. Supporting Broadway Dallas' High School Musical Theatre Awards is your opportunity to honor and reward the tremendous work of our own North Texas stars.
HEAR FROM ONE OF OUR STARS
The last time Haley Dortch stepped onto the Music Hall stage, she was a senior at Geyer High School, singing and dancing her way to winning the 2019 and 2020 Broadway Dallas High School Musical Theatre Awards (HSMTA) Outstanding Performer Award. During the 2023/2024 Broadway Season, Broadway Dallas proudly welcomed Haley back as she performed the iconic role of Fantine in Les Misérables.
“I am just beyond thrilled to come back and perform on this stage again,” Haley told us. “This is where my love for theater began, it is where I watched my first ever national tour, it is where I was sent to the Jimmy Awards in New York City. I am just so thrilled to come back to this stage.” -Haley Dortch
About Broadway Dallas
Your gift provides critical funding to Broadway Dallas to continue its proud 80-year legacy of presenting and promoting excellence in live musical theater at historic Fair Park. In addition to onstage performances, your donation supports Broadway Dallas’s multi-generational, education and community outreach initiatives that serve more than 50,000 people in North Texas. Specifically, through your philanthropy:
Broadway Dallas is the preeminent nonprofit presenter of Broadway theater, musicals, and concerts in North Texas.
Broadway Dallas presents and promotes excellence in live musical theater with year-round performances for diverse audiences of all ages, impacting the lives of children and families through community outreach and education and enriching the cultural landscape of Dallas/Fort Worth, North Texas and the Southwest Region.
BROADWAY DALLAS IS ON A JOURNEY TO BECOME A FULLY INCLUSIVE, MULTICULTURAL, ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION.
WE WILL HEAR THE TRUTH AND UNDERSTAND THE HARM CAUSED BY RACIST SYSTEMS.
WE WILL SHARE THESE TRUTHS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATION IN OUR ORGANIZATION AND IN THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE.
Broadway Dallas adopted a new Strategic Plan in 2017 that included a commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Access and in 2021 we became aware of an opportunity to further inform and deepen our commitment. We embarked on a journey, with the guidance of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation* (DTRHT) who provided us with a framework to learn and internalize the truth of how racist systems and structures developed and how they continue to cause harm in communities and within our company for all people and disproportionately to those who identify as BIPOC. Broadway Dallas will share these truths with our staff, board and other constituents and together use this knowledge to drive change of systems that uphold a hierarchy of human value, allow race to impact a person’s agency or position and limit opportunities for people to become part of the Broadway Dallas family.
Broadway Dallas developed initial priorities for change with an aim to institutionalize Racial Equity as part of Broadway Dallas’s organizational culture, enable more equitable processes for our staff, board and patrons and set policy priorities, metrics, and accountability. These priorities became the building blocks to support modifying organization roles and power structures in vital business activities such as strategic planning and budgeting, redesigning recruiting to identify BIPOC candidates, altering hiring practices to create a more diverse staff, identifying, and dismantling dehumanizing systems and building a culture of belonging.
Broadway Dallas understands that a journey to become an anti-racist organization requires a steady and ongoing commitment to change by discovering and hearing truth, understanding harm caused by racist systems and challenging or dismantling them. We recognize that this commitment is not simply a department of Broadway Dallas or a project to be added on when convenient, but rather a lens that we must learn to apply to everything we do. Broadway Dallas’s mission to bring the best of Broadway to North Texas and to deliver the spirit of Broadway into all corners of our community, in classrooms and community centers throughout the region, can only be accomplished if Broadway Dallas also transforms to become a fully inclusive, multicultural, anti-racist organization.
Our journey has just begun. Please check back here as we share our progress.
*The W.K. Kellogg Foundation-led Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise is a multi-year, national and community-based effort to engage communities, organizations, and individuals from multiple sectors across the United States in racial healing and addressing present-day inequities linked to historic and contemporary beliefs in a hierarchy of human value.
Organization name
Broadway Dallas
other names
Dallas Summer Musicals
Causes
Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education - K-12, Education - STEM
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
909 1st Ave