Texas-Based Youth Musical Theatre Company to Take Environmental Message to Nation’s
Capital during Annual Spring Tour
Kids Who Care, a non-profit international musical theatre company based in Fort Worth, Texas is headed to Washington, D.C. next week where the Kids Who Care Resident Company will perform at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, by invitation from Pete Geren, the Secretary of the Army.
Kids Who Care will perform selections from their original production, Earth and Soul: A Musical Revolution, on Tuesday, March 18 at 12:00 noon at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The youth theatre group will perform in three different parts of the hospital, including the Malone House and the command center.
“We’re thrilled and honored to perform at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center,” said Deborah Jung, founder and executive director of Kids Who Care Musical Theatre. “During our twenty-year history, the Resident Company’s tours have included New York, Chicago, Italy, Germany, Orlando, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with performances at venues that include Off-Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre, the Kennedy Center and both Disneys. This is the perfect time to return to DC, with a high-energy musical that reveals why the youngest people of the planet hold the secret to saving our world.”
Earth and Soul: A Musical Revolution is an original musical about taking care of each other and taking care of our planet, with songs that include “Universal Mind,” “Permaculture,” “Dear Earth” and “Look at Me.”
While in Washington, D.C., Kids Who Care will meet with the National Endowment of the Arts and the Kennedy Center. Kids Who Care will also perform at The Barrie School in Silver Spring, Maryland and tour the nation’s capital, visiting the White House, the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian and additional national monuments.
The Kids Who Care Resident Company is an audition company of more than 60 children ranging in age from six to 20. The Resident Company performs locally, nationally and internationally each year, September through May. Each year, Kids Who Care travels in March for a spring tour that includes performance, community outreach, cultural exchange and arts education.
About Kids Who Care
Kids Who Care is a non-profit international theatre company based in Fort Worth, Texas that seeks to produce confident, caring and creative kids through leadership training, musical theatre education and performance. The organization began as a pilot in 1987 under the direction of Deborah Jung, moved to The Scott Theatre in Fort Worth’s Cultural District in 1989 and has evolved into the non-profit Kids Who Care corporation it is today. Kids Who Care offers professional musical theatre classes, summer musical theatre camps, international cultural exchanges, a touring Resident Company, public performances and more. The Resident Company has performed Off-Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre, at both Disney’s, at The Kennedy Center, at 30,000 feet aboard an airplane for the Make A Wish Foundation and at many other locations across the U.S. and overseas. The core values of the organization include: excellence in artistic development, artistic integrity of kids, leadership roles for kids, financial and cultural diversity and ensemble production. For more information, please visit www.kidswhocare.org.
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