Overview
- Elementary students from Orange and Osceola counties performed at Dr. Phillips Center’s Walt Disney Theater as more than 200 Disney VoluntEARS cheered.
- The program pairs Dr. Phillips Center with Walt Disney World and Disney Theatrical Group to give schools free scripts, materials, and coaching, with Disney funding covering costs.
- Disney reports the effort has served about 6,000 students in 36 Central Florida schools over ten years.
- Leaders say the work builds student confidence and helps schools sustain theatre programs beyond a single show.
- Disney Theatrical Group launched the initiative in 2009, and it now runs in all 50 states as well as the UK.