{"id":264975,"date":"2026-05-09T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264975\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:42:15","slug":"disney-musicals-in-schools-celebrates-10-years-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264975\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Musicals in Schools Celebrates 10 Years in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Orange County  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/disneymusicalsinschools.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/disneymusicalsinschools.com\/\">Disney Musicals in Schools <\/a>is celebrating 10 years of expanding arts education in Orlando and Orange County elementary schools, thanks to a long\u2011running partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drphillipscenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drphillipscenter.org\/\">Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts<\/a>, Walt Disney World, and <a href=\"https:\/\/liveshows.disney.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/liveshows.disney.com\/\">Disney Theatrical Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\">LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The program provides free musical theater scripts, performance materials, and professional coaching to Central Florida schools, helping many launch their first-ever theater programs and student productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To commemorate the milestone, students from Orange and Osceola County schools recently performed on the Walt Disney Theater stage at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drphillipscenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drphillipscenter.org\/\"> Dr. Phillips Center<\/a> in downtown Orlando during a Student Share event. Many of the students made their first appearance in a professional performing arts venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since its launch in the Orlando area, Disney Musicals in Schools has reached approximately 6,000 students at 36 schools across Central Florida, helping young performers build confidence, creativity, and teamwork through arts education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County \u2014 Disney Musicals in Schools is celebrating 10 years of expanding arts education in Orlando and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,147,112718,23925,28,139,141,140,8064,5597],"class_list":["post-264975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-central-florida","tag-disney-musicals-in-schools","tag-dr-phillips-center-for-the-performing-arts","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-walt-disney-world","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}