A special Student Matinee at A.C.T.
Posted by Liana Winternitz, Marketing Fellow Bessie Carmichael Elementary School students perform three original songs before a student matinee performance of Stuck Elevator . A.C.T.’s final mainstage Student Matinee (SMAT) performance of the 2012–13 season was on Stuck Elevator , the world premiere musical inspired by the true story of a Chinese immigrant trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours. Thursday, April 18. On that sunny afternoon, 857 students and their teachers made their way to A.C.T.’s Geary Theater to see a performance of A.C.T.’s SMAT Program began in 1968 and has since welcomed over half a million students from schools all over California. In a single season, A.C.T. hosts approximately 15 SMATs for mainstage and conservatory shows (depending on the appropriateness of the show and placement in the school year), exposing around 7,000 students to the wonders of theater, many for the first time. Recent popular Conservatory SMAT performances include Tartuf...