The Attitude of Gratitude – a Santa Monica Playhouse Diversity-in-Education Play Project [Video]

“Gratitude!” That’s the theme for this school’s Spring Break Carnival. And the ten students tasked with planning the whole event feel anything but! Why is the responsibility theirs? Shouldn’t the grown-ups be the planners so the kids can be the enjoyers? What if they can’t come up with anything cool? what if all the attendees are disappointed? Will the carnival be fun? Exciting? Or a crashing bore? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

So begins the latest play project created by the Santa Monica Playhouse Diversity-in-Education Conservatory. As the week moves inexorably closer to Carnival Day, gratitude takes on a whole new meaning, as the carnival planners learn that it isn’t so much what you do, as whom you do it with, and whom you do it for. Featuring the members of the Spring Break II Play Project, directed by Maia Alvarez, Isabel Lindley and Michala Peltz, with book, music and lyrics by Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo.

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Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Rotary Club Foundation, and Playhouse PALS.