SOMETIMES A TEACHER COMES ALONG WHO CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE:
"MEET MR. MCCOURT - JUST A TEACHER"
Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 6:30-8:30PM
Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers Street, Murray Kahn Auditorium
Secure your free ticket here for the 2024 AGM - "MEET MR. MCCOURT - JUST A TEACHER"
https://www.stuyalumni.org/events/2024-annual-general-meeting-agm/
Alumni from all class years and their guests, students and their parents, and admirers & fans of Frank McCourt are warmly invited to attend the Alumni Association’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 6/26 from 6:30-8:30PM. At 7:30PM, we will be treated to a special reading on the stage of "MEET MR. MCCOURT - JUST A TEACHER", consisting of excerpts from the Broadway-bound play “McCourt“.
For this performance, the actors are all Stuy alumni including some who will have just graduated in 2024! Frank McCourt is played by Todd Woodard ('91), and Hailey, his former student and protégé is played by Michelle Simon Miller ('07). August Petry (’24), Matthew Monge ('24), and Unique Zhang ('24) play multiple roles, including Stuy students, their parents, and even a hitchhiker.
Mr. McCourt was Stuy’s beloved English and Creative Writing teacher from 1972-1987. After his retirement, he wrote his memoir “Angela’s Ashes” in 1996 when he was 66 years old. “Angela’s Ashes” won the Pulitzer Prize, was on The New York Times bestseller list for 117 weeks, translated in over 30 languages, and made into a movie in 1999. The memoir was encouraged by his Stuy students who urged him to tell his story, just as he had inspired them to tell their own stories during his eighteen year tenure as their high school teacher.
Mr. McCourt also published “Tis” (1999) and “Teacher Man” (2005), also NY Times bestsellers. These sequel memoirs to “Angela’s Ashes” tell the story of his New York City immigrant and teaching experiences. They are being adapted for the stage by Ilya Khodosh ('04) with excerpts by former student of Mr. McCourt and NY Times bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman ('82) for the play "McCourt". This new work is produced by Hal Diamond ('78) and directed by award winning director Susan Tenney.
