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Mr. Lane: I am emceeing this little event.
You know, one of the nice things is that this particular
administration obviously enjoys going to the theater, and wanted
to do this, and they've, you know, in a rather short amount
of time have thrown together a little Broadway review.
The First Lady: This is exactly what we envisioned
happening when we started this music series.
You know, opening up this White House to just so many original
forms of music, and we're going to Broadway right here in the
East Wing tonight, and it is phenomenal. (Applause)
And more importantly, we get to showcase this young talent.
Mr. Mitchell: We got some local kids here in the Washington, D. C.
area here from the Joy of Motion Dance and from the
Duke Ellington School, and they'll be performing with
my two leads from "Hairspray," "You Can't Stop the Beat."
You can teach a kid to read, you can teach a kid to write,
but what you can't teach a kid to do is live.
And the arts teach kids how to live.
They teach them how to communicate with other kids and with other adults.
They teach them to appreciate music, to appreciate dance.
They teach them to appreciate things they don't know.
All right, good, good, good.
Ms. Harris: The arts actually build -- empower, build
imagination and creativity and confidence, and actually those
are the skills that are going to be marketable as we move into
the 21st, 22nd century, so that's embedded in the arts.
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