We're getting ready for the SPARK Musical Theater Festival at Emerging Artists Theatre in New York! Our performance/reading is on Sunday, November 22 at 5 PM and our team needs your help.

1. We need to pack the house so please mark your calendars and buy a ticket. Link to tickets coming soon!

2. Can you help us with expenses of self-producing this reading by donating to our campaign?

3. Can you please invite and share our campaign with friends and family? Email, social media posts, texts, word of mouth?

We performed an introductory song, our opening number Welcome to Our Valley, at the Montclair Theater Festival thanks to Vanguard Theater!

We're scheduled at Nutley Little Theater's Readers Theater on March 7, 2027 for a reading of the full musical.

Set in Chile, in 1973, a young girl, Maribel, joins the resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship when she learns her father is among the disappeared. Inspired by kind gifts from the three tricky abuelas next door, she and others first seek to gather the names of prisoners in the local detention center, then plot to help them to escape before the evil captain can move them to unknown places.

From the Abuelas' Window is a musical with a message to encourage ordinary people to do small things to make their world a better place, particularly when confronted with political oppression and human rights violations. The musical is an adaptation of the young adult novel which aimed to bring understanding of the reasons people are forced to leave their homeland and emigrate to the United States. The musical is an entertaining multi-generational story for the whole family and the songs reflect traditional Chilean music.

Our team includes Nancy Burke (book and lyrics), Ignacio Valdivia (composer and musical director) and Ed Levy (additional lyrics). Ignacio, lives in Santiago de Chile. He came to the team via the Society for Chilean Music, an international organization dedicated to Chilean music traditions.

And we're reaching out to high schools and college theater programs for student productions. We're hoping to move this musical toward professional production via entry to theatre festivals and competitions.

Minimally, we are hoping to raise $15,000. Small donations from many donors are appreciated immensely.

Other Ways You Can Help

We encourage you to spread the word about this new musical among your friends and family. If you are a theatre or film industry member, a university theatre program, a high school theatre teacher, please share this exciting new musical with your colleagues, theatre directors, and students.

Gracias! Thank you!