Ambassador Timken, Sue Timken, director Todd Fletcher and the actors celebrate the successful performance at the English Theatre Frankfurt

"The Streets of Wedding" Packs in Audiences in Frankfurt
March 17+18, 2008. More than 900 spectators cheered enthusiastically at three performances of "Streets of Wedding – Das Musical" at the English Theatre in Frankfurt on March 17 and 18. The theater was packed for all three performances, including a special matinee for school classes from high schools in the Frankfurt region on March 18. U.S. Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. and Sue Timken, Frankfurt Consul General Jo Ellen Powell, the mother and brother of the show's director Todd Fletcher, CEOs of leading Frankfurt companies, representatives of German-American Clubs and the city of Frankfurt joined the public for the evening performance March 18.

Ambassador Timken came to the stage and told the audience how "The Streets of Wedding" came about, especially how his wife Sue Timken was totally engaged in the project and played such a big role in making it happen. Ambassador Timken and his wife Sue worked hand-in-hand on the project with Todd Fletcher's PluralArts organization and director Hilmar Pletat of the Ernst-Schering Oberschule in the Berlin district of Wedding to bring to the stage the multilingual musical production.

The students come from some 27 countries. Todd Fletcher, an American resident in Berlin, worked with the kids of the Ernst-Schering school in Berlin's tough, largely immigrant Wedding district to create and choreograph this unique musical which features a wide variety of musical and dance styles. It is really the story of the lives of the student performers themselves, a lively examination of life in Wedding as seen through the eyes of its young residents.

After the overwhelming success of the musical in Berlin, the German Interior Ministry supported a tour of the musical throughout Germany. The Frankfurt performances were the last of the tour which brought the musical to overwhelmingly enthusiastic audiences in Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg before the final performances in Frankfurt.

• Photogalleries of the Frankfurt and Berlin performances
• Handelsblatt article about the musical (English translation)
• Watch a videoclip of the Berlin performance | Frankfurt video on YouTube!
• Press Release - What it's all about