Thirsty City, a theater production involving students in the performance, shines a spotlight on one of our most precious natural resources: water.  The interactive play highlights the importance of water conservation practices, illustrates scientific concepts such as gravity flow, and describes the challenges our forefathers faced in building the Los Angeles Aqueduct 100 years ago.
 

LADWP
LAUSD
More than 300 elementary school students in grades 4-5 attending one of two performances
Two professional actors from the Theater of Will, one of whom plays the role of William Mulholland
 

March 25, 2009
Two performances: 11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
 

Union Avenue Elementary School
150 Burlington Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90057 

Thomas Guide, Page 634, D-2, (near intersection of Beverly Blvd. and Union Avenue)
 

Thirsty City is being performed at 14 of LADWP's adopted schools between February and May. A total of 22 performances are scheduled. Schools with large student bodies receive two performances.

These particular performances are held at Union Ave. School located about a mile west of downtown.

The news media is invited to cover these two performances.

Thirsty City is produced by the Theater of Will, a non-profit, professional theater company specializing in performances at school campuses as part of the LAUSD Arts Partnership.  Development of the play was made possible by support from the Los Angeles Deparment of Water and Power, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.   

The Adopt-A-School program is a specialized educational partnership that emphasizes people-to-people contact between employees of the adopting organization and the school's students and instructional staff.  LADWP adopt-a-school projects range from reading incentive programs, such as Reading Olympics at Union Avenue School, to academic recognition to attendance incentive programs and to job shadowing opportunitites for students. In total, LADWP has adopted 16 schools.