MILWAUKEE, WI - As the school year comes to an end, students at MPS are finishing how they started —celebrating the arts.
“It helped me bring out my talent," Veronica Nicholson said.
"At first I don’t really want to do nothing," she explained.
But now that 8th-grade student Veronica Nicholson has a chance to step on stage in the lead role of Manyara she said she has a newfound appreciation for the arts.
“Now I think I want to be an actress, a dancer, a poet, and everything," she said.
The play is called Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters —and not only, is it a Cinderella story of sorts, but for these students, it’s brought learning to life.
“It shows [the students] different parts of the African American culture that they didn’t know," Rubie Mizell said.
"It’s an African American tale, it’s a black Cinderella story," she continued.
In the story, an African king is looking for a queen —and two sisters, Mufaro's daughters, of two very different dispositions travel to meet him, but only one walks away as his wife.
