The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 15 acre (61,000 m²) complex of buildings in New York City which serves as home for 12 arts companies. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... The New York City Department of Education is a department of the city of New York which runs almost all of the citys public schools. ...

It prepares public high school students for professional careers and/or conservatory study in dance, drama, the visual arts, vocal and instrumental music and theater production.

LaGuardia H.S. is the only arts school among New York City's four specialized high schools, which receive special funding and offer specialized courses of study. The other three are Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School. Stuyvesant High School, often nicknamed Stuy by its staff and students, is one of New York Citys specialized math- and science-based public high schools. ... The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

History

The movie Fame and the TV Series Fame both dramatized student life at LaGuardia High School. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Fame is a movie directed by Alan Parker which was released in 1980. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Fame was an American television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. ...

Noted Alumni

• Jennifer Aniston
• Adrien Brody
• Dom DeLuise
• Al Pacino
• Wesley Snipes
• Elly Stone
• Omar Epps
• Marlon Wayans
• Billy Dee Williams
• Lisa Vidal
• Freddie Prinze
• Hector Elizondo
• Kevin Ceballo
• Richie Ray
• Rick Gonzalez
• Sherman Yellen
• Hal Linden

Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA) and is an Emmy-winning American actress best known for playing Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends. ... Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. ... Dom DeLuise (born August 1, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Italian extraction, who almost always appears in comedic parts. ... Al Pacino, pictured at the age of 21. ... John Wesley Snipes (born July 31, 1962 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actor and producer. ... Elly Stone is a singer most famous for her performance on Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris as an off-Broadway musical as well as her starring role in the 1974 movie of the same. ... Omar Epps Omar Hashim Epps (born 23 July 1973) is an American actor and musician. ... b. ... Billy Dee Williams (b. ... Lisa Vidal (born June 13, 1965 in New York City) is an actress of Puerto Rican descent. ... Freddie Prinze Freddie Prinze (June 22, 1954–January 29, 1977) was a American stand-up comedian and actor of Jewish and Puerto Rican descent. ... Hector Elizondo (born December 22, 1936 in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-American actor. ... Kevin Ceballo (born 1977 in New York City) is a singer of salsa music of Puerto Rican descent. ... Richie Ray a. ... Rick Gonzalez (born June 30, 1979 in New York City) is an actor of Puerto Rican-Dominican descent. ... Sheman Yellen, Emmy Award winning playwright, was born in 1932 in New York City. ... Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz March 20, 1931) is an American actor and television director, best known for his portrayal of the title character in the television series Barney Miller (1975-1982). ...

See also

• Professional Performing Arts School
• Professional Children's School

The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) is a New York City public school created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study... Professional Childrens School is a school in Manhattan, New York, United States, which admitted its first two students in 1914. ...

External links

• official website