Phyllis Breland has been appointed as Posse Mentor and Assistant Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, effective June 1, 2001. A 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, Breland was a theatre major, class speaker, and the first African-American woman inducted into Pentagon. The Producers, the smash Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan '51 received 15 Tony Award nominations, a new record. The musical opened in April to rave reviews and has already sold out tickets for the remainder of 2001. The article concerned an Iowa home-schooled student who will be unable to receive her high school diploma because she lacks enough credits to graduate.
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A 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, Breland was a theatre major, class speaker, and the first African-American woman inducted into Pentagon. Richard Nelson's Madame Melville Richard Nelson, a 1972 Hamilton graduate, is receiving good reviews for Madame Melville, a memory play starring Macaulay Culkin that opened on Broadway on May 3. Admission is free. 51 received 15 Tony Award nominations, a new record. The musical opened in April to rave reviews and has already sold out tickets for the remainder of 2001.