"I read THE LEGEND OF THE BULLYPROOF SHIELDS and I cried, I cheered, and shared my excitement and joy with my fellow workers. I loved the opera. It is very moving and entertaining. Your integration of the many powerful concepts of power, race, search, culture, and belief is superb." -- Jack Guillebeaux, Connectors, Inc
Teens add their own hip-hop, rap and rhythm and blues music to our stageplay to create a "rap 'n roll" Opera. Upon agreeing to the Terms of Use they can even write their own plays in which our Bullyproof animals help their characters meet the challenges in their own lives.
Learning BULLYPROOF concepts, script writing, creating rap numbers, rehearsing, and performing the show gives troubled youth vital tools to begin rebuilding their lives.
“If we’d had this program before, we wouldn’t have ended up at YDDC in the first place,” -- Teen at Albuquerque Detention Center
"When we started rehearsals, some of the kids scared the living daylights out of me. Now after doing the play, these same ‘tough-guys’ greet me with hugs."
-- Bob Thomas, St Paul MN
