The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
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WHAT: Park Playhouse is pleased to announce our SPRING 2017 Scholastic Touring Productions. Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical, and The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley can be brought to your school auditorium, gymnasium or muli-purpose room. One month before the performance, we will provide your educators with an activity packet designed to engage students in the creative process behind bringing a show to life on stage! This packet will also introduce students to core themes of the productions—math, literature, history, language arts, music, friendship, acceptance, and travel.
WHO: Our professional actors perform for elementary students throughout the Capital District. We are now listed in the BOCES Art-in-Ed registry. These productions are appropriate for grades 1-5.
WHEN: We are now booking touring dates for Polkadots February 6-17 and The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley May 8-19.
WHY: Introducing students to live theatre gives them an important audience experience, helping them to learn the proper etiquette for live performances and public presentations. It also introduces them to a hobby and craft they may not have had access to previously. The arts teach collaboration, creative problem solving and self-expression, and our program gives students a taste of what is possible in the arts. The Park Playhouse Scholastic Touring program allows you to introduce your students to the performing arts in a low-cost way, without the need for bussing and field trip arrangements.
HOW: To book a performance at your school, contact Ashley Simone Kirchner, Arts & Education Coordinator, at akirchner@palacealbany.com or (518) 465-3335 ext 113. The total fee to bring a performance to your school is only $500.
The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanl
The beloved children's book, written by Jeff Brown in 1964, has become a literary and pop cultural phenomenon, delighting readers and travelers all around the world. And now, Timothy Allen McDonald, the writer behind Willy Wonka and James and the Giant Peach, has taken everyone's favorite two-dimensional hero and given him a new life in The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley.
Stanley Lambchop is your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill, ten-year-old: normal mom and dad, normal little brother, normal life. That's just the problem... for Stanley, life is too normal. He wants to travel the world, do something amazing, something no one's ever seen before. Careful what you wish for, Stanley! One night, the bulletin board on the wall above Stanley's bed comes loose and falls – right on top of Stanley! The next morning, Stanley Lambchop wakes up flat. Not just a little flat... really, REALLY flat! In a whirlwind musical travelogue, Stanley – the ultimate exchange student – scours the
globe for a solution to his unusual problem. He's stamped, posted and cancelled from Hollywood and France to Honolulu and beyond. And, whether he's thwarting a robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, or "hanging ten" off the coast of Hawaii, Stanley is closing in on his goal of being a three-dimensional boy once more.
Language Arts, Literature, Music, Travel
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