Lent School

Aside from "Jabberwocky," all shows are original.

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2007--2008 Theater Season

Grade 5

Name of Theater Company: The Hot Dog Musical Theater Company

Name of Show: Earthalerth!

Venue: Lent School, Winningstad Theater

Performance Dates: May 28, 29, 2008

Summary: The Cirque du Pluto company has a new show called Earthalerth!--a fanciful show about life on the planet Earth. The show needs more Earthlings, so they send Ajihad Z-27 to Earth to acquire some. Ajihad kidnaps four Earth kids and takes them back to Pluto to be in Earthalerth! We see a rehearsal for the show, and then all havoc breaks loose as the Intergalactic Mutant Banana Terror known as Bananjelar arrives and announces its plan to wipe out Earth. They all chase the Bananjelar back to Earth--will they arrive in time to save the planet from destruction?

Songs:

Here in the Caribbean

We're Flying to Pluto

Interplanetary Blues

Not Really

Scenes From Planet Earth

Oh Spare Us, Mighty Bananjelar, From Your Awful Yellow Banana Rage

Earthalerth

"Earthalerth!" Finale

"We're Flying to Pluto"

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Grade 5

Name of Theater Company: The Hot Dog Musical Theater Company.

Name of the show: Jabberwocky.

Venue: The Theater of Triangular Primulation (Room 118, Lent School).

Performance date: November, 2007

Summary: This is a telling of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" with lots of movement, costumes, funky lighting and live musical accompaniment.

The Theater of Triangular Primulation

Stage Manager on the spot.

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Curtain Call "The Magnificent" about to do some colonial juggling.

2006-2007 Theater Season
Grade: Five

Name of Theater Comany: The Home Skillin' Biscuit With Theater On Top Theater Company

Name of the Show: "The Long, Hard Road to Freedom."

Performance Dates: May 16, 17, 2007. Steger Hall, Lent School .

Plot Summary: A musical revue dramatizing key events in Colonial America leading to the American Revolution.

Songs:

"Supercanoe"

"A Party Tonight"

"My Name is Betty"

"Sailing to the Indies"

"Proclaim It To The World"

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2005-2006 THEATER SEASON

School: Clarendon

Grade: Second

Name of Theater Company: The 34 Dragon Opera Company

Name of Show: "Hollywood Theater Mystery"

Performance Dates: May 22, 23, 2006, Clarendon School and Newmark Theater

Plot Summary : Four friends go to the Hollywood Theater and unexpectedly take a trip back in time to the same theater of 1926. There they meet a child vaudevillian who reveals a fantastic story about a chance encounter with Queen Marie of Romania, hidden treasure, and the premonitions of his own tragic future--all of which affects a friend of theirs back in the present. The four friends have to decide what is truly important to them as they seek this forgotten treasure--will it destroy or strengthen their friendship? And what of their friend back in 2006, the rightful heir of the treasure?

Characters: Frankie Fitzgerald O'Kennedy / Duane, Carl, Bianca, Amy, Emily, Time Fairies

Theme: Love

Thesis: "We all have a responsibility to love and help each other, no matter what."

Songs:

"Zooming to the Movies"

"This Little Light of Mine" (traditional)

"Where Are We and What Happened?"

"Happy Story, Sad Story"

"Like the Money of a Millionaire"

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Tommy the Goose comes to life through the efforts of the make up artists.

2004-2005 THEATER SEASON

School: Clarendon

Grade: Second

Name of Theater Company: The Titianic 51 Kids Opera Company

Name of Show: "A Visit to Grandpa's Farm Where a Girl Finds Her Power."

Performance Dates: June 1,2,3, 2005. Clarendon School, Winningstad Theater

Plot Summary: Carmen visits her grandpa's farm and discovers that her bully cousin is forcing

the farm animals to dress in silly costumes and perform a ridiculous opera. Jerry tries to co-opt Carmen into being in the show as well. Carmen must look deep within herself to find the way to stand up to Jerry for herself and her animal friends. And if she does, will Jerry still be her friend?

Theme: Friendship

Thesis : "You cannot fail if you use your heart, brain, and perseverence to find power."

Characters: Carmen, Jerry, Ogust (a dog), Coco (a cat), Timmy and Tommy (geese).

Songs:

"Clumsy Ballet"

"On My Way To Grandpa's Farm"

"Why Is It So Hard To Be A Kid?"

"This Is What I Would Do"

"Standing Shoulder To Shoulder"

The Titanic 51 Kids Opera Company hits the big time.

Carmen talks things over with her animals friends on the farm--Winningstad Theater.