Oregon Children's Theatre
Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
The Ghosts of Treasure Island
Einstein is a Dummy
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8 comments:
Ghosts of Treasure Island sounds cool. Sounds like a skewed version of RLS's story. Anyone?
And NO Harlan, I don't work for them.
Whatever happened to the classic children stories? Narnia, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, you know? And where did all this 4th Grade, Plastic Purse rubbish come from?
I'm actually kind of glad that they've chosen to let the classics sit this one out. You don't want to wear out audiences with oversaturation (like the billion productions of Romeo & Juliet this season)....
And I'm pretty sure OCT has produced all those classics.
Treasure Island seems like a classic to me, though this sounds like it will be done in some sort of "new" way. 4th Grade Nothing and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse have both been around (as books, anyway) for a while and are quite popular.
As far as the classics mentioned above, NWCT did Narnia 3 or 4 years ago, they also did Secret Garden probably close to 10 years ago and OCT has done Anne of Green Gables at least twice now.
It would be nice if they had their own space or something so they could do more shows and for longer runs.
Those stories I mentioned before were merely examples. I realize they have been done fairly recently. OCT's Narnia sold rather well a couple of years ago. In fact, it won a Drammy for Best Production, meaning that adults must have enjoyed it as well as the kids. I'm just wondering if parents would rather take their children to 4th Grade Nothing Plastic Purses, or to watch the stories we are all so in love with.
people with kids who are in their 20s and 30s grew up reading Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a classic to the parents of the intended audience.
...or to watch the stories we are all so in love with.
Shouldn't that say "...stories that I'm so in love with."?
I don't have kids, but I'd bet more than a few of the little tykes could care less if something is a "classic" or not since, to them, it's ALL new. And any parents that would suffer through Barney on Ice or The Wiggles probably aren't too concenred with if THEY will enjoy the show or not.
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