Appleseeds articles from December 2006

Appleseeds archives from December 2006

AppleCorps kids.(Children's Theatre Company )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Consulting Editor--Mehr Mansuri, artistic director of The Children's Theatre Company in New York City, began her career as an actress. She has won many awards in more than 40 productions from classical to modern theater, as well as TV and film....

Let's go to the theater!
December 1, 2006... I HAVE TWO TICKETS AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO A BROADWAY SHOW! COME ALONG AS MY GUEST! THERE'S THE THEATER WITH THE BRIGHTLY LIT MARQUIS DISPLAYING THE NAME OF THE PLAY! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Our tickets are at the box office, the...

Oliver! The play's the thing in North Carolina.(Cover story)
December 1, 2006... Inside a small-town theater, 40 young orphans were singing. Their cheeks were dirty, their clothes were ragged, but their faces were beaming. They were actors, they were on stage, and there was nothing small about their performance that night!...

Oliver Twist.(Reading Corner)
December 1, 2006... Before Oliver Twist became a play, it was a novel. Before it was a novel, it was a serial in Bentley's Miscellany magazine. (A serial is a novel that is published one chapter at a time in a magazine.) Charles Dickens, the British author who...

Meet William Shakespeare.
December 1, 2006... "All the world's a stage," More than 400 years later, stages around the world still show Shakespeare's plays. But who was William Shakespeare? And what makes his plays so great? ACT ONE: Young William Shakespeare William...

Knock. Knock! Who's there? Shakespeare's way with words.(William Shakespeare )
December 1, 2006... Surprisingly, it was William Shakespeare who first penned the lines "Knock, knock! Who's there?" in his play... well, that Scottish play. (Read about that on pages 29-31.) But it was no joke. The famous "knock, knock" jokes didn't start until...

Rising Stars.(Children's Musical Theater)
December 1, 2006... It was the first show of Disney's Aladdin Jr at Children's Musical Theater San Jose, and anything that could go wrong was going wrong. "Entrances were missed, the lamp went missing, cast members went missing... and what did a stage full of...

Get ready for life!(Children's Theatre Company)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Would you like to be a Triple Threat? At the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Triple Threats come in many sizes--from 4 to 18 years old! In the theater world, a Triple Threat is someone trained in acting, music, and dance....

Building character onstage.(Children's Theatre Company)
December 1, 2006... The Children's Theatre Company of New York City presents professional theater by kids for grownups. The company consists of 100 people, ages 4 to 18; they are actors, dancers, singers, and musicians. Besides being stars onstage, this...

Never say the "M" word.(superstitious beliefs among Theater people )
December 1, 2006... The Duchess Theatre in London is famous for staging a play with the shortest run in history. People walked out before the first act was finished. No one is sure why, but if you ask theater people, they will probably say it was just bad luck....

Animal tales.(The musical Cats!)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Probably the most famous animals onstage aren't animals at all, but rather people in animal costumes. The musical Cats! is all about the secret lives of felines and doesn't have a single human character in it--but lots of actors in fabulous cat...

10 tips for writing your own play.
December 1, 2006... Playwriting is fun! Here's how to do it: 1 Read play. Read any dialogue out loud; perform a few scenes with friends. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 Choose your story. Many plays begin as novels, short stories, or fables. What will you...

Gross facts.(blood substitutes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Did you know that some of the best fake blood used in plays and performances is made with chocolate? That's right! A little cocoa powder mixed with water, corn syrup, and a bit of food coloring makes a great blood substitute.