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...finally take the stage in Chicago’s Hyde Park, a little voice cut through the happy fog: “What if he gets shot?”This is why the best thing about the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins,” produced by Daniel V. Kroop ’10 and Katherine K. Schick ’10, is the timing. “Let’s imagine the worst case scenario,” this play seems...
...Those lyrics, from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods come to life in Bryan Andes and Miranda Critz's first-grade classes in New York City's Midtown West Public School 212. Eight years ago Andes and colleague Karl Heist initiated a family studies program for their kindergarten classes. The following year those students, now first graders, embarked upon a curriculum in which they explored a thriving industry in their neighborhood - restaurant row. Then, in 2005, Andes and Heist had a revelation. Why not add another curriculum geared toward the other industry that is a prominent part of the school...
...piece orchestra from the Broadway musical The Little Mermaid visited the class and orchestrator Danny Troob explained which instruments convey water, waves, swells of emotions and sparkling lights. Stephen Sondheim instructed the kids on how to make sounds scary and rhyme words. The students were enthralled when choreographer Bob Avian coached them as dragons for the "Morning of the Dragon" number in Miss Saigon. Wonderful Town costume designer Martin Pakledinaz explained which costume colors connote sadness and hopefulness...
...next dancer or orchestra leader. Each job is significant - for a child to be an usher is just as valuable as being an actor. How we learn to write, to read, to think, to collaborate, how we engage in a creative process, allows everyone to participate." Or as Sondheim might have put it: "Glide them but step away, Children will glisten...
...have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year. "A lot of the older shows just don't have enough parts in them." Letzter of West Aurora High says she's long wanted to do Into the Woods - Sondheim's dark twist on old fairy tales - but doesn't feel the cast is big enough. "No matter how you cut it you're only going to get 18 kids in there unless you have a chorus of wolves and pigs," she says. "And then it becomes ridiculous...