Summer Conservatory
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SCHOOL SHOWS: 2008-2009
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| BUNNICULA | ||||||||||||
| The season starts with Bunnicula, a musical adapted by Jon Klein from the book by Deborah and James Howe. Chester, the family cat, and Harold, the family dog, try to learn to live with Bunnicula, the new family vampire rabbit, who sucks the juices out of vegetables. No one is willing to believe Chester when he warns that the rabbit is behind the dreadful-goings on in the vegetable crisper, and he temporarily loses Harold as a friend in the process. Eventually, the three pets learn to live with each other’s differences. | ||||||||||||
| Bunnicula was featured in the 2007 Battle of the Books, making this is a perfect show to spark a discussion with your students about the images conjured up by reading a book, and the experience of a live performance. | ||||||||||||
| October 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th, 10:30 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Early Bird Ticket deadline is August 28th. | ||||||||||||
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| FIDDLER ON THE ROOF | ||||||||||||
| In December ATY offers Fiddler on the Roof, one of Broadway's most romantic musicals by Bock, Stein and Harnick. Follow the heartbreak and joy of Tevye and Golda as they struggle to raise their three daughters in a changing Russia in their underpaid, underfed Anatevka of 1905, a few years before the Russian Revolution. Warm your hearts to "Tradition," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," "If I Were a Rich Man, " "To Life," and the poignant "Sunrise, Sunset." Share one of the truly classic musicals of all time with your students. | ||||||||||||
| December 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th, 10:30 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Early Bird Ticket deadline is October 31st. | ||||||||||||
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| THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR | ||||||||||||
| February brings you The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare. Brighten upon your deep winter blues with a zany, romantic comedy by that wacky Bard of Avon, Bill. Follow the contretemps of one of the world's great comic figures, Sir John Falstaff, who visits the country house of some nobles that turns out to be the Elizabethan equivalent to "Desperate Housewives," only wackier. What's Falstaff and a bunch of dirty laundry have in common? Introduce your students to this Shakespeare comedy and find out! | ||||||||||||
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| THE VELVETEEN RABBIT | ||||||||||||
| April brings a 2008 Battle of the Books story with The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams and adapted by B. Burgess Clark. | ||||||||||||
| This is the familiar old tale of boy meets rabbit, boy falls in love with rabbit, rabbit grows old and loses its whiskers. Find out the answer to this riddle: when is a toy actually a living being? Is this possible at all, and does love have anything at all to do with this? Since 1922, when Williams first published her classic book, it has been inspiring kids all around the world to learn about love and reminding parents what it was like to be a child when love was as simple as loving one's favorite stuffed toy, such as the Velveteen Rabbit. | ||||||||||||
| April 23rd, 24th, 30th and May 1st at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Early Bird Ticket deadline is March 19th. | ||||||||||||
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| TWELFTH NIGHT | ||||||||||||
| ATY’s Young Shakespeare Company can bring the Bard’s zany romantic comedy about shipwrecked identical twins and the lords and ladies of Illyria who mistake them for what they are not to your school beginning Oct. 15th. | ||||||||||||
| Teachers choose your tour from the tours listed below: | ||||||||||||
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| STUDY GUIDES FOR ALL ATY SHOWS: | ||||||||||||
| ATY will help you choose a great study guide for your students. |