Juan Bobo: the Boy of the Three Year Nap
We’re sure that you know about the lovable Juan Bobo. Juan lives in Puerto Rico with his mother,
Maria, who is a tailor. All day long she
works and he sleeps. She tries to keep him busy by sending Juan to
Abuela Nunzia’s house to fetch the three legged pot. He returns empty
handed having raced it back down the hill to his home. Maria finds out
that Juan adores Cuccaracita Martina and so she uses his affections to
try and trick him into getting a job. Will Maria succeed or will Juan
sleep his life away?
The Gingerbread Boy
Fast, fast, fast I am you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!
Strange, he looks more like a boy to me. Come along with us as we see
Gerry the gingerbread boy head down the road in search of his fortune.
Gerry meets an inchworm who is fast in her own way. After a quick game,
Gerry is back on the road where he meets a busy little spelling bee who
is also fast in her own way. Busy is the best speller in her class. One
spelling competition in the books and Gerry heads out in search of his
destiny. It is soon that he meets Tammy the turtle and gets into a
knock- down, racers race that leads him, well, we will see if it leads
Gerry anywhere in the end.
SPRING 2010 SELECTIONS
Rumplestiltskin
Hope, the baker's daughter, boasts to the King that she can spin straw
into gold. The King calls her bluff and asks her to prove her skill and
be married to him or meet her peril. Locked in a room in the castle,
Hope wishes for an intervention and meets an ugly little man who turns
the straw into gold. She only had to promise her first born child. Upon
the birth of her son, the ugly man returns and asks for the child. She
cries and cries and he finally agrees to let her keep her son if she can
guess his name. Do you know what it is?
All the Same Web
This play is the last in the trilogy written about the trickster, Ananse
the Spider. In this play we explore the premise that the Ananse stories
spread throughout the world and were told in many different ways and by
many different peoples. Brehr Rabbit shows us why rabbits live
underground. We get to see Aunt Nancy deal with old Uncle Lazybritches.
We see they're all connected when we see Ananse go fishing with his good
friend the Turtle. Brehr Rabbit, Aunt Nancy and Ananse are all caught up
and spun from the same web.
Stone Soup
Stone soup to fill the pot, stone soup yes it's nice and hot! A
mysterious stranger name Little enters the town who is awfully hungry.
After asking for food from a lot of residents, our stranger decides to
make stone soup for everyone so that they all could feel better. "Why,
when I was at the King's table, we had the best stone soup that has ever
been made." The "magical" stone is thrown into a pot of water, but it
would be better with a carrot or two. Rabbit brings one. Soon, the
townspeople all add something to the pot and they share the best stone
soup that has ever been had!
SUMMER 2010 SHOW
The Frog Prince
Make a splash with Rags To Riches this summer with, "The Frog Prince," that will run June 1st through August 15th. This adaptation of the classic Brothers Grimm tale is one of absolute delight. A young princess receives a lovely gold ball from her father as a prize and then she loses it in a river not far from her castle. She is very upset until a frog offers to retrieve the ball for her in exchange for a few favors. She promises to hold up her end of the bargain, and the frog gets her ball back for her. In excitement and disbelief Penelope runs back to the castle completely forgetting about the frog and her promises. When Ferdinand the Frog arrives at the castle, Penelope realizes she will have to hold true to her promises.
