Posted by Kate on November 16, 2014
Six actors. Twenty six authors. One week. Sometimes it is our biggest challenges that bring out our best work, and the Loyola Park Fall show is about to prove this to the world! These stories are awesome, we have gods and aliens, reapers and zombies, fairies and trolls, not to mention some intensely dramatic pieces of rice. On a personal note, tomorrow’s show will mark a very important first for me: I will be performing a story written by my very own daughter, a new Loyola Park after school student. Obviously her work is near and dear to my heart. But honestly? We have been teaching some of these kids for as many years as my daughter is old. There is not a story in the bunch that isn’t incredibly meaningful in its own way. And now back to studying, man, I am in just about every story, I have some memorizing to do!!
Posted by Jason on November 10, 2014
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Touring Performances
Hello, Monkey Fan! Have Daylight Savings Time and the colder weather got you down? Come to tonight’s “Chicago’s Weird, Grandma” for an escapist pick-me-up!
Karma T. from the Loyola Park After School Program envisions an exciting journey in The Girl Who Flyed Over the World:
One day a girl went to the park with her grandfather. She swinged on the swing really high that she flew off the swing. She crossed the United States and the whole world till she was a teenager. Then she was gong to land. on her grandfather. She landed on her grandfather and broke his back.
Kania, Kenice, Taniya, and Jacaria from the Super 7 Program at Cather Academy created a romantic evening despite a villain’s presence in Super Hero (Cake):
Once upon a time there was a man named Cake Man and he had a shop called cake woman and Cake Man’s shop. Then cakeman went to the cake woman’s house and they ate cake and had a special night. Munch Munch Munch. The night was as romantic as princess and the frog. Little did Cakeman and Woman know but Carrot man was placing a cake under the table and cakeman tripped over it and the cake that cakeman was eating went into cakewomans face. Carrot man said “Muah ha ha ha.” Then he felt bad and said, “I feel worse than a person who missed a line in their play. I’m more sorry than a witch!” The end
Tell Ambar “I’m more sorry than a witch!” at the box office for discounted tickets!
Posted by Jason on November 2, 2014
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Touring Performances
Company Members
Heading into week 2 of Chicago’s Weird, Grandma (Monday, Nov. 3 at 8:00pm!), we have a wonderful assortment of things for your viewing pleasure:
NEW! There are six stories in the show which have never been seen in BOM’s public shows before this round. Space! Pirates! Racing! Spooky parents! True Love!
OLD! There are a bunch of returning favorites, ranging from stories that were in last round all the way back to BOM classics from the early 2000s. Pants! Jedis! Floors! Chairs! Twins! Produce!
NEOS! Our special guest performers this week are The Neo-Futurists, performing a new chilling adaptation of “Evil Toy” by five students from the Super 7 Program at Cather Elementary. Robots!
MONKEYS! Come see the crackerjack cast, comprised of Nick Hart, Ashley Bland, Deanna Myers, Rachel Wilson, Matt Miller, Mary Tilden, Diana Lawrence, Rawson Vint, Jen Johnson, Gwen Tulin, David Pintor and the technical know-how of Maggie Fullilove-Nugent!
Don’t miss it! Say “He danced his butt off” at the box office for discounted tickets!
Posted by Joe on October 27, 2014
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Touring Performances
Company Members
Clear your schedules y’all! Tonight is the opening of Chicago’s Weird, Grandma featuring talented and attractive cast members of Lookingglass Alice and the internationally acclaimed shadow super stars Manual Cinema!
Want to know about these folks? Check these out!
See you at the show!
Also, say “we didn’t take wedding vows” to Ambar at the box office for discounted tickets!
Cheers!
Joe
Posted by Joe on October 6, 2014
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Tonight is the night to share in the magic of That’s Weird, Grandma!
Here are the two new stories going in!
Untitled
By Natalie Denby
Central School
OLD MAN
Now my dears, my children, I will tell you a story.
Twenty years ago, an old man, older than I, lived in thatched hut miles away from the nearest refuge. (takes a sip of water)
He had nothing but this hut, an old phone, and a rocking chair.
Lights up on rocking chair.
He was the secretive type, so no one knew much about him. There were rumours though. Folk said he never left the rocking chair. The chair, my dears, never stopped rocking.
Chair starts rocking.
They said, my dears, the chair was his soul. The flame, the life.
Lights on the chair go out.
But then, my dears, the police received a call from the man.
Sound of phone, ring, ring, sound of rocking.
Rocking was all they heard before the phone went dead.
Dead dialtone.
So the police went to investigate.
Sound of footsteps.
It was silent, was eerie, they had suspected something different.
Sound of rocking.
But they did hear the rocking chair.
Lights up on rocking chair, rocking, with a shadow on it.
There was no one there, but there was a shadow.
Voiceover says “vanished” at the same time as the man.
“Vanished” it hissed. And then we saw two terrified policemen. And a still rocking rocking chair with the shadow of the man.
Lights down on rocking chair.
The police would get eerie calls every so often. And only one word would be uttered,the word
Voiceover says “vanished” at the same time as the man. vanished. And up to this day, the rocking chair has never stopped rocking and the shadow has never disappeared. So, my dears, do you see why I despise rocking chairs and huts, why I stay in the city away from the country? Because I don’t want to vanish.
Lightening strikes.
So dears stick to my advice and you won’t vanish! (Man laughs wickedly) Oh yes,
Voiceover says “vanish” at the same time as the man.
Vanish!
Lights down on man, and he exits.
Lights up on the rocking chair, still rocking.
The End
Nerd & Cheerleader Dialogue
By Nicole T. Paderewski School
Characters: Nerd & Cheerleader
Setting: in a gym room
C: Whay are you so ugly.
N: Never ugly.
C: Whatever
N: Whay are you a bully
C: Because that’s what I do
N: Did you know you hurt my feelings?
C: (Knocked the books out of his hands) Ha!
N: Do you want me to help you with anger management problems?
C: Yes (they shaked hands) it hurst to be a bully.
N: Do you want to be my friend?!
C: yes
N: OK, now we are friends!
C: See you tomorrow.
N: OK
THE END
Say “the chair was his soul” to Ambar at the box office for discounted tickets!
