Posted by Kassi on January 20, 2015
School Shows
The Super 7 Girls of Willa Cather Elementary love scary stories. And we are having a great time adapting those spooky tales into thrilling plays.
In “The Day it was Halloween” by Nakiya B., the tension build will have you shaking in your boots.
“One Spooky Trick or Treating” by Lanesha R., includes a cast of some classic spook-sters, guaranteed to make you run and hide.
And finally… “The Clown” by Diamond R., tells the all-too-common true story of when a clown is pretending to be your dad.
The End…or is it? Mwahahahahaha…...ahhhhhahahahahahaha!
Posted by Joe on January 16, 2015
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Wing Attack! And Tragic Fireworks both bring hard times for birds this week!
Check out Wing Attack! and Tragic Fireworks on our story archive!
Say “Then I did what I was born to do. ” to Ambar at the box office for discounted tickets!
See you at the show!
-Joe
Posted by Bradford on January 12, 2015
School Shows
In case you’re wondering, (and I know you are); what a typical Barrel of Monkeys school show is like….Well, it goes a little something like this…
Wake up in the wee hours of the morning and kick it down to the breakfast spot for some pre-show bonding. That’s right friends, nothing like a fresh cup of coffee and a giant donut to kick off the day!
Head over to the school. Set up our trusty curtains and key board. Check sound levels, rehearse the show, say hello to the kiddos as they walk into the gym; and before you know it… It’s Show Time Yall!!!
And after 6 days of rehearsal, 18 hours of hard work, the show is over in the blink of an eye. And it never gets old. Seeing the kiddos laughing, applauding and celebrating their stories is always a blast. Well done Columbia Explorers fourth graders. Keep putting the pen to pad and always remember….Every idea is a good idea! Yeah!!!
Posted by Bradford on January 3, 2015
Happy New Year!!!
I hope one and all had an amazing holiday season. It’s 2015, and time for the first school show of the New Year. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching at Columbia Explorers on five occasions, and always love meeting new students, while bumping into old ones up and down the halls. With four amazing fourth grade classes, it’s always challenging when it comes to selecting stories. Never the less we kicked off the process today, and I have to say: WE HAVE A GREAT SHOW ON OUR HANDS PEOPLE!
A bee and popsicle who are absolutely fed up with human beings; two down and out guys who marry two beautiful princesses, and a family of bears that just can’t seem to get along….sounds to good to be true you say, oh no my friends, it’s just another day in the life in Barrel of Monkeys.
There are still songs to learn, and stories to adapt; but I’m really looking forward to the big show. Can’t wait to see the kiddos again, can’t wait to have blast telling their stories. YES!!!
Posted by Marika on January 2, 2015
Happy 2015, everybody! I hope you are all off to a very good start.
So far, I have eaten ice cream and a great deal of encased meats. So, I’ll put that one in the WIN category.
Speaking of winning, Jarvezz G. from The Brown School wrote a fascinating tale about a group of people who were secretly golf scorpions.
Once upon a time there were four golf scorpions but the thing that was scare about them was that nobody know they were scorpions and one day they were at a party an it was time for them to changed to scorpions and somebody had push them in the water and they got killed and all the people said hey want heppen to the world when they looked at the sky the moon was on fire and the scorpions was poisonous.
The End
If you’ve never seen this story performed before, it’s a real hole in one.
Another winner is Mariah A. from Avondale Logandale Elementary School, who brings us this delightful tale about a girl’s love for her refrigerator. I think we’ve all been there.
Lindsey was a refrigerator. She lived in a kitchen. She loved being opened by the little kids that lived in the house. But one day the family moved away! She was given away to charity. She was sad. She sat there in the same spot every day. Lindsey always looked at the other items being sold. The one day after six years, she saw the daughter of the family she belonged to. Anna, the daughter, had been looking for Lindsey as long as she could remember. And bought Lindsey and took her home. Anna had a family of her own and it brought Lindsey back so many memories that she couldn’t ask for anything else. THE END.
Both of these stories, as well as all your end-of-2014 favorites can be seen this Monday at 8pm. Can’t wait to see you there!
