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 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 32346
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0930452933
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.812
EAN: 9780930452933
ASIN: 0930452933
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
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Condition: Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupDate of Publication: 1989Binding: Trade PaperbackCondition: Good Text CleanDescription: 0930452933 Front title page is missing top half. Does not affect text.
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 Plays Capture 6th Grade Interest March 19, 1998
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful play to introduce students to music, theater, Sondheim, and fairy tales. In my class we read many of the original Grimm Fairy Tales (Dover Ed.) and the Perrault Fairy Tales (Dover) discussing the tales, but also color symbolism, different forms of magic, totems, threshold creatures, etc. Pretty heady stuff for sixth graders, but they LOVE it! Finally we read this wonderful interconnection of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Baker and His Wife, Little Red Riding Hood, and more while they are on a quest tale to get things to undo spells. Everyone takes parts and it is AWESOME!! The book is certainly not just for kids, there are very dark themes underlying all of the "fun". These can be discussed and its great to see kids find more to a story than its literal meaning. The VHS tape is then shown, which can be ordered here. This is a taping of the Broadway stage production and is mesmerising. Students think it's awesome. (I do suggest previewing, though. The wolf certainly is "untamed nature" and his coat stops just above what probably should be hidden in a mixed group of sixth graders. :) We just fast forward those three minutes.) This is a great unit. If you would like more info, please contact me via e-mail. This is wonderful stuff, though certainly not Disney!!
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