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Each year, our KidsRULE! series brings to our stage three top live shows, 12 movies, and 16 School Days Series matinees. Over 30 events for kids make The Music Hall the place for family entertainment in Northern New England!
2010-2011
School Days Series
The Music Hall’s 16th annual
School Days Series
The Music Hall’s 16th annual
28 Chestnut Street Portsmouth, NH 03801
Permit No. 202 Portsmouth, NH
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All about our School Days Series... • All performances last approximately ONE hour. • Seating is determined by group size. Each group is assigned a block of seats. • Actual paper tickets will not be issued.
Welcome to another exciting season of our School Days Series!
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The Music Hall - the Seacoast’s largest performing arts classroom - announces its 16th Annual School Days Series which brings children from 80 local schools, homeschoolers and families for high caliber, affordable matinees.
I wanted you to know how much
our classes enjoyed the SDS performance.
It was such a wonderful show, the kids loved it and the adults were amazed. Thank you again and we
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will see you next year. - Alana Flynn Seabrook Elementary Teacher
Our 16th season features shows based on best-selling books like The Berenstain Bears, Knuffle Bunny and Giggle, Giggle Quack, science fun with Beakman and Thomas Edison, American Civics lessons with We the People and so much more! We hope your little learners will join us and learn through the arts, as more than 20,000 school children do here annually at The Music Hall. The upcoming season is also filled with opportunities for teachers and other creative educators. For each School Days Series performance, we offer detailed study guides available now at www.themusichall.org We look forward to speaking with you to arrange the details of your class or home school or family visit. Space is limited so reserve soon! A deposit is required to reserve seats. With so many wonderful shows, we hope to see you often at The Music Hall. Act now – some shows sold out last season - don’t miss out! Chris Curtis | school daysseries coordinator
• Advance registration and a $50 non-refundable deposit or payment in full are required. • The Music Hall must enforce a non-refundable FULL PAYMENT policy three weeks prior to performance due to our contractual obligations to our performers. NO EXCEPTIONS. No snow day refunds available. • Study guides and bus information are now available on our website! www.themusichall.org • A confirmation notice will be sent after reservation and deposit are received.
We greatly appreciate your compliance with the above; it enables The Music Hall to continue to provide high caliber educational programs to Seacoast children. Following each program description is a symbol which indicates the curriculum that may be enhanced by the performance.
For More Info: Contact Chris Curtis at ccurtis@themusichall.org (603) 433-3100 x11
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Language Arts Learning About Other Cultures Math Science Music Dance Social Issues Social Studies
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
9:30am & 11:30am
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
We the People
Giggle, Giggle Quack
Theaterworks USA
Holden & Arts Associates Inc.
In this hilarious sequel to the barnyard blockbuster, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, good ole Farmer Brown decides to take a vacation leaving his city-slicker brother, Bob, in charge of the farm. Armed with very specific directions on how to care for the animals, brother Bob doesn’t know that Duck is re-writing the instructions demanding “pizza for the hen,” “bubble baths for the pig” and “movie night for the cow.” It’s another madcap musical mutiny for kids of all ages!
Appropriate for grades 4-8
Appropriate for grades Pre K - 4
9:30am & 11:30am
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Berenstain Bears in “Family Matters: The Musical” There’s trouble in the tree house...Brother Bear has trouble with a school quiz, so he hides it in the cookie jar. Sister Bear makes friends with a frog and hides it in the cookie jar. Papa has been eating candy when he’s supposed to be on a diet, and the wrapper ends up in the cookie jar... It’s up to Mama to follow the cookie trail and sort things out! Appropriate for K-3
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From the Emmy Award winning children’s science TV show Beakman’s World, the entertaining and lively scientist Beakman (Paul Zaloom) will tour a brand new production. With plenty of audience participation and his wacky sense of humor, Beakman employs a series of large scale, fun, and very visual demonstrations to illustrate how the brain works. Have you ever wondered how we think, feel, smell and see? What makes us cry, laugh, smile and sneeze? Beakman will address the science of the brain in a fun, wacky and exploratory way for kids and adults alike. Be ready to be brain teased!
q 9:30 q 11:30
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
9:30am –K-3 11:30am Grades 4-5
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Thomas Edison: Inventor, Lecturer, & Prankster
Omaha Theater Company
How does the little boy get over that big alligator that lives under his bed? Or another child command his toy soldiers to protect him from the Big Nightmare that lives in his closet – or is it the Big Nightmare that needs to be protected? And, what about the little girl who lassoes the Silly Scary Thing that lives in her farmhouse attic? Omaha Theater’s original musical production is designed with vivid and imaginative costumes and scenery, where the Alligator, the Nightmare and the Thing become your best friend. Appropriate for grades Pre-K to 4
Appropriate for grades K-5
Thursday, March 10, 2011
9:30am & 11:30am
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed, A Nightmare in My Closet, and Something In My Attic
The greatest inventor of all time, live and in-person, at The Music Hall! One of America’s most remarkable minds, Thomas Alva Edison, engages students in this exciting, hands-on, motivational program. Students will have the chance to assist in recreating some of his most famous experiments! Edison shares several secrets that students can use in their dayto-day lives.
9:30am & 11:30am
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
9:30am & 11:30am
Duck for President, Fancy Nancy & Other Story Books
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Thomas Edison: Inventor, Lecturer, & Prankster Wednesday, December 1, 2010 check show time
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical by Mo Willems Thursday, March 10, 2011 check show time
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Giggle, Giggle Quack Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Three Classics by Mercer Mayer:
Theaterworks USA
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Appropriate for grades 2 and up
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Berenstain Bears in “Family Matters” check show time
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2010
q 9:30 q 11:30
Kid’s Entertainment
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Tickets: $5 for students and adults. One free adult for every 20 students
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We the People
Beakman On The Brain!
Theaterworks USA
Contact School
An all-new musical revue that brings American Civics lessons to life and promises to make Social Studies exciting and accessible. Students will have a blast learning about the three branches of government, the First Amendment, presidential elections, democracy, the judicial process, and more. Featuring a variety of musical styles relevant to today’s youth, this show will instill American pride in audiences of all ages, and perhaps even inspire them to get involved and make a difference!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Beakman On The Brain! check show time
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Three Classics by Mercer Mayer check show time
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 # of paying adults # of free adults
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Duck for President, Fancy Nancy & Other Story Books Tuesday, May 3, 2011 check show time
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Theaterworks USA
With music by Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher, Emmywinning author/illustrator Mo Willems adapts his book Knuffle Bunny in this Kennedy Center commission - about family, best friends, baby steps, and memories that last a lifetime.
An all-new musical revue featuring mini-musicals based on best-selling children’s books. In Duck for President the winds of change are blowing, and a politically ambitious Duck is leading the revolution! As he is elected as the leader of the farm, and then as the governor of the state, voters across the nation wonder: can Duck bring a new bill to Capitol Hill?
Chock full of adventure, song, and gigantic dancing laundry, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical tells a tale of firsts: a stuffed animal’s first trip in the laundry, a little girl’s first words, and a Daddy’s first time dealing with his child going “boneless.”
DEPOSIT: $ total enclosed: $
Enclose payment in full or a $50 non-refundable deposit for each performance booked. Please make checks payable to The Music Hall.
Please fill out this form and send with your payment to: School Days Series/Chris Curtis The Music Hall fo... for moacret Chin 104 Congress Street Curtis ris please cont ll.org ha ic us em Portsmouth, NH 03801 at ccurtis@th 00 x11
Appropriate for grades K-4
Appropriate for grades K and up
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Language Arts
Learning About Other Cultures
Dance
Social Studies
Music
Science
Social Issues
Math