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Get the Summary of Mary Rodgers & Jesse Green's Shy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Shy" is the memoir of Mary Rodgers, co-written with Jesse Green, chronicling her life from a musically enriched childhood to her multifaceted career as a composer, author, and arts philanthropist. Mary grew up in a household where her father, a dedicated composer, and her mother, a creative inventor, nurtured intellect and music...
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The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here's the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact, musicals use all the rhythm and rhyme patterns of history's top poets, and the literary skill of crafting characters and straddling genre. Further, the...
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Hamilton, the hip-hop rap musical, has revolutionized theater. It's the story of an immigrant, "young, scrappy, and hungry," who kicked off the Revolutionary War and built the central government of today. Within this book appears the musical's backstory with many deeper insights. How do the Schuyler Sisters' signature colors reveal their personalities? Which stage equipment best amplifies the themes? What of the words like "Satisfied" and "My Shot,"...
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Have a large cast? Need speaking roles for everyone?Want everyone to shine? Love the classics but want something new and challenging as well?Here are ten short plays for large casts in which everyone gets a spot IN THE LIMELIGHT ! Volume One in the Short Plays for Large Casts Series:Aesop's Fabulous Fables (Cast of 21-23 - Running time ~8-10 minutes)The Boy Who Cried Wolf on Old MacDonald's Farm (Cast of 21-24 - Running time ~15 minutes)The Bremen...
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Act out the story of a group of children who need to set rules for their camping trip! They use the U.S. Constitution as an example, discovering the reasons it was written, what it means for democracy in our country, and how it gives citizens rights, laws, and freedoms. Will the children be able to make a camping constitution of their own? This Spanish script includes six roles, each of which match a different reading level. Teachers can apply differentiation...
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Get the Summary of Jinger Vuolo's Becoming Free Indeedin 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Becoming Free Indeed" by Jinger Vuolo is a memoir that chronicles her journey from growing up in the public eye on reality television to finding her own path of faith and freedom. Jinger reflects on her life, starting from her childhood fears and her family's adherence to the conservative Christian values taught by Bill Gothard....
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One of the most beautiful seasonal transitions is the replacement of the joyous laughter of your grandchildren with the calming sound of the snow as it falls softly upon the ground. Thinking of your grandchildren on quiet winter nights allows you to think of your own childhood and the time you spent with your grandparents many years ago.
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Torero
Antonio quiere llegar a ser un torero reconocido, como lo fue su abuelo. Su papá es un carnicero que no tiene nada que ver con ese "toreo sin sentido". Quiere que su hijo Antonio trabaje junto a él en la carnicería. Algún día el abuelo de Antonio se sentirá orgulloso de él. Y su abuela también aunque ella ya no esté. Antonio cree que ella puede verlo desde el cielo. Antonio está enamorado de María. María le dice: "enséñame que...
10) Flash Nude
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Flash Nude est une pièce criante de vérité. Un grand voyage à travers l'actualité, le quotidien o l'on croise cette violence que nous ctoyons sans la saluer. Une pièce qui nous fait rire, nous fait réfléchir, mais surtout nous oblige à regarder avec les yeux ouverts et à écouter ce que l'on entend, malgré les rires stridents d'une triste réalité mise à nue. Flash Nude, là o tout le monde n'est personne et o personne n'est tout le monde....
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A perfect children's adventure story with a happy ending. A child's fantasy cast of characters: an adorable dog, a ballroom dancer, helpful firefighters, protective police officers, and a bride and groom! You will love this book, and it is all true. The best of Washington DC's Capitol Hill neighborhood life without the politics!
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"Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school's spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom's car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad's game shop. Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan--a nerdy teen employee--to cover her shifts...
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A heartwarming middle-grade debut with autism representation and a musical flair.
Maya lives and breathes musicals. When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theater comes up, Maya is convinced she will get the lead. After all, who knows The Drowsy Chaperone better than she does? However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned, and the summer turns out to be jam-packed with problems: dealing...
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Cut! Yasmin's class is putting on a play, and her job as director is turning out to be harder than she thought. The actors aren't happy, and Yasmin is quickly losing control. Then Yasmin realizes the director is in charge, so she directs some big changes to the save the play! Bestselling author Saadia Faruqi shares another delightful story featuring Yasmin and her multi-generational Pakistani American family.
16) Comamos
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Bring the classic nursery rhymes to life by acting out this charming script about Little Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner. Jack and Miss Muffet get scared by a spider while trying to eat their tasty treats! This Spanish-translated script includes six roles that are written at varying reading levels, supporting differentiation and English language learner strategies. Teachers can implement differentiation strategies to assign roles to students based...
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In this story, Iztaccíhuatl, the daughter of an Aztec emperor, falls in love with a commoner named Popocatépetl. The emperor agrees that she may only marry him if he becomes an Eagle Knight in battle, but a cunning warrior wants Iztaccíhuatl for himself. Act out this story of the ancient Aztecs to find out who will prevail! This script includes roles written at various reading levels, allowing teachers to implement differentiation and English language...
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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant, and – desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family – he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there."...
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Just imagine if you could be the host to eight unusual visitors? Well, I had the opportunity to be the perfect hostess. My ordeal happened one starry night. Each of the visitors came one by one at a time to share something unique about him/ herself, then exited. Read the book to find out who came to visit.
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The Lost City of Atlantis - Tell Me A Tale ( Kids Edition )
The first book in the series, Tell Me a Tale, is the first book of an adventure that will last for 13 episodes. Theatrical scripts, unlike normal prose texts, develop only with dialogues. For this reason, our books are colorful and illustrated to attract children's attention. At the end of the books, there is a section under the heading of thought-provoking questions for children. The purpose...
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