It's showtime!
Seussical Kids is in Germantown, TN!
Music Box Inc. is pleased to announce the Grand Performance of our children's Musical Theatre program, on Saturday, December 4, at 5 pm.
Our Program featured over 40 hours of musical theatre instruction (voice, acting, dance and more) from our experienced and accredited educators.
Additionally, each CAST member had a CREW job and was given the opportunity to help with designing the set props, costumes, lighting & sound plans, and marketing materials.
PRESS RELEASE
Oooh and Oooh the Winningest Walloping Waltzing Whiz-zinger is Coming to Germantown!
Music Box STUDENTS…
ALL THINKERS OF STRANGE AND WONDERFUL THINKS
TO BRING DR. SEUSS’ CAT IN THE HAT AND OTHERS
FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE
WITH THEIR PRODUCTION OF SEUSSICAL KIDS
Whimsical and Magical Musical of Seussical™ Proportions Opens December 4, 2021
Germantown TN AND FROM THE JUNGLE OF NOOL TO KALAMAZOO, December 4 – Music Box students will unlock the imaginations of Germantown citizens when they bring the Cats in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie LaBird, the Whos in Whoville and other Seuss favorites to life with their production of Seussical™ KIDS, it was announced today by the Cat in the Hat and Drew Cohen, president of Music Theatre International (MTI). Co-conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, Seussical™ KIDS combines Dr. Seuss tales (…and tails!) using the plinker-plunker of many musical styles – ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk – as colorful as the classic books.
“It takes a lot of creativity and focus to bring this whimsical world to life, while communicating its subtle themes and meaningful lessons,” says Cohen. “MTI hopes their audience outnumbers all the Whos in Whoville,” he adds. MTI, through its Broadway Junior division, works with the authors of classic musicals to create special editions suitable for students to perform.
“Now, I’m here, there is no telling what may ensue with a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!,” says the Cat in the Hat.
Horton will hear a Who and cheerful chaos will ensue when Music Box presents Seussical™ KIDS on December 4, 2021 at Music Box, 7516 Capital Drive, Germantown TN 38138. Show admission is FREE. For more information on how to watchering-watch the performance please contact Music Box Inc. at (901) 626-0973 or info@musicboxinc.com
To celebrate the imaginations of all the student zum-zummers involved in the production, Music Box will receive a certificate thing-a-ma-bobsk signed in think-proof-ink by Ahrens, who wrote the lyrics and book to the show, and Flaherty, who wrote the music and the book, commending the cast on their successful production of Seussical™ KIDS and encouraging them to never say Toodle-oo to the arts. (It’s better than Who-Pudding or Sweeping-Up-After-Brooms!)
Seussical™ KIDS begins with a young boy named JoJo who conjures up the Cat in the Hat with his powerful imagination and is whisked to the Jungle of Nool for a fantastical adventure. There JoJo learns of the plight of the tiny citizens of Whoville, who live on a planet the size of a speck of dust. Their sole protector is Horton the Elephant, who is the only one with large and sensitive enough ears to hear them bipping and beeping and playing their oompahs. The small world is threatened by Sour Kangaroo and the Wickersham Brothers, who in disbelief that a world could be so small, try to steal the dust-speck so they can cast it into a vat of Beezle-Nut oil. During all of this drama, Horton has not noticed that he has an admirer, Gertrude McFuzz. She blames his indifference on her one-feather short tail and endeavors to find a way to change her looks. Meanwhile, Horton’s friend, Mayzie LaBird, is bored of perching on her nest, and convinces the watchful elephant to sit on her egg so she can take a vacation. The Cat follows all of these storylines and finally casts the boy into his own as the irresponsible son of Mr. and Mrs. Mayor of Whoville, JoJo, who ultimately saves his whole tiny world with one big, imaginative “think.”
Seussical™ KIDS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)- www.MTIShows.com. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker in 1952, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form.
Yelena and Alex Ovando
Music Box Inc.