LEGEND OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW Ichabod Crane is the new nerd...er....”schoolmaster” in town, but his snooty, cosmopolitan ways are rubbing the locals the wrong way. To get rid of him, they’ll make sure he meets The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow! A hilarious “spooktacular”, for students grades K-5 and family audiences!
THE MONEY SHOW! A high-energy cast with wacky props explain money and finance in a way your 2nd to 8th grade kids will totally get! We’ll cover the principles of supply and demand, “assets” versus “things”, how currency, banks and markets work, and how anyone can use the funds they have to make themselves into sturdy financial “ants” rather than hapless “grasshoppers.”
A CHRISTMAS CAROL GreatWorks’ updating of the Dickens classic is always one of our most popular shows! Eb Scrooge is a cold fish with a cold heart until his past, present, and future come calling one spooky Christmas Eve. By the end of the night, he’ll have a new outlook on the meaning of the holiday.
THE FREEDOM CODE A Chicago teacher and her student who walk out of school one day and are magically transported back to 1850s Missouri - a slave state! They’re quickly taken under the wing of a slave family, who give them “slave clothes” so that they can fit in, and teach them the meanings of the songs, markings, and patchwork quilts that served as communication for those on the Underground Railroad.
STORIES FROM
BLACK TRADITION Find out “How the Snake Got its Rattles”, “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples’ Ears”, and hear about “Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” in this fast and funny Hot Silk show. Special Kwaanza Edition!
EUREKA! GreatWorks presents a show about the greatest inventions or discoveries of all time! Meet Archimedes, Gallileo, Newton, Einstein, and Edison, along with several other very big brains. Smart fun for students grades 2 to 6th, and available for tour starting in January, 2012.
50 STATES IN
60 MINUTES Hold on to your hat for this breakneck tour through 500 years of America’s story! Columbus, the Pilgrims, the Salem Witch Trials, the founding of the Republic - and everything since then gets covered in one energetic fun-filled hour.
CHICAGO: A CULTURAL MOSAIC GreatWorks tells the history of Chicago through the eyes of the Irish, African American, Polish, and Mexican families who came here and made Chicago great.
THE GIVER In a utopian community where “love” , “choices”, and “pain” are things of the past, the time has come for 12-year-old Jonas to become the new Receiver of Memory, the one to bear the collective memories of a society where “Sameness” is the rule. Based on the prize-winning book.
TUBMAN:
ROAD TO FREEDOM The life-history of one of America’s greatest heroes, from her girlhood in slavery to her role as the leading light of the Underground Railroad.
FRACTURED
FAIRY TALES A new version of GreatWorks’ popular all-ages show! Jack and the Beanstalk, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Henny Penny, The Tortoise and the Hare, and three other stories get the Chicago-style improv treatment in this wild and wacky show.
THE BFG When orphan Sophie is snatched from her bed by a Giant, she fears that he’s going to eat her. But although he carries her far away to Giant Country, the Giant has no intention of harming her. He is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT!
THE ODDYSEY A group of
American GIs
sit around a
campfire in
Afghanistan, talking about home.
One of them
tries to break
the downbeat
mood by telling
them of another
warrior who
wanted to get home, and within a few minutes, the group have become part of his “odd” story, playing the Sirens, Cyclops, and witches that bedeviled Odysseus on his way back. from war. This very contemporary version of Homer’s classic is geared to grades 5th & up, and will be available for
tour year-round starting in mid-January, 2012.
ANNE FRANK:
"thinking myself out" Anne Frank’s story is presented by a group of young adults whose families survived their own ethnic cleansing experience by embracing Anne Frank’s idea of “thinking herself out” of their own terrifying situations.
ELLA JENKINS Grammy-winner Ella Jenkins is a living legacy of music and rhythm. Experience a multicultural journey that teaches the art of communication through music. Pre K-4.
NUMBER THE STARS In September,1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours Danes arranged to help smuggle 7,000 Jews to Sweden. This show brings the experience to life through the eyes of Annemarie Johannesen, whose family helps smuggle her best friend’s family out of the country.
BLACK FOLK TALES Hear the stories of “The Lion and the Woman”, “The Tug of War”, and “the Frog Who Wanted to be a Singer” in this Hot Silk show.
THE SPARK: ROSA PARKS AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks finally decided that she was “tired of giving in.”When a bus driver on a Montgomery, AL bus demanded that she give up her seat for a white person, Rosa simply said “no” - and in doing so, she lit a spark for a
movement that
re-wrote American history, bringing a new generation of African American leaders to the fore. New for 2012!
