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Mr. Tom Boone
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Technical Theatre
The Great Cross Country Race
Brightron Beach Memoirs
Little Shop of Horrors
By The Bog Of Cats
Dearly Departed
The Emperors New Clothes
The Nerd
SEUSSICAL THE SET
SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
CLASS NOTES
ENCHANTED APRIL
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Tommy Tune Awards 2005
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Jack and the Beanstalk
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Once Upon A Mattress the set
Once Upon A Mattress
THE LONG RED HERRING
TO SEE THE STARS
2006-2007 SEASON
SEASON TICKETS AND SPONSORS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS
THE WIZARD OF OZ
The Wizard of Oz the set
STACKING THE UNIT SET
STILL LIFE WITH IRIS
The Trip To Bountiful
LUNCH WITH CINDERELLA
CINDERELLA
OUR TOWN
HONK the Set
HONK
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
DEARLY BELOVED
Peter Pan
BUS STOP
ANNIE
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
CHRISTMAS BELLES
RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY
PROPOSALS
YOU ARE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN
COVER OF LIFE
VANITIES
The Great Cross Country Race or The Story of the Hare and the Tortoise
The Lion PLayers Theatre Company recently enjoyed a very successful run of this delightful childrens' story. On September 30, and October 1 & 2, 4252 first and second grade students of Spring Independent School District were brought to Spring High's Main Auditorium for this special event. It is always difficult to tell who was having the most fun...the elementary students, or the Lion Players! The run extended into public performances on Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening. Audiences were a mix of chidren of all ages and adults. The audiences were large and enjoyed the play very much.

Technically, Childrens' Theatre is not as simple as it looks. With a target audience of six and seven years old, the scenery, props and costumes must be big, bright and capable of handling a lot of action in order to hold their interst. We decided to create a forest environment for the animal characters of the play by constructing five large stationary trees carved from large blocks of polystyrene foam. Over two hundred cubic feet of polystyrene foam was used overall. Three hundred and fifty hand tied bundles of raffia were hung in 450 square feet of nylon netting and suspended from 40 linear feet of pvc pipe to create the foliage for the trees. Scenery changes were created with use of wagons to indicate the various locations. One large wagon was used for both the "frog rock quarry" and the garden wall. A smaller wagon each was used to indicate the footbridge and Mr. Hedgehog's house. The "frog rock quarry" used polystyrene foam for three dimensional rocks, while the garden wall used painted stones and three dimensional artificial ivy and flowers. The river under the footbridge was created with 12 yards of china silk fabric. Mr. Hedgehog's house also used hand tied bundles of raffia for its walls. The trees, rocks and stones were all painted with at least four different colors of latex paint plus a dry brush coat of yellow Wildfire paint. Eight forty watt blacklight tubes were utilized in four fixtures plus one large strobe fixture to provide special effects. The characters were equipped with eleven wireless FM microphones so they could be heard above the cheering of hundreds of children in each performance. The crew performed flawlessly for each performance. The costumes and animal character heads were custom built for the show.
The Cast and Crew
The woodland creatures discover Mr. Slow.
The Human Girls make an appearance.
Mr. Fleet takes a break on the footbridge.
Mr. Fleet is passed by Mr. Slow.
Mr. Fleet is refreshed.
Mr. Fleet gets a fresh start.
The human lovers make an appearance.
Mr. Fleet gets advice.
Mr. Fleet learns that three is a crowd!
Basket finds Mr. Fleet in the garden.
The woodland creatures cheer the contestants.
Mr. Fleet collapses in defeat as Mr. Slow wins the race!
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