All children will have a chance to be onstage tomorrow, Saturday July 20, at Arts Alive, in Peg Noonan Park, in the Library Tent from 11:20AM to 12:20PM. Mrs. Treasure will be read stories, play games and sing guitar songs while kids join in, and there will be dancing with scarves. The theme is sunflowers, seeds and flowers. Children ages 2-8 are welcome. We also might do some farm animal songs.
                                             (arts Alive 2014)

A busy Summer is shaping up for the Treasure Time Story Book Theatre. On June 21 at 11AM Mrs. Treasure will be at Arts Alive in a tent at Peg Noonan Park in Falmouth. Instead of having a rehearsed group perform, Mrs. Treasure will be available to read stories, sing songs and do some dramatic skits with whoever shows up in the audience. This can be an opportunity for kids to be on stage and perform a simple song or skit, and for younger children to hear stories and songs from older kids. Do come and join us! Here's a picture from last year.                                                                

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                                          The Elves Are Still Busy

Since October, the St. Margaret’s Players of St. Margaret’s School in Buzzards Bay have been working on an original version of the the beloved folk tale, The Elves and the Shoemaker. Due to overscheduling before Christmas, the production date has been moved to the upcoming weekend of January 10 &11, 2015. Rehearsals are continuing at the school during vacation, with four elves and all characters working hard to perfect their performance.

Janice Rodgers of Buzzards Play Productions and Lee Drescher of the Treasure Time Story Book Theatre are working with sixteen children who range in age from eight to twelve. They will perform a children’s musical  which will last about an hour, including the intermission. With the encouragement of Rodgers, this is Drescher’s first attempt to write a children’s show of longer duration than the short skits  which she usually creates in conjunction with her live story hour.

The first performance will take place at St, Margaret’s School on Saturday January 10 at 2PM, and the second performance will be at Buzzards Play Productions In Wareham, on the Cranberry Highway on Sunday January 11 at 2PM. The play is suitable for children ages three and up, and all are invited to attend. Admission is $5.00.

We are preparing for our production of The Spirit of Giving, which is based on the beloved folk tale, The Shoemaker and The Elves. This original children's musical, written by Lee Drescher, will be performed by St. Margaret's School in Buzzards Bay, Friday December 12 at the school, and on Saturday December 13 at 11AM, at Buzzards Play Productions. The performance will be about 45 minutes long.

On November 16, Lee Drescher will also be making a Christmas TV program for the town of Falmouth. The featured book will be The Give-Away, a Native American folk tale by Ray Buckley. Children will hold puppet animals created by Ramona Pinho, and recite lines about the state of our Earth, and how to make it better, each by giving something away.

We are now looking forward to our August Workshop at Buzzards Play Productions in Wareham. Our class is filling up with a nice mix of ages, including a substantial crew aged 10-12, including a good number of boys. The play we are doing is based on Dory Story, which is about the ocean food chain.  There will be plenty of opportunities for killer whales, sharks, seals and big whales to interact on stage, and to improvise with the plot. Class participants will be required to do some scientific research on their marine character, and they will help with their own costumes, props, and background scenery. One of the props is a dingy, which will be built out of cardboard. There will also be at least three songs to learn along with simple hand motions and dance moves.

The class is Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, 10AM to 12 PM for two weeks, starting August 4 and ending with a performance on August 13 at noon. Call Lee Drescher at 508 548-0155 to sign up, or email mrstreas@comcast.net.