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41) Amazing Grace
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
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Criterion collection volume 1028
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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When their dance troupe disbands, Bubbles leaves for a career in burlesque while Judy hopes to be a ballerina.
43) Richard II
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Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deborah Warner’s staging of RICHARD II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’...
44) Upstaged
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Painfully shy seventh-grader Shira Gordon is cast in a small role in The Music Man and also as understudy for the lead, played by diva Monica Manley, who becomes the victim of a prankster.
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My weird school daze volume 8
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When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.
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How to catch-- volume 7
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When a turkey hears that he is going to be on stage for the school's Thanksgiving show, he gets stage fright and flees, a situation with hilarious consequences.
51) Star time
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Zigzag kids volume 4
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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67 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Gina wants more than anything to be the star of the show that her class will perform, but everything seems to go wrong until she makes a generous choice.
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Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An in-depth investigation into the working process of Konstantin Stanislavski, who managed to maintain his inner freedom and true artistry within the harsh boundaries of the Soviet system, all thanks to the power of his prodigious talent. The best and brightest of Russian and British theatre, from Kirill Serebrennikov to Yury Butusov to Marina Brusnikina, Declan Donnellan, Katie Mitchell and Lev Dodin express their inexhaustible admiration for Stanislavski...
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Digger and Daisy volume 5
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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28 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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When brother and sister dogs Digger and Daisy are cast in a school play, Digger is disappointed to play only a tree but he learns everyone else's lines while Daisy, playing the Princess, is confident she does not have to practice her two word line.
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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100 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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The boy polishes the Magician's wands and catches the rabbits that the Magician pulls out of his hats. But the boy's favorite job is the operation of the puppets for the Magicians' famous puppet play, "Saint George and the Dragon, "--until one terrible day when, in the middle of a performance, the boy can't find the Saint George puppet. The magician is furious. He points a long magical finger at the boy, and -- poof! -- the boy is suddenly in the...
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Backstagers (Chapter books) volume 2
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The Backstagers and friends pull together to fight off the backstage monsters who are trying to ruin their production of Tammy and to uncover the secrets of Jory's mysterious Designer's Notebook.
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"A young man is in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director,...
59) Kamishibai man
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
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