All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Director Matt Richardson
Musical Director Janet Lyne
Set Designer Joe Aschemeier
Producer Ken Neuenschwander
February 26-28, 2015
Napoleon American Legion
(American Legion 500 Glenwood Ave Napoleon, OH 43545)
Synopsis
Based on Robert Fulghum’s best-selling books, Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. This tightly woven adaptation has earned standing ovations from Singapore to Prague— from L.A. to D.C. It’s an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, and multiple voice narration, enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm, and emotional texture, and seven optional original songs. The delightful stories feature colorful characters such as: a shy little boy who insists on playing the “pig” in his class production of Cinderella and steals the show; a man whose dream of flying carries him high over Los Angeles … in a lawn chair buoyed by surplus weather balloons; a “mother of the bride” who’s staged a perfect wedding—until the bowling ball of fate rolls down the aisle; and a modern-day Greek philosopher who finds the meaning of life in a piece of broken mirror from World War II. These stories celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age. |
Cast
Kim Dietrich
Ryan Kruse
Melissa Maassel
Matt Richardson
Erin Riley
Malory Zwiebel
Tom Zwiebel
