{"id":4236,"date":"2012-09-26T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2012-09-26T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T21:26:08","slug":"jack-and-the-beanstalk-leaves-elementary-audience-enamored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/4236","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJack and the Beanstalk\u201d leaves elementary audience enamored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Claire DeRoin&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHide under the table! Hide!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The squeals of elementary school children rang in Morningside\u2019s Klinger-Neal theatre Tuesday, September 25, as the theatre department presented its last showing of \u201cJack and the Beanstalk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack, played by Kyle McGlade, interacted with the audience (made up of students from four local elementary schools) throughout the entire play, which lasted about 45 minutes. The story begins when Jack sells his family\u2019s cow, Lucky (played by Addi Morgan), since Jack\u2019s mother (played by Elizabeth Planck) tells him that they\u2019re out of money. Instead of selling Lucky for gold, Jack sells her for magic beans, which grow into a giant beanstalk. Once climbing the beanstalk, Jack finds a huge castle.<\/p>\n<p>The play was narrated through song by Melissa Richter.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Suing played the Giant\u2019s Cook, who lets Jack into the Giant\u2019s castle repeatedly, enabling Jack to steal the Giant\u2019s Golden Goose (Cat Ruddy) and Magic Singing Harp (Haley Gabriel). Charles Ummach played the Giant, who ultimately, loses a bag of gold to Jack, who needs the money to save his village and buy food to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Various solos were performed throughout the play, but Suing\u2019s song about working as the Giant\u2019s cook elicited the most applause. McGlade hosted somewhat of a sing-along with an echo song. The audience enthusiastically copied McGlade when he motioned (putting a hand to his ear). The adult chaperones and teachers in the audience were treated to puns that were all mostly over the childrens\u2019 heads whenever Morgan, Lucky the Cow, was on stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack and the Beanstalk\u201d kept the young audience\u2019s attention throughout. That makes it all-in-all, a success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Claire DeRoin&#8211; \u201cHide under the table! Hide!\u201d The squeals of elementary school children rang in Morningside\u2019s Klinger-Neal theatre Tuesday, September 25, as the theatre department presented its last showing of \u201cJack and the Beanstalk.\u201d Jack, played by Kyle McGlade, interacted with the audience (made up of students from four local elementary schools) throughout the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}