Off-Broadway at Brubaker: Students Perform Seussical the Musical
You may know that today is Read Across America Day, an event sponsored by the National Education Association. It’s being observed in various ways all across the district and in schools nationwide. The annual occasion is linked to the birthday of Dr. Seuss creator, Ted Geisel, which falls on March 2. And since today happens to be the birthday of one Justin Bieber, he got involved in the national effort too.
But at Brubaker Elementary he was upstaged by a high voltage production of Seussical the Musical.
With the rest of the school in rapt attention in the school gymnasium the Bulldog 2nd graders sang and danced to the inspired accompaniment of their music teacher, Louis Sachs, on the piano. The ensemble of seven year-olds was missing more teeth than a hockey team, something you could see because the singing was so grinnish, to coin a Seussish word, and wide open-mouthed. Horton wishes he’d heard this! There were green egg props fashioned from paper plates and halved, dyed tennis ball yolks. The mood lighting on the up-tempo ham ‘n eggs number was a very cool shade of guess what color? The “Things” were there in person, if that’s the right term, and so was The Cat in the Hat himself!
Judging by the intensity of the ovations there would surely have been a standing one or two if it had been permitted. But the kids kept their collective word to Principal Amy Wiegmann and remained seated on the floor while they clapped their hands sore.
Poor Bieber had a tough act to follow when they beamed a video of him doing a Seuss reading up on the gym wall. The response he got can most politely be described as polite by comparison to the one accorded by the crowd to schoolmates.
Afterwards there was just enough time remaining in the school day to divvy the kids back into their classes before sending them on their ways into the weekend and beyond. Oh, the places they’ll go!
