What would Halloween be without some chillin’ tales for the spookiest time of the year? Once Upon A Halloween is a fun-filled, Halloween event – complete with a huge cauldron bubbling over with fog for the last dramatic story! This family program contains some old chestnuts as well as great new Halloween stories full of surprises. All tales are appropriate for family audiences and contain a well-rounded blend of suspense and humor.
“Thank you again for a wonderful Halloween performance. The children were engaged whether laughing or quivering! As everyone was leaving I heard nothing but praise and positive comments. You are a master of your craft!” Anne Vantram Children’s Librarian, East Bridgewater Public Library, East Bridgewater, MA
More about the performance:
The fun begins with a participatory story that celebrates the Fall Colors that surround Halloween events. Each tree has a unique color and the audience joins in with voices and hand shapes of favorite fall leaves in this humorous Native American tale of how Beaver brought the color of fire to our fall trees. Three Halloween stories follow appropriate for a family audience with ages five and up. In the “Woodman and the Goblins” a Woodman finds seven eggs in the woods. Thinking they are green goose eggs and he can eat “green eggs and ham!” he takes them home! But when they hatch into goblins that bite his nose and his toes (much to everyone’s delight) he has to trick them into the woods again. Practicing character voices is all part of the show – these voices go along with the stories and also help us prepare for Halloween fun. The last tale has us practicing two more voices: the voice of whiny trick or treaters… (what child could possibly have a whiny voice?) and the cackling laugh and voice of a witch. In this story, two witches refuse to share their bubbly cauldron of gooey candy-candy until the trick or treaters almost blow their house down. In the confusion, the witches mix up their formulas and -as their cauldron bubbles over with fog- they turn into owls and fly away. In the live version, families are invited to line up and have a chance to stir the bubbling, foggy cauldron.
