Dance Arts Collaborative - Acting Department

Dance Arts Collaborative

Dance Arts Collaborative strives to ensure that each child is seen as an individual with his or her own unique abilities and potential. All students who respect the commitment of hard work and dedication to their craft will always have the opportunity to learn and grow through professional training and performances provided in a caring and nurturing environment.

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Attention All Acting Students ...
Sunday, June 7th at 2:00pm

The acting students of DAC will present the hilarious, off the wall The Stinky Cheeseman ... and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, based on the popular book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.

Take a wild ride with our narrator, Jack (of the Jack and the Beanstalk fame), as he navigated perilously through an assortment of fractured fairy tales and unruly characters. These stories are ALMOST like the ones we know ... but not quite. Have you ever heard of Chicken Licken or Little Red Running Shorts? How about a "goth" Cinderella who meets Rumplestiltskin? You know the Princess and the Pea, but are you familiar with The Princess and the Bowling Ball? These are just SOME of the "fairly stupid tales" that Jack and the others will bring to life on stage.

To be sure, younger audiences and younger actors love this play, but it is NOT written solely for them. Because of its clever, sarcastic take on well known children's stories, and its modern-day spin (a supremely stupid giant who's also a WWF wrestler), this play is popular among the older set as well. Given the fact these characters are larger than life and so far removed from who we are physically and mentally, actors of any age will find it fun and challenging to explore these wacked out people and their stories. The comedy in this piece is broad and "Vaudeville" like, requiring precise timing along with vocal and physical energy. This means let loose and have a ball!!!!