Andrews also wrote the music and lyrics and Thompson choreographed the dance numbers. Hilarity ensues as the characters, some gender-crossed, sing and dance their way through the story with slapstick humour.
Jack and Jill is a nursery rhyme from Mother Goose fairy tale is (sometimes called Jack and Gill) in the early version of the story is translated in English for Jack. For Jack from the Beanstalk, go here. For the Jack and Jill Hill, go here. Jack and Jill is an English nursery rhyme about a boy and a girl who fell off a hill.
The three Jacks in the play are Jack Sprat Jr. John Horner. Andrews said she wrote the play with the actors in mind.
Cranberry and Lois lakes bumble their way through the story, a feature of pantomime that Andrews wanted to play up. She said a lot of humour also comes out in her writing style and repeated phrases running through the story.
As she wrote the script she tried to play with the conventions of the English pantomime form, a participatory theatre experience where the audience is expected to sing along and to shout out to actors on stage. The form of the play should be familiar to audiences who attended performances of Dracula last year with the audience directed to boo when they saw the vampire.
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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. From the Powell River Peak newspaper: Play weaves nursery rhymes into story, production loosely based on pantomime A new musical theatre production will have its audience revisiting childhood fairy tales for a bucket of laughs. While the setting may have changed, the stories remain remarkably the same, candlesticks, beanstalks, and all. I didn't enjoy the utterly broken narrator as much as I did when I was a teenager. Jack proceeds to climb the stalk, find the land of a giant, and steal from him.
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