Click, Clack, Moo--Cows that sing

Hee! This perennially popular story is still funny. But how to deal with the issue that kids today are already young enough to ask, "What is a typewriter?"

(photo taken from Oregon Children's Theatre blog.)

Musical Theater

I never thought I'd get the chance to combine this blog with my love of pop music, but at last I can! The BBC reports that the Pet Shop Boys, one of my all-time favorite bands, is writing a ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen story. I've not yet been able to find a source that says which story they are using, so watch this space. Of course, the PSB have shown themselves to be quite literary in the past, naming one of their songs Can You Forgive Her, which Trollope enthusiasts will recognize as the title of the first Palliser novel (and PSB singer Neil Tennet mentioned that he was reading the book at the time of the song's writing.) Andersen himself is no stranger to adaptations in other mediums. It sounds like a match made in Heaven!

Magic Treehouse Musical

While attending a performance of Spamalot last night, I saw a poster advertising this, coming to Boston just in time for February vacation. *Sigh*

I could go on a tirade about the constant trend of transferring successful titles from one medium to another. But that may read as disingenuous in light of the fact that I was attending a stage production based on a highly successful film. I guess the problem is that I just don't like The Magic Tree House series (there, I said it!) File this one under: definitely just for kids.