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Age appropriate group audience participation through imagination exercises, music, and make-believe is a major facet of all Pretend-Along Series Shows. Each show begins with a live music sing-along with guitar and tambourine. This serves as a lively ‘warm-up’, introducing the actors to the children in the audience and gently encouraging their participation. The sing-along is followed by your choice of one of our three featured plays. While each has a different theme, they all contain similar components designed to foster individual participation as well as interaction as a group. The actors guide the audience through a series of exciting and imaginative scenes, all the while reinforcing and utilizing a wide range of language, math, health and safety, proper behavior, and character education/personal and interactive skills the children are being introduced to and learning in their classrooms. For example, in one part of “Paw Pals”, the students, Safari Joe, and Patty pretend to take a jungle boat ride to the “Land- of- Not- So- Wild- Animals” where they meet Grr, Patty’s animal friend, and they all play an abbreviated game of hide and seek. The children remain attentive and excited, yet orderly and seated the entire time.

This segment of the show highlights call and response, counting, following clues to find the hidden characters, addresses proper behavior skills, listening skills, following verbal and visual instructions, and imaginative play. At one point in the game, each child curls up and pretends to be a rock while Patty looks for them. When this action takes place, the children have already practiced listening for a pre-arranged verbal signal from Grr (he tells them to listen for when he says the word “pizza!”). At the signal, the children happily pop up to their seated positions and shout ‘surprise!’, completing the lesson by following the direction on cue.

Similarly, every Pretend-Along Series Show highlights and reinforces these and additional curriculum related skills, all within the context of a delightfully engaging, age appropriate audience participation play. These shows can be tailored to highlight a particular theme or special event or program.

Laughter and learning go hand-in-hand in these upbeat shows filled with age-appropriate group audience participation. Each play clearly focuses on aspects of character education concepts and engages the students by having them help the characters on stage learn to make positive choices. Choose one of three shows, each lasting approximately 55 minutes.

The performance begins as the announcer welcomes the audience, sets the stage, explains proper theater etiquette, and introduces the first of the three skits of which the play is comprised. Each play is purposefully formatted into three 15 minute sections, allowing different aspects of a particular theme to be covered in a more complete and focused way. An additional benefit of the ‘mini-play’ format is that it’s well suited toward this age group’s attention span.

One of the many ways these shows stand out and excel is through their clever and catchy dialogue. The children in the audience are excited to repeat and learn simple yet powerful jingles and phrases created and copyrighted by Locomotion Theatre, that they will be able to incorporate and use as an additional resource in their daily lives. For example, in The Character Construction Company, the second mini-play features The CCC Television Network’s Chef Ray Sippi, who invites school girl Emma Real to be a guest on his cooking show and explain why his tried and true recipe for responsibility didn’t work for her on a particular day. The Chef displays a large sign stating the Locomotion Theatre Two Part Recipe for Responsibility: 1: Do right when you feel like doing wrong, and 2: Make no excuses for your behavior. Emma recounts how she was torn between responsibly listening to the teacher in class and talking to her friend Allie during the lesson, and therefore, was unable to decide what to do. At this point, Chef Sippi and the children in the audience help Emma mix up a Special Recipe for Responsibility, to be used during those times that the temptation to not misbehave looms large. They learn a Four Step Process for Responsible Behavior developed by Locomotion Theatre: Stop, Breathe, Evaluate, and Act! Within the context of the play, each of these steps is defined in a visual, funny, and easy to understand way. Emma navigates the steps along with the students, and they all learn the quick and simple call and response ‘rap’ that reinforces the Steps.

In the final act of the performance, there is a fun and silly audience participation game show called “Check It Out!. Two pre-selected two-person teams of teachers and students are called on the stage to answer questions based on the information presented in the previous two skits in the show. The audience is polled for their answers as well, thereby involving everyone in the excitement of the game, and more importantly, reinforcing the lesson review.

Similarly, the other two shows in the series follow a format of laughter and learning, highlighting many aspects of the character education curriculum.

This exciting new audience participation series with it’s own unique format was designed specifically for preteens, teens, and adults. Upbeat and fun, It's All Talk is a provocative and engaging presentation that opens a forum about relationships, family, classroom, or workplace dynamics, and subjects of interest to your group. Picture looking into the family next door's living room, the classroom down the hall, or the workplace around the corner, and not only being able to listen in on their conversation, but also being able to give them your opinion on the subject, share an insight, agree or disagree with what's being said, and truly tell them just what you think about how they are handling the situation! That’s exactly what It’s All Talk presentations enable the audience to do! Following each five minute skit, the presenters, one of whom is a licensed psychotherapist, will encourage the audience to respond to what they've just seen and heard, and facilitate a brief discussion. What makes this distinctively appealing is that the players stay in character and interact as though they were the people portrayed in the sketch.

Each 60-75 minute presentation consists of three or four skits, although shorter presentations may be arranged to fit time constraints. Locomotion Theatre will work with you to select and assemble the right mix of skits from a variety of Lifecycle, School, or Workplace Topics that will best fit the interests of your group and focus of your event. Because of its versatility, It’s All Talk Series shows can address a wide range of issues in myriad settings including schools, corporate seminars, teacher workshops, and clubs and gatherings.

“You’re Not the Boss Of Me!”, the original dialogue created and copyrighted by Locomotion Theatre, is a skit that can be adapted to family, school, and workplace presentations. For example, when crafting the scene for an audience of high school students and their parents at an open school night special event, the action might start off with the Daughter's announcing that she’s going out for the evening and will be returning home, in her words, ‘whenever! The Father might respond that she was going nowhere until he was sure she had picked up the clothes from the floor of her room and that he knew with whom and where she was going, and if they were going to a friend’s house that there would be proper adult supervision. At this point, the Daughter might react, saying, “I’m 17 years old! I’m not a baby who has to report to you! You’re Not the Boss of Me!” When the actors felt that the skit was interestingly and intriguingly layered with information - finished but not resolved- they would end the dialogue and open the floor to a structured and time limited discussion, where audience members would address the Daughter and Father as though they were real people truly having this interaction with each other before the audience’s eyes.

These skits and open ended discussions encourage idea sharing in a non-judgemental arena, independent thinking skills, and provide the opportunity for people to see and approach a situation from a different point of view, all within the venue of a non-threatening group participation experience. Through these professionally led It’s All Talk Presentations, new avenues of understanding may be forged, creating new patterns for relationships in families, between friends, and among classmates and colleagues.

Locomotion Theatre's Pretend-Along Series Shows for 2-7 year olds are aligned with the following Sunshine State Standards:
LA.C.1.1; 2.1; 3.1     LA.D.2.1     LA.E.1.1; 2.1     S.S.B.1.1     FL.B.1.1     FL.D.1.1; 2.1     DA.A.1.1; 2.1     MU.A.1.1     MU.D.1.1     MU.E.2.1     TH.A.1.1     TH.C.1.1     TH.D.1.1     HE.A.1.1; 2.1     HE.B.1.1; 3.1     HE.C.1.1; 2.1

Locomotion Theatre's Character Education series Shows for K-5th Graders are aligned with the following Sunshine State Standards:
LA.C.1.1; 2.1; 3.1     LA.D.2.1     LA.E.1.1; 2.1     LA.A.1.2     LA.C 1.2; 2.2     LA.D.2.2     MU.D.1.1     MU.E.2.1; 2.2     TH.A.1.1; 3.2     TH.C.1.1     TH.D.1.1; 1.2     HE.A.1.1; 1.2; 2.1     HE.B.1.1;1.2; 3.1; 3.2     HE.C.1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2

Locomotion Theatre's It's All Talk Series Shows for 6-12th Graders are aligned with the following Sunshine State Standards:
LA.C.1.3; 1.4; 2.3; 2.4; 3.3; 3.4     TH.B.1.4     TH.D.1.3     HE.A.1.3; 1.4; 2.3; 2.4;     HE.B.1.3; 1.4; 3.3; 3.4     HE.C. 1.3; 1.4; 2.3; 2.4

Get the anti-tobacco message across with Mentor & The Magnificent Machine! A Character Education Series Show for K-5. Laughter, learning, and lots of audience participation!

This age-appropriate comedy highlights:

• Brown Ribbon Month / Anti-Tobacco
• Peer Presure Refusal Skills
• Self-Esteem
• Decision-Making Skills

Two great ways to see the show!

• A Field Trip to The Delray Beach Playhouse! See the show in the beautiful indoor theater. Bring a lunch and picnic in the playhouse park.
• An At-Your-School-Show! Shows available during the regular school day, SACC-afterschool, parent nights, and special programs.

Now Accepting Reservations!