5Q: Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches The Musical
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
A powerhouse in premiering game-changing theater that appeals to young and old alike, Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) debuts the world premiere production of
Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches The
Musical. This new production is the third Dr. Seuss work that CTC has commissioned in a historical partnership that dates back to the first production in 1979 of
literacy with virtual events
ADENA Buckeye West Elementary School is gearing up for a week of fun learning with a virtual book fair and literacy-based activities.
Principal Jim Rocchi said the school PTO is sponsoring dress-up events each day on Monday through March 19 and challenging families to complete 19 tasks by that Friday to help their student’s class win a pizza party celebration. The virtual book fair will be conducted all week, and students and parents may acquire items by going to the Scholastic Books website link at https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=westelementaryschool17.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it will stop publishing six of his books. His oeuvre shows the author's work evolved and he was willing to learn from past mistakes.
I don’t actually remember the content of
do remember getting in trouble for publicly criticizing it, back in 1960, when I was in kindergarten. Most of the story-hour books at P.S. 291 were of the genre best described as Worthy Educational Material, designed more to lull the young audience into naptime than to inspire. But one day Mrs. Bookbinder, bless her earnest heart, decided to bring in a copy of the already-vintage Dr. Seuss book that had once inspired
her children. And, of course, as a budding literary snob, I was impelled to denigrate it as nowhere near the standards of the author’s later work (not even
Many TV stations have been airing segments about Dr. Seuss books because of accusation that a few of them are racist ("6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images," Web, March 2). Dr. Seuss, whose birth name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, grew up in segregated times and wrote books about White people, but his cats and other creatures were not racist.