Please be our guest us for a special Opening Night Educator Event at NCT! Tickets to the performance are free for each educator and a guest. Additional tickets may be purchased at the door at the $8.00 student field trip price. NCT also offers a reception and a professional development workshop for each event that explores the themes of the show and activities that educators can take back to their classrooms. The workshop qualifies for PD credit in many districts.

2011-2012 NCT Educator Events

Holes: September 20, 2011

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!: November 1, 2011

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: January 17, 2012

La Belle et la Bete: February 28, 2012

Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type: April 03, 2012

2011-12 Season Show Information
	Sept 20 – Oct 7, 2011 For Grades 4 - 8 By Louis Sachar from his young adult novel When young Stanley Yelnats is sentenced (despite his innocence) to the wasteland of Camp Green Lake, he and his fellow juvenile detainees are forced to dig holes in the hot desert sun day after day after day. What is the Warden looking for? What has it all to do with Stanley’s “no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” or with a long-dead outlaw named Kissing Kate Barlow? The wheels of justice grind slowly, but when past and present overlap, the truth will be revealed. Exhilarating adventure, twists and turns, peril and promise -- all this and buried treasure, too, can be found in...Holes.
	Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2011 For Grades Pre-K - 3 By Allison Gregory Adapted from the book series by Barbara Park Junie B. Jones is back at Nashville Children’s Theatre just in time for the holidays! Room One has lots of fun plans to celebrate the season, like Secret Santa, elf costumes and singing joyous songs. However, Junie B.’s nemesis, Tattletale May, is ruining her holiday glee. To make matters worse, Junie B. draws Tattletale May’s name for Secret Santa! Disaster! Except maybe – just maybe – Junie B. Jones will give Tattletale May exactly what she deserves.
	Jan 17 – Feb 9, 2012 For Grades 5 - 8 Adapted for the stage by Reginald André Jackson from the Newbery Medal-winning first novel by Christopher Paul Curtis The Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are taking a road trip. Fourth grader Kenny’s older brother Byron has been hanging with a tough crowd and getting into trouble, so his parents decide to take him to live for a time with his grandmother down south. Soon, the whole family is crowded into the Brown Bomber, heading back to Alabama – and straight into one of the most shocking moments in American history!
	Feb 28 – Mar 16, 2012 For Grades 3 - 6 Adapted by Scot Copeland from the fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont NCT’s own stunningly theatrical version of the classic fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast set in 18th Century France dances a thin line between dream and reality to tell a timeless story of sacrifice and redemption. Inside an exotic, forbidding palace a mysterious beast awaits, imprisoned by his own selfishness. A ruined merchant plucks a flower from the palace garden, and unwittingly binds his daughter in servitude to the beast. Only her kindness can save him, only her love can redeem him. Join us for this rich, romantic adventure and discover beauty...in the heart of the beast.
	Apr 10 – May 11, 2012 For Grades Pre-K - 2 Adapted from the book by Doreen Cronin, Illustrations by Betsy Lewin Adapted by James E. Grote, Music by George Howe, Lyrics by George Howe and James E. Grote Farmer Brown’s cows find an old typewriter in the barn, and next thing you know, click-clack-moo, clickety-clack-moo, Farmer Brown gets a typewritten note: "Dear Farmer Brown, The barn is very cold at night. We’d like some electric blankets. Sincerely, The Cows" When Farmer Brown refuses to comply, he gets another typed note: "Sorry. We’re closed. No milk today." The cows are on strike, but with the help of a neutral duck arbitrator, everything gets back on track...kind of. If you loved NCT’s productions of GO, DOG. GO! and GOODNIGHT MOON, then you’ll love this hilarious musical romp, ripped from the pages of one of America’s most popular picture books.