Center Stage

McCelvey Center offers quality performing arts programs to regional schools.  For information or to make reservations, please call 803.684.3948 ext. 27 Monday-Friday between 10 am and 4 pm.  Space is limited and reservations are strongly recommended. 
This program is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant.

AIE Admission Price: $5.00 per person
One chaperone is recommended for every 15 students and chaperones at that ratio are admitted free.

The Three Goats Gruff
Presented by Porkchop Productions
www.porkchopproductions.com
Kindergarden– 5th GRADE 
Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 9 & 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.

Porkchop Producations is a professional theatre company specializing in audience participation performances. Porkchop's performances takes a unique twist on the classic Norwegian folktale - Three Billy Goats Gruff. In this entertaining version, Van Goat Gruff and his siblings are sent in search of green pastures. A grumpy troll and a bumbling shepherd make for baaad times ahead!

Poetry Alive!
www.poetryalive.com
Kindergarden– 8th GRADE
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Grades K-2 at 9 a.m.; Grades 6-8 at 11 a.m.;
Grades 3-5 at 3:30 p.m.

For over 20 years, the mission of Poetry Alive! has been to engage young audiences in the imagery, the humor, and the excitement of poetry through live performances. The actors of Poetry Alive! present over twenty-five poems from a wide variety of world renowned poets such as Shel Silverstein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. Their fast paced, highly animated presentations invite students to become part of the poetry process through audience participation.

The Circus King
Presented by Sean Driscoll/Storymaker
www.storymaker.com
Kindergarden– 5th GRADE 
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 9 & 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.

Come to McCelvey Center to see the "magic" of the circus as this fully animated story is shown on the big screen. Animated characters actually talk with students and come alive as puppets. Storyteller and musician, Sean Driscoll combines comedy-theater, puppets, magic, music and animation in this extraordinary live performance. Through listening to the story and interacting with the animated characters, students explore key character development traits such as tolerance, persistence, cooperation, pride and compassion.

Borenya: West African Drum and Dance
www.borenya.org
Kindergarden– 7th GRADE 
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 9 & 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.

In the countries of West Africa music and rhythm are as large a part of everyday life as conversation, cooking or walking about. The stories portrayed through drumming and dances acknowledge and celebrate almost every aspect of daily existence.

If You Give a Pig a Party
Presented by Tarradiddle Players
www.ctcharlotte.org
Pre-K– 2nd GRADE 
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 9 a.m & 11 a.m..

If you give a pig a party, she's going to want some balloons... and ice cream... and a pillow fight... and then she'll want to clean up... and what better setting for another party than a nice, clean room? You get the picture. In Numeroff's delightful circular stories one thing leads to another until somehow you wind back up at the beginning. But what this little piggy learns amidst all the flurry and excitement of putting together a party is this: you can't have a party without friends... and having friends is the perfect reason to have a party!

The Nightingale
Presented by Tarradiddle Players
www.ctcharlotte.org
3rd– 8th GRADE 
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 3:30 p.m.

Like a tyrannical two-year-old, the Emperor of China is never happy unless he gets his way. He insists on having the best and most of everything... the best gardens, the best robes, the best music... even the best marbles. Yet all the extravagant riches he collects leave him feeling empty, until he meets a plain brown nightingale whose simple, lyrical song strikes a silent chord deep inside his heart. Will the Emperor learn anything from the sweetness of the nightgale's song? Or will his greed destroy the one thing that can make him truly happy? Adapted from the elegant fable by Hans Christian Andersen, this beautiful tale from the orient performed by Tarraddidle Players invites the audience to become a part of a wonderful journey of discovery.

Battledrum
Presented by Eckerd Theatre Company
www.eckerdtheatercompany.com
4th– 12th GRADE 
April 21-25, 2008 - 9 & 11 a.m. daily
Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 7 p.m.
Admission price: $10

This riveting new work commissioned by Eckerd Theater Company is a musical about Civil War drummer boys, based on the book and lyrics by Doug Cooney. Cooney has written screenplays for SONY pictures and Nickelodeon and television scripts for the Disney Channel and the Discovery Channel. The Eckerd Theater Company's production of Battledrum tells the story of Rufus, a Confederate orphan adopted by a troop of Union soldiers, who eventually becomes their drummer boy. More than two million boys age 17 or younger served on both sides of the American Civil War as infantry, buglers and drummer boys. Based on a wealth of compelling stories of real-life children who fought the Civil War. Battledrum explores a complex period in American history through the eyes of young people. A sweeping tale, idelibly etched through compelling characters, daring adventure, raucous comedy, stirring music, and, of course, drums.

This project is funded through a 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant and in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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