
{"id":15750,"date":"2011-02-10T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15750"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:26:28","slug":"the-doctor%e2%80%99s-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/10\/the-doctor%e2%80%99s-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15793\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/02\/10\/the-doctor%e2%80%99s-in-the-house\/susical1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Susical1\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Susical1-60x80.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY ALLISON RUSSELL. Gillie Weeks, 10, a narrator in Carrboro Elementary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Seussical, prepares for her upcoming scene during a dress rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Will Bryant<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walking into Deb Lederer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s art classroom at Carrboro Elementary School, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think you had found a portal to another world. <\/p>\n<p>On one side of the room stand half a dozen gigantic refrigerator boxes, painted on all sides with vibrant scenes of a make-believe world. On a table next to the scenery is a mountain of green glittery hats, which looks small in comparison to the enormous face of the cartoon elephant that leans against the concrete wall. Giant fluorescent paper mache fish are scattered all over the paint-splattered floor and a large, smiling cat, sporting a red-striped hat, stands quietly in the corner, grinning from whisker to whisker. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to backstage at Carrboro Elementary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance of <em>Seussical Junior<\/em>, a musical based on the classic books of Dr. Seuss, to be staged Thursday at 1:15 and 6:30 p.m. and Friday at 1:15 p.m. in the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s auditorium. <\/p>\n<p>The cast of 150 students, comprised mostly of fourth- and fifth-graders, is taking responsibility for all of the production\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s singing, dancing, puppeteering, sound, lighting and backstage responsibilities. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited and a bit nervous at the same time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said 10-year-old cast member Alec Caruana. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I mean, everyone is going to be watching you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Caruana says the production has been in the works for nearly six months and that the cast is more than prepared. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It should be a blast if everything goes perfectly fine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Caruana said. <\/p>\n<p>Those attending the show can expect to rediscover the classic Dr. Seuss tales that have been read aloud to children for generations. <\/p>\n<p><em>Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who<\/em> and, of course, <em>The Cat in the Hat<\/em> are among the titles featured in the show. <\/p>\n<p>Acting as both set designer and director, Lederer says the show has really brought the school together. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned collaboration is a huge key and that you need to be a team player, work together, listen to each other and know that you have something to offer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lederer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every single person has some bit of creativity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The production comes at a time when state school boards are beginning to question the need for fine arts programs in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s budget cuts, we hear all the time what we don&#8217;t have time for and what we don&#8217;t have money for,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lederer. Seussical is all about getting kids interested in the arts and giving them an outlet for their creativity, she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some of these kids, if they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have this experience, might not go on to audition for shows in middle school, high school or college,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lederer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got some kids that have the theater bug in them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking into Deb Lederer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s art classroom at Carrboro Elementary School, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think you had found a portal to another world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15750"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}