GOONEY BIRD GREENE AND HER TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES
Afternoon TYA Show – Blackbox Theatre
By Kent R. Brown
Based on the book Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Directed by Callie Llewelyn
School is back in session and the students of the Watertower Elementary School are having trouble concentrating. They are bored and listless until suddenly in walks a new student, Gooney Bird Greene, wearing pajamas and cowboy boots. The class is never the same again.
Gooney Bird dresses in outrageous outfits, speaks with confidence and casts herself as the hero in the most outlandish stories about her life including how she arrived from China on a flying carpet. But are these stories true? Of course they are, for Gooney Bird only tells “absolutely true stories!” Gooney Bird’s flair for storytelling awakens the students’ imaginations and inspires them to tell their own true life tales.
Produced through special arrangements with Dramatic Publishing.
CAST LIST:
MRS. PIDGEON – Leila Jahic
GOONEY BIRD GREENE – Sophie Doucet
FELICIA ANN – Pari Datar
CHELSEA – Eliana Aliprantis
BEANIE – Kira Schuh
TRICIA – Emma Botehlo
KEIKO – Olesia Burlak
MALCOLM – Chase Laurano
BARRY – Zooey Smoler-Curran
NICHOLAS – Jonah Watkins
BEN – Aditi Ranade
DANIELLE – Meredith Schuh
MX. GREENE – Julia Spalding
MR. GREENE – Charlie Maher
MR. PRINCE – Sean Wendelken
MRS. SCHINHEFEN – Emma Botehlo
MOVING VAN DRIVER – Jonah Watkins
CATMAN – Meredith Schuh
POLICEMAN – Aditi Ranade
COW – Sean Wendelken
CONDUCTOR – William McBrine
TV REPORTER – William McBrine
CAMERA OPERATOR – Pari Datar
GUMBALL MACHINE – Charlie Maher
DOCTOR – Kira Schuh
NAPOLEON – Jonah Watkins
