How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back?

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How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back?

2009 Festival

Book, Lyrics and Music
Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler

Director
Kent Nicholson

Cast
Carey Anderson, Jeffrey James Binney, Gideon Glick, Emma Hunton, Melissa Menezes, Derrick Trumbly and Price Waldman

Number of Acts: 1

Number of Principals (Male): 4

Number of Principals (Female): 3

Total Cast Size: 7

Orchestra Breakdown:

piano, bass, drums

Genre & Style:

Comedy TYA

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Synopsis

After-school detention becomes an adventure when a stranger shows six students the power of a good story. The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Androcles and the Lionâ€¦ Aesop’s timeless fables take an entertaining turn in this new musical that reveals universal truths through simple, appealing, age-old allegories.

Festival Successes

Full productions at Boston Conservatory (MA) and Clarke University ( IA) in 2010, Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire (IL) and Penn State NU Musical Theater Festival in 2011, and Swine Palace at Louisiana State University in 2012.

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