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Around the World in 80 Days Presented by Idaho Theater for Youth, a program of Idaho Shakespeare Festival A Study Guide for Around the world in 80 days (WITHOUT THE USE OF AIR-BASED ENGINE-POWERED VEHICLES, SUCH AS PLANES AND HELICOPTERS (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HOT AIR BALLOONS.)) Book, Lyrics, and Music by Alex Syiek Based on the book by Jules Verne Directed by Tom Ford 2 table of contents Section one: WELCOME! Section three: AFTER THE SHOW Using this Study Guide…..………………………...…pg 4 Activity: “Characters’ Character”.………………….pg 13 Special Thanks………..……………………………..…pg 4 Activity: Quote Identification………...…….....……pg 14 About the Idaho Shakespeare Festival…….….…..pg 5 Activity: Character Comparison…………………….pg 14 A Note From the Director……….……………….......pg 5 Experiment: Hot Air Balloon………………………..pg 15 Activity: Think like a Composer……..………..……pg 16 Activity: Postcards from Afar…………...……..……pg 17 Section two: BEFORE THE SHOW Activity: World Traveler..………………………..……pg 18 Activity: A ‘New World………………………………...pg 19 Meet the Cast………………………………….…….....pg 6 Discussion topics……………………………………...pg 20 Around the World in 80 Days Summary……...…..pg 7 Activity: Think Like a Critic…………………….......pg 21 About the Author…….………...……………...……...pg 7 About the Playwright, lyricist, and composer…...pg 7 Around the World………….…………………...….….pg 8 Section four: APPENDIX Vocabulary Words………….................................pg 9 Suggested reading………………..………….……….pg 22 Who is Elon Musk?....………………………………...pg 10 Sources……………………………..………..……..….pg 22 Activity: Word Search…………………………………pg. 11 End Quote……………………….……………………..pg 23 Activity: Passport to Adventure……………………..pg.12 3 welcome! Using This Guide... Dear Teachers, Welcome to the Idaho Theater for Youth study guide for Around the World in 80 Days! These materials have been designed to expand your students’ engagement with the performance with a range of information, discussion topics, and activities that can stand on their own or serve as building blocks for a larger unit. The activities are designed to be mixed, matched, and modified to suit the needs of your students. Inside, you’ll find activities to share with your students both before the show and after the show, indicated by headings at the top of the page. These are designed to help focus your students’ engagement with the performance by giving them specific themes to watch out for, as well as to foster critical thinking and discussion following the performance. During post-show talkbacks, our actors will pull from many of the themes included here to engage your students. Each activity is designed to help meet Idaho Standards of Education to foster critical thinking and problem solving skills. We encourage you and your students to share your thoughts with us! Any of the artwork or activities your students send will be shared with the artists who created Around the World in 80 Days, and any feedback from you will not only help to improve our study guides for future audiences, but will aide in the ongoing pursuit for grants that make these plays possible! Our mailing address is located on page 18. Thank you for helping to bring our theater and the Arts to your students! A Very Special Thank You! As a part of Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s educational programming, Idaho Theater for Youth (ITY) performances have enriched the lives of well over one million students and teachers since 1981 with productions that convey the unique and impactful voice of theater arts. The magic of this art form is brought to schools across the State of Idaho each Winter/ Spring semester with assistance from a generous group of underwriters: Idaho Commission on the Arts Idaho Community Foundation and the following Funds: US Bancorp Foundation F.M., Anne G. & Beverly B. Bistline Foundation Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation James A. Pinney Memorial Fund Idaho Power Foundation Perc H. Shelton & Gladys A. Pospisil Shelton Foundation The Whittenberger Foundation Gladys E. Langroise Advised Fund Eastern Region Greatest Needs Fund John William Jackson Fund 4 welcome! A Note From the Director... About our education programs... So…….. I wanted to do a musical. Idaho Theater for Youth has a history of doing new plays and plays with music but I wanted us to do a full-fledged musical. I started looking at existing scripts and The Idaho Shakespeare Festival has become an integral realized quickly that I wasn’t finding the kind of show that I part of arts education throughout Idaho. The Festival’s wanted. I decided to reach out to my friend Alex Syiek who had annual Shakespearience tour brings live theater to more just graduated from the very well regarded New York University than 21,000 high-school students in more than 70 Idaho graduate musical theater writing program. communities each year. Since it began touring in 1986, Shakespearience has enriched the lives of nearly 500,000 I said, “Alex, how about writing a new musical for Idaho Theater students. for Youth?” In 1999, the Festival assumed the operations of Idaho Alex said, “Sure. What would it be?” Theater for Youth. This alliance has more than doubled the Festival’s annual educational programming, resulting And off the top of my head I said, “Around the World in 80 Days.” in the Festival becoming the largest provider of professional, performing arts outreach in the state of Why did I say that? I honestly don’t know why. It was a moment of impulse. A moment of craziness? Idaho. In addition to the statewide Idaho Theater for Youth school tour, which brings professional productions But here we are, just like Passepartout and Fogg, the creators and to nearly 30,000 students in grades K-6 across Idaho, the audience about to embark on a wild adventure. the Festival oversees year-round School of Theater programs. This series of classes in acting, playwriting Jules Verne’s 1873 novel has been adapted numerous times for the and production, for students of all ages, enrolls over 300 stage, film, TV, gaming, and even an amusement park! The first Treasure Valley students each year, and includes our stage production was in 1874, only one year after the novel’s one-of-a-kind Apprentice Company. Look for upcoming publication. The most recent film adaptation is the 2004 movie student productions throughout the summer, fall and which stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. spring. Alex immediately decided that our version of the story would be For more information on any of the Festival’s educational set not in the past but very much in our world today. This excited activities, please contact the Education Manager at the both of us and we started to work. I said to Alex, “Think Dora the Explorer meets The Amazing Race.” And that’s where we began. Festival offices or by email at: After many conversations about what we wanted to say I think our [email protected]. version of the story is very funny, surprising and a little bit moving. It begins as an adventure story and ends up being a story about friendship and generosity. 5 Around the World in 80 Days Cast ! sts rti the A et Me Seth Salsbury Taylor Jacobs as Jean Passepartout as Mr. Fogg and others Director: Tom Ford Musical Director: Alex Syiek Stage Manager/Choreographer: Jaclyn Miller Sound Design: Patrick Kiernan Set Design: Will Ledbetter Scenic Painter: Angi Grow Costume Design: Darrin Pufall Costume Build: Grace Slaughter Special thanks to: Chris Canfield BSU Theater Department Costume Shop Rachel Dickerson as Mr. Fix and others As Aouda and others 6 before the show Around the World in 80 Days Summary “It’s New York in two thousand and eighteen…” the show begins. We meet Jean Passepartout a poor kid from New Jersey who just got a job as the assistant to one of the wealthiest men in America, Phileas Fogg. Jean is excited for his new life to have structure and be perfectly planned out, but Fogg has different plans. Fogg has just made a bet with some golf buddies that he can make it around the world in 80 days without the use of air-based engine powered vehicles, such as planes and helicopters (with the exception of hot air balloons). If the bet wasn’t enough, they are also being chased by one Mr. Fix, who is convinced that Fogg has not paid his taxes. Jean is caught up in this crazy adventure, traveling from country to country, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures. Can they outrun Fix? Can they make it around the world in 80 days? Will they win the 10 million dollar prize? Grab your suitcase and join us as we go around the world in 80 days! About the Author: Jules Verne About the Lyricist, Playwright, and Composer: Alex Syiek Jules Verne (1828-1905) Jules Verne was a French poet, playwright and novelist. He has been called the father of science fiction and has had an Alex Syiek is a Manhattan-based performer, composer, incalculable influence on the and wordsperson. Past Musicals: The Pokémusical development of science fiction (Book and Lyrics), Hella Crazee Holidayzee (Music and writing. Lyrics), Giraffenstein (Book, Music, Lyrics), Howard, Verne is one of the world’s most Henry, and Pearl (Music and Lyrics), Merely Play- converted authors: his works have ers (Music and Lyrics). Upcoming: Alex is writing music been translated into more than 140 and lyrics to Oh Hi, Johnny, a musical parody based on languages. A number of films have been made from his novels, starting the cult classic film The Room, which will premiere in in 1916 with 20,000 Leagues Under Orlando, FL in May 2018. Alex’s songs have been fea- the Sea and The Mysterious tured in William Finn’s annual Island, From the Earth to the concert, Songs By Ridicu- Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and, the most lously Talented Composers famous, Around the World in 80 and Lyricists You Probably Days.
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