Study Guide the Rainbow Fish Contents ATTENDING a PERFORMANCE at TILLES CENTER

Study Guide The Rainbow Fish Contents ATTENDING A PERFORMANCE AT TILLES CENTER ...... 3-4 YOUR ROLE AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER ...... 5 ABOUT THE PRODUCTION...... 6 ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM ...... 7 ABOUT THE COMPANY...... 8-9 ACTIVITY KIT ...... 10 ABOUT THE BOOK ...... 11 IF I WERE A FISH...... 12 LOST AND FOUND MAZE...... 13 COLORING PAGE ...... 14 ABOUT TILLES CENTER ...... 16

2 ATTENDING A PERFORMANCE The concert hall at Tilles Center seats 2,242 people. Hillwood Recital Hall seats 490 people. When you attend a performance at Tilles Center, there are a few things you should remember:

ARRIVAL • Plan to arrive approximately 30 minutes prior to the show. • Performances cannot be held for late buses. • LIU Post Public Safety will direct buses to parking areas. • Remain seated on the bus until instructed to unload. • Please stagger chaperones throughout the group to help keep students in line and moving quickly to the seating area. • Groups are directed into the theater in the order that they arrive.

BEING SEATED (IMPORTANT!) • Upon entering the theater, ushers will direct students and teachers to sit row by row. Students will be seated in the order which they enter the building. Groups from your school may be seated separately from one another throughout the theatre. We ask that at least one chaperone is assigned to every 15 students for grades Pre-K- 5, and one chaperone to every 30 students for grades 5-12. We recommend that a teacher or chaperone sit at the end of each row of students in the theatre. With adequate adult supervision, students which may be seated in different sections of the theatre will have enough chaperones to ensure safety. We ask for your full cooperation with this procedure in order to start the show on time! • Please allow ushers to seat your group in its entirety before making adjustments within the row. This allows us to continue seating groups that arrive after you. Once the entire group is seated you may rearrange students in new seats and use the restrooms. • Schools are not allowed to change their seats. • All students must be supervised by a teacher at all times including when going to the restroom - high school students are no exception.

3 DURING THE SHOW • There is no food or drink permitted in the theater or lobby areas. • Photography and audio/video recording are not permitted during the performance. • Please turn off (or leave behind) all electronic devices, including cell phones, portable games, cameras, and recording equipment. Keep them off for the entire performance. The devices may interfere with the theater’s sound system as well as being disruptive to both the audience and the actors. And please – no texting or checking messages during the show! • Please do not disturb the performers and other members of the audience by talking. • If something in the show is meant to be funny, laughter is encouraged! • Please do not leave and re-enter the theater during the performance. • There is no intermission; visit the restroom prior to the start of the show. Performances generally run 50 - 60 minutes.

EMERGENCY CANCELLATIONS If schools throughout the area are closed due to inclement weather, Tilles Center performances will be cancelled. If, on the day prior to a performance, it appears that inclement weather may cause a performance to be cancelled, all schools will be called by our staff to alert them to this possibility. School representatives should periodically check the Tilles Center website (tillescenter.org) when winter weather advisories and warnings are in effect. Updates will be posted regularly on the home page. On the morning of the performance a message will be posted on the website no later than 6:30 AM indicating if the performance has been cancelled.

If a performance is cancelled, Tilles Center will attempt to reschedule performances on a date mutually agreeable to the artists and the majority of ticket buyers.

4 YOUR ROLE AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER TO THE TEACHER: An essential component needed to create a live performance is the audience. Please talk with your students about what it means to be an audience member and how a “live” performance is different from TV and movies. Please share the following information with your students prior to your visit to Tilles Center. Some performances may involve audience participation so students should behave appropriately, given the nature of the performance and the requests of the artists on the stage. By discussing appropriate audience behavior, as a class ahead of time, the students will be better prepared to express their enthusiasm in acceptable ways during the performance.

BEING AN AUDIENCE MEMBER: Audience members play an important role— until an audience shows up, the performers are only rehearsing! When there is a “great house” (an outstanding audience) it makes the show even better, because the artists feel a live connection with everyone who is watching them. When the “house lights” (the lights in the part of the theater where the audience is sitting) go down, everyone feels a thrill of anticipation. Focus all your attention on the stage and watch and listen carefully to the performance. The most important quality of a good audience member is the ability to respond appropriately to what’s happening on stage… sometimes it’s important to be quiet, but other times, it’s acceptable to laugh, clap, or make noise! If the audience watches in a concentrated, quiet way, this supports the performers and they can do their best work. They can feel that you are with them!

The theater is a very “live” space. This means that sound carries very well, usually all over the auditorium. Theaters are designed in this way so that the voices of singers and actors can be heard. It also means that any sounds in the audience - whispering, rustling papers, or speaking - can be heard by other audience members and by the performers. This can destroy everyone’s concentration and spoil a performance. Do not make any unnecessary noise that would distract the people sitting around you. Be respectful!

Applause is the best way for an audience in a theater to share its enthusiasm and to appreciate the performers, so feel free to applaud at the end of the performance. At the end of the performance, it is customary to continue clapping until the curtain drops or the lights on stage go dark. During the curtain call, the performers bow to show their appreciation to the audience. If you really enjoyed the performance, you might even thank the artists with a standing ovation!

5 Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia presents THE RAINBOW FISH

2017 Premiere

Author/Illustrator: Marcus Pfister Director/Production Designer: Jim Morrow Composer: Steven Naylor Narrator: Deborah Allen

Associate Designers: Struan Robertson, Deborah MacLean

Scenic Painter: Sarah Haydon Roy

Stage Manager: Don Brownrigg

Performers: Simon Rainville, Michael Venn

Adapted with permission.

Licensed by RJM Licensing, Inc. NorthSouth Books, Inc. - www.northsouth.co

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of Nova Scotia. Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors' Equity Association under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement.

About Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia ranks among North America’s most respected theatres for the young, and plays an important ambassadorial role for Nova Scotia and for Canada. The company regularly crosses the continent, and has represented Canada in the United States, Japan, Mexico, Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea and Taiwan, Bahrain, and the People’s Republic of China. Mermaid Theatre has earned Export Excellence awards from both the Governments of Canada and of Nova Scotia. Based in the Town of Windsor, Mermaid has performed for more than 5.5 million spectators on four continents. The company was founded in 1972.

About our Production The first of three tales introduces the most beautiful fish in the sea, whose scales shimmer in all the colours of the rainbow. He is admired – and resented - by the entire underwater world, until a clever octopus advises him to give each fish one of his scales. Further adventures follow as The Rainbow Fish finds the courage to explore the great unknown deep sea, discovering a new

6 world with wonderful sights and friendly creatures of all shapes, sizes and colours who are eager to make his acquaintance. The underworld wonderland is the setting for an introduction to the concept of opposites. As a fitting finale, the story ends with the most satisfying opposite of all—give and take—as Rainbow Fish shares one of his shining scales with a friend.

Marcus Pfister, Author/Illustrator Marcus was born in 1960 in Bern, Switzerland, where he attended art school and trained as a graphic designer before turning to the creation of innovative children’s literature. Published in 1992, The Rainbow Fish took the bestseller lists by storm. Now celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, more than thirty million copies have been sold worldwide in different formats, appearing in over fifty different languages.

About the Creative Team:

Jim Morrow, Director/Production Designer Jim creates puppets for stage, television and film. He's directed numerous shows for the Theatre, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites; Leo Lionni’s Swimmy, Frederick, Inch by Inch; Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny as well as designed many others. A gifted performer, Jim has toured extensively in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. He serves as director of puppetry for Symphony Nova Scotia's production of The Nutcracker, and frequently conducts master classes in puppetry in North America and abroad. Jim is Mermaid Theatre’s Artistic Director.

Steven Naylor, Composer Steven has created the music for more than a dozen Mermaid shows, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favourites; Stella, Queen of the Snow; Swimmy, Frederick, and Inch by Inch; Goodnight Moon & The Runaway Bunny and many others. His many other professional activities include original film and television scores; contemporary music composition and performance; university teaching and curriculum development; and a long-term international involvement with electroacoustic concert music. Steven is Mermaid Theatre's Artistic Advisor for Music and Sound Design.

Deborah Allen, Narrator Deborah began her theatrical career in Halifax, NS as Neptune Theatre’s first apprentice in 1965. Since then she has made a successful career as an actor, director, producer, radio broadcaster and voice specialist. Deb toured with Mermaid Theatre’s production of The Journey in 1974, which played to First Nations communities throughout Nova Scotia. Since that time she has had extensive experience in theatre, film, television and radio. Deb has lent her voice to countless documentaries for the National Film Board, TVO, commercials and museum installations. Among her very favorite narrations would have to be for those little people in her family.

7 About the Company: Don Brownrigg, Stage Manager Don Brownrigg is a multi-award nominated musician, event planner, and theatre professional based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the director of Neither Love Letters Nor Moonlight (2015), associate producer, production manager and stage manager of Mass (2014), and played the character Captain MacKenzie in Law & Order: Musical Victims Unit (2013). Don joined Mermaid Theatre in 2016, and has now traveled with the company to China, Japan and Singapore.

Simon Rainville, Performer Simon hails from Ontario, where he was born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa. Since graduating Ryerson University in 2003 he has travelled to Armstrong, BC to work with The Caravan Farm Theatre; to Newmarket, ON working with Resurgence; and to Halifax, NS, to work with Shakespeare By The Sea. He discovered puppetry and Mermaid in 2013, where he completed training with the Mermaid Institute of Puppetry Arts in the spring and joined the company in the fall.

Michael Venn, Performer Michael is a graduate of the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College theatre program in Corner Brook, NL. It was there that he earned the Andre Noble Award for outstanding achievement as well as a BFA in Acting. Always striving to improve his craft, Michael went on to train as a circus performer at the Academy of Circus Arts in the UK and has entertained audiences all over England, Italy, Canada and the U.S. Michael completed Mermaid Theatre's Institute of Puppetry Arts training program in 2015 and joined the company as a touring performer shortly thereafter.

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia Staff: Artistic Director: Jim Morrow General Manager: Danny Everson Administrator: Cathy White Public Affairs Consultant: Sara Lee Lewis Office & Tour Coordinator: Jason Tucker Production Manager: Deborah MacLean Production Associate & Workshop Coordinator: Struan Robertson Technical Director: Michael Jamieson Artistic Advisor for Music and Sound Design: Steven Naylor Seamstress: Sarah Harvey Hart Production Associates: Rosie Browning, Tony Gallant

8 Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia is represented by KIDS’ ENTERTAINMENT 460 College Street, Suite 202 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 1A1 tel: 416 971 4836 fax: 416 971 4841 email: [email protected] website: www.kidsentertainment.net

For general information, please contact Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia P.O. Box 2697 Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada B0N 2T0 tel: 902 798 5841 fax: 902 798 3311 email: [email protected] website: mermaidtheatre.ca

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9 Activity Kit

Celebrating 25 Years of

Written and Illustrated by Marcus Pfister

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If I were a fish, I would

Reproduced by permission of NorthSouth Books, Inc. • http://www.northsouth.com. • Copyright 2009 by NorthSouth Books, Inc. Reproducible Activity Lost-and-Found Maze Complete this maze to find your way to the Rainbow Fish and receive your own shining scale.

START HERE

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NorthSouth Books, Inc. • http://www.northsouth.com Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, at LIU Post in Brookville, is Long Island’s premier concert hall.

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post in Brookville, is Long Island’s premier concert hall. For 38 years, Tilles Center has been host to more than 70 performances each season by world- renowned artists in music, theater and dance. Tilles Center was the first to bring the New York Philharmonic to Long Island and Bruce Springsteen’s legendary “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” was recorded onsite.

Tilles Center’s Concert Hall seats 2,242 and features orchestral performances, fully-staged operas, ballets and modern dance, along with Broadway shows, and all forms of music, dance and theater from around the world. Thanks to the generous support of Eric and Sandra Krasnoff, the Krasnoff Theater, formerly Hillwood Recital Hall, has been refurbished and expanded to include new cushioned seats, a regraded floor for better views and an improved overall layout.

Tilles Center’s Education Programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Arts Education programs are made possible, in part, by the Gilbert and Rose Tilles Endowment for Arts Education.

School Partnership Program

An intensive part of Tilles Center’s Arts Education program is the School Partnership program, modeled on the highly acclaimed aesthetic education program that has evolved over a 35-year period at Lincoln Center. The Partnership is a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning about the arts, applicable to all grade levels and academic disciplines. The Partnership inspires students and teachers to approach the arts with an open mind and to gain insights into the creative process. Attendance at professional performances at Tilles Center is combined with experiential in-school workshops. Led by teaching artists and teachers, students explore their own artistic capabilities while strengthening essential skills – abstract thinking, teamwork, critical judgment, and problem solving. Guided to a deeper level of understanding, students learn what to look for, and listen to, in a performance or work of art. 2018-19 School Partner Districts The School Partnership works with students in Pre-K through high school and provides Carle Place East Meadow professional development for teachers. Freeport Great Neck East Williston Glen Cove For information about the School Partnership Roosevelt Program and other performances, visit The Portledge School (Independent) tillescenter.org or call (516) 299-2752.