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Dramatic Solutions and the Wondermakers, LLC

The Wondermakers, now in their 25th season, perform interactive story theatre and have given over 3,000 performances throughout New York, Florida, and Ohio in schools, libraries, theatres, festivals, and museums. Gail Golden, founder and Artistic Director of The Wondermakers, is a published playwright, award-winning screenwriter and actress whose roles include Cinderella's Fairy Godmother at Disney World and Mrs. Claus for Macy's and SeaWorld. Wondermakers' members have performed with every theatre company in Western New York, including the Eclectic Company, the Kavinoky Theatre, the Irish Classical Theatre Company, Buffalo United Artists, The Phoenix Theatre, and ComedySportz. Actors for the 2009-2010 season include Joy Scime, Karen Eichler, Alisse Sikes, Scott Kurchak, Brian Tabak, John Kreuzer, Richard Satterwhite, and Dale Fischer.

Art Forms:
Theater

Programs

Catch the Reading Bug! add to wish list

An interactive story theater program focusing on world culture, reading, and bugs! Children from the audience will be invited onstage to help the artists present Russian, Italian and American folk tales.

Grade Level:
Pre K-5
Performance cost (single):
$335.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$480.00

Molly Marshmallow add to wish list

An interactive, character education theater performance. Children explore the issues of popularity, friendship, cliques, and exclusion. The program includes conflict resolution techniques and encourages students to find commonalities rather than focus on differences.

Grade Level:
Pre K-5
Performance cost (single):
$440.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$750.00

Play in a Day add to wish list

Gail Golden, actress, director and writer, will work with up to twelve motivated theater students, to create, rehearse and perform a play based on multi-cultural folk tales. Participants will become a traveling troupe of players which will perform for the rest of the school (from classroom to classroom).

This is a full-day program. Limited to twelve students who then perform before each classroom in the school.

Grade Level:
3-12
Performance cost (single):
$755.00

Let' s Make a Mystery! add to wish list

Through audience participation, comedy improv and theater games (similar to "Whose Line is It Anyway?" ) mystery stories unfold before the audiences' eyes. Detectives, witnesses, suspects and plot twists are created right before your eyes with the help of the audience! This highly interactive program is designed to encourage students to read mystery stories and write mysteries of their own.

Grade Level:
K-6
Performance cost (single):
$410.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$585.00

Stories from the Pumpkin Patch add to wish list

These interactive stories share a common theme: harvest season in New York State. From New York City to the Finger Lakes to an elm bark longhouse in Western New York, agriculture and autumn are explored in an entertaining way. Selections include an Iroquois legend, an African American Hallowe' en story, a Jewish folk tale about being thankful, and a tall tale starring Johnny Appleseed.

Grade Level:
K-5
Performance cost (single):
$335.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$480.00

Story Soup add to wish list

Provide students with hands-on insight into the world of acting. The presenting actors have been professionally trained in comedy improvisation by Comedysportz, Second City Toronto, LA' s The Groundlings, and NYC' s City Limits. Designed to encourage students to develop their own stories, poems and plays, activities include theater games, creative dramatics, comedy, improv techniques and audience participation.

For older grades (6-12), scenes and stories are created on-the-spot, based on suggestions from the audience.

Grade Level:
K-12
Performance cost (single):
$410.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$585.00

Winter Wonderland add to wish list

Celebrate snow with stories of the season! Travel with us to the United States, Romania and Mexico. Wintertime holiday stories may be included upon request.

Grade Level:
K-5
Performance cost (single):
$335.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$480.00

Gardens of the Earth add to wish list

This program celebrates gardening as a universal pastime, with garden stories from Kenya, Puerto Rico and England.

Grade Level:
K-5
Performance cost (single):
$335.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$480.00

Be Smart, Don' t Start! add to wish list

This highly interactive program uses three multicultural folktales to emphasize healthy eating habits and saying "no" to bad ideas.

WILLIE WASSEL -- in this Irish folktale, Willie Wassel meets three ghosts and learns that when you gamble, someone always loses ..... and, sooner or later, that someone is going to be you!

TRAVELLING TO TONDO -- this folktale is from Central Africa and features a jungle cat, a pigeon, and a turtle who learn to say "no" to bad ideas!

THE THREE STRONG WOMEN -- this folktale about healthy habits is from Japan. Forever Mountain thinks he is a pretty good suma wrestler until he meets the Three Strong Women. When they teach him healthy habits (like eating fruits and vegetables, reading books, and getting plenty of exercise outdoors), he becomes so strong that he wins the Emperor' s tournament.

Grade Level:
K-5
Performance cost (single):
$410.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$585.00