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The Geography of Adventure is an original play written for the Creede Repertory Theatre’s 2012 Young Audience Outreach Tour, which travels around the southwest bringing excellent theatre to rural and underserved school children. This booklet is a companion piece produced by CRT and given out freely to children, also helping to promote literacy.CRT’s Young Audience Outreach Tour is supported in part by The Krueger Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.Play by Steven Cole HughesMusic by Jessica JacksonLyrics by Steven Cole Hughes and Jessica JacksonIllustrations by Mathew McFarren
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GEOGRAPHY ADVENTUREOFGEOGRAPHY ADVENTUREA LILLY STRONG MYSTERY
PLAY bY STEvEN COLE HuGHES • MuSIC bY JESSICA JACkSONLYRICS bY STEvEN COLE HuGHES & JESSICA JACkSON • ILLuSTRATIONS bY MATHEw MCFARREN
episode 1:the 50 states!episode 1:the 50 states!
1. Open Here
2. Tear out this super-dooper map of your country
3. Pin to your wall and challenge yourself to remember all the states and their capitals by Christmas!
THe 2012 YOUnG AUDIenCe OUTReACH TOUR
The Geographyof Adventure
A LILLY STROnG MYSTeRY
Episode 1: The 50 States!Presented through the generosity of
THe KRUeGeR FOUnDATIOnThirst for Knowledge, Read for Success!
Play by Steven Cole HughesMusic by Jessica JacksonLyrics by Steven Cole Hughes and Jessica JacksonIllustrations by Mathew McFarren
Director - John DiAntonioSet Designer - Ryan PrinceTour Manager - Samantha CoreyCostume Designer - Shelly TarterScenic Carpenter - Molly McDonaldStarring Andy Brown & Mary Mcnultyeducation Director - Renee Prince StynchulaBook Layout by RoShamBo
© Creede Repertory TheatreAll Rights Reserved
All original artwork © Mathew McFarren, 2012.The Geography of Adventure may not be reproduced in wholeor in part without written approval from the publisher.
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Creede Repertory TheatrePROUDLY PReSenTS
This project is supportedin part by an award from thenational endowment for the Arts
- Creede Repertory Theatre is located at 9,000
feet in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern
Colorado.
- The Geography of Adventure will be performed
for over 20,000 students!
- Creede Repertory Theatre’s Young Audience
Outreach Tour creates new plays for young
people. So, YOU are the first audiences to
see The Geography of Adventure!
- Creede Repertory Theatre produces 7 shows on
two stages in Creede, CO each summer.
- The““repertory” in Creede Repertory Theatre means
we produce multiple shows at one time and run
them on alternate nights. This allows a summer
visitor to Creede to see up to five shows in
just a few days.
- There are many other ways for young people to
get involved with Creede Repertory Theatre! We
offer summer Day Camps, a Youth Theatre program,
and In-School Residencies.
Find out more at CreedeRep.org
Did you know?
Creederepertory
theatre
- Creede Repertory Theatre is located at 9,000
feet in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern
Colorado.
- The Geography of Adventure will be performed
for over 20,000 students!
- Creede Repertory Theatre’s Young Audience
Outreach Tour creates new plays for young
people. So, YOU are the first audiences to
see The Geography of Adventure!
- Creede Repertory Theatre produces 7 shows on
two stages in Creede, CO each summer.
- The““repertory” in Creede Repertory Theatre means
we produce multiple shows at one time and run
them on alternate nights. This allows a summer
visitor to Creede to see up to five shows in
just a few days.
- There are many other ways for young people to
get involved with Creede Repertory Theatre! We
offer summer Day Camps, a Youth Theatre program,
and In-School Residencies.
Find out more at CreedeRep.org
Did you know?
Creederepertory
theatre
- Creede Repertory Theatre is located at 9,000
feet in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern
Colorado.
- The Geography of Adventure will be performed
for over 20,000 students!
- Creede Repertory Theatre’s Young Audience
Outreach Tour creates new plays for young
people. So, YOU are the first audiences to
see The Geography of Adventure!
- Creede Repertory Theatre produces 7 shows on
two stages in Creede, CO each summer.
- The““repertory” in Creede Repertory Theatre means
we produce multiple shows at one time and run
them on alternate nights. This allows a summer
visitor to Creede to see up to five shows in
just a few days.
- There are many other ways for young people to
get involved with Creede Repertory Theatre! We
offer summer Day Camps, a Youth Theatre program,
and In-School Residencies.
Find out more at CreedeRep.org
Did you know?
Creederepertory
theatre
If
you want to
help Johnny escape his
fate, you must know all 50
states! The answer to the riddle
lies somewhere in the middle. Your
capital aim is to get to the root
of the name. If it’s the next clue
you wish to see, you must become
the master of geography!
“ Give it up, Cipher! I’ve defeated you and your evil plans once again!”
“ Not so fast, Lilly Strong. I know your weakness . . .
geography!”
Topeka, Kansas Topeka, Kansas
tallahassee, floridatallahassee, florida
“ There’s the
Empire State
building.
Fuggedaboudit.”
new york city, new yorknew york city, new york
“Fuggedaboudit.”
“There are eight million people in this city, and they all have places to go, things to do, and people to see. Good thing this busy New York City guy was willing to help me!”
“There are eight million people in this city, and they all have places to go, things to do, and people to see. Good thing this busy New York City guy was willing to help me!”
“Fuggedaboudit.”
“I really saw today that America is a
melting pot — so many different kinds of people and places.”
sacramento, californiasacramento, california
“ what have youlearned today?”
“HELP ME,
LILLY!”
“Foiled again! American kids
can be good at geography!”
Let’s start in the NortheastAnd call ‘em out by name
The first state we begin with is Maine!Then New Hampshire, vermont,
and MassachusettsConnecticut and Rhode Island
(which is not really an island)
Now the Mid-Atlantic StatesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Maryland, andDelawarewhere?
Delawarewhere?Dela-where?Dela-where?There!
And now let’s head down SouthTo virginia, west virginiaCarolina North and South
And kentucky, which is north of TennesseeAnd Georgia, Florida, Alabama, too
Just an old sweet songThat keeps Louisiana on my mind
Mississippi. M. I. SS. I. SS. I. PP. I. Arkansas, which looks like ArkANSAS but
really it is ArkanSAwAnd the rest is Oklahoma and Texas
we call the Midwest the Heartlandbecause its got lots of heart and
Ohio and Indiana, Illinois and Michiganwisconsin, Michigan again
[the upper Peninsula]Minnesota, Missouri and Iowa
North and South Dakota, Nebraskawaves of grain on a patchwork plain
And kansas, too.
The west is rocky and plain-yAnd seldom ever rainyMontana’s got big sky
wyoming and Idaho are close byThere’s the 4 corners of Colorado,
New Mexico, utah, and Arizona And then there is Nevada
That’s how the west was done.Yippeeei-oh! Yippeeei-ay!
Now let’s get specificwith the states of the Pacificwashington, Oregon, California
And don’t forget Alaska and Hawaii, too.
Yeah!!!!!!
50 statessong!50 statessong!
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