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Study Guide The Mixed-Up Fairy Tale
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.
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.
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!
This Study Guide is filled with crafts, stories, games and activities that relate to
the themes, music and comedy presented in the live show. Have fun!
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If you have this study guide in your hands (or on your screen), chances are that
you recently saw a performance of The Mixed-Up Fairy Tale presented by Page
Turner Adventures. In case you had a memory spell cast on you and you forgot
what happened, here’s a brief recap-
The Short Story
A 100-year sleeping spell has been placed on Beauty! To break the spell, the
audience must convince Red Riding Hood to give up her cape, discover the
secret under Grandma’s bed, climb a beanstalk, and retrieve a golden spoon from
a real giant!
A Cinderella Story!
Page Turner Adventures
began when creators Riley
Roam and Kenny Mikey
wondered what would
happen if they combined
Interactive Storytelling with
Circus Skills. Since then,
they’ve been sparking
imagination, curiosity and
laughter through
performances that involve
the entire audience in
comical quests of craziness.
The Story Continues
Visit our website and blog for more videos, downloadable activities, and craft
ideas to inspire reading, writing, imagination, and creativity.
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What makes a fairy tale…a fairy tale?
Not fairies! Discuss with your students the common
elements usually found in fairy tales. After the show,
discuss whether or not these elements were included in the
story.
Common Elements of Fairy Tales:
• Often set in the past
• Typically incorporate clearly defined good characters and
evil characters
• Involves magic elements, which may be magical people,
animals, or objects
• May include objects, people, or events in threes
• The plot focuses on a problem or conflict that needs to be
solved
• Often have happy endings based on the resolution of the
conflict or problem
Read the Classics
The Mixed-Up Fairy Tale combines
elements from many classic stories. Your
students will enjoy the show more if
they’re familiar with the original tales.
Stories referenced in the show include:
Jack and the Beanstalk
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
The Princess and the Pea
The Three Bears
The Three Little Pigs
Fairy Tale Collections:
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Classic Fairy Tales by Kevin Tong
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Fractured Fairy Tales
A fractured fairy tale uses fairy tales that you
know and changes the characters, setting,
points of view, or plot.
Examples:
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman
Snoring Beauty by Bruce Hale
Write Your Own Fractured
or Mixed-Up Fairy Tale:
There are lots of ways you can change a fairy
tale…
-Change the main character
-Have the story take place somewhere else
-Have the story take place in another time
-Tell the story from a different character’s
point of view
-Make the problem of the story different
-Change an important item of the story
-Combine elements from several stories into one new story
Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast Fractured Fairy Tales with the
Classics.
Create a Venn diagram. How are they the same? How
are they different?
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MANY Cinderellas!
Versions of the Cinderella tale appear in many different cultures. Have students choose one of
the stories listed below and Compare and Contrast it with the Cinderella story they are familiar
with.
Cinderella Stories from other Cultures
Fair, Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story
by Jude Daly
Domatila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition
by Jewell Reinhart Coburn
The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish
Tradition by Nina Jaffe
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story by Robert D. San
Souci
Cendrillon: A Cajun Cinderella by Sheila Herbert Collins
The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella by Penny Pollock
Fairy Tale Mad Libs
Directions:
1. Fill in the word bank below with audience suggestions (choose the funniest).
2. Fill in the answers on the story sheets.
3. Read the story out loud with the funny answers.
4. Don’t tell the kids what the story is beforehand.
Fairy Tale Madlib Word Bank
COLOR (not red)________________________LOCATION_____________________________
Distant RELATIVE (not grandma)______________DISEASE___________________________
FOOD _________________FOOD 2 ___________________BEVERAGE_________________
SOMETHING SCARY__________________SMALL FURRY ANIMAL (cute)_______________
TYPE OF CLOTHING______________________BODY PART__________________________
1 OF THE 5 SENSES_______________________ANOTHER BODY PART________________
ANOTHER SENSE______________________3rd BODY PART_________________________
1 MORE SENSE_____________FAMOUS POWERFUL PERSON_______________________
SOMETHING THAT PERSON ALWAYS SAYS______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
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Fairy Tale “Mad Libs” Story
Little __________ Riding Hood was walking through __________________ one her way
(color) (location)
to visit her sick ___________________who was home in bed with ______________.
(relative) (disease)
Little_______________ Riding Hood had a basket filled with ____________________
(same color) (food)
and _____________________ and _____________________ that she had made herself.
(different food) (beverage)
Her mother told her not to leave the path or talk to _______________________.
(something scary)
But Little __________________ Riding Hood didn’t listen to her mother. She met the
(same color)
Big, Bad, __________________________ and told him exactly where she was going.
(small furry animal)
The Big, Bad ________________________ raced ahead to ______________________’s
(same small furry animal) (same relative)
house and tossed ________________ in the closet. Then he got into a ________________
(same relative) (type of clothing)
and slipped into bed.
When Little _____________Riding Hood arrived she said, “________________ what big
(same color) (same relative)
_______________________ you have. The better to ___________________ you with my dear.
(body part) (1 of the 5 senses)
_________________________ what big ______________________ you have. The better to
(same relative) (another body part)
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(another sense) (same relative)
___________________________ you have the better to _______________________ my dear.
(3rd body part) (a different sense)
And then _________________________ jumped out of bed and chased Little _____________
(relative) (same color)
Riding Hood all around the cottage until __________________________ showed up and said
(famous powerful person)
___________________________________________________________________________.
(something that person might say)
The big, bad ___________________ screamed and ran away.
(same furry animal)
And everybody lived Happily Ever After.
www.PageTurnerAdventures.comPUZZLING STORIES
1. Choose several simple stories.
2. Use the story puzzle template on the following page. Write the plot,
characters, and setting for each of the stories on the puzzle pieces.
3. Cut them out, mix them up, and hand them out to the class.
4. The students walk around the classroom trying to piece together
the characters, setting, and plot until each story puzzle is complete and
correct.
Tip:
Copy each story
puzzle onto different
colored paper.
Variation:
Mixed Up Stories
Instruct students to
match up with
characters, setting
and plot from
any story and see
what happens.
For example, The big
bad wolf + goes into
a cottage eats the
porridge, breaks the
chairs and falls asleep in the bed until she is woken by bears + in a beautiful
castle.
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Mixed-Up Headlines Game
Object: A reporter at the Fairytale News has mixed
up all the headlines. You’ll have to help him figure
out which headline goes with what fairy tale.
Extended Activity: Write your own fairy tale
headlines and/or write a newspaper story based
on one of the headlines below.
Suggested Book:
The Fairytale News by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins
Sample Headlines:
Mysterious Girl Attends Palace Ball (Cinderella)
Police Look Into Poisoned Apple, Queen Questioned (Snow White)
Stick and Straw Homes Destroyed in Suspected Tornado (Three Little Pigs)
Giant Reports Stolen Heirloom (Jack and the Beanstalk)
Police Question Fairy in Spindle Fiasco (Sleeping Beauty)
Seven Miners Rescue a Local Homeless Girl (Snow White)
www.PageTurnerAdventures.comBeginning-Middle-End Game
Preparation:
1. Choose a story.
2. Break it into simple plot points.
3. Include several false plot points.
4. Make two copies.
4. Cut the plot points into strips.
Directions:
1. Read the story out loud to the students.
2. Break the class into two teams.
3. Give both teams the same story strips with
plot points, including the false points (1 per
student).
4. The students must put the story in the correct order.
5. The team that discards the false plot points and puts their story in the correct order first wins.
Example: The Three Bears
She sits on each of the chairs until one finally breaks
A girl finds a house in the woods
She tastes each bowl of porridge and finishes the last bowl
The girl goes upstairs and finds three beds
The girl meets a wolf in the woods
She sees three chairs
The girl sees three bowls of porridge
The owners of the house come home and find the girl asleep
She tries all three beds and falls asleep in the smallest one
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Each student must remember the previous sequence of items
and keep the game going.
1. The students start with the phrase, “I’m going on an
adventure with Page Turner and I’m going to
bring__________.
2. The first student names one item that he/she might
bring on an adventure (For example, “my bathing
suit”).
3. The next student repeats the previous statement and
adds one more item (for example: I’m going on a
adventure with Page and I packed a bathing suit and a
pair of shoes).
4. The turn passes from one student to the next with each person
repeating every thing that was said previously and adding one
additional item. Challenge the students to see how many items
they can name before a mistake is made.
SILENT SEQUENCE
Students must arrange themselves in order without uttering a sound.
You Will Need
• Pad of sticky notes
• Pens
1. Choose a category and challenge students to arrange
themselves
according to a predetermined sequence. For example,
according to height. The trick is to do it without a sound.
2. This game can be adapted to fit almost any curriculum theme.
For example, if the class is studying state capitals, count out
enough sticky notes for each student. On each note, write the
name of a state capital. Each student wears a “capital” tag on
his or her shirt. The students must silently sequence
themselves in alphabetical order of the capital or the state
that capital resides in.
Category Ideas
• Birthdays (arrange in order from January1 to December 31)
• 7 digit phone numbers (write as a 7 digit number and arrange in numerical sequence)
• U.S. Presidents (arrange in order of the presidencies)
• Fractions (arrange in order of size)
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Materials
Manila File Folders
Scissors
Scotch Tape
Paint
Stapler
Ribbon,feathers,
other decoration.
Directions (see images below)
1. Open the file folder so it lays flat.
2. Draw a half circle from one corner to the other corner.
3. Cut this out.
4. Fold the hat into a cone shape by brining straight
edges together. Tape it closed.
(You can fit it on the child’s head before taping)
5. Decorate with paint, markers, ribbon, etc.
For a Princess hat: Staple ribbon pieces at the point.
For a Wizard Hat: Decorate with stars
(either paint or stick-on foam)
For a Peter Pan or Robin Hood Hat: Paint Green and attach a
feather.
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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 39 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
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