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CAST on Tour Presents: The Hundred Dresses

C. Bankes, Neighbor

October 17th and October 24th

A powerful, timeless story performed by middle schoolers and adapted from the 1944 Newberry-honored children's book by Eleanor Estes. A Polish girl named Wanda Petronski goes to a school in an American town where the other children see her as "different" and mock her. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows it's untrue and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it’s too late for apologies. 

Maddie, one of Wanda’s classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."

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FIRST SHOW DATE: Thursday,October 17, 2013
TIMES: 9:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Beye School, 230 N. Cuyler

SECOND SHOW DATE: Thursday, October 24th, 2013
TIME: 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Irving School, 1125 S. Cuyler

$6.00 for students (12 and under)
$8.00 for adults

Tickets can be purchased online at  http://oakpark.revtrak.net/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jpcnopi4
Online ticket sales will close 24 hours before each performance. This does not mean that the shows are sold out. Please contact 708-524-7848 to check on ticket availability.

For more information go to the CAST website: https://sites.google.com/a/op97.org/cast-at-julian-middle-school-2012-2013/home

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