

Press: "Student-produced musical 'Thank You, Mr.

The world premiere was part of the 2011 LA Festival of New American Musicals and supported by grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission. Pages 50 Ppi 300 Republisherdate 20200221165943 Republisheroperator Republishertime 497 Scandate 20200221044056 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3searchcatalog isbn Scribe3searchid 9780399231667 Ttsversion 3. Trisha falls behind and endures classmates' taunts until a new teacher, Mr. But at school, she struggles with a learning disability, where words and letters on the page are all mixed up in her brain.

In this musical adaptation, young Trisha is eager to read, to taste the "sweetness of knowledge" that her grandfather has always revered. Falker is based on the author's own childhood reading disability and the teacher who helped her triumph. Patricia Polacco's treasured children's book Thank You, Mr. Falker is the story of how a young girl named Trisha is struggling with dyslexia without even realizing it, and her teacher helps her work through it. program (Youth Education/Entertainment Series). Some one in the class said, Beh, beh.oy, boy In first grade during reading Trisha looked at the pages of books and all she saw was wiggling shapes. A family musical written for the Morgan-Wixson Theatre's award-winning Y.E.S.
