Creatures Great and Small

Program Description

There’s an acrobatic flea, a giant stegosaurus and practically everything in between in Rainbow Puppet Production’s latest musical, “Creatures Great and Small.” Grandpa, a fixture in Rainbow shows since their first program, “Jack and the Beanstalk” in 1977, leads audience members on a musical review of animal songs and stories. Meet all sorts of marine life including singing fish, a Blue Crab, and a Fiddler Crab. Farley the Fiddler Crab will lead the audience in a blue-grass styled hoe-down, Bert the Blue Heron will perform a high-stepping big band number, hear Mother Goose stories like “The Three Little Pig Opera,” and meet a pair of singing dinosaurs.
The program is a musical review of animal songs written by David Messick, an award-winning author, who has created many touring children’s musicals including the long running “Amazing Adventures of Chessie the Manatee,” Pirate Puppets in “A Pirate Party,” and “Noah’s Floating Zoo.”

Standards of Learning
Virginia Foundation Blocks for Early Learning
Virginia Literacy Foundation Block 1: Oral Language
Virginia Science Foundation Block 5: Life Processes

Science Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools
Life Processes: K.7, 1.5
Living Systems: 2.5, 3.6, 4.5, 5.5

English Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools
Communication and Multimodal Literacies: K.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1