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Show SCERA ol ? "Seussical: The Musical" The charm, whimsy and absolute silliness of Dr. Suess will find a lively place on state Sept 10 through Oct. 4 when the SCERA Encore Season presents the Utah premiere of "Seussical: The Musical" in SCERA's indoor Showhouse II. "Seussical" weaves together togeth-er several of Dr. Seuss' most beloved characters, including includ-ing Morton the Elephant and his love, Gertrude McFuzz, The Grinch, Thing 1 and Thing 2, Yertle the Turtle, Sneetches, Cindy-Lou Who and the citizens of Whoville, as well as the Cat in the Hat, who serves as the story's mischievous narrator. Performances will run at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays. A preview performance Sept. 9 offers half-price admission. Tickets at $10 for adults and $8 for children (ages 3-11), students with ID and seniors (65) are available from 10-6 weekdays at SCERA, 745 S. State St., Orem, by calling (801) 225-2569 or 226-ARTS, or at the box office 45 minutes min-utes prior to the performance. perfor-mance. "I couldn't wait to direct this play," says Mindy Young, a veteran director with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Utah in directing and theatre production. pro-duction. " I saw 'Seussical' the third day after it opened on Broadway and I realized this was a perfect play for SCERA. I am just crazy about it. Rosie O'Donnell kept taking her kids to the show and eventually got the role as the Cat in the Hat. I S set to The Internal Revenue Service Ser-vice (IRS) is accepting applications appli-cations for hundreds of new jobs as part of a nationwide multi-phase lining program. In January 2005 the agency expects to hire approximately ap-proximately 500 tax enforcement enforce-ment personnel in 70 cities across the country. 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Why not give me a call today. I think you'll be glad you did. to Present Utah Premiere love it just as much as she does. I told SCERA that when the rights became available I really, really wanted to direct it. While she loves the stories, which are culled from many of Dr. Seuss' favorite tales, Young says she especially loves the music. "Seussicar is the creation of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Aherns, who also wrote "Once on This Island" and the score to "Ragtime." "Their music is wonderful," she says. "And to make it more fun, the music mu-sic features some silly, silly lyrics, such as 'I'm General Genghis Khan Schmitz and I scare children out of their wits.'" Flaherty and Aherns used "Horton Hears a Who" and "Horton Hatches the Egg" as the musical's foundation foun-dation and then twisted the story to create several subplots. sub-plots. Through song and dance, "Seussical" tells the wacky adventures of an elephant who discovers a planet on a speck of dust, a bird that grows so tall she can't fly and a kid who dares to dream - and adventures including in-cluding The Circus McGurkus, Mayzie La Bird in Palm Beach, and The Who's Christmas Pageant. The score has put into song many of Dr. Seuss' favorite stories including "Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!" and a finale featuring "Green Eggs and Ham." Under all the silliness and fun, however, lies a poignant examination of Horton. He sings about dignity with "A Person's a Person No Matter "Whether you are starting a career or you are a seasoned sea-soned tax professional, the reasons to bring your career to the IRS keep adding up," said Bill Branson, local IRS spokesperson. "Here you can excel with one of the largest financial institutions in the world and be a part of one of the most well trained and dedicated workforces anywhere." 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SPRIMGVILLE HEtlALD How Small" and persists in sitting on an egg when everyone else gives up. Despite De-spite challenges, he also sticks with the Whos on the clover, and in the end it all turns out because of him. Young said that while "Seussical" only ran six months in New York, it has been very successful on national na-tional tours. "The joy of this musical is a big cast that is kid friendly with lots of kid involvement, she says. "We have lots of great choreography, choreogra-phy, a fun set design, bright costumes and amazing lighting. light-ing. It's a show parents and grandparents will like as much as their kids." Young is directing and choreographing a cast of 50 that will fill the stage with many unusual creature characters char-acters in bright costumes, including in-cluding larger-than-life hats, neon colors, feathers, and hairstyles including purple Utah music teachers to begin meetings Members of the Utah Music Teachers Association meet every second Tuesday in the recital hall of Boothe Brothers Broth-ers Music, 135 North Main Street in Spanish Fork. The meetings, which begin at 10 a.m., consist of instruction in-struction and teaching ideas shared by the members and guest speakers for the' benefit of piano teachers in the area. . New members are always welcome and can attend a couple of meetings to observe before joining. The Nebo chapter consists of teachers from Springville, Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Salem, Payson, Santaquin and surrounding areas. Members also become affiliated with the National Music Teachers Association upon joining the local organization. The September 14 meeting will consist of two speakers, Christine Jensen and Irene Tukuafu. Christine recently completed her own recital in preparation prepa-ration for UMTA certification. She will give helpful suggestions sug-gestions on how she learned one of the pieces she per formed. Irene, after raising a large family, wanted to learn the harp, but could not afford one. She bought a harp unassembled and learned how to put it together. She believes pianists can easily learn how to play the harp. She will snare he shortcuts and secrets for doing so. For more information about the Nebo Chapter of UMTA contact Marnae at 423-2877 or Tanni at 465-0372. iff I KM rf m Marnae Trotter will serve as president of the UMTA, Nebo Chapter, for the next two ears. Other officers serving with her are Afton Er-ickson, Er-ickson, past president; Tanni Griffin, vice president' Christie lessop, aim Chairman; Jodey Nelson, secretary-treasurer; Anna Kennington, Kenning-ton, convention and master class chairman; Lynette Morrill, public ityr and Shivcnne Cheney, certification chairman. tmm Wiierc is the Hill Cumorah? What evidence speaks from the dust? Find Out! Sept. 24 & 25 Sheraton Hotel Salt Lake City Elor top LOS Scholars lifts Don Luilisvi sod Ted Brcw&rtan Shore Uieir latest research! For More Information contact: www.BMAF.org or call (801) 414-5150 mullets and multi-colored striped coifs. "This show is about as witty and adorable as you can possibly get," she says. Starring as Horton the Elephant Ele-phant is Al Oquendo with Macy Taylor as Gertrude McFuzz. Tiffany Nutter is Mayzie La Bird, Shawn Mortensen is the Cat in the Hat, Jordan Allen is JoJo and Justin Kennington is the Mayor of Whoville with Laurel Lau-rel Bar ham as his wife. Other characters include Lisa Gia-coletto Gia-coletto as a sour kangaroo, with Jessica Sundwall as the young kangaroo and Dave Hanson as Gen. Genghis Khan Schmitz. Assisting Young is musical director Jeremy Showgren with set and lighting design by David Whitlock. Whit-lock's Whit-lock's unusual and creative set features a raked stage and glow-in-the-dark black lighting. ! . Hi !J' Dear Dr. Lillian Dear Dr. Lillian: Q: My youngest daughter is very sensitive and also very overweight. As a parent who believes in fitness and as-sertiveness, as-sertiveness, I would really like to guide her to strength and to less vulnerability. A: A person's body is a symbol of self-image and reflects re-flects precisely how that person per-son images self in the lens of the mind. This is each person's per-son's uniquely intimate and sacred symbol. Therefore, when you feel your daughter's body and self-image should be different, differ-ent, you are (even though you only want to ensure your daughter's survival) on very dangerous ground because be-cause your daughter experiences experi-ences your parental perception percep-tion of her body-image as a psychological intrusion and your parental worry about her weight and sensitivity as a sure sign that you think there is a fundamental flaw in her very being. This is the last thing you want to communicate, but, in effect, you are doing just that. You want to help, but your desire to toughen her up physically and emotionally emotional-ly must backfire for three reasons: First, you are intruding in-truding into her sense of self, going where one may only go when invited and then only with great wisdom; second, sec-ond, her sensitivity, viewed by you as a weakness, is in reality her greatest gift and powerful purpose; and third, her extra weight is her protection pro-tection of choice against what she considers to be unaware un-aware and insensitive energies ener-gies around her. Begin with the end in rriind; which is for you to allow al-low your daughter to find her own way of being, her own voice. She may very well be a poet or artist or social so-cial worker in the future. Her ability to empathize em-pathize and her sensitivity to reel will support her and others oth-ers effectively in the life purpose pur-pose of her cnoice. You could encourage your daughter to share her sensitivity sensi-tivity with you in words, drawings, or whatever form of expression is dearest and most natural to her. Tell your daughter that you love her ability to be sensitive and deep. She, in turn, will be able to acknowledge your strength without feeling pressured to be what she is ' not and may even voice that she would love to be assertive as-sertive like you. Then, you have an opening, but only if you don't storm in and try to fix" her. Precisely because of her sensitivity, she will align herself her-self in her own time. The more you respect her free will, the more she will bloom. You are right when you say that sensitive people must find their way in life. This is vital, because the earth is in such dire need of their gentle and guiding spiritual spir-itual force. But precisely in that area, you need not underestimate un-derestimate your daughter's radiant power. She has come to serve and she will, precious, pre-cious, just as she is. Dear Dr. Lillian: Q: I am fiftin. The trends and me, we bin frends for a Ion time. No I find a techr who sez if I werk hard I can go to coligde. She techez me En- ?les as 2 languidge. My rends laff at me and my techr. A: My dear young friend, let them laugh. Your friends are your past, your teacher is your future. Gather all your courage and go forward. for-ward. Then, in the future, you can guide young people like yourself safely out of the East and into the future, just ke your teacher is guiding you now. Ask your teacher to loan you simple, high-interest books in English that tell stories sto-ries of friendships, courage, and growth. Make the friends in these books your Hearing Problems? A Simple Hearing Test May Be All You Need! Intermountain "Personalized Office & In-home Hearing Testing Available Entire Wasatch Front Call for a 1 -866-679-6626. 294 N. University Ave. Provo, UT 84601 801-373-4657 9351 S. 1300 Sandy, UT 801 - 553 - v bw mi umbiupm, Thursday, September 9, 2004 "mind-friends" and you will never need to feel lonely again. By your sincere efforts ef-forts in educational and personal per-sonal growth, you will soon attract real, like-rninded friends into your life. , Dear Dr. Lillian: ; Q: I've been a teacher for three years now. Sometimes, I'm just not connecting with all kids; I know I am not reaching my more unconventional unconven-tional students. If I've got a typical student from a good home and upbringing, the connection is easy and aligned with my instructional expectations and abilities. But if I am working with a punk or a student with language lan-guage or behavior difficulties, difficul-ties, I just see glazed eyes looking back at me and I am ill at ease, at my most awkward awk-ward and most ineffective. This makes me sad. The other area in which) would appreciate advice has to do with record keeping,' I am a person who just loathe$ all this nitty-gritty daily entering en-tering of scores and assign ment on Power School and the fact that, for hours on end, I have to do paper, phone and computer work to report to parents (don't they trust me, or what?) when I would rather be preparing my lessons in peace. This column is really the only place I can speak honestly; honest-ly; at school I am accountable to administration and parents, par-ents, but no one is really accountable ac-countable to me. Teachers are just expected to be perfectly motivated, available all the time, and to be public servants ser-vants without a life or personal per-sonal feelings. That is hard for me. I am a person, too, and feel my work should be trusted and my worth respected. re-spected. A: Yes, you are a passionate passion-ate teacher who wants to grow, but you need to be careful that you do not become be-come a bitter teacher on the defensive. Since time immemorial, the teaching profession has carried car-ried the sacredness of wisdom wis-dom and calling, as well as the role of information and value dispersal, as well as the lower thought of teachers as public servants and slaves, at the beck and call of whim and demand by their rich masters (certainly the case in Roman times). Often teachers have been so committed to their work of enlightening minds that their passion for teaching truth has put them at odds with society's ambition, as the conflict between the great Socrates and the Athenian society clearly shows. In our American sq-ciety, sq-ciety, we blend all of these ideas about teachers into an unconscious, yet very vocal and volatile, emotional expectation. ex-pectation. All you need to know for each day is this: Enjoy your teaching. Invite your unreached un-reached students, one at, a time, to speak with you at lunchtime. , Ask what is working for them in school and what is not. Ask how you may help. Your students will tell you and trust you, because you are a teacher who cares. They will guide you to teach to their needs by their horr-esty. horr-esty. Find a good teacher's aide to help with entries that do not violate confidentiality With parents, see each encounter en-counter as a means of knowr ing the student more deeply and of becoming the teacher you aspire to be. Everything you do, you do for your own self -discovery and as you discover dis-cover yourself more deeply, you can guide your students in their self -discovery more deeply, safely, and beautifully. beautiful-ly. ; P.S. It gets significantly easier after the 5th year, I promise... ; Dear Reader of any Age: You are welcome to send questionsdear-dr-lilliaaor5; Hearing Centers Hearing Care" E. Suite 2 84094 8989 650 N. 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