Last week, Hogwash had some very special guests in swell Girl Scout vests! Troops came from the Girl Scout Totem Council Arts Partnership and filled the Hogwash theatre with their voices and great ideas. They dressed Jon and Jen in incredibly silly costumes and helped with ideas and even came on stage to be trees that granted wishes.
The story began with a pair of best friends painting pictures of mountain landscapes. After painting so many mountain paintings, they decided to travel to the other side of the mountain for more inspiration, even though Jen was very frightened of bears. Even seeing a stuffed teddy bear scared her, but she went on the adventure with her best friend anyway. On their journey, they encountered an angry bear. The other mountain critters suggested singing the bear a lullaby to get him to go to sleep. It worked, but the two best friends got in a fight and decided to go about different paths. Unbeknownst to them, Cruella DeVille, another aspiring artist, was following them. She was the one who got the bear to attack them. She wanted their ideas because she had artist’s block, and wanted all the inspiration for herself. She demanded that the bear capture the friends and bring them back to her. What she didn’t realize was that the forest critters would help Jon figure out what happened to Jen. They led them to Cruella DeVille’s secret cave. She was so mad; she started painting evil mustaches on all the forest critters. The two friends tricked Cruella to think that she was beautiful, which she was not, and convinced her to pose for a portrait. Instead she was attacked with stringy paint and became entangled and immobile. They made her realize that art is something everyone can create and that it’s not a contest on who is better at expressing themselves.
The Girl Scouts also helped out with providing a magical place such as Antarctica as the setting for the second story. There, Lucy worked at her Aunt’s penguin farms, cleaning up after smarmy penguins. She dreamt about going to a warmer, tropical place where she didn’t have to wear so many layers. Not that far away at the ice castle, a prince forced to wear girl’s dresses for the warmth, dreamt the same dream. He decided to hold a ball in order to find his travel companion on his trip to the sunny shores of Florida. Lucy’s evil Auntie hid Lucy’s invitation to the ball so she could get closer to the prince and take over the ice kingdom. Lucy was granted some wishes from magical trees so that she could make it to the ball. She found a disguise and was able to go unnoticed by her Auntie at the ball. The prince immediately was drawn to the strange stranger and already knew that he wanted to take her to Florida. The dance competition was a hit and even though the evil Auntie threw down some awesome moves, she could not beat Lucy’s amazing gymnastic style break-ice-dancing moves. The prince tore off his funny dress to reveal his intentions to take Lucy to Florida with him. Hizah!
Thanks Girl Scouts of America Totem Council! We hope you took what you learned from last weekend home and made up your own stories. We hope to see you on stage soon!
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