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Second grade play dispels fighting like cats and dogs
Feb 26, 2004 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
One might expect a lot of scratching and biting, meowing and barking, and generally a big fight when mixing about 20 cats with 20 dogs, but Lucy Babcock’s “cats” found a way to get along quite well with Elaine Smith’s “dogs” in the second grade’s recent production of The Unity Tree.
The story begins with the cats sitting on one side of a large evergreen tree set center stage and the dogs on the other side. Each group is continually warned not to go on the “other side” of the tree. Then the older dogs and cats realize that Puppy and Kitten are playing together and warn them that the relationship won’t work. But Kitten and Puppy teach them a lesson that no matter how different people are they can still be friends.
Songs included in the play were “It’s Snowing Cats and Dogs!; “Let’s Play,” a solo by Brooke Hummel (Kitten) and Hannah Hutchins (Puppy); “Just the Way That It Is”; “You’ll be Sorry”; “I’d Rather Be Your Friend,” a solo by Maggie Graham, Rosser Stevens, and Victoria Mathis; and “United We Stand.”
The story begins with the cats sitting on one side of a large evergreen tree set center stage and the dogs on the other side. Each group is continually warned not to go on the “other side” of the tree. Then the older dogs and cats realize that Puppy and Kitten are playing together and warn them that the relationship won’t work. But Kitten and Puppy teach them a lesson that no matter how different people are they can still be friends.
Songs included in the play were “It’s Snowing Cats and Dogs!; “Let’s Play,” a solo by Brooke Hummel (Kitten) and Hannah Hutchins (Puppy); “Just the Way That It Is”; “You’ll be Sorry”; “I’d Rather Be Your Friend,” a solo by Maggie Graham, Rosser Stevens, and Victoria Mathis; and “United We Stand.”
