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Available Dates: October 17–21 & 24–27

Directed by Rosemary Newcott

Four Middle School students, (along with their musically talented Assembly Advisor), grapple with the task of discovering who the Real Tweenagers of Atlanta actually are! The committee of Tweens (actually played by professional actors) reports their findings to your school assembly through music, dance, improvisation and skits. “Real” tweens are defined by the books they read (drawn from approved readings lists), the music they listen to, their creative ingenuity and plenty of other categories. In fact, you and your students may become part of the show by volunteering during the performance and also by first responding to a Real Tweenager questionnaire found on the Alliance Theatre Website. You can even nominate your own REAL TWEENAGER from your school and enter into a drawing to win free Alliance tickets!

Georgia Performance Standards:

LA Listening and Speaking
• Grade 6
• 1. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
• Grade 7
• 2. Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
• Grade 8
  
  
• 2. Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.

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Alliance Theatre

Since 1968, the Alliance Theatre has served as Atlanta’s foremost theatre, working within the local, national and international communities to become one of the leading theatres in America. A national theatre with a local address, the Alliance recently received the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award® for outstanding achievement.

Under the leadership of the Jennings Hertz, Jr. Artistic Director Susan V. Booth, the Alliance Theatre reaches out annually to almost 200,000 patrons and members of the community. Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance launched three Tony Award-winning hits to Broadway: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. And, in a rare event for a regional theatre, it originated the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Most recently, the Alliance transferred Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away to Broadway for a critically acclaimed Tony Award-nominated run. The theatre has premiered 60 works including adaptations of Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky.

Now in its 42nd season, Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre continues to create the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people.