Performing Arts Aficionados Gifts

Ballerina kicking another dancer in the face.

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

'I said you're next, Hibblemeyer. . . Hibblemeyer!'

In addition to brilliant grades and perfect SATs � Parents' night. College admissions. Your child should excel at 3 sports and lead a school extra-curricular like the newspaper. Don't the arts count? Sure! If your child sings, for example � A part on 'Glee' or in the Metropolitan Opera would certainly help. Our kids are doomed.

Marcel Marceau's parrot

Cleaner cleaning under the feet of the dancers as they perform

Harriet Walter

Circus

Koko pleads with the Mikado

Blue Haired Lady in Ballgown

"Sorry, I meant to say "good luck", not "break a leg"..."

"Oh, you haven’t seen holiday drama ‘till you’ve met our little family."

The Costumer Is Always Right

"The first rule of miming is you don't talk about miming."

Chorister's Loose Teeth

'...and on Bass...'

Funding Cuts for the Arts

'Whoops. There goes one of my prostheses.'

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

Drama is the highest form of culture. It combines literature, art and music

"So. Are you a mime, a puppeteer, or a ventriloquist?"

"Yikes. I'm on in five minutes and still haven't figured out my character's motivation."

Can Can

"The Flying Wallendas at home"

"He's a rescue, and before that he was in Vaudeville."

"This is it, everybody. Jack and Harriet Schroeder sing Harold Arlem."

The clown loses it at the circus and takes the 'fat lady' hostage with a cream pie 'I'm not clowning this time, back-off or the fat-lady gets it!'

"It's a panda-cam production of 'Streetcar,' but it is live theatre."

"Tonight Mathew, I'm going to be, Charlotte Church"

'I don't know much about Ballet but I like watching men in tights.'

Old Vic / Adelphi Theatre

"That is today's special, sir, Spanish lobster flamenco."

Bismark Ballet School

Intramission

Ventriloquist Speech Therapy.