The Hundred Dresses
Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 03:57AM
Fabian Lewkowicz in Children, Elementary School, Entertainment , Theatre

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(1) As part of the Youth Education/Entertainment Series, Quinn D'Andrea, 11, who plays the lead role of  Wanda -  a poor and friendless Polish-American girl, sits alone during a scene of Santa Monica Theatre Guild's production   “The Hundred Dresses” at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre on Wednesday, April 2, 2008. (2) Cast left to right: Rebecca Sherouse, 13, Molly Quaranta, 13, Franky Garces, 13, and Alice Kors, 13. (above) Kindergarten students from Overland Elementary school, many of who's first time to see a live play, stretch during the intermission.The Morgan-Wixson partners with SMMUSD Visual and Performing Arts to present school shows and introduce kids to the wonders of live theatre. The Hundred Dresses is a 1944 children's book by Eleanor Estes. The book is about Wanda Petronski, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl. Her teacher, outwardly kind, puts her in the worst seat in the schoolroom and does not intervene when her schoolmates tease her mercilessly. One day, after her classmates laugh and tease her over the faded blue dress she wears to school every day, Wanda claims to own one hundred dresses. The story follows these students as they learn a lesson about their moral values when faced with prejudice.

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