Sideways Stories From Wayside School - Emerson

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:17pm

Anyone involved with this production? I was a fan of the books as a child and am very interested in seeing this...too childish you think?

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:24pm

These books are still really popular in 3rd grade classrooms.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:42pm

Oh my these books are lmao funny. Never thought of it on stage.

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:58pm

Are these the stories about the school that was built on its side and each classroom is above the other? I used to LOVE those books! I had completely forgotten about them. They were fantastic - I could see it being a very interesting theatrical production.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 11:36pm

I loved these books!!!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 11:38pm

Yes instead of 30 classrooms being built one next to the other, they were built one on top of the other.

These books are an absolute riot. I bet this would be interesting onstage.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 11:46pm

I loved the books when I was younger. Anybody know who's involved and if it is a musical or play?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:15am

Ooh I loved these but especially the math problem books, anyone remember those? There were two versions I think, sometimes you had to add words and figure out the numbers each letter stood for, weird, tricky stuff like that. Probably should have realized my math geekness back then. Still remember the first problem in book 2:

Boys + Boys = Silly

Mathematically, S has to be 1 b/c you can't get an extra digit and have it be more than one. So 1 goes to the end of boys, so y is 2, then L is 4, so O cannot be 2 so O has to be 7 to still equal L and keeping in mind a one is carried over and you can't repeat numbers, B has to be 6 and i is 3.

Ah, the good old days

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:57am

wickedrentq,

the good old days?? ha! I read that just now and i literally saw my head floating away!

hrmph, i was ALWAYS bad at math :P

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 4:15pm

My good friend's dad is directing it. I believe it to be just a play. I hear it's going to be really great. I've seen some set pieces, they look just wonderful. I plan on seeing it.

~Steven

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:19pm

I saw a producton of this (don't know if it is the same one) at a theatre near me in Philly, The Arden. It was hilarious, and anyone who liked the books as a child should go. It works really well on stage.

[Allie]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:24pm

I had the book of math problems, wickedrentq. *mind boggles at memory* Other than THOSE, I loved this series!

[Swiftynifty15]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:30pm

I want to see this kind of. Do you think it is going to be very,
"Little Kid-ish?"

[tinydancer478]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:33pm

I was just in Sideways Stories From Wayside School last spring!! It's a short play, about an hour and a half. It's HILARIOUS! I played Bebe. The guy who wrote it (i'm drawing a blank on the name.. sorry!) combined different stories and characters from three or four of Lois Sachar's books on Wayside School into a short play. It really is for a younger audience, but all the adults who came to see it said it was so funny, and a really great family show! The script gives you some really wacky characters, and a lot of room to develop them. The sets (at lease in our production) are really colorful and fun!

[Allie]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:40pm

I found this when I Googled!
http://www.ardentheatre.org/2004/sideways.html

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:41pm

^ That's what I saw.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:44pm

Heymrmusic, do you know what characters and stories they are picking for the show?

[MrBundles]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:55pm

i loved these books sooo much.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:57pm

I had no idea this was a show!! I loved loved loved and still LOVE these books! They are genius.

Id like some information about this too.

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:01pm

i wonder if they'll include my favorite chapter: SAMMY

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:07pm

I loved these books! I never thought of them onstage either. This should be interesting.....I wonder how it will turn out.

[ACTlete676]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:28pm

I just saw "Of a New Brain" there and LOVED it!

[QMAN03]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:50pm

I love the one about the kid who always gets sent home before lunch. I think thats a story from this?

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:11am

Sorry, QMAN, I know nothing of the show or what characters are in it. I just know that a bunch of my friends are in it. Haha.

Yeah, Emerson puts on some great productions. The other play that was put on before A New Brain this semester was The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute, and it was insanely intense and twisted. I'm in a mainstage production in February (Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind). People in or around the area should come see it if they'd like to. Yay!

~Steven

[Swiftynifty15]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:46pm

I saw it tonight. I really enjoyed it.