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The Night Harry Stopped Smoking
a one-act musical comedy for children
By John Davies and Ross Dabrusin
Photo courtesy
of The Billings Gazette
Rimrock Opera, Billings, begins Phase 3 of its
educational outreach school tour this month. At its
conclusion, the spring and autumn segments of the
2006 tour of "The Night Harry Stopped Smoking" had
reached 14,000 students in eight weeks. During Phase
3, we will tour 20 schools to help 4,000 students in
Billings, Bozeman and northern Wyoming understand
the risks of tobacco use.
The
object of this tour is to educate young children to
the dangers of nicotine addiction which is the
direct result of smoking cigarettes.
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Local kids will join our professional cast to learn
not only about the dangers of smoking but also the
joys of musical theater.
Harry falls asleep in his chair one night with a
cigarette in his hand. He wakes to find himself
inside his own lung! He meets the crew trying to
keep his body clean--nerve cells Fred and Ginger,
ciliary cells Sid and Cilia, Pumper his Heart, and a
whole bunch of lung sacs called Alveoli. Their
message: his smoking is making them sick.
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The Night
Harry Stopped Smoking is suitable for kids in grades
K-6
Photo by JAMES WOODCOCK/Gazette Staff
(October 30) Rimrock Opera Company director Doug Nagel, center, acts
with opera singers and dancers, from left, Dennis Rupp, Maria Day,
Banielle Nichols and Laura Twelves. The group was performing "The
Night Harry Stopped Smoking" for students at Bitterroot Elementary
Monday afternoon. The outreach program focuses on the dangers of
smoking through a comical operetta/musical. The opera company will
continue the program today at Sandstone Elementary and Park City
School, and Wednesday will perform at Roosevelt School in Red Lodge
and Roberts School.
See
official flyer
For more information on the dangers of tobacco use,
click here
http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/PHSD/prevention_opps/pdf/MPHAugust07.doc
To download a pdf slide presentation of a
performance, click here
Story:
Opera aims to snuff smoking:
Story:
A day at the opera. Rimrock Opera Co.
performer Dennis Rupp, in bathrobe, along with
other cast members and Hillcrest Elementary students
sing during a one-act musical comedy Wednesday
morning at the school. The anti-smoking show is
titled, “The Night Harry Stopped Smoking.” The
musical aims to teach children the dangers of
smoking through entertainment and song.
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Story:
Rimrock
Opera, Billings, begins Phase Three of its
educational outreach school tour in February. "The
Night Harry Stopped Smoking" focuses on the
potential dangers of smoking through an entertaining
interactive operetta/musical produced and staged by
Rimrock Opera.
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Story:
Opera delivers anti-smoking message
If your lungs had a voice, they might sing opera and
warn of the dangers
of smoking. In a Rimrock Opera School Tour, a troupe
of opera singers
visited Boulder Elementary to perform "The Night
Harry Stopped Smoking,"
an opera with a healthy message.
"This is the first time we've done a health
message," said Rimrock
Opera artistic director Doug Nagel. "We've always
just done entertainment."
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Story:
Gazette opinion: Rimrock Opera Company singing about
not smoking
Opera as health promotion? That's exactly what
Rimrock Opera is planning with "The Night Harry
Stopped Smoking." This 45-minute, one-act musical
comedy for elementary school children will be
performed by a professional Rimrock Opera cast
beginning in January 2006 and continuing into 2007.
The plot involves the title character falling asleep
while holding a cigarette. He wakes up to find
himself inside his own lung where his heart and
various types of cells explain to him why his
smoking is hurting them.
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below:
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2005/09/06/opinion/export223184.txt
Thanks to all
our sponsors who make the show possible:
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