Furry Little Sailor Man

To celebrate the coming of Anything Goes, I made a fancy sailor hat for Biscuits out of a paper bag.Feeling pretty proud of my creation, I found Biscuits and got ready to take some photos of him as an adorable little furry sailor man.

In case you’re wondering, this is what happens when you try to put a sailor hat on your cat.

If you would like to see non-feline sailors singing and dancing on TPAC’s Jackson Hall stage, come see the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes October 23-28.  Visit tpac.org/AnythingGoes for details and tickets.

If you would like to make a sailor hat out of a paper bag and chase your cat around the house with it for hours of amusement, visit artistshelpingchildren.org.

– Jennifer

"CATS: Behind the Curtain" featuring Anything Goes (and Biscuits the cat)

Ben Folds Five + Fraggle Rock = Amazing (VIDEO)

Reliving my childhood today with this great video for "Do It Anyway," from Ben Folds Five's new album, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, featuring some celebs and, of course, the Fraggles from Fraggle Rock.

Disney Magic

TPAC Education is sharing some of the magic with you this week with new video from Disney Musicals in Schools:

At the first DMIS Student Share celebration in Nashville, children from metro elementary schools appeared on the stage of Jackson Hall in May – the exciting finale to the first year of an exclusive pilot project outside of New York City.

“TPAC knocked it out of the ballpark,” said Lisa Mitchell, Disney Theatrical Group’s Education and Outreach, commenting for a television camera on the success of that pilot.  After smashing success in Nashville, the program will be extended to other cities across the nation, giving students in urban, public schools the free rights and resources to produce Disney KIDS Musicals.

The program will be expanded in Nashville next year, supplemented by a $75,000 “after-school creativity grant,” one of the first of its kind to be awarded by the charitable arm of Disney.

News Channel Five’s Lelan Statom was the master of ceremonies at the performance featuring children from Glengarry, Hattie Cotton STEM, Hull-Jackson Montessori, Kirkpatrick, and Percy Priest elementary schools.  For more information see: www.tpac.org/education/disney.