Audience Project
Each fall, Arts For All tours a professional theatrical production to over 2,500 in-need children.
Last fall, Arts For All partnered with PigPen Theatre Company to tour “The Mountain Song” to the children we serve. Back-to-Back 2010 and 2011 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winners, PigPen Theatre Company is an ensemble of seven young men who create atmospheric theatrical fables with their own unique blend of live music, puppetry, shadow play, choreographed movement, and clever lighting effects. “The Mountain Song”, which is a story about a carpenter who loses touch with his daughter as she grows older, charms and dazzles audiences as he is given the impossible task of locating his own daughter’s wedding. Follow his journey of mythical proportions as he takes to land, sea, and air, coming across giants, talking geese, man-eating coyotes, and even the crazy mayor of a ghost town. “The Mountain Song” was the runaway hit of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival (the largest multi-arts festival in North America), earning critical praise from Time Out New York, Backstage, and The New York Times. Everything the Arts For All children saw on stage was the result of years of collaboration between seven recent Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama graduates!
“I can’t thank you enough for bringing Pig Pen’s, The Mountain Song, to P.S. 69. Our children and staff absolutely loved it! Teachers were stopping me in the halls to tell me how terrific it was and how much their children enjoyed it. The actors were wonderful and quite entertaining and the story was touching yet amusing. We loved the set, the music, the whole presentation!” – Linda Sorrentino, Enrichment Coordinator, PS69
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