Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:38:00 -0500
From: Susan Kronenberg <susan-AT-carouselpuppets.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Politically correct endings


Hi, Jim,
Out here in Virginia a lot of my bookings are from the pre-school trade
(lots of Montessori schools with an entertainment budget) and
libraries...so that would be my target audience for this show. (Although I
can see it now...get funding from the NRA...have the wolf eat Red, and the
moral would be, "If she only had a gun, this wouldn't have happened."  :-)   )

Susan



At 04:10 PM 1/14/00 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Susan, 
>    Unless you could include subjects like "drug abuse," "gun control," 
>"cultural diversity," etc.  (I'm only being slightly serious) you could not 
>sell a simple story like "Little Red Riding Hood" to schools in California.  
>The market for this kind of show is very limited....pre-schools....maybe, 
>libraries...maybe,  my experience is that schools are so constrained by 
>classroom time limits, that unless you have a "hook" you cannot sell a
simple 
>"Grimms" fairy tale.  FWIW   Jim Gamble
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