Drama Club to produce 'Jungle Book'

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too
~Rudyard Kipling

Drama Club adviser Janet Hazlett talks to students about production

If members of St. Paul Drama Club can absorb just a bit of the genius of Rudyard Kipling, this year’s production of his “Jungle Book” will have been worth all the effort.

Drama Club members met for an hour and 45 minutes in their first meeting Tuesday afernoon to prepare for the production.

Producer and Drama Club adviser Janet Hazlett first talked to the students to introduce this year’s work and then distributed folders outlining the practice times and play information. Students were then divided into three groups for work sessions. Leading the sessions were play director Jud Hartman, Hazlett and Sean Collins. Also on hand was Tom Liggett, who handles music and lighting.

Finally sudents gathered on stage to sing several run-throughs with Mrs. Hazlett of “Bare Necessities.”

The Jungle Book is an amazing story about a little boy called Mowgli who gets lost in the jungle and lives with the “wild” animals. He learns how to survive by “the Law of the Jungle” which he learns from Baloo, the bear, and Bageera, the black panther, and many others. The play is based on a collection of stories by Kipling first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations by Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. Walt Disney produced an animated musical in 1967

Below is a You Tube version of “Bare Necessities” to give you an idea.

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