We hope you enjoyed your recent visit!
Each season Orlando Family Stage works to curate a series of shows with stories that enlighten, entertain, and enrich the lives of family and young audiences. Our show selections, which often bring popular literary works to life, help instill a love of reading and inspire lifelong exploration and learning.
Theatre is a creative access point to enter the world of stories.
Now we invite you to continue the conversation sparked by the story we brought to life on our stage. Below are educational and creative resources to help you and your family step further into the world and themes explored in our selected show titles.
Available Resources
Show Resources
These downloadable resources are developed to help you bring the story to life through conversation and creative expression.
CUE TO CUE | an educational resource guide designed to help parents, guardians, teachers, and young audience members enhance the experience of seeing one of our season productions.
CRAFT INSTRUCTIONS | with each season production patrons may take part in a themed show craft to encourage creative play. When arriving for each show Craft Kits are available in our lobby creative space and can be done prior to the show or later at home.
Questions for the ride home
These thought-provoking questions invite your family to discuss the themes of the show in more detail. Questions discuss characters, assess production elements, consider story structure, and find ways to relate to the content and characters on a more personal level.
Questions may also be found in your program from the show.
Show Resources
Questions for the ride home
We invite your family to explore these questions:
- What makes Dog Man a hero? How does he help save the day? Who are some of your favorite heroes in books, television/movies, or comics?
- Best friends George and Harold have been writing comic books together for years. They decide to step up their game and write a musical! What is the difference between a play and a musical? What was your favorite moment from DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL?
- The larger than life characters is DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL experience big transformations. The definition of a transformation is a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. Which characters experienced significant changes during the course of the show?
Questions for the ride home continued:
- The actors in the show performed some of our favorite characters from the Dog Man series. How did costumes help illustrate which character they were playing? How did they use their voice and body to show the audience what character they were playing?
- If you could invent a robot suit, what would you program it to do and why?
Show Resources
Questions for the ride home
We invite your family to explore these questions:
- What was Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds about? Describe the beginning, middle, and end. What
was the climax of the story? Why? If you had to summarize the play in one sentence, what
would it be? - What did you notice when you first entered the theatre? Describe the stage.
- Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds takes place in Jamaica. Did the set and scenery help establish
the show’s location? What specific things did you notice about the set and stage lights: color,
shape, texture? Did you notice anything about the set or lights that you thought was unique?
Questions for the ride home continued:
- What did you notice about the actors and their performance? How did they use their voices
and bodies to bring the characters to life? - Which character do you relate to the most? Why? What words describe that character?
- How did Ziggy change throughout the story? How did Nansi change? What was the moral or
lesson of the story? - In Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds, Duppy is after Ziggy’s hair because it is very special. His hair is
the thickest and longest dreadlocks Duppy has ever seen. Describe something about yourself
that makes you special.
Show Resources
Questions for the ride home
We invite your family to explore these questions:
- What was Cinderella about? Describe the beginning, middle, and end. What was the climax of the story? Why? If you had to summarize the play in one sentence, what would it be?
- What did you notice when you first entered the theatre? Describe the stage.
- Cinderella takes place in various locations throughout Prince Topher’s Kingdom. Did the set and scenery help establish the show’s location? What specific things did you notice about the set and stage lights: color, shape, texture? Did you notice anything about the set or lights that you thought was unique?
Questions for the ride home continued:
- What did you notice about the actors and their performances? How did they use their voices and bodies to bring the characters to life?
- Which character do you relate to the most? Why? What words describe that character?
Show Resources
Questions for the ride home
We invite your family to explore these questions:
- What was The Legend of Sleepy Hollow about? Describe the beginning, middle, and end. What was the climax of the story? Why? If you had to summarize the play in one sentence, what would it be?
- What did you notice when you first entered the theatre? Describe the stage.
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow takes place in various locations throughout the town of Sleepy Hollow. Did the set and scenery help establish the show’s location? What specific things did you notice about the set and stage lights: color, shape, texture? Did you notice anything about the set or lights that you thought was unique?
Questions for the ride home continued:
- What did you notice about the actor and his performance? How did he use his voice and body to bring multiple characters to life?
- Which character do you relate to most? Why? What words describe that character?
- One actor was able to portray many characters with support from costume pieces. What did you notice about the costumes? How did the pieces help you identify which character he was?
- The schoolmaster hopes the students decide for themselves what is true and what is not in this legend from their own town. What is the moral or lesson?
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