The Wild Swan Variety Show
Thank you to our Sponsors who supported this new effort of ours:
Bank of Ann Arbor
Marci and Jim Cameron
Gilda Johnson
Dorothy Ebersole and Bill Everin
Liisa and Richard Lusk
Susan McClanahan and Bill Zimmerman
Livestreaming wonder and imagination from our talented troupe of performers right into your home!Tune into Facebook LIVE on Thursdays In July at 7:30 PM EST for a fun storytime the whole family can enjoy! Catch up with Frog & Toad, listen to Pooh tell us some of his favorite memories, and so much more. Enjoy our first four shows:
July 9th – Visitor For Bear plus Owl Stories
July 16th – Frog and Toad plus Library Lion
July 23rd – Pooh Bear Storytime
July 30th – Charlotte’s Web Stories
These shows are archived on our Facebook page.
Funding for the Wild Swan Variety Show was provided, in part, by Michigan
Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic
stabilization plan.
Vistor for Bear plus Owl Stories
Our friend Bear is quite sure he doesn’t like visitors. He even has a sign. So when a mouse taps on his door one day, things get a little silly!
Afterward, our friend Owl will stop by to tell us what he has been up to during the quarantine!
Watch the Variety Show
Frog and Toad
plus Library Lion
Hop on over to Facebook because Frog and Toad are going LIVE to tell us their favorite stories!
Then we will hear one of our favorite stories, Library Lion. Mrs. Merriweather, the head librarian, has very particular rules about the library. What happens when a lion walks into the library??
Pooh Bear Storytime
Winnie The Pooh (and a few friends) are going LIVE on our Facebook to tell us a few of their favorite stories.
Snacks are not required, but as Pooh would say, “it’s time for a little something”, so they are definitely recommended.
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Charlotte’s Web Stories
The actors of the Wild Swan Charlotte’s Web production are reuniting and reading their favorite scenes from the show.
Wilbur and Charlotte are two of the great friends in the Zuckerman’s barn. Tune in to our Facebook page to see who drops by!
Watch the Variety Show
Thank you to our Coding to the Moon Sponsors
We appreciate you to the moon and back!
Supporting Producer Sponsors
Atomic Object
Dykema
Telemus
Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
Cast Sponsors
Abracadabra Jewlery/Gem Gallery
Bank of Ann Arbor
Boxcar Studio
Dorothy Ebersole and Bill Everin
Productions Plus
Charlene Reardon and Denise Gonzalez
Reinhart Realtors
TMC Furniture
In-Kind Sponsors
Circ Bar
Lake Forest Golf Club
York
Zingerman’s Catering
For more information about sponsorships,
please contact Dorothy Ebersole at dorothy@wildswantheater.org
Coding to the Moon: Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo Missions
The early scenes of the play are set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where Hamilton spent her childhood; the later scenes at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab where Hamilton and her colleagues built and programmed the Apollo Guidance Computer and laid the groundwork for almost all of today’s modern computing. The play is a gripping drama of the daring and risk taking involved in the space missions and how Hamilton’s team averted last minute disasters during the flights of Apollo 8 and Apollo 11. We think that a play about a woman in science can provide positive role models, challenge stereotypes, and give a more inclusive picture of the nature of work in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics for students in grades 4-12.
