holiday sing-a-long
The Wind in the Willows
The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting...spring holidays are here and the weather is fine.
At ACMI it's time to mess about in boats, dance in the school gym, and sing chim chiminey chim chim cher-ee at the top of your lungs!
First published in 1908 by bank secretary Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows is a hundred years old and still a bestseller. The definitive screen version is the 1983 stop-motion animation, screening in Kids' Flicks until 3rd October. Featuring music from Stone Roses guitarist John Squire, the story centres on the swaggering Toad - apparently based on Grahame's own wayward son - and his ill-fated love of cars.
Toad, as we know, also loves to sing, and if your kids do too, then ACMI is the place to be this month as we present High School Musical and High School Musical 2.
Described as Grease for the noughties, these smash hits are all-singing, all-dancing glitter-fests from the choreographer of Xanadu.
And on Sunday 28 September it's all in for Sing-A-Long Mary Poppins - when ACMI's very own super nanny Melanie Maslin will lead you through a special edition of this classic musical - with subtitles, so you can sound every syllable of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious pitch-perfect.
Published Friday, 26 September 2008
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