Awesome Shakespeare

***Awesome Shakespeare*** was released in May 15, 2001. It teaches 12 everyday words through poetry and classical music by Ludwig Van Beethoven.

## Segments

* Warning Screen
* Theme Song
* Title Card
* Kids sing the Alphabet Song
* Muno watches a clock and gets dizzy
* "The Old Clock" by John Charles McNeil
	+ *All day low clouds and slanting rain
	Have swept the woods and dimmed the plain.
	Wet winds have swayed the birch and oak,
	And caught and swirled away the smoke
	But, all day long, the wooden clock
	Went on, Nic-noc, nic-noc.
	When deep at night I wake with fear,
	And shudder in the dark to hear
	The roaring storm's unguided strength,
	Peace steals into my heart at length,
	When, calm amid the shout and shock,
	I hear, Nic-noc, nic-noc.
	And all the winter long 't is I
	Who bless its sheer monotony--
	Its scorn of days, which cares no whit
	For time, except to measure it:
	The prosy, dozy, cosy clock,
	Nic-noc, nic-noc, nic-noc!*
* Rondo a Caprico (Rage Over a Lost Penny)
* Estuardo tries to pick apples from a tree, but they fall down and he runs away.
* "Tree" by Joyce Kilmer
	+ *I think that I shall never see
	A poem lovely as a tree.
	A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
	Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
	A tree that looks at God all day,
	And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
	A tree that may in summer wear
	A nest of robins in her hair;
	Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
	Who intimately lives with rain.
	Poems are made by fools like me,
	But only God can make a tree.*
* Jordan looks at trees.
* Estuardo and Jack pick carrots
* "Carrots" by Shel Silverstein
	+ *They say that carrots are good for your eyes, they swear that they improve your sight, but I'm seein' worse than I did last night. You think maybe I ain't usin' em right.*
* Sonata no 8 "Pathquiece" 3rd movement
* "The Fox" by Susan Stewart
	+ *Did we live lightly then?
	Twice we've seen the fox,
	The flash
	Of red that leaps
	The weeds and brush, an after-
	Image gray,
	Then blank, then gone
	Delight cannot be sought
	Or pleasure thought
	Or joy re-caught
	But twice we've seen the fox, not once,
	And knew his fear of us
	Step in time, love, step in time,
	Live inside the morning
	Twice we've seen the fox, not once,
	And knew his fear of us*
* Estuardo sprinkles pepper on a flower and sneezes
* "The Wild Flower Song" by William Blake (Moonlight Sonata)
	+ *As I wandered the forest,
	The green leaves among,
	I heard a Wild Flower Singing a song.
	'I slept in the earth
	In the silent night,
	I murmured my fears And I felt delight.*
* Jordan eats a flower
* Estuardo watches frog footprints then ribbits
* "The Frog" by Hilarie Beloc
	+ *Be Kind and Tender to the Frog
	and do not call it names.
	Like Slimy Skin or Pollywog or likewise Ugly James.
	Or gap-a-grin or toad gone wrong or Billy Bandy Knees,
	the frog is justly sensitive to epithets like these.*
* The ABC Song reprise
* Estuardo jumps in a pile of leaves
* "A Fallen Leaf" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
	+ *A trusting little leaf of green,
	A bold audacious frost;
	A rendezvous, a kiss or two,
	And youth for ever lost. Ah, me!
	The bitter, bitter cost.
	A flaunting patch of vivid red, That quivers in the sun;
	A windy gust, a grave of dust,
	The little race is run. Ah, me!
	Were that the only one.*
* Contradance no 2
* Estuardo tries to avoid water with his umbrella and succeeds, when he sees Jack is dumped on he agrees to share with him.
* "The Rain" by William Henry Davies
	+ *I hear leaves drinking rain;
	I hear rich leaves on top
	Giving the poor beneath Drop after drop;
	'Tis a sweet noise to hear
	These green leaves drinking near.
	And when the Sun comes out, After this Rain shall stop, A wondrous Light will fill Each dark, round drop;
	I hope the Sun shines bright;
	'Twill be a lovely sight.*
* Maren doesn't want Jordan's umbrella, but it rains so she takes shelter in it
* Estuardo and Muno watch the Sun
* "The Sun Cup" by Archibald Lampman
	+ *The earth is the cup of the sun,
	That he filleth at morning with juice so bright,
	With the warm, strong juice of his might
	From the vintage of gold and of light,
	Fills it, and makes it divine.*
* Symphony no 6 "Pastoral," 3rd movement
* Estuardo hears an elephant stomping and pretends to be one by swaying his trunk.
* "Toomai of the Elephants" by Rudyard Kipling
	+ *I will remember what I was.
	I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest-affairs.
	I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugarcane.
	I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.
	I will go out until the day, until the morning break.
	Out to the winds 'untainted kiss, the waters' clean caress.
	I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket-stake.
	I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!*
* Estuardo catches bugs
* "To-Day, This Insect" by Dylan Thomas
	+ *To-day, this insect, and the world I breathe,
	Now that my symbols have outelbowed space,
	Time at the city spectacles, and half The dear, daft time I take to nudge the sentence,
	In trust and tale I have divided sense,
	Slapped down the guillotine, the blood-red double
	Of head and tail made witnesses to this Murder of Eden and green genesis.
	The insect certain is the plague of fables.*
* Maren and Muno show Brooklyn some pretty cool bugs
* Sonata no 2
* Estuardo is seen going to bed. He yawns, kisses a bear, and lies down. (Moonlight Sonata, 2nd movement) "A Night Piece" by William Wordsworth
	+ *The sky is overcast
	With a continuous cloud of texture close,
	Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
	Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
	A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
	So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
	Chequering the ground--from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
	At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
	Startles the pensive traveller while he treads His lonesome path, with unobserving eye*
* The kids talk to the Awesome Gang (Wellington's Victory finale)
* Credits (Wellington's Victory reprise)
* Video Tutorial
* About Awesome Shakespeare

## Credits

* Created by Maria Timotheou and William Vanderpuye
* Written and Directed by: Maria Timotheou
* Starring: Muno Acevedo, Estuardo Alvizures, Jordan Berry, Jack Charles, Maren Hoffmann, and Brooklyn Vera
* Kids: Amanda, Andrew, Justin, Katie, Kortney, and Ryan
* Music Box Orchestra: Muno Acevedo, Jordan Berry, Richard Apple, Tim Burns, and Phillip Parker
* Original music by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Muzio Clementi, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Strauss II, Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel
* Poems by: Hilarie Beloc, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Susan Stewart, John Charles McNeil, Dylan Thomas, Archibald Lampman

## Kids

* Katie Henney
* Andrew Hoeft
* Ryan Tilson
* Amanda Tilson
* Kortney Vanderpuye
* Justin Wong