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Victorian Music Hall

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Victorian Music Hall is a grand form of entertainment that produced songs during the eighteenth century that we still sing today. It is right and proper to heckle the Chairman – indeed no Music Hall is complete without rude and insulting comments from the audience. The performers will no doubt give as good as they get. Sing along with the songs. By the time you leave, you should feel that you have been responsible for this performance too!

The Royal Pickwickians are the troupe that started it all for the American Historical Theatre. The Royal Pickwickians troupe have programs of many sizes to suit any occasion, and will perform at “the drop of a hat.” This is perfect entertainment to present with period culinary delights, champagne and song around the piano at a post show sing-a-long. If you’d like to take a step back into the Gilded Age, get out your best silk toppers, your biggest hats with the brightest plumes. Drink a toast to Queen Victoria as she gazes down on the august assembly and gather with your friends as the Maestro begins the overture! After two acts filled with the finest artistes who ever strode the boards, if you are not too weak from laughing, we’ll have you singing around the concert grand deep into the night.

Songs of the 1890s:

Daisy Bell

The Man On the Flying Trapeze

Bicycle Built For Two

Why Am I Always the Bridesmaid?

Has Anybody Seen Our Ship

Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bow Wow

Who Were You With Last Night?

Hello, Hello, Who’s Your Lady Friend?

Champagne Charlie

I Want To Sing in Opera

God Save the Queen

Womens History

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Alice Paul    The Other Amendment  

Alice Paul looks back on a lifetime struggle to get votes for women.  Not content when that memorable day arrives in 1920, she goes on to write what would have been the 27th Amendment to get absolute and  equal rights for women.

The Candle Burns    Lucretia Mott recalls her active fruitful life as a nineteenth century leader in the abolition movement.  A Quaker, she also “fought” for peace and women’s rights.

        These presentations, in costume, lasts approximately 35 minutes and are followed by a question and answer period with the audience.  They are excellent for museums, women’s clubs, high schools and general audiences.  No special set is required.  

    Other Women from American History  Abigail Adams, Alice Roosevelt, Dolley Madison, 
Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks.

        Each of the above characters have similar 35 minute programs featuring aspects of their particular period in history followed by question and answer sessions.  Remember March is Women’s History Month!

Mr. Barnum’s Waxworks  Famous showman, P.T. Barnum displays and lectures about several of his “Famous Women” waxwork figures.  As he gives his one-sided male impressions of their place in history, they come to life to counter his version with opinions of their own.

Dr. Beecher, You Presume!  Three famous women activists have been invited to speak to the audience.  However, when the organizers realize that The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is in the vicinity, they leave the women sitting in the audience to introduce the famous Boston preacher.  It is not long before the women’s outrage drives them to their feet and up on the stage.

        Each of the above programs lasts 45 minutes and can be adjusted to include characters from several different periods in history.  Each is followed by a question and answer period and can include audience breakaway discussion groups.  Suitable for all audiences.

Night Thoughts    A short play about Elizabeth Graem Ferguson and her visit to George Washington during the War for Independence.  This talented Philadelphia poet, married to a Royalist who left her and fled to England, was famous in 18th century Philadelphia. Ferguson was famous for her salon where writers, composers and philosophers gathered.

The Flight To Paris    A short play about Mary Cassatt and her relationship with her brother, Alexander.  Mary returns to Philadelphia from France for a short visit and comes to the realization that, despite her artistic successes, her family still disapproves of her lifestyle.

        Each of the above one-act, fully costumed plays occupies approximately 40 minutes.  Only a few small pieces of furniture are needed and the play can be performed in such spaces as large rooms, small auditoriums, or small theatres.  These plays are particularly suitable for art centers, historic houses, and historical sites, etc..

Educational Theatre

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The American Historical Theatre strives to bring schools the very best in historical programs.  While we try to make our presentations entertaining, we are first and foremost a company that educates.  For this reason we only train and use the very special few who can become historical interpreters.  

They are not look-alikes, not actors, not teachers, not historians – they are an amazing and unique blend of ALL these ingredients and qualifications.  AHT interpreters come from all parts of the east coast – Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., etc..

Our school visits usually consist of: 

1.)  A whole day, one school – 2 interactive assemblies (max 250 students each)

2.)  Split day, 2 schools – 1 interactive assembly, 1 classroom visit (only available within a 25 mile radius of Philadelphia)

Each assembly lasts approximately one hour and includes a 20 minute question and answer period. Block bookings are encouraged.  You can make these bookings more cost effective by joining together with other schools in your area and sharing travel and accommodation expenses. Residencies frequently result in sponsorship and opportunities to interact with city leaders and reporters from the local press.  Teacher materials supplied. 

Here are some of the individual historical character programs we offer:        

Christopher Columbus (grades 1-5)               
Galileo (grades (5-8)
George Washington (grades 4-7)                   
Dr. Benjamin Franklin (grades 4-7)
Abraham Lincoln (grades 1-3, 4-6)                
Thomas Jefferson (grades 4-6) 
Harriet Tubman (grades 4-8, 9-12)                
Abigail Adams (grades 4-8)
Amelia Earhart (grades 7-12)                         
Rosa Parks (grades 7-8, 9-12)                        
Betsy Ross (grades 2-6)                                 
Alice Paul (grades 7-8, 9-12)                           
Ichabod Crane (grades 4-8)

If we bring a play to your school with two or more characters, it is advisable to centralize the performance and bus the students in.  For instance, a local high school or junior college auditorium equipped with a fine stage, lighting and amplification can be utilized to bus in the 5th grade students from surrounding grade schools.

Here are some of the plays we offer:

A Rising And A Setting Sun (Children’s Version)

        George Washington is at his home, Mount Vernon in Virginia, and is visited by his old friend Dr. Benjamin Franklin.  They talk about their family relationships, their political careers and some of the most exciting events in their lives.  The play runs approximately 45 minutes, is interactive with the audience, and ends with a Press Conference (question and answer period).  Play requires a few simple pieces of furniture and lasts approximately one hour. 

Galileo: Messenger From the Stars

        Galileo and his loyal helper, Brother Benedictus, recruit audience members to help relive events that lead up to Galileo’s thrilling discoveries about the solar system., the denunciation of his radical ideas and his subsequent house arrest.  Young students are introduced to the telescope and the planets as this man of astronomy and mathematics overturns century old beliefs.  Play requires a few simple pieces of furniture and lasts approximately one hour. 

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