Touring

The Owl And the Tree and Me

Cimarron Opera will be touring the children’s opera, The Owl and The Tree and Me.  The cast of three teaches the audience about photosynthesis, symbiosis and harmony and how important they are in nature.  "When two things live together they both take and they both give, they have to learn to share the world, that's how they both survive."  The characters then transform themselves into Sapienza the Owl, Elmer the Tree and (the universal) Me, who owns the forest.  

In the song What I Breathe Out, the trio reinforces the importance of symbiosis and how important they are to one another.  Enter the Greedy Guys, who reveal their plan to cut down the forest for money in the song Take a Few Trees.  Through clever manipulation in the songs Lovely Forest and $27,000, they convince a reluctant Me to sign a contract that will allow them to "trim the trees".  In the song Lovely Profit, Me struggles with the decision to sell the rights to the forest to the Greedy Men.  Realizing her mistake, she changes her mind and turns to find she's too late.  What was once the forest is now only stumps.   In the song Nothing, Me sings of what happens when symbiosis is upset.  Sapienza tells Me that their friend Elmer is "Third stump from the right."  She then offers Me a couple of acorns to start a new forest, telling her, "It'll take a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of love."  

During the song, Learning to Love, Me chooses two audience members to come on stage to help plant the acorns in clay pots and water them.  The cast trio transforms back to 'themselves' (as they were at the beginning of the show) and restate the lessons of the story in word and song:  the importance of symbiosis, harmony and the circle of life.

Little Red Riding Hood

Cimarron is delighted to once again be touring Seymour Barab's classic Little Red Riding Hood. This operetta is a delightful adaptation of the family classic sung by three singers: a soprano, a mezzo soprano, and a baritone. Each performer will be playing several roles accompanied by piano.