“We were hugging and holding each other and swaying, and some of us doing that with people we’ve never even met.”
The 'Free To Be, You & ME’ SING-ALONG SPECTACULAR!
Sing-Along (& Read Along) In This Fully Participatory Performance of the 1972 Classic ChilDren’s Album of Songs, Skits and Stories.
Calling All Gen Xers and families with young children! Grab your bell bottoms or anything crocheted, take our hand, and come along to this fully interactive and participatory show.
Join Joshua Sitron (composer, producer Nickelodeon, Disney) and Myka Plunkett (actor, director, educator and musical theater star of countless Majestic, New Century, Silverthorne, PaintBox, Academy of Music, and Great Barrigton Public productions) and get ready to laugh, move and sing your hearts out with dozens of other ‘Free to Be’ lovers, as go through the groundbreaking 1972 children’s album of songs and stories. All voices and ages welcome. No experience or talent necessary! Lyrics & Texts projected for all sing-along and read-along. Sure to be a fun and uplifting experience!
Conceived by Marlo Thomas, who wanted to teach her young niece that anyone—regardless of stereotypes—can achieve anything. The popular record and spinoff television special featured 1970s celebrities including Diana Ross, Harry Belafonte, Cicely Tyson, Mel Brooks, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack,, Shirley Jones and many more.
It’s always an uplifting event for everyone.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
“I was READY, but I was not PREPARED. I was not prepared for the sense of communal joy that I felt and shared in that auditorium. I was not prepared to be transported back to a time, that I hadn’t even experienced. But man, the nostalgia vibe was still strong. I intend to remind myself daily to hold on to the positivity and hopefuLness that I experienced in that room.”
“The amazing duo of Josh Sitron and Myka Plunkett, piano player and Vocalist….were perfect for these roles. And when Josh starts playing those first few notes and the singing began the magic was unleashed…And so were the tears.”
“We use the words ‘joy’ and ‘profound’ but there really isn’t a vocabulary for what we experienced.”“It was a very physical experience which I didn’t realize. My back never touched the back of the chair. I was sitting up straight the whole time..out of excitement; the physical energy going through us.
“When he starts playing you immediately get chills and you realize you’re in a room full people who know exactly what [these songs] mean. It was a really profound experience. And there were a lot of tears.”
“I will never be the same after that event. I truly was changed.”
“I am not exaggerating when I say this past weekend was a spiritual experience for me. There was supersize Manilow moments and innumerable zaps of joy. I wish there was some kind of instrument out there that could measure the energy that was created by the collective joy that was being alchemized in that auditorium. I wish I could have it bottled up and have taken it home with me. [crying] There’s no version of Artificial Intelligence that could ever recreate the energy and the connectedness of those moments that we shared with new friends and perfect strangers. That magic is not for sale; it cannot be purchased; it cannot be taken away from us. It’s available to everyone, if we are just willing to look. Witnessing that auditorium full of people with arms around each other, strangers and friends, singing and crying. Singing the words like ‘take my hand’ and ‘we’ll be where the children are free’ and we were doing that, those moments are the glimpses into what ‘heaven on earth means’. That this feeling is what life is all about.,..I’m sorry I’m a bawling fool, but this cannot be taken away from us. No matter what we’re being told, and how scared we’re being tried to feel. It’s out there. We just need to look for it and create it ourselves.” //