JUST SOME OF OUR PAST SHOWS

"The Singing Hat" by Tohby Riddle 2001-2002

"At The Beach" by Roland Harvey 2005-2006

"Bear & Chook" by Lisa Shanahan & Emma Quay 2003-2004

"Captain Mack" by James Roy 2000-2001

"Tony Bones 2000" 2000

"Tom Jones Saves The World" by Steven Herrick 2003-2004

Federation 2001 & Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006

We are committed to presenting both entertaining and memorable shows, but also to working closely with the curricula of all Australian schools.

Tony has practical experience in teaching every year level at some time in his career from levels Prep through to Year 12. Therefore every show he produces is sure to relate to each student on both an educational and entertaining level.

Having taught Drama, English and in Libraries in both Primary and Secondary schools, Tony saw a need for dramatic curriculum to help students explore themes and ideas in a new and engaging way.

TBE use a variety of different genre within each show to explore themes and ideas.

We cast some of the finest actors in the country who bring with them a world of experience in both Children's and Musical Theatre.

All our shows are adaptable to a broad range of ages to ensure every student in your school can benefit from the TBE experience.

With follow up activities for each year level provided in worksheets and lesson plans for teachers, we ensure every student's individual learning style is completely catered to in each show.

Where it all began ... Book Week

Tony Appleby B.Ed created the company in 1998. Since then "TBE" has been growing from strength to strength.

We began with an extremely popular series of shows designed to showcase short listed books from The Children's Book Council Of Australia 'Book Of The Year Awards' during Book Week. Our aim was not to come to schools as a traditional 'story-teller', but in fact to turn each year's most performance friendly short listed books into full-length plays. As a result, students can discover the books in an entirely different way.

Pantomime/Theatre In Education, Puppets and Music

Our more traditional style of primary school pantomime and theatre in education has also been very popular with schools.

2007 saw our newest musical show "Bully Bull Ring" touring throughout Australia where Primary students are shown a variety of practical ways to effectively deal with bullying in schools.

2002 saw the first year of our annual huge hit Christmas show "Rudolph's Recruits" where Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer interviews all singing and dancing Australian animals to pull Santa's sleigh instead of the reindeer. This show will tour again in 2008.

The feature presentation for 2001 & 2006, "Our Greatest Australian" gave students the chance to vote for their favourite Australian after a musical and dramatic talent quest of 200 years of Australians.

"Tony Bones 2000" offered students a cavalcade of adventure through Music, Dance, Art and Drama. The concepts of friendship, racism, prejudice and understanding were tackled by Tony Bones, his best friend and a multitude of puppets.

We often use a combination of puppets, mask, suit work, costume and voice in our shows to add new elements of drama for the students and introduce themes that students will enjoy exploring.

Our shows include original music relating to the theme of the individual piece. Tony Appleby (B.Ed) and either of TBE's brilliant musical directors Tim Smith (Dip.Ed) and Luke Hunter (Dip.Ed) write all of the songs and music for the shows. Their songs vary in style depending on the show, but always have the audience clapping and dancing along, or crying in the aisles, depending on what's required.

2008-09 Season

PRICE: Up to 100 students = $660 then $6.60 per student thereafter

With the huge success across Australia of last year's Picture Book show "Water Witcher " and Younger Reader's novel show "Being Bee", we are proud to announce the new seasons of shows that will run for Term 3, 2008: "The Night Garden" will be thrilling Prep/Kinder - Grade 6 students, while "Amelia Dee & the Peacock Lamp" will be entertaining Grade 3 - Year 8 students. This current season of shows are still filling extremely quickly, so please book now!

Also in December 2008 we are re-touring the incredibly popular original musical "Rudolph's Recruits - The Christmas Musical Extravaganza" for Prep - Grade 6 students throughout Australia in limited seasons. This 50 minute interactive musical comedy is a brilliant way to use drama, dance and music to round up the year (especially once reports are finished).

Term 4, 2008 & Term 1 & 2, 2009 will see our newest musical show "Bully Bull Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical touring Australia where Primary students are shown practical ways to effectively deal with bullying in schools.

All four of these shows are adaptable to a broad range of ages to guarantee every student in you school can benefit from the Tony Bones Entertainment experience.

With question time after the shows run by the cast and follow up activities for each year level provided in worksheets and lesson plans for teachers, these shows are not to be missed. So contact Tony Bones Entertainment now on ph.1300 308 311 or email tony@tonybones.com.au and book one of our shows for your school in 2008 or 2009.

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