Philadelphia
Chickens
Sandra Boynton, Michael Ford
What an event! What a show! It's catchy and quirky. Tuneful and toe-tapping. Exuberant,
unexpected, and utterly endearing. It's what happens when you take America's beloved
illustrator and children's author and combine her buoyant genius with some of the most
talented people on the stage-presenting Philadelphia Chickens!
Created by
Sandra Boynton, Philadelphia Chickens is a family
musical in a book, bringing together a full-color songbook
of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems with a full-length, fully
orchestrated CD of original songs performed by the likes of
Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers,
and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?"--it
followed me home. / What exactly it is,/ I don't know. Also
joining in are Eric Stoltz, Natasha Richardson, Scott Bakula,
and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who
performs a piece that every little listener will relate
to--a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just
out of reach. With the collaboration of composer Michael
Ford (known to Boynton fans from Rhinoceros Tap),
Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' musical
discs--one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as
sing-along, dance-along, cluck-along for parents as it is
for their children.
ORDER CODE: WKM12636B
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