Music in the jungle
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PHOTOS BY GORDON WOLF
Brenubia Miles, as Maliki the lion, roars with displeasure after Panya the mouse, played by Rayleigh Urich, woke him up. The scene is from “Welcome to the Jungle,” a musical performed by the Denison Elementary School first graders on Tuesday night at the Denison High School Fine Arts Center. See more photos below.
Kindness shown in the jungle
The zebra (Ella Luft), cheetah (Warren Lakner), elephant (Jedidiah Evers), parrot (Jonathan Aguilar), hippo (Delilah Boger) and giraffe (Preston Meyers) lead the Denison Elementary first grade chorus in singing “Welcome to the Jungle,” a musical performed Tuesday at the Denison High School Fine Arts Center and directed by Angie Rosener. The musical is based on “The Lion and the Mouse” fable by Aesop that shows the importance of kindness and helping each other out.
The lion (Brenubia Miles) asks the mouse (Rayleigh Urich) why he (the lion) should not crush or eat the mouse. The mouse convinced the lion to let her go, and that act of kindness was repaid when the mouse released the lion from a hunter’s net.
A line of gorillas and the chorus join in song.
The cast (including the hunter, Everett Lee, and the monkey Remmy Salinas) and the chorus sing about the dangerous lion.
A cast of jungle animals tell the mouse to stop and not let the lion loose.
The chorus rejoices in the song, “Celebrate,” the finale to “Welcome to the Jungle.”
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