About All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Based upon the best-selling books by Robert Fulghum, conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia, music and lyrics by David Caldwell.
Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. This tightly woven stage adaption is an evening of theatrical storytelling that utilizes a review format, with monologues, dialogues and multiple voice narration. The many delightful stories feature colorful characters such as: a shy little boy who insists on playing the "pig" in his class production of Cinderella; a man whose dream of flying carries him 11,000 feet over Los Angeles ... in an aluminum lawn chair lifted by 45 helium0filled surplus weather balloons; a "mother of the bride" who brilliantly orchestrates the perfect wedding until the bowling ball of fate rolls down the aisle; and a modern-day Greek philosopher who finds the meaning of life in a piece of broken mirror from World War II. These stories are about all of us and celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age.
“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
FHS Students in Action are collaborating with the Performing Arts Department to collect non-perishable/canned food items to the Spring Play to be donated to the Hamilton Harvest Food Bank. Any and all donations are appreciated!
Additional quotes from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten:
“These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life ― learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup ― they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned―the biggest word of all―LOOK.”
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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“You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”
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“It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.”
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“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”