123 Andrés

Best for PreK – 6th Grade

Stateside at the Paramount
Monday, September 25, 2023 at 10am and 12pm
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 10am and 12pm
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 60 minutes

Andrés and Christina are the Latin Grammy-winning music duo 123 Andrés. Their catchy songs and lively performances get the whole audience dancing, singing, and learning! These high-energy, joyful shows celebrate the Latinx experience and incorporate Spanish, English, and ASL languages.

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, Social-Emotional Learning, ELA, Global Studies, Social Studies

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The Rainbow Fish

From Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, Canada

Best for PreK – 3rd Grade

The Paramount Theatre
Monday, November 6, 2023 at 10am and 12pm
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 60 minutes

The Rainbow Fish will enchant even the youngest child with his silver scales and heart of gold in this award-winning book about the beautiful fish who learned to share his most prized possession. Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia brings The Rainbow Fish to life with their enchanting puppetry.

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, Social-Emotional Learning, ELA, STEM

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Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical

From TheaterWorksUSA, New York, NY

Best for 1st – 5th Grade

The Paramount Theatre
Monday, January 29, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 60 minutes

Based on the best-selling graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man. Flippy, Molly, Li’l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don’t see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another’s point of view — both inside and outside the classroom?

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, Social-Emotional Learning, ELA

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Show Way: The Musical

From The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Best for 3rd – 8th Grade

The Paramount Theatre
Monday, February 26, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 50 minutes

Soonie’s great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She began to stitch a Show Way, a quilt with secret meanings to show enslaved people the way to freedom. As each generation passes, the Show Way shines a light on the past and paves a road to the future, stitching together possibility and promise. Jacqueline Woodson’s award-winning story of history, love, and resilience becomes a world premiere stage adaptation. This moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women in Woodson’s own family whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters’ lives over seven generations.

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, Social-Emotional Learning, ELA, Social Studies

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Sons of Mystro

Best for 3rd – 12th Grade

The Paramount Theatre
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 60 minutes

Have you ever experienced a musical duo, in this case, brothers, who play all genres of popular music, using the violin instead of their voices to express a song’s lyrics? If not, then you must not have heard of the violin virtuosos Sons of Mystro! They use their violins to interpret reggae classics, American pop songs, and their own creations. At an age when music is coming to be more defined by genres and labels, Sons of Mystro shows that music does not exist within a box, but rather exists in another space – one as open and unrestrained as the minds that produce it.

The brothers that make up the Sons of Mystro were born and raised in South Florida to a Jamaican father (named Mystro!) and a Barbadian mother. Malcolm, 23, and his 20-year-old brother Umoja learned to play the violin through South Florida’s public school system and attended Dillard High School for the Performing Arts. Mentored by fellow Florida-raised artists, Black Violin, these musicians’ stars are on the rise!

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, ELA, STEM

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Tetris

From Arch8, The Netherlands

Best for 2nd – 5th Grade

Stateside at the Paramount
Monday, April 8, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 10am and 12pm
Show run time: 45 minutes

Experience Arch8’s physically awe-inspiring work – Tetris – featuring a gravity-defying combination of acrobatics, extreme physicality and movement. Tetris, inspired by the addictive puzzle game and the twists and turns of a Rubik’s Cube, has performers fitting, merging, stacking and combining in various feats. The show is about fitting into a group, but also staying true to yourself. If you’ve ever been a kid who can’t sit still, who wants to hurdle over furniture and scale the walls – Tetris is for you.

TEKS Connections: Fine Arts, Social-Emotional Learning, STEM

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Admission Policies

The cost of admission is $10 per student for non-Title One schools and $6 per student for Title One schools. One adult per 10 children will be free.

Performances will be presented at The Paramount Theatre at 713 Congress Avenue and Stateside at the Paramount at 719 Congress Avenue. Requests will be filled on a first come, first served basis. To accommodate as many school groups as possible, there is a limit for adults attending the shows. Only one adult per every ten students. Any additional adults will be charged $15 per ticket in advance, or $20 cash; day of show. If you need more adults due to students with special needs, please contact Abril Robbins at arobbins@austintheatre.org. No general public tickets will be sold.

Payment in the form of one check per school should be mailed to the Paramount Theatre once you receive your confirmation email and accompanied invoice. Alternately, you may provide a credit card number to charge the balance. Full payments are due ONE MONTH before your performance date. If we have not heard from you one month before the performance, your tickets may be released and given to a school on our waitlist, if there is one. If you need more time to pay for your school’s tickets we are happy to work with you, but there are NO CANCELLATIONS PAST YOUR ONE MONTH DUE DATE. These include decreases in numbers or complete cancellations of reservations (including additional adult tickets). Your school will still be responsible for the amount due since we will not have adequate time to re-book your tickets and those seats will go unused. Thank you for your understanding.

If there are any obstacles that prevent your students from seeing this production, please contact Abril Robbins at arobbins@austintheatre.org or call 512-233-0124 to discuss special arrangements.

 

Day of Event Information

The performances begin promptly at the indicated time and will last approximately one hour unless otherwise noted. Arrival time should be no more than 30 minutes prior to the performance. Each school must make its own transportation arrangements after receiving a confirmation email from the Paramount Theatre. There is no free parking available for private cars on the day of the performances.

 

Pre-Show Workshops

Paramount Education also offers in classroom, pre-show workshops facilitated by a professional teaching artist. Our teaching artists will come to your school and engage classes in drama and movement based activities to prepare them to see the play and explore its themes and curricular connections. The price of these workshops is $25 per classroom. Discounts are available for Title 1 schools. Please let us know you are interested in a pre-show workshop when you register for a show, and we will contact you two months prior to the field trip date to schedule those sessions.

 

Discovery Guides

In addition to seeing the play, every student and teacher attending our productions will receive a free Discovery Guide to extend learning beyond seeing the play. These guides are crafted specifically to connect the play to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). They also provide enrichment materials that offer lesson plans and suggest possible curricular connections through which educators can create fully integrated units in English, science, math, and social studies. Click here to see examples of past guides.

 

 

Building Hope

From The Nobelity Project, Austin, TX
Best for 6th – 8th Grade
Available asynchronously October 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023

Documentary run time: 38 minutes

We’re bringing back Building Hope for the eighth year in a row, its second as a digital field trip experience. Building Hope is a documentary from the Nobelity Project that chronicles the construction of Mahiga Hope High, the first high school for a remote African community, and the connection between a thousand people in the U.S. and an African community working to create a better future for their children. To accompany the documentary, students will have access to a Q&A conversation between Austin middle schoolers and students in Kenya. Participants will experience global bridge-building as we explore the importance of education for all.

TEKS Connections: STEM, Global Studies, Social Studies, Philanthropy, Film & Fine Arts

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Citizens at Last

From ET Films and Mo-ti Productions, Austin, TX
Best for 7th–12th Grade
Available asynchronously October 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023

Documentary run time: 57 minutes

Citizens at Last is a documentary film that tells the story of the grit, persistence, and tactical smarts of the Texas women—white, Black and Latina—who organized, demonstrated, and won the vote for women. Citizens at Last follows the early days of organizing, explores the strategic role Texas suffragists played in the national movement, and exposes the pro-Jim Crow policies of the anti-suffragists who stood in their way. To accompany the documentary, students will have access to a Q&A conversation with the team that created it.

TEKS Connections: Social Studies, Government, Film

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When I Rise

From The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and Alpheus Media, Austin, TX
Best for 9th–12th Grade
Available asynchronously October 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023

Documentary run time: 73 minutes

In this documentary a gifted Black music student at the University of Texas is thrust into a civil-rights storm that changes her life forever. Barbara Smith Conrad is cast in an opera to co-star with a white male classmate, fueling a racist backlash from members of the Texas legislature. When Barbara is expelled from the cast, the incident escalates to national news, prompting unexpected support from a pop superstar. This small-town girl, whose voice and spirit stem from her roots in East Texas, emerges as an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano and headlines on stages around the world. When I Rise is a testament to finding forgiveness within oneself.

Includes access to the documentary film When I Rise and a pre-recorded question and answer panel discussion, featuring director Mat Hames, producer Dr. Don Carleton, Executive Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin, Eva Goins Simmons, Member of The Precursors (the first Black undergraduate students to attend UT Austin), Icy Simpson-Monroe, Opera singer featured in When I Rise, and moderator Dr. Dwonna Goldstone, Director of the African American Studies Program at Texas State University.

TEKS Connections: Social Studies, Social-Emotional Learning, Fine Arts

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Thirst for Power

From Dr. Michael E. Webber, DISCO, and Alpheus Media
Best for 7th–12th Grade
Available asynchronously October 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023

Documentary run time: 63 minutes

Water and energy are the two fundamental components of a society, and they are interconnected. Thirst for Power, shot on location across France, California, and Texas, explores the history of civilization’s quest to procure water and energy — from ancient Roman aqueducts in Europe to modern America’s vast hydroelectric infrastructure. The documentary combines anecdotes and personal stories with insights into the latest science of energy and water, and identifies a hopeful path toward wise long-range water-energy decisions and a more reliable and abundant future for humanity.

Includes access to the documentary film Thirst for Power and a pre-recorded question and answer panel discussion, featuring director Mat Hames, author Dr. Michael E. Webber with The University of Texas at Austin and ENGIE, film producer Juan Garcia from Disco Learning Media, Dr. Kelly T. Sanders with the University of Southern California, and moderator, Erin Hardick from Zpryme.

TEKS Connections: STEM, Global Studies, Social Studies, Philanthropy, Film & Fine Arts

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