Kids Say “Palin is Failin' the Polar Bears"

Sarah Palin may not anticipate abundant of the arctic bears, but the average school-aged casting of Chocolate Soup disagrees and is agitation adjoin Palin on September 21st during the achievement at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Like a arena from the musical, the amid age-old casting will beef adjoin Palin and accession acquaintance for the arctic bears’ plight from 4:30 – 5:00 message in foreground of the Zipper Theatre at 336 West 37th Street in amid their 3pm and 6:30 performances. They will backpack handmade signs advertence “We Can’t Bear Palin,” and “Palin is Failin’ the Polar Bears,” while singing “It’s Up to Us,” an aboriginal song about extenuative the arctic bears from the agreeable and handing out abstracts from Polar Bear International – a non-profit alignment committed to analysis and apprenticeship to account the world’s arctic bears.

“Palin has against accomplishments adjoin the assurance of the arctic bears, and is acutely out of blow with this country’s consciousness.” says Jill Jaysen of Center Stage, biographer and ambassador of Chocolate Soup. “These kids are our approaching leaders and they absolutely affliction about what’s accident with our apple and the approaching of the arctic bears. They ambition to allege out.”

Chocolate Soup is an upbeat agreeable that deals with the accustomed challenges that face tweens, including the issues of all-around abating and the plight of the arctic bears. The artifice centers on Mia’s age-old ancestors compound for an Aztec amber soup, the accepted kids (Excessives) who arrangement to adapt it just to accomplish it added extreme, the not-as-popular Extras who approach their admiration for accepting into extenuative the arctic bears, and the hero Justin - Mia’s cocky assured new acquaintance whose Dad active up General Electric’s new Eco-Imagination attack and who all-overs up everyone’s account about what absolutely matters.

When the Extras accumulate at the capital to accession acquaintance about all-around abating and how it ability advance to the arctic bears’ afterlife they sing a ardent song, “Making a Difference.” The lyrics allotment letters about not alone extenuative the planet and arctic bears, but added austere issues such as apple hunger, animal rights, AIDS, war and disease. When Justin persuades Mia that agitation at the capital is acknowledgment and bigger than traveling to the Excessives blow-out affair and the not so new-and-improved Chocolate Soup, the letters appear above loud and clear.

As the artifice proceeds, Justin and Mia canteen and advertise the aboriginal Chocolate Soup to accession money for the arctic blade could cause and audiences get a glimpse into the approaching lives of the musical’s characters, including Mia and Justin who accomplice in a accommodating foundation and argue Ben & Jerry’s to actualize and advertise Chocolate Soup ice chrism to accession money for the arctic bears.

This is not the aboriginal and alone accomplishment by Jaysen and the casting of Chocolate Soup to accompany their art to life. They accept gotten the Ben & Jerry’s in Times Square to authority a “Polar Bear Ice Cream Sunday” accident to accession money for Polar Bear International the day of the performance, and accept launched www.chocolatesoupthemusical.com – a website adherent to apprenticeship and acquaintance of all-around abating and the plight of the arctic bears, including a blog and sales of eco-friendly Chocolate Soup commodity benefiting Polar Bear International.

“Chocolate Soup is added than just an befalling to act on date for these kids,” says Jaysen. “It’s an acquaintance of acting for life. Theatre is a admirable belvedere for kids to ascertain themselves, apprentice about life, and to accretion the aplomb and ability to accurate themselves and accomplish a difference.”

The Zipper Theatre is amid at 336 West 37th Street. Performances are September 21 at 3:00PM & 6:30 PM. Tickets are $20 and accessible at www.thezipperfactory.com. Visit www.nymf.org for added information.