Valley View students end year with play
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VALLEY VIEW — “The play’s about Pecos Bill and Middle Town,” Valley View students Hailey Hanson and Shelby Learn said before the play began. “There’s something wrong with the water; it makes (the townspeople) rhyme.”
After a potluck dinner at the Valley View Clubhouse, the kids presented “Pecos Bill and the Middletown Whirlwind” for the whole community.
It was a musical, with lots of old songs reworked to fit the theme, such as “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush,” “Three Blind Mice” and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.”
All sorts of nursery rhyme characters and animals took the stage, including a life-size dish running away with the spoon, Jack and Jill with their buckets and three crows.
Pecos Bill, played by Mason Sloan, sauntered into town to help solve the rhyming-way problem with the help of the smart townspeople and his horse, Widow Maker —who never appeared on stage but could be heard whinnying and stomping around backstage.
Kindergarten through sixth grade Valley View students played all the parts, with some tackling more than one.
Jean Stromness accompanied the children on her violin, joined by Karla Martinson on the piano. Martinson also wrote the play, and Valley View teachers Carol Madden, Wendy Lobdell and Sonja Bickel directed and produced the performance, which ended the school year by showcasing the kids’ talents.
