Middle School Musicals by Frumi Cohen

Persephone, Hades and the Fate of Spring

2009-07-31T08:18:00.008-04:00

Persephone, Hades and the Fate of Spring Blooms!

2009-07-01T10:02:00.001-04:00

Well, the school year is over and Persephone and the Fate of Spring was a resounding success for my incredible Plymouth Meeting Friends School 6th graders. They totally rose to the occasion, playing mature themes, a myriad of complex characters and singing difficult solos. Here are some photos of the production.

New DIY Teen Theater to put on A LITTLE PRINCESS

2009-07-01T09:46:00.000-04:00

Hey, just in. The newly established teen theater called the DIY Teen Theater is in rehearsal for my musical, A Little Princess. The theater was started this summer by Helen Knudsen, a very ambitious 14 year-old girl from Elmhurst, Illinois and several friends. Check them out at http://diyteentheatre.webs.com/

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2009-02-05T11:15:00.000-05:00

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Write your comments below about: A Little Princess, The Wind in the Willows, A Middle School Story, A Show of Hands, FrankenTEEN, The Secret Garden, Persephone and the Fate of Spring, The Magic Flute ReLoaded, Try A Little Shakespeare, The Power of One, Amy Crockett: MVP. 50 West 50 [Bill Felty/Frumi Cohen]

2009-02-04T19:06:00.001-05:00

Song bytes from Frumi Cohen Musicals

Six Above and Six Below [Persephone]
1000 Ways To Dance [Amy Crockett: MVP]
Nice 2 B Mean [Middle School Story]
My Mother's Eyes [Secret Garden]

New! From Frumi Cohen Musicals

2009-02-04T12:26:00.000-05:00

Persephone

and the Fate of Spring

Hot off the ink jet: Persephone, and the Fate of Spring. My latest musical is based on the famous Greek myth about why we have Winter, but with some BIG differences. First, it is a musical. Second, Persephone, a restless teen, picks the narcissus voluntarily [or so it seems] and travels with Hades to the Underworld. Hades plans to make her his queen, but in the musical Persephone has a mind of her own.

PERSEPHONE: I was just curious. I didn't know I'd end of as Queen of the freaking dead!

Much to her mother Demeter's dismay, Persephone falls in love with the Underworld king. The music is rock, the gods are threatened by impending veganism and Zeus is, impulsive, bossy, and not the brightest bulb in the lava lamp.

DEMETER: Zeus doesn’t think. He acts on impulse and then blames the consequences on everyone else. That's what leaders do.

Hades sings of his love for Persephone:

Sparks of light dance off and trail her
How can I compare?

I am night- as dark as failure
Who am I to dare?

Persephone on the edge of self-discovery:

Why do my friends seem so shallow?
Why does the day seem so long?
Why do I lie awake staring?
Why don’t I want to belong?

Waiting, holding
It’s coming true
Here unfolding
It’s scary what I want to do

Demeter, as she begins to kill the earth:

I'm a force of nature at the ready

Throw my anger like a machete

Here a tornado, there a tsunami

And I won't answer when you call for mommy

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