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...Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein...
...remember Shel Silverstein from our numerous childhood encounters with his classic children’s stories, poetry and musical compositions. But what most of us don’t know is that Silverstein began his career in 1956 working for Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Magazine. Strange to imagine that the man who brought us “A Light in the Attic,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” and “The Giving Tree” simultaneously drafted scandalously entertaining works for adults...
This particular production is notable for its revival of these hidden drama-treasures. Though anyone expecting the tame—yet clever—Silverstein so loved by librarians across the country is in for a surprise. Those who can appreciate darker, more challenging humor will not want to miss this show...
Playwright, singer, songwriter, cartoonist, Shel Silverstein was a jack-of-all-trades and the master of one--and the one was writing children's books. His freewheeling, provocative stories (The Giving Tree) and books of poetry (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), illustrated with his quirky line drawings, have sold more than 25 million copies. Thus a new Silverstein title is a signal event, especially if it comes six years after his death...
Runny Babbit was among Silverstein's papers when he died at 68. He had been working on it for more than 20 years. His son Matthew and other family members finally agreed to its publication this year. The book is another collection of poems, but with a difference. All of them, like the title, are built on spoonerisms, or pairs of words in which the first letters are transposed. Example: "Runny had to bake a tath/ Before they'd sive him gupper./ He got so tungry in the hub,/ He ate the rat of mubber...