

Here is a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems, and a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by such luminaries as Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?-it followed me home. What an event What a show It's Philadelphia Chickens-the catchy and quirky, tuneful and toe-tapping, exuberant, unexpected, and totally endearing family-musical-in-a-book. And, with 1 million copies in print, a Recording Industry Association of America Platinum album. With these performers, words and pictures by Sandra Boynton, and music by the incomparable Rhinoceros Tap team of Boynton & Ford, you have to hear it to believe it.


Aaaardvarks (Mark Linn-Baker, Joe Grifasi, Michael Gross & Devin McEwan) sing The Intermission Song.Darcy Boynton chants Dinosaur, Dinosaur.Michael Ford sings Those Dinosaur Bones.The Heath Sisters sing Belly Button (round).Laura Linney sings Please, Can I Keep It?.The Bacon Brothers sing Philadelphia Chickens.Meryl Streep sings Nobody Understands Me.And just wait till you hear who's in the cast. That curious Boynton pizzazz takes to the stage in PHILADELPHIA CHICKENS, a zippy musical production for kids and way beyond.
