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From: Capital (Annapolis)
Date: 20080306
Author:SHARON LEE TEGLER For The Capital
The audience was packed with family, friends and students for the Feb. 25 performance of Jones Elementary School's musical, "RATS!"
The production, subtitled "The story of the Pied Piper," was mounted and enacted by the school's fourth- and fifth-grade Drama Club.
"RATS!" is a comedic adaptation of stories based on the 14th century legend of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."
The dark tale of a mysterious abduction of children has been recounted numerous times in the works of such authors as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and in the famous poem by Robert Browning. It has also been a ...
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