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The Sing Along show held recently kept kids thoroughly entertained
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JUST KIDDINGFrom Sing Along
It was party night for children as they enthusiastically trickled into The Music Academy for the Sing Along show on Saturday. For once, the kids seemed to have taken charge, as they accompanied their parents and guardians inside, all the while chattering about how good the show was going to be. A few parents looked as amused as their little ones, while a few others looked uncertain, but nonetheless they seemed to bask in the joy of their kids. With so many little ones swarming around, a few parents confessed to have felt like Gulliver in Lilliput.
The show began with nursery rhymes. The ever popular ‘ABCD’ soon morphed into ‘Mary had a little lamb’ and then ‘Baa baa black sheep’. While ‘ABCD’ was in progress, an adorable kid in the audience altered the order of the alphabet. For her P came ahead of J, and U after W. From having ‘Crockety Croc’, an elephant and a dragon on stage, to having dancing boy and girl “bommais”, the performers Jeeva Ragunath, Krishna Iyer, the brain behind Sing Along, Leena Pradeep and others kept the kids every bit entertained.
The Gumbaladi song and dance with its ethereal charm left the young ones awe struck and the Birdie dance got them on their toes as they ‘touched their finger tips and clapped their hands’. Oh, and have you heard the Train song? This interesting song has all the food items sounding like a train in motion. Don’t get it? Try saying the following six times: coffee, cheese and biscuits, fruit and custard, piece of cake, bonda, fish and chips, soup. There, now you know the train song! The famous track from “Taare Zameen Par”, ‘Bam Bam Bhole’, too kept them boogeying. Not just the kids, the adults too got into the groove. The showstoppers were the two delightful grandpas who swayed and sang along eagerly. The last track, “Move your body,” brought out the best in them.
The show which is into its 14th year once again proved to be a hit. Sing Along is the annual fund-raiser for Reach Out, an NGO working for the cause of sexually abused children. Appropriate for children between the ages 3 and 10, the songs were not just upbeat and motivational but also carried messages related to health, food habits, etiquette and other educational subjects.
PRIYADARSHINI PAITANDY
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