![]() ![]() Bertram had two students on the production side. It’s also been a learning experience for the students a part of the production. “One of the nights was twin night, and an older person got teamed with a younger person,” she said. One thing she implemented during rehearsals was called “make a friend, be a friend.” It helped the cast become a cohesive team and to have a lot of fun. While directing a group of children might sound a little overwhelming, she said it was a great time. ![]() For Bertram, it was her first time directing by herself. The entire 31-person cast for the Springfield production ranges from 5 to 17. The show is labeled “junior,” meaning it’s about one hour long and the cast is made up entirely of children younger than 17. “Schoolhouse Rock Live” includes the classic songs that everyone knows well, like “I’m Just a Bill,” and “Conjunction Junction,” that’s sure to have the audience singing along. “They teach her, letting her know that she already knows what to do because she grew up with these songs that taught her in the first place,” said Becky Bertram, the director for the show. She tries to relax by watching some TV and through watching the TV different facets of her personalities emerge, represented by old episodes of the Emmy Award-winning show “Schoolhouse Rock.” The show is about a schoolteacher named Tammy, who’s nervous and worried about her first day of teaching. The group is putting on a production “Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.” that will show at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. The music video (shown below, right) received over 99,000 views in over one year.A tour down memory lane opens this weekend, courtesy of the Springfield Theatre Centre. ![]() On March 31st, 2021, YouTube musician Ginny Di posted a live-action music video which parodied the Schoolhouse Rock! music style, and teaches about rolling for attributes in Dungeons & Dragons. The music video (shown below, left) received over 1.1 million views in over nine years. On August 8th, 2013, YouTube musician Brentalfloss posted a music video which uses the Schoolhouse Rock! music and animation style to warn against buying game consoles too early after their launch. While the original site the video was hosted on no longer exists, the short was reposted to YouTube (shown below) by Jasmine Archer on September 17th, 2006, where it received over 411,000 views in over six years. The first known online Schoolhouse Rock! parody was posted in October of 2004 by Eric Henry, and was titled Pirates & Emperors (or, Size Does Matter). The shorts were often a satire of the American public school system (shown below, right). On MADtv, another late night television series, a short series of Schoolhouse Rock! parodies were featured on the show which were titled Public School House Rock. The short is rumored to have been removed from future airings of SNL. On March 14th, 1998, a Schoolhouse Rock! parody titled Conspiracy Theory Rock! (shown below, left) was shown as that episode's "TV Funhouse" animation segment from Robert Smigel. Other parodies were featured on late-night television shows such as Saturday Night Live. While it didn't directly parody a Schoolhouse Rock! song, it did heavily emulate the style of the original shorts. In the short (shown below, right) Stan recounts the tale of Oliver North's role in the Iran-Contra scandal that occurred during the mid-to-late 1980's. Another parody appeared on the animated comedy series American Dad in the episode Stanny Slickers 2: The Legend of Ollie's Gold, which first aired on May 11th, 2008. The short was a parody of I'm Just A Bill (shown below, left). The first parody was shown on The Simpsons episode titled The Day the Violence Died, which first aired on March 17th, 1996 on Fox. Schoolhouse Rock! parodies first started to appear on television in the mid-1990's. Other notable Schoolhouse Rock! cartoons are I'm Just A Bill, which first aired on March 27th, 1976, (shown below, left) and Conjunction Junction, which first aired on November 17th, 1973 (shown below, right). The first Schoolhouse Rock! short aired on January 6th, 1973, with the first of the Multiplication Rock series titled Three is a Magic Number (shown below). ![]()
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