Background
Sitarz, Paula Gaj was born on May 25, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Stanley Mitchell and Pauline (Rocha) Gaj.
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Applause. Applause. The curtain rises. The actors and actresses smile and bow to the audience. The scene is a theater...in London's West End, on Broadway, at a local community center, in a cramped schoolroom in South Africa. Plays, players and playgoers can be found everywhere around the world. But it wasn't always so. Mystery surrounds the beginnings of the theater. When primitive man impersonated animals, acting out the hunt, was that theater? As early as 30,000 years ago, people sang and danced in ceremonies to honor their gods; they dressed in animal skins and wore make-up made of ashes or plant juices. Was that ritual or theater? When did these ceremonies advance from ritual to theater? Most of what we now know about the origins of the theater starts with the Greeks, whose rituals evolved into plays hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. The evolution of the theater continued, as Roman theater followed; then Medieval theater, the Italian Renaissance, the Shakespearian era, theater in Spain, French Neoclassical theater, and English Restoration theater. And while theater in Europe was growing and changing, Asia was independently developing its own unique theaters in India, China and Japan. While this book is a true history of the theater, taking readers from its origins in Greece and Rome through the English Restoration, it makes the stage come alive for its readers. They will read about how a page boy quietly arranged her gown around her while the actress swooned during her death scene...how actresses held their faces stiff so their makeup wouldn't crack...about the Hell Mouth of the Middle Ages; a huge monster's mouth from which smoke spewed and actors leaped...young boy actors traveling by cart during Shakespeare's time to entertain Queen Elizabeth. There are many exciting, dramatic stories of courage and persistence, of obstacles overcome. Clearly "The Show Must Go On" has been an honored tradition for centuries.
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This popular collection of 22 program plans includes introductions for read-alouds and booktalks and suggestions on how to use such other materials as poetry, participation books, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, films, and filmstrips. An annotated bibliography of other titles that are useful for story hours is also given. Grades Pre K-3.
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Sitarz, Paula Gaj was born on May 25, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Stanley Mitchell and Pauline (Rocha) Gaj.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1977; Master of Library Science, Simmons College, 1978.
Children's library Thomas Crane Public Library., Quincy, Massachusetts, 1978—1984. Library Dartmouth Public Library., since 2000. Director Reader's Theatre Workshop Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy Massachusetts, 1985.
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Member New England Library. Association, Library. Science Honor Society, Smith Club of Southeastern Massachusetts (vice president 1987-1989, president 1989-1991), Dartmouth (Massachusetts) Arts Council, Beta Phi Museum.
Married Michael James Sitarz, August 26, 1978. Children: Andrew Michael, Kate Elizabeth.