Bill Text: IL HR0440 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates the members of the Child's Play Touring Theatre on the occasion of the organization's 33rd anniversary.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-30 - Resolution Adopted [HR0440 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0440-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the members of the | ||||||
4 | Child's Play Touring Theatre on the occasion of the | ||||||
5 | organization's 33rd anniversary in 2011; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Based in Chicago, Child's Play Touring Theatre is | ||||||
7 | the premiere theatre company in the United States dedicated | ||||||
8 | exclusively to performing works written by children; Child's | ||||||
9 | Play motivates elementary school students to read and write | ||||||
10 | through developing and staging original plays based on | ||||||
11 | children's poems, stories, and songs; and
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12 | WHEREAS, The goal of Child's Play is to help children | ||||||
13 | understand the value and significance that writing and reading | ||||||
14 | has on their lives; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Child's Play was founded by Victor and June | ||||||
16 | Podagrosi in 1978 while Victor was teaching theatre at Parkland | ||||||
17 | College in Champaign; when asked to stage a performance of | ||||||
18 | children's writings for a Young Author's awards ceremony, | ||||||
19 | Victor was delighted with the sophistication and storytelling | ||||||
20 | abilities he discovered in children's writing; believing they | ||||||
21 | had identified a unique form of educational theatre, Victor and | ||||||
22 | June formed Child's Play Touring Theatre and began traveling to |
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1 | rural schools in east central Illinois; and
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2 | WHEREAS, Child's Play Touring Theatre believes in the | ||||||
3 | importance of contributing to the Chicago community; its | ||||||
4 | principal outreach program, the Chicago Young Writers Project, | ||||||
5 | aims to motivate Chicago public school students to write, as | ||||||
6 | well as provide teachers with drama-based methods for writing | ||||||
7 | instruction; and
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8 | WHEREAS, With the passing of Victor Podagrosi, his wife | ||||||
9 | took over the direction of Child's Play and established the | ||||||
10 | Victor Award to honor individuals and organizations who have | ||||||
11 | demonstrated outstanding commitment, generosity, and/or | ||||||
12 | service to Child's Play; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Child's Play was honored with an Emmy Award for | ||||||
14 | its contribution to the production of two child-focused Public | ||||||
15 | Service Announcements, "Educate Us" and "If I Were President"; | ||||||
16 | and
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17 | WHEREAS, Some of their original productions include: New | ||||||
18 | Voices, Writing Our World, Do the Write Thing, The Great Green | ||||||
19 | Adventures of: R-Man, and One Monster After Another; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Their website, launched in 2010, carries their | ||||||
21 | motto: Kids Put It On The Page, We Put It On The Stage; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Their annual Spring Benefit Celebration will be | ||||||
2 | held on June 16, 2011 and is entitled "Global Energy: The | ||||||
3 | Musical"; therefore, be it
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4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
5 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
6 | we congratulate the members of the Child's Play Touring Theatre | ||||||
7 | on the occasion of the organization's 33rd anniversary and wish | ||||||
8 | the group continued success in its future endeavors; and be it | ||||||
9 | further
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10 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy be presented to June | ||||||
11 | Podagrosi as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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