03x06 - Angelina's Musical Day / Angelina's Crazy Solo
Posted: 08/22/23 11:14
- ♪ She's a dancing star ♪
♪ She loves to twirl all day ♪
♪ She's gonna go far ♪
♪ That's the angelina way ♪
♪ Follow your dreams
Wherever they take you ♪
♪ You can succeed ♪
♪ Don't let anything
Shake you ♪
♪ Angelina ♪
♪ Ballerina ♪
♪ The little star
With big dreams ♪
♪ Angelina ♪
♪ Ballerina ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
[Birds chirping]
- I'm so excited.
Today is going to be
The most musical day ever
At camembert school.
- Then we're all going
To make costumes
And act out the story
Of peter and the wolf.
- Ooh, he looks like
A very big wolf.
- The story is about
A young mouseling named peter
Who meets a big, bad wolf,
And I get to play the wolf.
[Howling]
[All laugh]
- And when we act it out,
Every character
Will have the sound
Of a different
Musical instrument.
- Peter's sound is the violin.
[Heroic string music]
♪ ♪
Peter's grandfather
Is the bassoon.
[Light bassoon music]
♪ ♪
And you always know
The wolf is coming
When you hear french horns.
[Howls]
[Upbeat french horn music]
♪ ♪
- What part are you, angelina?
- I'm the bird, mum,
And my musical sound
Is the flute.
[Airy flute music]
♪ ♪
- What kind of fruit?
I love bananas,
But they don't make any music.
[Blowing]
[All laugh]
- Not fruit, polly, a flute.
See?
It's a musical instrument.
It sounds like my recorder.
[Light recorder music]
♪ ♪
Angelina's a birdie.
I hear her tweeting.
Tweet. Tweet.
♪ ♪
[Applause]
- Well, you girls
Certainly do know a lot
About peter and the wolf.
- I think you're going
To be a great birdie, angelina.
- And I think it's time to fly,
Or you'll be late for school.
- Listen, angelina.
Everything in chipping cheddar
Has a musical kind
Of sound today.
[Metal rattling]
Clatter-clink, clatter-clink.
That's the mouseberry
Yogurt cart.
[Wood creaking]
- That's the sign on the cafe.
[Bell chiming]
- That's the bell
On the town hall.
- Those sounds are so amazing.
Both: ♪ clatter-clink,
Clatter-clink ♪
♪ Creak, creak, creak ♪
♪ Ding, d-ding dong, ding ♪
[Laughing]
- Good-bye, mum.
Bye, polly.
- Have a most musical day, dear.
- And don't play the fruit
Instead of the flute.
[Blowing]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Hi, angelina.
Hi, vici.
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Um...what's up with gracie?
- Some actors want to stay
In character on performance day,
And she's playing the duck
In our peter and the wolf
Show today.
- I'm going to be
The best duck ever.
♪ Quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Is gracie okay?
- She's quackers.
[All chuckle]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
[Gasps]
Here comes ms. Mimi.
All: good morning, ms. Mimi.
- What?
- What is she trying to say?
What's it say, angelina?
- It says she lost her voice.
- Ms. Mimi lost her voice?
- Oh, no.
- Ms. Mimi,
You should go to dr. Tuttle.
- She says she did go
To the doctor.
He said she has la--la--
- Laryngitis.
My uncle had that once.
He couldn't talk for a while,
But it's not contagious.
- Are you okay, ms. Mimi?
But how will you direct the show
If you can't speak?
[Airy flute music]
- Shh, listen, everyone.
- [Gasp]
♪ ♪
- Angelina, ms. Mimi's
Playing your bird theme
From peter and the wolf.
- Maybe she's trying
To tell you something.
- What?
- Listen, angelina.
♪ ♪
- Oh, you're calling me
With music, right, ms. Mimi?
[Ominous french horn music]
- Hey, I know that music.
♪ ♪
Now she's calling me.
- It looks like this
Will go on all morning.
[Heroic string music]
♪ ♪
Ms. Mimi is calling everyone
Without ever speaking a word.
[Light oboe music]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- She's using the music
That goes with our characters
In peter and the wolf.
At first, I thought
Ms. Mimi losing her voice
Was going to make it
An awful day.
- But it turns out her
Laryngitis is music to our ears.
[Both laugh]
Everyone, I have a great idea.
Today is...
[Soft recorder music]
Speak only with music day.
- Hey, who wants a piece
Of my cheese pie?
[Two repetitive recorder notes]
- Wait, I think she's trying
To say something
About your cheese pie, gracie.
[Two repetitive recorder notes]
- Two?
- She says she wants two pieces.
- We can so understand her.
- And she didn't even
Speak a single word.
- See if she can answer
Another question.
- This is fun.
- Yeah.
- Vici, who's your
Favorite music group?
[Upbeat recorder music]
♪ ♪
She's saying she likes
House mouse
And the maze beaters.
They're my favorite too.
- What's your favorite cheese?
[Light recorder music]
[Discordant recorder music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, no,
It's got a crack in it.
[Discordant recorder music]
[Bell ringing]
- Now, that's a musical sound
I understand.
Lunchtime is over.
- Come on, we're supposed
To meet in the theater
So we can rehearse
On the big stage.
- This is so exciting.
- Ooh, I can't wait.
- Totally excellent.
I love this.
- Have you finished
Your costume?
- Oh, I can't wait
To get on the stage.
- Maybe there's
Another instrument I can use
In the music room.
[Gasps]
[Grunting]
The door is stuck.
Hello?
Is anyone out there?
Can anyone hear me?
[Grunting]
Oh.
[Sighs]
[Gasps]
I know what to do.
- Wow.
Stupendous spotlights.
[Heroic string music]
- Hey, that's my cue.
Here's peter.
♪ ♪
[Ominous french horn music]
- Make room for the wolf.
That's you, vici.
Vici?
♪ ♪
Ms. Mimi, vici didn't come back
From lunch with us.
[Distant french horn music]
- Hey, doesn't that sound
Like a french horn?
- But where's it coming from?
♪ ♪
- It sounds like it's coming
From the music room.
Come on.
♪ ♪
Oh, no.
Vici's trapped inside.
- Vici, are you okay?
- Yes, but I can't
Open the door, angelina.
[Sighs]
I got locked in,
But it was okay,
Because I could call you
With my french horn.
- We heard the french horn.
- And we followed the sound
Right to you.
- I guess you were right, vici.
- About what?
- You and ms. Mimi
Both showed us different ways
We can use music
To show others what they mean,
Even though it's not exactly
Talking with words.
- Luckily, ms. Mimi
Got her voice back
In time for the production.
- And so the brave
Little mouseling, peter,
Captured that big wolf
And sent him far, far away
For safekeeping.
From that day on,
Peter and the little bird
And the duck...
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- As well as peter's grandpapa,
Knew they would never
Be bothered
By the big, bad wolf again.
[Applause]
- And from now on,
Vici and I know
Friends don't always need to use
Words to show what they mean.
Sometimes they
Can use music too.
Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- My name is yibiao,
And I play the flute
At the juilliard pre-college.
[Cheery flute music]
♪ ♪
And I started playing the flute
When I was seven.
♪ ♪
Before, I was playing
The electronic keyboard,
But then my mom
Was tired of carrying
The heavy electronic keyboard,
So she said that
"You need to play
An instrument much lighter,"
And that's how I started flute.
♪ ♪
Breathing is pretty important
For flute,
Because if you breathe
At the wrong time,
You might run out of air,
And you're gonna have
To stop and breathe,
And you have to be really,
Really careful on your fingers.
♪ ♪
Playing the flute is very cool.
- I'm harun.
- I'm christopher.
- We study at the juilliard
Music advancement program.
[Playful marimba music]
♪ ♪
- I play the marimba,
And I like that instrument
'Cause of the sound.
♪ ♪
- The marimba
Is an african instrument.
You take a mallet.
You hit the wooden bar,
And the pipes
Make the wood louder.
The shorter bars stand
For the high notes,
And the bigger bars
Stand for the lower notes.
♪ ♪
- I started playing percussion
At the age of three
On bottles and cans.
♪ ♪
- We are playing a duet
Called bourree.
A duet is two people playing
A piece with different parts.
Christopher is playing
The higher part,
And I'm playing the lower part.
♪ ♪
- I practice three hours a day.
♪ ♪
I like classical music.
- I like the romance.
I like the sadness,
The happiness.
- It's fun,
And it makes me happy.
- I am angelina ballerina,
And today at school,
Ms. Mimi says she has
A wonderful surprise for us
In a hat.
I love surprises.
- Is it a magic trick?
- What is it?
- We're going to plan
And put on our very own show.
- Oh, really?
- Cool.
- So much fun.
- Most fun ever.
- I love shows.
[All gasp]
- What are those, ms. Mimi?
- The names of all
The different things
That go into
Making a dance performance.
- You mean, like, dancing?
- And music?
- [Chuckles]
And lots more.
Follow me.
[All giggling]
- Yeah.
- It takes teamwork
To dance together,
And it takes teamwork
To put on a show.
- What kind of dance performance
Will it be, ms. Mimi?
- That will be up to you.
- [Giggles]
This is fun.
- To begin...
- Oops.
[All laugh]
- Each of you
Will reach into this hat
And choose a piece of paper
And see what your job is
For the show.
- I want to be a dancer.
- Me too.
- I'll pick first.
[Gasps]
Choreographer.
Ah, super.
I get to make up the steps
Of our dance.
- I'm doing sets.
All right.
- You'll be designing
What the stage looks like.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- Ooh, may I pick next?
Stage manager.
What's that?
- That's the person
Who makes sure
Everyone works together.
- So the whole show
Will turn out perfectly.
- Ah, that will be
The most fun ever.
- Who's left?
- Now it's time
For angelina and gracie.
Stage manager says so.
[Giggles]
Because I'm in charge.
[All laugh]
Both: I want to pick "dancer."
[Both laugh]
- Well, in this show,
There's only one.
- Only one?
- Stage manager says,
"Close your eyes and pick."
- Oh...props?
Oh.
- But, gracie,
Props are super important.
They're all the things
People use on stage.
- I guess that means
You picked "dancer," angelina.
- No.
I picked "soloist."
All: soloist?
- [Gasps]
I remember.
"Soloist" means one dancer
Dancing all by herself on stage,
Right, ms. Mimi?
- That's right, angelina.
- Yay.
- Tomorrow, you'll have
Your first rehearsal.
All: yay.
- Gracie, it might
Be very lucky for the team
That you picked "props."
- Lucky?
- You like fashion and style,
Don't you?
- Oh, yes.
I love to wear yellow.
[Chuckles]
- I've guessed that,
And a person who does props
And costumes
Needs a good eye for style.
- Really?
- Absolutely.
- Oh, I'll be
The best soloist ever.
I can't wait
For rehearsal tomorrow.
And I will be the only one
Dancing on stage,
Like a star ballerina.
- It's nice that your class
Is working together.
- Come on, angelina.
Help with our new quilt.
It's so soft.
Look, I saved the pink squares
For you to sew.
- Oh, I can't do that now.
I have to go practice my solo.
- But, angelina,
This is more fun
If we all do it together.
- Hmm.
- Mm-mmm.
- A solo.
I think it should be
About stars.
[Upbeat instrumental music]
♪ ♪
Oh, thank you, ms. Mimi.
It's such fun being a star.
♪ ♪
- Angelina.
Oh. Ugh.
- [Giggling]
- Polly?
- Look, mum cut out a pink star
For your
Dancing-by-yourself solo.
- That's just what
I was dreaming about.
- First rehearsal.
Everyone ready?
- I choreographed a dance
About a super fun spring fairy
In the forest
Who uses her magic wand
To open up all the petals
Of the flowers.
All: cool.
- I was thinking about a ballet
With pink stars.
- The fun fairy
Needs fun flowers for props.
- And the stage has
To look like a cool forest.
- But I had a different idea.
- That's okay, angelina.
Just follow me.
- Here is the prop flower
I want you to hold,
Really pretty yellow.
- But how can I dance
Holding this?
- Angelina, follow my steps.
- Uh, I can't see.
- Remember, you're a fairy.
- Uh--
Oh, ouch.
- [Gasps]
- I don't think fairies
Are supposed
To bump into things.
- See? It's a forest.
- Oh, there sure are
A lot of trees.
- Rehearsal is starting.
And music.
[Quirky instrumental music]
♪ ♪
- Oh.
- Uh-oh.
- [Gasps]
♪ ♪
- Oh.
Oh.
- [Gasps]
♪ ♪
- Angelina, remember to chaine,
Like this, see?
♪ ♪
- Angelina, here's your flower.
♪ ♪
- Uh-oh.
- Watch out.
- Oh.
- Oh.
- Whoa.
- Oops.
Sorry.
- Ugh.
- Sorry again.
- My props.
- My set.
- My dance.
- I thought a solo
Was going to be fun.
This is no fun at all.
[Sighs]
There were too many trees,
And gracie's flower is too big,
And vici doesn't want to hear
Any of my ideas.
No one wants
To listen to me at all.
- I'm sorry, angelina.
- Maybe if you talk
To each other,
It will all work out.
- But our show is tomorrow.
[Sighs]
- Look, we're all done.
We're a quilting team.
Ta-da.
At least we listen to you,
Angelina.
There's a pink star right
In the middle of your quilt.
See?
- Thanks, polly.
I wish being a solo star
At school was as fun as this.
Maybe I should tell ms. Mimi
I don't want to dance a solo
At all.
[Sighs]
Ms. Mimi.
- Angelina, are you all ready
To put on your show?
- Well, that's what I wanted
To talk to you about.
- Oh, angelina,
I saw yesterday at rehearsal
That the flower was too big.
I made the star you brought
Into a fairy wand.
You can carry that instead.
- Oh, gracie,
This is a perfect size,
And it's a star, and it's pink.
- What were you about to say,
Angelina?
- Well, uh--
- Angelina, there were
So many trees on stage
That it made it super hard
For you to dance.
Look, I think one tree
Will be better.
- Oh, now I can really turn
And leap.
Thank you, marco.
- So, angelina, what was--
- Places for the show, please.
- Oh, all I wanted to say
Is that everyone worked so hard,
Marco's tree and gracie's wand
And vici's dance,
And I love working as a team.
Got to go.
The stage manager just said so.
[Giggles]
- Are you ready for your solo?
- No.
All: no?
- Vici, I just had a great idea.
[Whispering indistinctly]
[Playful instrumental music]
♪ ♪
Dancing a solo dance
Is wonderful, and I love it,
But working as a team
And dancing together,
That's even more stupendous.
♪ ♪
- Hola, marco here.
I'm listening to my friend
Yibiao play the flute.
Did you know that flutes
Have been around
Since the time of the cavemen?
Flutes are wind instruments,
Just like recorders.
That means air makes the sound.
Do you see how yibiao
Puckers his lips
To push air through the flute
And his fingers cover the holes
To make the different pitches?
I want to play flute
At the next camembert parade.
It's easier to carry
Than a tuba.
Gracias, yibiao.
Hola, marco here.
I know what that is.
It's a marimba.
Marimbas were first made
In africa and latin america.
They hit the wood blocks
With the mallets,
And those tubes underneath
Help make that cool sound.
Marimba
Is a percussion instrument.
A drum is another kind
Of percussion instrument,
Like the one I have here.
You hit it.
That's how it makes sound.
Magnifico.
I wonder if they'd let me play
My steel drum with them?
We'd make a great trio.
♪ She loves to twirl all day ♪
♪ She's gonna go far ♪
♪ That's the angelina way ♪
♪ Follow your dreams
Wherever they take you ♪
♪ You can succeed ♪
♪ Don't let anything
Shake you ♪
♪ Angelina ♪
♪ Ballerina ♪
♪ The little star
With big dreams ♪
♪ Angelina ♪
♪ Ballerina ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la-la ♪
[Birds chirping]
- I'm so excited.
Today is going to be
The most musical day ever
At camembert school.
- Then we're all going
To make costumes
And act out the story
Of peter and the wolf.
- Ooh, he looks like
A very big wolf.
- The story is about
A young mouseling named peter
Who meets a big, bad wolf,
And I get to play the wolf.
[Howling]
[All laugh]
- And when we act it out,
Every character
Will have the sound
Of a different
Musical instrument.
- Peter's sound is the violin.
[Heroic string music]
♪ ♪
Peter's grandfather
Is the bassoon.
[Light bassoon music]
♪ ♪
And you always know
The wolf is coming
When you hear french horns.
[Howls]
[Upbeat french horn music]
♪ ♪
- What part are you, angelina?
- I'm the bird, mum,
And my musical sound
Is the flute.
[Airy flute music]
♪ ♪
- What kind of fruit?
I love bananas,
But they don't make any music.
[Blowing]
[All laugh]
- Not fruit, polly, a flute.
See?
It's a musical instrument.
It sounds like my recorder.
[Light recorder music]
♪ ♪
Angelina's a birdie.
I hear her tweeting.
Tweet. Tweet.
♪ ♪
[Applause]
- Well, you girls
Certainly do know a lot
About peter and the wolf.
- I think you're going
To be a great birdie, angelina.
- And I think it's time to fly,
Or you'll be late for school.
- Listen, angelina.
Everything in chipping cheddar
Has a musical kind
Of sound today.
[Metal rattling]
Clatter-clink, clatter-clink.
That's the mouseberry
Yogurt cart.
[Wood creaking]
- That's the sign on the cafe.
[Bell chiming]
- That's the bell
On the town hall.
- Those sounds are so amazing.
Both: ♪ clatter-clink,
Clatter-clink ♪
♪ Creak, creak, creak ♪
♪ Ding, d-ding dong, ding ♪
[Laughing]
- Good-bye, mum.
Bye, polly.
- Have a most musical day, dear.
- And don't play the fruit
Instead of the flute.
[Blowing]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Hi, angelina.
Hi, vici.
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Um...what's up with gracie?
- Some actors want to stay
In character on performance day,
And she's playing the duck
In our peter and the wolf
Show today.
- I'm going to be
The best duck ever.
♪ Quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- Is gracie okay?
- She's quackers.
[All chuckle]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
[Gasps]
Here comes ms. Mimi.
All: good morning, ms. Mimi.
- What?
- What is she trying to say?
What's it say, angelina?
- It says she lost her voice.
- Ms. Mimi lost her voice?
- Oh, no.
- Ms. Mimi,
You should go to dr. Tuttle.
- She says she did go
To the doctor.
He said she has la--la--
- Laryngitis.
My uncle had that once.
He couldn't talk for a while,
But it's not contagious.
- Are you okay, ms. Mimi?
But how will you direct the show
If you can't speak?
[Airy flute music]
- Shh, listen, everyone.
- [Gasp]
♪ ♪
- Angelina, ms. Mimi's
Playing your bird theme
From peter and the wolf.
- Maybe she's trying
To tell you something.
- What?
- Listen, angelina.
♪ ♪
- Oh, you're calling me
With music, right, ms. Mimi?
[Ominous french horn music]
- Hey, I know that music.
♪ ♪
Now she's calling me.
- It looks like this
Will go on all morning.
[Heroic string music]
♪ ♪
Ms. Mimi is calling everyone
Without ever speaking a word.
[Light oboe music]
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- She's using the music
That goes with our characters
In peter and the wolf.
At first, I thought
Ms. Mimi losing her voice
Was going to make it
An awful day.
- But it turns out her
Laryngitis is music to our ears.
[Both laugh]
Everyone, I have a great idea.
Today is...
[Soft recorder music]
Speak only with music day.
- Hey, who wants a piece
Of my cheese pie?
[Two repetitive recorder notes]
- Wait, I think she's trying
To say something
About your cheese pie, gracie.
[Two repetitive recorder notes]
- Two?
- She says she wants two pieces.
- We can so understand her.
- And she didn't even
Speak a single word.
- See if she can answer
Another question.
- This is fun.
- Yeah.
- Vici, who's your
Favorite music group?
[Upbeat recorder music]
♪ ♪
She's saying she likes
House mouse
And the maze beaters.
They're my favorite too.
- What's your favorite cheese?
[Light recorder music]
[Discordant recorder music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, no,
It's got a crack in it.
[Discordant recorder music]
[Bell ringing]
- Now, that's a musical sound
I understand.
Lunchtime is over.
- Come on, we're supposed
To meet in the theater
So we can rehearse
On the big stage.
- This is so exciting.
- Ooh, I can't wait.
- Totally excellent.
I love this.
- Have you finished
Your costume?
- Oh, I can't wait
To get on the stage.
- Maybe there's
Another instrument I can use
In the music room.
[Gasps]
[Grunting]
The door is stuck.
Hello?
Is anyone out there?
Can anyone hear me?
[Grunting]
Oh.
[Sighs]
[Gasps]
I know what to do.
- Wow.
Stupendous spotlights.
[Heroic string music]
- Hey, that's my cue.
Here's peter.
♪ ♪
[Ominous french horn music]
- Make room for the wolf.
That's you, vici.
Vici?
♪ ♪
Ms. Mimi, vici didn't come back
From lunch with us.
[Distant french horn music]
- Hey, doesn't that sound
Like a french horn?
- But where's it coming from?
♪ ♪
- It sounds like it's coming
From the music room.
Come on.
♪ ♪
Oh, no.
Vici's trapped inside.
- Vici, are you okay?
- Yes, but I can't
Open the door, angelina.
[Sighs]
I got locked in,
But it was okay,
Because I could call you
With my french horn.
- We heard the french horn.
- And we followed the sound
Right to you.
- I guess you were right, vici.
- About what?
- You and ms. Mimi
Both showed us different ways
We can use music
To show others what they mean,
Even though it's not exactly
Talking with words.
- Luckily, ms. Mimi
Got her voice back
In time for the production.
- And so the brave
Little mouseling, peter,
Captured that big wolf
And sent him far, far away
For safekeeping.
From that day on,
Peter and the little bird
And the duck...
- ♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
♪ Quack, quack, quack ♪
- As well as peter's grandpapa,
Knew they would never
Be bothered
By the big, bad wolf again.
[Applause]
- And from now on,
Vici and I know
Friends don't always need to use
Words to show what they mean.
Sometimes they
Can use music too.
Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- My name is yibiao,
And I play the flute
At the juilliard pre-college.
[Cheery flute music]
♪ ♪
And I started playing the flute
When I was seven.
♪ ♪
Before, I was playing
The electronic keyboard,
But then my mom
Was tired of carrying
The heavy electronic keyboard,
So she said that
"You need to play
An instrument much lighter,"
And that's how I started flute.
♪ ♪
Breathing is pretty important
For flute,
Because if you breathe
At the wrong time,
You might run out of air,
And you're gonna have
To stop and breathe,
And you have to be really,
Really careful on your fingers.
♪ ♪
Playing the flute is very cool.
- I'm harun.
- I'm christopher.
- We study at the juilliard
Music advancement program.
[Playful marimba music]
♪ ♪
- I play the marimba,
And I like that instrument
'Cause of the sound.
♪ ♪
- The marimba
Is an african instrument.
You take a mallet.
You hit the wooden bar,
And the pipes
Make the wood louder.
The shorter bars stand
For the high notes,
And the bigger bars
Stand for the lower notes.
♪ ♪
- I started playing percussion
At the age of three
On bottles and cans.
♪ ♪
- We are playing a duet
Called bourree.
A duet is two people playing
A piece with different parts.
Christopher is playing
The higher part,
And I'm playing the lower part.
♪ ♪
- I practice three hours a day.
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I like classical music.
- I like the romance.
I like the sadness,
The happiness.
- It's fun,
And it makes me happy.
- I am angelina ballerina,
And today at school,
Ms. Mimi says she has
A wonderful surprise for us
In a hat.
I love surprises.
- Is it a magic trick?
- What is it?
- We're going to plan
And put on our very own show.
- Oh, really?
- Cool.
- So much fun.
- Most fun ever.
- I love shows.
[All gasp]
- What are those, ms. Mimi?
- The names of all
The different things
That go into
Making a dance performance.
- You mean, like, dancing?
- And music?
- [Chuckles]
And lots more.
Follow me.
[All giggling]
- Yeah.
- It takes teamwork
To dance together,
And it takes teamwork
To put on a show.
- What kind of dance performance
Will it be, ms. Mimi?
- That will be up to you.
- [Giggles]
This is fun.
- To begin...
- Oops.
[All laugh]
- Each of you
Will reach into this hat
And choose a piece of paper
And see what your job is
For the show.
- I want to be a dancer.
- Me too.
- I'll pick first.
[Gasps]
Choreographer.
Ah, super.
I get to make up the steps
Of our dance.
- I'm doing sets.
All right.
- You'll be designing
What the stage looks like.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- Ooh, may I pick next?
Stage manager.
What's that?
- That's the person
Who makes sure
Everyone works together.
- So the whole show
Will turn out perfectly.
- Ah, that will be
The most fun ever.
- Who's left?
- Now it's time
For angelina and gracie.
Stage manager says so.
[Giggles]
Because I'm in charge.
[All laugh]
Both: I want to pick "dancer."
[Both laugh]
- Well, in this show,
There's only one.
- Only one?
- Stage manager says,
"Close your eyes and pick."
- Oh...props?
Oh.
- But, gracie,
Props are super important.
They're all the things
People use on stage.
- I guess that means
You picked "dancer," angelina.
- No.
I picked "soloist."
All: soloist?
- [Gasps]
I remember.
"Soloist" means one dancer
Dancing all by herself on stage,
Right, ms. Mimi?
- That's right, angelina.
- Yay.
- Tomorrow, you'll have
Your first rehearsal.
All: yay.
- Gracie, it might
Be very lucky for the team
That you picked "props."
- Lucky?
- You like fashion and style,
Don't you?
- Oh, yes.
I love to wear yellow.
[Chuckles]
- I've guessed that,
And a person who does props
And costumes
Needs a good eye for style.
- Really?
- Absolutely.
- Oh, I'll be
The best soloist ever.
I can't wait
For rehearsal tomorrow.
And I will be the only one
Dancing on stage,
Like a star ballerina.
- It's nice that your class
Is working together.
- Come on, angelina.
Help with our new quilt.
It's so soft.
Look, I saved the pink squares
For you to sew.
- Oh, I can't do that now.
I have to go practice my solo.
- But, angelina,
This is more fun
If we all do it together.
- Hmm.
- Mm-mmm.
- A solo.
I think it should be
About stars.
[Upbeat instrumental music]
♪ ♪
Oh, thank you, ms. Mimi.
It's such fun being a star.
♪ ♪
- Angelina.
Oh. Ugh.
- [Giggling]
- Polly?
- Look, mum cut out a pink star
For your
Dancing-by-yourself solo.
- That's just what
I was dreaming about.
- First rehearsal.
Everyone ready?
- I choreographed a dance
About a super fun spring fairy
In the forest
Who uses her magic wand
To open up all the petals
Of the flowers.
All: cool.
- I was thinking about a ballet
With pink stars.
- The fun fairy
Needs fun flowers for props.
- And the stage has
To look like a cool forest.
- But I had a different idea.
- That's okay, angelina.
Just follow me.
- Here is the prop flower
I want you to hold,
Really pretty yellow.
- But how can I dance
Holding this?
- Angelina, follow my steps.
- Uh, I can't see.
- Remember, you're a fairy.
- Uh--
Oh, ouch.
- [Gasps]
- I don't think fairies
Are supposed
To bump into things.
- See? It's a forest.
- Oh, there sure are
A lot of trees.
- Rehearsal is starting.
And music.
[Quirky instrumental music]
♪ ♪
- Oh.
- Uh-oh.
- [Gasps]
♪ ♪
- Oh.
Oh.
- [Gasps]
♪ ♪
- Angelina, remember to chaine,
Like this, see?
♪ ♪
- Angelina, here's your flower.
♪ ♪
- Uh-oh.
- Watch out.
- Oh.
- Oh.
- Whoa.
- Oops.
Sorry.
- Ugh.
- Sorry again.
- My props.
- My set.
- My dance.
- I thought a solo
Was going to be fun.
This is no fun at all.
[Sighs]
There were too many trees,
And gracie's flower is too big,
And vici doesn't want to hear
Any of my ideas.
No one wants
To listen to me at all.
- I'm sorry, angelina.
- Maybe if you talk
To each other,
It will all work out.
- But our show is tomorrow.
[Sighs]
- Look, we're all done.
We're a quilting team.
Ta-da.
At least we listen to you,
Angelina.
There's a pink star right
In the middle of your quilt.
See?
- Thanks, polly.
I wish being a solo star
At school was as fun as this.
Maybe I should tell ms. Mimi
I don't want to dance a solo
At all.
[Sighs]
Ms. Mimi.
- Angelina, are you all ready
To put on your show?
- Well, that's what I wanted
To talk to you about.
- Oh, angelina,
I saw yesterday at rehearsal
That the flower was too big.
I made the star you brought
Into a fairy wand.
You can carry that instead.
- Oh, gracie,
This is a perfect size,
And it's a star, and it's pink.
- What were you about to say,
Angelina?
- Well, uh--
- Angelina, there were
So many trees on stage
That it made it super hard
For you to dance.
Look, I think one tree
Will be better.
- Oh, now I can really turn
And leap.
Thank you, marco.
- So, angelina, what was--
- Places for the show, please.
- Oh, all I wanted to say
Is that everyone worked so hard,
Marco's tree and gracie's wand
And vici's dance,
And I love working as a team.
Got to go.
The stage manager just said so.
[Giggles]
- Are you ready for your solo?
- No.
All: no?
- Vici, I just had a great idea.
[Whispering indistinctly]
[Playful instrumental music]
♪ ♪
Dancing a solo dance
Is wonderful, and I love it,
But working as a team
And dancing together,
That's even more stupendous.
♪ ♪
- Hola, marco here.
I'm listening to my friend
Yibiao play the flute.
Did you know that flutes
Have been around
Since the time of the cavemen?
Flutes are wind instruments,
Just like recorders.
That means air makes the sound.
Do you see how yibiao
Puckers his lips
To push air through the flute
And his fingers cover the holes
To make the different pitches?
I want to play flute
At the next camembert parade.
It's easier to carry
Than a tuba.
Gracias, yibiao.
Hola, marco here.
I know what that is.
It's a marimba.
Marimbas were first made
In africa and latin america.
They hit the wood blocks
With the mallets,
And those tubes underneath
Help make that cool sound.
Marimba
Is a percussion instrument.
A drum is another kind
Of percussion instrument,
Like the one I have here.
You hit it.
That's how it makes sound.
Magnifico.
I wonder if they'd let me play
My steel drum with them?
We'd make a great trio.