BEAR NECESSITIES TEEN ACTORS GET READY FOR SUMMER STAGE PROJECT.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Teenagers are rehearsing dialogue, building sets, learning to work the lights and helping make costumes for ``The Jungle jungle [Hindustani jangal=desert, forest; from Skt. jangala=wasteland, uncultivated land], densest form of tropical forest (usually second growth or later) found throughout tropical lowland regions. Book,'' which they will perform this weekend at the Palmdale Playhouse. Actors ages 13 to 18 are learning how to create a professional-caliber stage show in the playhouse's ninth annual Summer Theater Camp. ``The Jungle Book'' is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories about a boy raised by wild animals WILD ANIMALS. Animals in a state of nature; animals ferae naturae. Vide Animals; Ferae naturae. in the Indian jungle. The Palmdale teens will appear as wolves wolves n. Plural of wolf. wolves Noun the plural of wolf Wolves See also animals. lycanthrope 1. a person suffering from lycanthropy. , a bear, a giant snake and other animals. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Tickets are $14 for adults, or $10 for seniors, military and youth. For information or tickets call (661) 267-5685 or go online at www.cityofpalmdale.org. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Above, from left, Justin Verhulst, 13, as a wolf, Rebecca Tucker, 16, as Bagheera the Panther panther, name commonly applied to the leopard, especially to a black leopard. It is also used locally to designate various other cats including the jaguar and the puma. and Erica Tortolano, 15, as Baloo the Bear are in makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces for their roles in ``The Jungle Book'' by the Palmdale Playhouse's Summer Theater Camp. At left, Lindsay Grizzard, 13, applies mask makeup to Leslie Burns, 17. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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