How Can You Run With A Shell on Your Back? April 11, 2009

Based on some of Aesop's best-loved fables--'Tortoise and the Hare,' 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' 'Androcles and 'the Lion' and 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'--six students and a substitute teacher combine forces to turn an after-school detention into the madcap world of make believe. A charming children's tale of joy and goodwill written by Northwestern University alumni Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler and directed by Rives Collins, 'How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?' is a critically acclaimed and high-spirited musical reveals universal truths for all ages.