National Season Dates 2008 |
| TERM 1, 2008 |
| VIC |
February 18th to 29th |
2 Weeks |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| VIC |
March 3rd to 4th |
2 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| ACT |
March 5th |
1 Day |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
NSW |
March 6th to 7th |
2 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| ACT |
March 17th |
1 Day |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
NSW |
March 18th to 20th |
3 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| SA |
March 25th to 29th |
4 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| TAS |
March 31st to April 1st |
2 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| VIC |
April 2nd |
1 Day |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| TERM 2, 2008 |
| VIC |
April 21st to 25th |
1 Week |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
NSW |
May 1st to May 2nd |
2 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| QLD |
May 5th to May 7th |
3 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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NSW |
May 8th |
1 Day |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| ACT |
May 9th |
1 Day |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| VIC |
May 12th to 13th |
2 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| SA |
May 14th to 16th |
3 Days |
2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| VIC |
May 19th to 23rd Education Week |
1 Week |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| TAS |
July 21st to 25th |
1 Week |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
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| TERM 3, 2008 |
| VIC |
July 14th to 25th
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2 Weeks |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp" |
| SA |
July 28th to August 1st |
1 Week |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
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| ACT |
July 28th to August 1st |
1 Week |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
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| VIC |
August 4th to September 19th
incl. Book Week & Literacy Week |
7 Weeks |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp" |
NSW |
August 4th to 6th
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3 Days |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp |
| QLD |
August 7th to August 15th |
1.5 Weeks |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
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NSW |
August 18th to September 12th
incl. Book Week & Literacy Week |
4 Weeks |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp" |
| SA |
September 15th to 19th |
1 Week |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
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| TAS |
October 6th to 10th |
1 Week |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| TERM 4, 2008 |
| VIC |
October 13th to 17th |
1 Week |
New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows
"The Night Garden" & "Amelia Dee & the peacock lamp"
& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| ACT |
October 20th to 22nd |
3 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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NSW |
October 23rd to 24th |
2 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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| QLD |
October 27th to 29th |
3 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical
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NSW |
October 30th to 31st |
2 Days |
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical |
| VIC |
November 24th to 28th |
1 Weeks |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
| SA |
December 1st to 3rd |
3 Days |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
| ACT |
December 4th |
1 Day |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
NSW |
December 5th |
1 Day |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
| QLD |
December 8th to 10th |
3 Days |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
NSW |
December 10th to 12th |
3 Days |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
| VIC |
December 15th to 19th |
1 Week |
Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show |
| SOME OF OUR PAST SHOWS |
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"The Singing Hat"
by Tohby Riddle 2001-2002
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"At The Beach"
by Roland Harvey 2005-2006
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"Bear & Chook" by Lisa Shanahan
& Emma Quay 2003-2004
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"Captain Mack" by James Roy 2000-2001 |


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"Tony Bones 2000" 2000 |
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"Tom Jones Saves The World"
by Steven Herrick 2003-2004 |
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Federation 2001 & Melbourne
Commonwealth Games 2006
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We are committed to presenting both entertaining and memorable shows, but also to working closely with the curricula of Victorian & NSW schools.
Tony has practical experience in teaching nearly every stream of the CSF and CSF II at some time in his career from levels Prep through to Year 12. Therefore every show he produces is sure to relate to each student on both an educational and entertaining level.
Having taught Drama, English and in Libraries in both Primary and Secondary schools, Tony saw a need for dramatic curriculum to help students explore themes and ideas in a new and engaging way.
TBE use a variety of different genre within each show toexplore themes and ideas.
We cast some of the finest actors in the country who bring with them a world of experience in both Children's and Musical Theatre.
All our shows are adaptable to a broad range of ages to ensure every student in your school can benefit from the TBE experience.
With follow up activities for each year level provided in worksheets and lesson plans for teachers, we ensure every student's individual learning style is completely catered to in each show.
Where it all began ... Book Week
Tony Appleby B.Ed created the company in 1998. Since then "TBE" has been growing from strength to strength.
We began with an extremely popular series of shows designed to showcase short listed books from The Children's Book Council Of Australia 'Book Of The Year Awards' during Book Week. Our aim was not to come to schools as a traditional 'story-teller', but in fact to turn each year's most performance friendly short listed books into full-length plays. As a result, students can discover the books in an entirely different way.
Pantomime/Theatre In Education, Puppets and Music
Our more traditional style of primary school pantomime and theatre in education has also been very popular with schools.
2007 will see our newest musical show "Bully Bullring" touring Victoria & NSW where Primary students are shown effective practical ways to deal with bullying in schools.
2002 saw the first year of our annual huge hit Christmas show "Rudolph's Recruits" where Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer interviewed all singing and dancing Australian animals to pull Santa's sleigh instead of the reindeer. This show will tour again in 2006.
The feature presentation for 2001 & 2006, "Our Greatest Australian" gave students the chance to vote for their favourite Australian after a musical and dramatic talent quest of 200 years of Australians.
"Tony Bones 2000" offered students a cavalcade of adventurethrough Music, Dance, Art and Drama. The concepts of friendship, racism, prejudice and understanding were tackled by Tony Bones, his best friend and a multitude of puppets.
We often use a combination of puppets, mask, suit work, costume and voice in our shows to add new elements of drama for the students and introduce themes that students will enjoy exploring.
Our shows include original music relating to the theme of the individual piece. Tony Appleby and either of TBE's brilliant musical directors Tim Smith and Luke Hunter write all of the songs and music for the shows. Their songs vary in style depending on the show, but always have the audience clapping and dancing along, or crying in the aisles, depending on what's required.
2006-07 Season
PRICE: Up to 100 students = $660 then $6.60 per student thereafter
With the huge success across Victoria & NSW of the Picture Book show "Irving the Magician " and Younger Reader's novel show "To The Light", we are proud to announce the new seasons of shows that will run for Term 1 & 2, 2007: "Irving the Magician " will be thrilling Prep - Grade 6 students, while "To The Light " will be entertaining Grade 4 - Year 8 students. This current season of shows are already filling extremely quickly, so please book quickly.
Also in December 2007 we are re-touring the incredibly popular original musical "Rudolph's Recruits - The Christmas Musical Extravaganza" for Prep - Grade 6 students throughout Victoria & NSW in limited seasons. This 50 minute interactive musical comedy is a brilliant way to use drama, dance and music to round up the year (especially once reports are finished).
2007 will see our newest musical show "Bully Bullring" touring Victoria & NSW where Primary students are shown effective practical ways to deal with bullying in schools.
All four of these shows are adaptable to a broad range of ages to guarantee every student in you school canbenefit from the 'Tony Bones Entertainment' experience.
With question time after the shows run by Tony and follow up activities for each year level provided in worksheets and lesson plans for teachers, these shows are not to be missed. So contact Tony now and book one of our shows for your school in 2007.

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