Public Performances
     

PRIMARY
 "Water Witcher" by Jam Ormerod - CBCA 2007 Short-Listed "Picture Book Of The Year"

"Being Bee" by Catherine Bateson - CBCA 2007 Short-Listed "Younger Reader's Book Of The Year"

“Bully Bull Ring” Anti-Bullying Show

SECONDARY
"Being Bee" by Catherine Bateson - CBCA 2007 Short-Listed "Younger Reader's Book Of The Year

 

PRIMARY
"The Night Garden" by Elise Hurst - CBCA 2008 Short-Listed "Picture Book of the Year"

"Amelia Dee and the peacock lamp" by Odo Hirsch - CBCA 2008 Short-Listed "Younger Readers Book of the Year"

(Term 4 Only)
“Bully Bull Ring” Anti-Bullying Show

(December Only)
Rudolph's Recruits
Christmas Show

SECONDARY
"Amelia Dee and the peacock lamp" by Odo Hirsch - CBCA 2008 Short-Listed "Younger Readers Book of the Year"

 

 

About Our School Shows -

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

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

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

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

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

VIC

May 19th to 23rd Education Week

1 Week

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

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"

TERM 3, 2008
VIC

July 14th to 25th

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

TAS
October 6th to 10th
1 Week

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

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

NSW

October 23rd to 24th

 2 Days

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

QLD
October 27th to 29th
3 Days

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

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
The Singing Hat

"The Singing Hat"

by Tohby Riddle 2001-2002

FGHJGFJAt The Beach

"At The Beach"

by Roland Harvey 2005-2006

Bear and Chook

"Bear & Chook" by Lisa Shanahan

& Emma Quay 2003-2004

Captain Mack
"Captain Mack" by James Roy 2000-2001

TB2000.1

TB2000.2

"Tony Bones 2000" 2000
Tom Jones Saves The World

"Tom Jones Saves The World"

by Steven Herrick 2003-2004

Our Greatest Australian

Federation 2001 & Melbourne

Commonwealth Games 2006

Anti Bullying Show

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.

Rudolph's Recruits Christmas Musical

Victoria Season Dates 2008
TERM 1, 2008

February 18th to 29th

2 Weeks

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

March 10th to 14th

1 Week

New 2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"

TERM 2, 2008

April 14th to 25th

2 Weeks

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

May 5th to 9th

Education Week

1 Week

New 2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"

& "Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

May 19th to 23rd

1 Week

New 2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"

TERM 3, 2008

July 21st to September 19th

incl. Book Week & Literacy Week

9 Weeks

New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

TBA MAY 2008

TERM 4, 2008

October 13th to 24th

2 Weeks

New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

TBA MAY 2008

November 3rd to 14th

2 Weeks

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

December 1st to 5th

1 Week

Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show

NSW Season Dates 2008
TERM 1, 2008

March 3rd to 7th

1 Week

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

March 17th to 21st

1 Week

New 2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

TBA MAY 2007

TERM 2, 2008

April 28th to May 2nd

1 Week

"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

May 12th to 16th

1 Week

New 2007 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

"Water Witcher" & "Being Bee"

TERM 3, 2008

August 11th to September 5th

incl. Book Week & Literacy Week

4 Weeks

New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

TBA MAY 2008

TERM 4, 2008

October 27th to 31st

1 Week

New 2008 Short-Listed Book of the Year / Book Week Shows

TBA MAY 2008

November 17th to 21st
1 Week
"Bully Bull-Ring" Anti-Bullying Musical

December 8th to 19th

2 Weeks

Rudolph’s Recruits Xmas Show