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2006-07 This Season has ended  RENT  On Golden Pond  Tea at Five  Ballet of the Dolls Night of the Living Dolls  Diva Dish! with Luke Yankee  Irving Berlin's White Christmas  CHICAGO  Love, Janis  Lerner and Loewe’s CAMELOT  EDWARD SCISSORHANDS  Monty Python's SPAMALOT |
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands Donate Your Hair to Locks of Love
Ordway Center and the hit show, Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands is proud to partner with Locks of Love, the Rake Magazine, and MoXie Salon for a hair-raiser to benefit financially disadvantaged children under the age of eighteen suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.
Thank you everyone for your kind offers to donate hair to children suffering with hair loss. The Locks of Love event Sunday, April 1 has reached full capacity. We cannot accept further appointments, but hope to offer future similar opportunities.
Thank you!
Ordway Center
Matthew Bourne's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Reading List recommended by the Saint Paul Public Library
Proud Cultural Partner of the Saint Paul Public Library
These book selections share the qualities of magical realism and fairy tales that come to life in suburbia that permeate Edward Scissorhands, as well exploring some of its antecedents.
1. Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey-Interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin. Edward Gorey's macabre humor, Edwardian aesthetics, and magical sensibility are clear influences on Tim Burton, who directed the Edward Scissorhands film.
2. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This classic novel, which bears little resemblance to the movies that followed, is no doubt a progenitor of the Edward Scissorhands tale; it explores the nature of creation, responsibility, loneliness, and isolation.
3. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. In this 2007 Alex award-winner, fairy tales come to life in all of their enchanting and grim glory as 12-year-old David comes of age.
4. Skellig by David Almond. This elegiac Printz-award winning tale is simultaneously a haunting and beautiful exercise in magical realism for teens and a poignant coming-of-age story. Recommended for teens/young adults.
5. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. In this tale of magical realism set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, grief, love, and actual magic take center stage.
6. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. With nods to Brontë and du Maurier, the protagonist of this 2007 Alex award-winner finds herself on an isolated Yorkshire estate tangling with ghosts, a mysterious and complicated family, and the nature of storytelling.
7. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. When Bella Swan moves to rainy Washington State and meets vampire Edward Cullen in this multiple award winner, the last thing that either of them expects is to fall in love. Recommended for teens/young adults.
8. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Fat Charlie Nancy finds his run-of-the-mill life in London turned upside-down, when he learns that his father was in fact the African trickster god Anansi.
9. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes. Famous folklorist and University of Minnesota professor, Zipes explores how fairy tales have been used, from the 16th century through the 21st, to reflect the mores of society and their authors while imparting a civilizing influence on their audience.
"You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now,
I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it."
-Kim Boggs [last lines in the Edward Scissorhands film]
