"Nate the Great"

This morning, my friend Megan and I volunteered as ushers at the Lyman Center for a children's performance "Nate the Great". It was presented by Theatreworks USA. There were 600+ people at the performance. Nate the Great was about a detective. He solves cases. His case today was to find the picture his friend, Annie, painted of her dog, Fang, for her mother for her birthday. Also, he had to find Annie's friend, Rosamond's, cat Super Rex. Super Rex was under Rosamond's couch. Annie's brother Harry took Annie's picture. Her favorite color is yellow. His favorite color is red. He painted over Annie's yellow picture of her dog Fang with red. It made the picture of her dog Fang orange. They found the picture of her dog Fang on Harry's easel. The performance taught children about the primary colors. The performance was based on the Nate the Great Books by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. I have never heard of the Nate the Great books, so I was talking to the schools as I was sitting them in the theatre, and they told me who Nate the Great was. Some of the schools had never heard of the Nate the Great books before planning their field trip to see the performance, so they went and read them so the teachers and children were aware of what the performance was going to be about before seeing it. I think that was a great idea, and if I have free time, I might go pick up a Nate the Great book and read it myself. After the performance was over, the children were so interested in seeing the actors/actresses and props behind the set.
Here is a link about Nate the Great.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/natethegreat/