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Talent Show Ideas for Treasure Island

If you are putting on a talent show, perhaps to raise money for charity, you might want it to be a little different that the standard singing and dancing snore-fest that usually typifies such performances. One way to do this is to create a theme for the event and ask all performers to design their act around that theme.



For example, you might base the show on the novel Treasure Island (and the various movies made based on it). This should make the entire show much more enjoyable and challenging for the performers. For each type of performance, you can have the judges assign points, with the overall point leader at the end being the winner.
  1. Pirate Speak

    • Have a pirate speak contest to see who can sound the most like one of the pirate characters in the book. Long John Silver. The performers will read from a passage in the book and throw in a few "arrs," "avast me hearties," and "Jim Lads," basing the accent they use on that used in the movies and generally expected from pirate rogues.

    Singing Sea Shanties

    • If you want to have singing in your Treasure Island themed talent show, provide the performers with a list of old seas shanties that they can sing. Some selections might be What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor, Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's Ship, or some of the tunes from The Pirates of Penzanze like "I Am a Pirate King."

    Shake a Peg Leg

    • Another type of act your performers can do is sailor dances. Sailors and pirates are well known for frequently performing various dances and jigs, such as the Hornpipe. Alternatively, allow the performers to present the formal dances a pirate might have encountered while on shore leave, such as English Country Dances.

    Doing a Scene

    • The talent show performers can as a group present a particular scene from the novel, such as the scene in which Blind Pew arrives to give Billy Bones the black spot. Whichever scene you choose needs to be all in a single room so you don't have the change scenes and props. The judges can then grade each performers work separately to assign points.

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