Painted by Esao Andrews, "The Witch's Tale" tells us the background of Frau Totenkinder, as well as revealing her many previously unrevealed connections to other fables, such as Hansel and Prince Ambrose.
Next, news anchor Robin Meade performed the national anthem, and former NFL running back Roger Craig and Northern California Toyota Dealer Association's Henry Hansel gave the command for drivers to start their engines.
In 1965, an annual children's theatre season was added with the first production featuring Carol Burns as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel.
Other productions include Caged, Pobby and Dingan (TMA 2010 award winner for Best Show for Children and Young People), The Book of Beasts, Something Wicked This Way Comes (with National Theatre of Scotland), The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, Hansel and Gretel, Kes, The Lion of Kabul, The Book of Beasts, Cyrano, Snow Baby, and The Story of the Little Gentleman.
Battaglia’s teaching was so influential that for the 1991-1992 opera season’s opening night at Teatro Regio in Torino, Conductor Maurizio Benini cast Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretel” entirely from Battaglia’s studio of singers.
He also played one of the hall monitors and Miss Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov)'s yes men, Fritz Hansel, in the cult classic Rock 'n' Roll High School.
Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (November 11, 1949–September 7, 2006) was a Cameroonian theatre director, critic, and playwright, and professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Yaoundé I.
Starring Maria Friedman, Julie Atherton, Oliver Tompsett, Ashleigh Gray, Michael Xavier, Adrian Hansel, Zoe Rainey, Richard Reynard and Lorna Want.
Some of the talent from the 2010-2011 included Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, DJ Irie, DJ Nino, DJ Vertigo, Adam Carolla, teen rock group The Kicking Daisies, Cuban-American singer Albita, legendary salsa king Gilberto Santa Rosa and salsa duo Hansel y Raul.
La Femme de Gilles (2004) (de Frédéric Fonteyne) co-written with Marion Hänsel and Frédéric Fonteyne after novel by Belgian writer Madeleine Bourdouxhe -Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Screenplay