Director’s note: 

This family friendly and whimsical evening will be a shadow puppet rendition of 3 classic fairy tales: Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Aladdin.

From Wikipedia: Rumpelstiltskin is a German fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm for their 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales.  Many variants and translations appeared in the 19th century but the basic story may date back to as far as 4,000 years ago.

From Wikipedia: The first written record of a story that may be recognized as Rapunzel was published in Naples in 1634.  The current story is also a German fairy tale recorded by the brothers Grimm and published in 1812.

From Time Magazine: Credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland, secretary to the French ambassador to Constantinople in the 17th century. He was the first European translator of the Les mille et une nuits: Contes Arabes (“1001 Nights: Arabian tales”).  Scholars have not found a manuscript of the Aladdin story that predates the version published in 1712 by Galland, who wrote in his diary that he first heard the tale from a Syrian storyteller from Aleppo named Hanna Diyab on May 8, 1709.  Diyab wrote something of his own: a travelogue penned in the mid-18th century in which he recalls telling Galland the story of Aladdin. Historian Jérome Lentin found this document in the Vatican’s library in 1993.  That’s a significant revision of where the story came from, not from a 60-year-old French translator, but a 20-year-old traveler from Aleppo blending the storytelling traditions of his homeland with his youthful observations of the wonder of 18th-century France. and the court of Louis XIV at Versailles.