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1 19 Friday December 31 2010 Tmy dancer major role Margulis plays Jesse one of Barney's human friends ing at the Papermill Theatre in New Hampshire in which she belted out "I Speak Six And she starred in "Good at the Manhattan Theatre in New York When Margulis is at home she said she spends a lot of xak time improv-ing her craft dance classes and voice lessons the typical New York life and when she gets a chance to breathe she spends time with her dog a shih tzu named Jacques brush with Barney the singing and dancing dinosaur came far before joining the "Birthday tour Her younger siblings are 15 and 17 so she grew up with them watching Barney and listening to Barney tapes in the car She remembers a lot of those songs from those days she said and at every show she likes to honor the dinosaur that was part of her childhood me the challenge is just giving every moment super high energy and she said was lucky enough to do the musical theater program she said "Bameyt Birthday is actually second touring show Her first was in the national tour of in 2008 and 2009 went all over the US and she said of that first tour Of all the cities she visited Dallas stands out in her mind as one of her favorite cities She spent a month traveling and performing all over Texas Like in the show in which she plays a girl in she played a little boy in gang She also played plucky over achieving spelling bee competitor Marcy in and the dinosaur to remain just as upbeat something not hard to do the kind of energy generated by audience of preschoolers and elementary school-aged children kids are so high said so easy to that is from East NJ and knew young age that she a performer about 4 years I was at Disney I saw the onstage went to join said So jumping-on-stage she parents her theater most performers involved in dance and acting she could She ended up at New Tisch the Arts Margulis gets chance to be the tall one LANA SWEETEN-SHUITS SHULTSLTIMESRECORD- NEWSuCOM 040-720-3462 The saying goes that good things come in small packages Jennifer Margulis knows all about small packages At 5 feet 2 inches tall she says her height has always been a factor in her getting dance jobs But in Live in Concert: Birthday headed to Kay Yeager Coliseum Jan 6 Margulis is actually one of the tallest in the cast She plays Jesse one of human friends The peppy purple dinosaur's other human friend is Alex "Jesse and Alex both help get all the kids in the audience involved in the birthday said Margulis who has been on the road since the middle of November with Birthday a pretty demanding role for Margulis who is on stage for much of the show about 90 percent ofitinfact "We do 25 songs and she said "Most of the songs are familiar A lot of them are nursery rhymes but a bit hipper It gets into almost a rap Like Barney she said she you go- WHAT: live in Concert: Birthday WHERE: Kay Yeager Coliseum WHEN: 3 pm and 6:30 pm Jan 6 ADMISSION: $15 $22 and $27 plus applicable fees Dino Seats are $45 plus applicable fees (inchides a preshow photo opportunity with two of the characters from the show) INFORM 4T10N: 940-716-5555 or WWW wimpeexom and Alex cast have peppy and considering target "The she feed off Margulis Brunswick from a would be "I was old when World performers and I she after that incident said her quickly enrolled in community and like other she got song and wherever eventually York School of '0 1 i itxdv-? i VPm A :1 rT a Birthday heads to Kay Yeager Coliseum Jan 6 tfr KS 1C 'jW vT.