Tales & Scales, the nationally acclaimed Musictelling troupe, performs Just Beyond the Junkyard at the Maryland Theatre on March 3, 2007 at 5:00 pm. Junkyard tells the story of nine-year-old Renny Hall, a little girl whose big imagination is always getting her into trouble. She’s and home is an apartment building near an inner-city junkyard, where all it takes is a little resourcefulness and a vivid imagination to enter a kingdom of magical transformations. When events conspire to threaten both the junkyard and her home, Renny brings all of her creative resources and ingenuity to bear as she learns how to pair her imagination with responsibility to help those around her. An adventure full of humor and drama,T&S weaves contemporary words and music into a memorable Musictale for children and family audiences.

Tales & Scales was founded in 1986 to fulfill a need for quality arts programming for children and family audiences. In a mission to ignite imaginations through the performing arts, the group of instrumental musicians creates a combination of music and movement built around new and traditional stories that they term ‘Musictelling’. Each year, working in collaboration with emerging composers, writers, and theatre directors, Tales & Scales creates a new ‘Musictale, giving over 200 performances in schools, at performing arts centers and with symphony orchestras.

Tales & Scales has brought its Musictelling to the Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Atlanta symphonies, to NYC's New Victory Theater, the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Annenberg Center, the Chautauqua Institution, and schools across the United States and Bermuda. The troupe has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation, and in several national publications. T&S also works with educators and students through Tales & Scales Workshops designed to partner the arts with education and thus bring imagination and creativity through the arts into every child’s life.