COOKIE CRUMB CLUB
On this Saturday morning the room was packed with jumpy kids between the ages of three and seven (accompanied by parents), who were also anticipating a birthday party afterward. Since this is a club, each child receives a membership card entitling the bearer to get in at half price forever. Many of the children present seem to have been rendezvousing on Saturdays for most of the 14 months that the Cookie Crumb Club has been in existence. That they have not grown bored is testimony to the variety and novelty Post brings to his project.
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The Cookie Crumb Club adjourned with the “Monster Song” (“There’s a kid in the backseat who thinks he’s a monster”), complete with a monster dance onstage, which everyone was encouraged to join–grown-ups too. It occurred to me that I hadn’t heard so much as a word of sly “adult” humor to acknowledge those over the age of eight–which is exactly as it should be. I heard Jim Post sing back in 1979 to an adult audience that was not pleased when he introduced juvenile songs into a program of music for adults; no doubt the members of the Cookie Crumb Club would have resented their fun being interrupted by the grown-ups sharing a private chuckle.
