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General public tickets are sold only at OMA and are available 30-minutes prior to each show.

Adults are $6.00 and Youth (under age 18) are $3.00.

 

Wichita Children's Theatre's Yankee Doodle
"Yankee Doodle"
Tue., October 23, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Appropriate for grades 3 - 5.

Yankee Doodle is a rousing salute to the "movers and shakers" of the U.S.A. The historical events that make up the show will include nearly 100 characters ranging from Paul Revere to Charles Lindbergh. The audience will have fun while learning about America's forefathers in this historical based musical.

 

Weedpatch CampWilliam Inge Center for the Arts
"Weedpatch"
Tues., November 13, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Appropriate for grades K - 2.

"Weedpatch" written by Richard Hellesen with lyrics and music by Michael Silvershear, the play has all the elements of good entertainment, including drama, comedy, songs that are simple and direct to reach children and highlighting such subjects as overcoming obstacles, perseverance and persistence and pride in one’s work, and the love of learning.

 

Wichita Children's Theatre's
Red Hen
"The Little Red Hen"
Tue., February 5, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Appropriate for grades K - 2.

"The Little Red Hen" in this musical adaptation by Kevin M. Reese, the Little Red Hen is a nice lady who is known and loved by all the barnyard animals until she asks, "Who will help me make the bread?" All of her friends are too busy to help her, but when it comes time to eat the delicious bread, they scramble to her door. She has a surprise for them! This is a story about what makes true friendships.

 

ReadJay & Lesile's Laughing Matters
"Read It Right NOw"
Tues., March 4, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Appropriate for grades 3 - 5.

Read It Right Now” begins with a mime alphabet. Jay performs mime illusions from A (for arrow) to Z (for zipper). Jay does W. C. Fields’ three cigar box manipulation with letters on the boxes so the kids can read the answers to Leslie’s riddles. This is followed by a magic trick using four magic bags and words on pieces of fabric. The four bags magically transform the word put in the appropriate bag into a rhyming word, a synonym, an antonym, or a homophone. Through many steps we magically tranform “HAT” into “RABBIT”. The show ends with Leslie improvising stories based on nouns, verbs, and adjectives suggested by the students.

 

These programes are presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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