KIDS AT PLAY - '08 SEASON

Performances are Thursday through Sunday at 7:30 pm and a Matinee on Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets cannot be ordered online at this time. Please call the Playhouse Box Office to purchase your seats: (360) 943-2744.

Peter Pan
  • Rehearsals: June 9 - July 3 7-10 pm, July 7 - July 9 6-10 pm

  • Performances: July 10 - 13

(Jeff Kingsbury/Troy Fisher - Honor/Reunion Show) Peter Pan is the beloved story of the boy who doesn’t want to grow up. Peter brings Wendy and the boys back to Neverland to battle pirates, play with the lost boys and be enchanted by the magical characters that make up this place, the "Second star to the right and straight on till morning." YOU MUST BE 10+ to participate in this show!

Children of Eden
  • Rehearsals: June 16 - 20 3:30-6:30pm, June 23 - July 11 3-6pm, July 14 - 16 6 - 10 pm

  • Performances: July 17 - 20

(Troy Fisher) Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. The musical is loosely based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood. While using the Bible as a plot source, it freely deviates in many details, and is a story of parents and children. With a modern nearly through composed score, this show is memorable and touching. The show is told with a score of storytellers who are on stage and sing the whole show.

The Music Man
  • Rehearsals: June 23 - July 18 11:45 am - 2:45 pm, July 21 - 23 6 - 10 pm

  • Performances: July 24 -27

(Brenda Amburgy/Anna Richart) The Music Man is the timeless Meredith Willson classic about the fast talking con-man (Harold Hill) who sweeps into River City Iowa and creates an uproar with his “boy’s band”. Things get even more complicated as a relationship forms between Harold Hill and Marion “the librarian”, who is the town’s piano teacher. The Music Man includes songs like “The Wells Fargo Wagon”, “Gary Indiana” and “76 Trombones”.

Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • Rehearsals: June 30 - July 25 8:30 - 11:30, July 28 - 30 6 - 10 pm

  • Performances: July 31 - August 3

(Colleen Powers/Anna Richart) Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment. Put on your dancing shoes for this HUGE show!

Oklahoma!
  • Rehearsals: July 7 - July 11 11:45 am - 2:45 pm July 14- August 1 3 - 6 pm, August 4 - 6 6-10 pm

  • Performances: August 7 - 10

(Troy Fisher) Oklahoma! is the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farmer girl Laurey Williams. Their love is challenged by Laurey’s threatening farmhand, Jud Fry, and much of the play follows the tension generated by this conflict. Oklahoma! features musical themes, or motifs, that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story more closely than any musical ever had before.

Fiddler on the Roof
  • Rehearsals: July 14 - 18 9 8:30 - 11:30 am, July 21 - August 8 11:45am - 2:45 pm, August 11 - 13 6 - 10pm

  • Performances: August 14 - 17

(Jeff Kingsbury/Troy Fisher) Fiddler on the Roof takes place in the Ukraine during World War II. During the Prologue (“Tradition”), Tevye explains the role of God’s law in providing balance in the villagers’ lives. He describes the inner circle of the community and the larger circle which includes the constable, the priest, and countless other authority figures. He explains, “We don’t bother them and so far, they don’t bother us.” He ends by insisting that without their traditions, he and the other villagers would find their lives “as shaky as a fiddler on the roof.” So many big roles in this show!