Bits ‘N Pieces giant Puppet Theatre performs Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story The Ugly Duckling in this original musical adaptation on Tuesday, September 21. 2010 at 9:00 and 11:00 am in E. E. Bass Auditorium in Greenville, Mississippi. The admission fee is $ 5 per child with teachers and aids admitted free. This high-energy production features towering nine-foot-tall GIANT puppets singing and dancing along with the adorable Pinky Flamingo played by live actor Holli Rubin. When an unexpected weather forces the Stork to make his Florida delivery to the South Pole, Pinky, a perky, hot pink flamingo, is hatched by a couple of very proper Polar Penguin parents! During her incredible journey to find her tropical roots, Pinky Flamingo learns just how hard it is to be different. With the help of friends, Pinky discovers the key to acceptance lies within yourself. It’s the story of finding your true self and happiness with who you are – a valuable life-lesson for all! A comprehensive guide for educators is available to all who make reservations. The 55 minute production is great for kid’s pre K thru 6th.
Children’s concert artists, Brian and Terri Kinder’s rollicking music show of original songs will feature several selections from their latest release, Brian & Terri Kinder, Traveling On on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 9:00 and 11:00 am at Sykes Hall in Washington School in Greenville, Mississippi. The admission fee $ 3 per child with teachers and aids admitted free. The 45 minute show of interactive kid’s songs will delight Pre K thru 3rd grade students. Brian Kinder is a singer/song writer who taught in the Little Rock, AR public schools for over 20 years. At the encouragement of a fellow teacher, he auditioned and was accepted into the Arkansas Arts Council’s roster of touring artists, and has been performing children’s concerts for children ever since. Brian is quickly gaining notoriety as an original and unique artist of children’s music. His concerts are lively and interactive, as he combines his guitar and banjo playing talent and his whimsical song writing skills to amuse and entertain children of all ages. He weaves together stories and music to stir the imagination with tales drawn from his own life as well as from the lives of his family and friends. He has the ability through his songs to bring both young and old together as they laugh and sing, dance and clap along with the music.
The Birmingham Children’s Theatre will perform Beauty & the Beast on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 9:00 am and 4:00 pm in E. E. Bass Auditorium in Greenville, Mississippi. The admissions fee is $ 5 per child with teachers and aids admitted free. Beauty & the Beast is based on a story by Madame Jean-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and dramatized by Jeff Church. What beauty will you find in unexpected places when Birmingham Children’s Theatre presents this wonderful story? This enchanted tale of a magic castle, a beautiful maiden and a hideous beast teaches character and life skills through the story’s moral of not making judgments based solely on appearance. This main stage Theatre in Motion production runs 55 to 60 minutes with a cast of 5 to 7 actors and is age appropriate for K thru 6th grade. Theatre in Motion is the touring division of Birmingham Children’s Theatre, one of the oldest and largest children’s theatres in the country. Theatre in Motion continues to serve more than 100 communities in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions every season.
On Saturday, May 7, 2011, at 3:30 pm in the afternoon, the Delta Children’s Museum and the Greenville Symphony Association will present a free family out door spring concert featuring the famous Quebe Sisters Band on the front lawn of E. E. Bass Cultural Arts Center in Greenville, Mississippi. The concert will celebrate completion of the first stage of renovation of the exterior façade of the “South end” of the E. E. Cultural Arts Center. The Quebe (pronounced KWAY-be) Sisters Band is from Burleson, Texas and features Texas champion fiddlers Grace, age 20, Sophia, 18, and Hulda, 15 whose fleet-fingered triple-fiddle runs and right three-part vocal harmonies will be backed by the hard-driving, swinging rhythms of guitarist Joey McKenzie and bass fiddle player Mark Abbott. The band’s hot cowboy jazz sounds like a cross between The Andrews Sisters and the Texas Playboys. The Quebes’ sets include classic cowboy and swing songs such as “Across the Alley from the Alamo,” Wills’ “Roly Poly,” Duke Ellington’s “Take the ‘A’ Train,” Sons of the Pioneers’ “So Long to the Red River Valley” and “There’s a Rainbow Over the Range,” and a “fiddle-ized” take on Benny Goodman’s “Avalon.” The Quebe Sisters Band represents the past, present, and future of cowboy music and western swing. The rain space is inside in the E. E. Bass Auditorium.