This Wednesday we attended “Miss Nelson Is Missing” presented by students from Avila University on the Theatre for Young America stage. The script is based on the first book in the “Miss Nelson” series by Allard. This book is a…
image courtesy of Theatre for Young America website This week we rocked out to Chicken Little: The Musical, presented at Theatre for Young America in Union Station. This performance took the original children’s story and gave it a modern, musical…
We visited Kauffman Center for the 2018 Young People’s Concert: Composing a Story. This performance focused on how authors create stories with words, while composers create stories with music. Just like authors, composers use setting, mood, the dichotomy between hero…
This week we visited Theatre for Young America for their performance of the children’s classic, Peter Pan. The actors were a mix of theatre camp students and professional actors, which gave the performance a fun feeling. The play featured highlights…
This week we attended a performance of “Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook” at Theatre for Young America in Union Station. This fun and lighthearted show took its script from several books in the beloved children’s series. In the…
This week we visited Theatre for Young America at Union Station to watch a live performance of “Click Clack Boo,” the Halloween book from the beloved series by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Farmer Brown is afraid of Halloween, so…
On Friday we attended a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Theatre for Young America. The cast was a combination of professional actors seen in other shows at TYA and students who attended the TYA summer camp. The…
On April 26th we attended the live performance of “The Velveteen Rabbit” at Theatre for Young America in Union Station. This adaptation takes the beloved classic into the library for a feature on rabbits, and includes a magician who helps…
On Wednesday we attended the live performance of Click Clack Moo at Theatre for Young America. The beloved book by Doreen Cronin has been turned into a fun musical that kids and parents alike enjoyed. The clever Duck was the…
On the 12th we headed to the Kauffman Center to watch the KC Symphony’s Young People’s Concert. This year’s theme was “Uncle Sam’s Symphony” and the music was suitably patriotic and historic (and fun too!). The Symphony divided itself and…
