If you have toddlers at home (or know a tot), you can introduce him/her to the theater through dramatizations of their favorite picture books. Centenary Stage Company has one I am sure they’ll love:
IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE
Directed by Carl Wallnau
WHEN: November 16 & 18 at 10 AM & November 20, at 2:30 PM
WHERE: Little Theater located on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown
TICKETS: $10 for adult and $8 for children, available through the CSC Box office at 908.979.0900, or directly at the new David and Carol Lackland Center box office at 715 Grand Avenue in Hackettstown.
The Centenary Stage Company Children’s Theater Series will present If You Give a Mouse a Cookie based on the hit book by Laura Joffee Numeroff, an adventurous, fun-filled performance appropriate for ages pre-K through 5th grade.
Let’s say you are standing around the kitchen, minding your own business when a hungry mouse in coveralls and wearing a backpack shows up. What would you do? See how a curious boy finds himself figure skating on scrub brushes, wrestling a boa constrictor and climbing mountains when an innocent milk and cookie snack time goes from mishap to calamity to catastrophe faster than the twitch of a whisker. [Brittany D’Alessio is “the Mouse” and Nick Ardito (Hackettstown) is the young boy in Centenary Stage Company Children’s Theatre Series production of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, directed by Carl Wallnau (photo by Carl Wallnau)]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is also available for tour, bringing the experience of theater directly to schools. Other productions available for tour include A Thousand Cranes, (based on the book Sadako and a Thousand Cranes) and A Year with Frog and Toad: The Musical (available in March). For more information on in-house performances or touring shows contact the Centenary Stage Company Box office at 908.979.0900 or log onto Centenarystageco.org.
