Please help me welcome our latest Christmas Gift Guide Sponsor Bay Area Children’s Theatre and there kits called Play On! which keeps children entertained during the Holidays.
In response to the COVID Crisis and having to close their doors to the 175,000 kids they serve in a year, the theater company that brought to life Chelsea Clinton’s bestselling picture book, “She Persisted,” The Award-winning Bay Area Children’s Theater, has created the Play On! Series, three screen-free audio musical adventure kits for kids of all ages. These original musicals, created by the Bay Area team, come complete with everything you need to for an interactive holiday musical, are perfect for kids of all ages and available for sale, to help raise money to keep the theater company afloat are available at www.playonkits.com.
For the littles ones choose Twinkle’s Musical Adventure that captures the magic of the best bedtime book ever with three-dimensional puppets and props and music that you can sing and dance along. For your 5 – 9 year old, the Ice Cream Factory Fiasco: An Agent 11 Adventure., is, for you. It’s like an escape room in a box with choose-your-own-adventure parts and songs. Or for the whole family they are selling a musical called The Gingerbread Family that invites audiences to sing and dance their way with Great Grandma Gingerbread and her Purple Reindeer in search for the perfect new home.
CEO Nin Meehan understands that the holiday will be hard, family traditions will be challenging and travel almost impossible. So, she and the team at Bay Area Children’s Theatre wanted to make sure that kids and parents felt those special moments of connection that only the Holiday traditions can bring, so they developed these boxes and The Gingerbread Family, especially as an interactive holiday musical that the whole family can play and enjoy together.
Twinkle’s Musical Adventure and Ice Cream Factory Fiasco are available for $40 each (plus shipping)
The Gingerbread Family is available for $48 (plus shipping) playonkit.com or by calling 510/296-4433.
About Bay Area Children’s Theatre:
Bay Area Children’s Theatre is the foremost theatre company for young audiences in California. Their award-winning productions and education programs have reached more than 700,000 kids and adults over the past 17 years. Specializing in musical adaptations of children’s books, they have brought to life Chelsea Clinton’s bestselling picture book, “She Persisted,” Grace Lin’s chapter book “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon,” and the New York Times Bestseller, “Press Here,” just to name a few.
They have toured productions both nationally and internationally and are proud to bring 30,000 elementary school students, many who come from low-income schools, to their shows each year with free and reduced-price tickets. Since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, BACT has pivoted to online and audio programming, including Play On! and Academy Clubhouse.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
