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Popcorn Hat Players Hosts 21st Annual New Year's Eve Party for Children Today

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The Popcorn Hat Players will continue their New Year's Eve tradition with the 21st Annual New Year's Eve Party for Children, where we count down to NOON instead of midnight!

This year's show will be a Popcorn Hat mega-hit: SNOW WHITE AND THE TWO DWARFS. The event is so huge they will hold it at the Sunoco Performance Theatre at the Whitaker Center in downtown Harrisburg!

This event is sponsored by Metro Bank.

Today, December 31
Doors open at 10:30 a.m.
Show begins at 11:00 a.m.

Tickets are only available at the theatre or by calling 238-4111.

Early-bird tickets are available for $10 each through November 30. Starting December 1st tickets are $12 each. Your ticket includes admission to the show, noisemakers, party hats, and a Hawaiian lei! Autographed photos of the Popcorn Hat Players themselves also available at the event.

Popcorn Hat Players Children's Theatre is Central PA's only professional children's theatre and has been entertaining audiences throughout the Susquehanna Valley since 1993. PHP performs a full season of children's mainstage plays at Gamut Classic Theatre, located on the 3rd floor of Strawberry Square in downtown Harrisburg. Created by the husband-and-wife team of Clark and Melissa Nicholson, this innovative and energetic troupe consists of seven full-time core company members and tours throughout the eastern United States, performing original comedies and teaching creative dramatics, reaching over 30,000 people each year.

Their goal is to provide Live Theatre to children and areas that do not normally have the opportunity to experience professional theatre and to spread a bit of laughter wherever they go! Audiences of all ages love their original scripts, quick wit, and improvisational comedy.

PHP and Harrisburg Shakespeare Company joined forces to become Gamut Theatre Group, Home of the Classic Story. You can learn more about this unique company at www.gamutplays.org.

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