KNUFFLE BUNNY Opens at Columbia Children's Theatre on 4/12

Columbia Children's Theatre (CCT), the Midlands only professional theatre for families and young audiences will present the musical adaptation of Mo Willems' Caldecott Award-winning children's book Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, April 12 - 21. Show times are Fridays at 7:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.; and Sundays at 3:00 p.m.. All shows are held at Columbia Children's Theatre on the 2nd level of Richland Mall, 3400 Forest Drive. Tickets are $8.00 and can be purchased online at www.columbiachildrenstheatre.com. For more information contact CCT at 803-691-4548. CCT's 2012-2013 Season is sponsored by Midlands Kids' Directory and the Little Gym of Columbia and Lexington.

About the Production
It's a tale as old as time: girl loves stuffed animal. Girl loses beloved animal. Girl fights to get animal back. But toss in adventure, a few songs, and dancing laundry, and you've got an instant children's classic! Six-time Emmy Award winner Mo Willems teams up with Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Silversher to create this heart-warming and hilarious musical which follows Trixie, her father, and her favorite stuffed bunny on a trip to the laundromat. The trip brings wonder, excitement and joy to the lively toddler, until she realizes she has left her Knuffle Bunny back at the laundromat. Trixie does everything in her power to make her father understand the emergency, but her father fails to see the issue at hand.
Directed by Chad Henderson, who also directed last year's runaway hit Pinkalicious, the cast features Paul Lindley II, Kathy Sykes, Sara Jackson, Christina Whiteshouse-Suggs, Julian Deleon, Brandi Smith, Ashlyn Combs and Anthony Harvey. Lyon Hill of the Columbia Marionette Theatre designed and built puppets that help bring the story to life.
"Columbia Children's Theatre will be one of the first Theatres for Young Audiences to produce this recent release," said CCT Artistic Director, Jerry Stevenson. "We jumped at the chance to produce a show that calls for dancing underwear!"
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical runs April 12-21. Show times are Fridays at 7:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.; and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. All performances are held at Columbia Children's Theatre on the 2nd level of Richland Mall, 3400 Forest Drive. Tickets are $8.00 and can be purchased online at www.columbiachildrenstheatre.com. For more information contact CCT at 803-691-4548.
Columbia Children's Theatre is a professional resident not-for-profit theatre dedicated to providing quality live theatre experiences for families and young audiences, and is supported in part by the City of Forest Acres, The Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties and the South Carloina Arts Commission, which receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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