STELLALUNA Flies to Victoria Theatre 4/4 & 4/5

Enjoy the heartwarming story of a fruit bat's journey as she loses her mother but discovers a new family, friends and herself, when the Victoria Theatre Association presents Stellaluna as part of the Young at Heart Family Series, April 4 & 5, at the Victoria Theatre.

Stellaluna is based on Janel Cannon's best-selling children's book. Cannon wrote Stellaluna in 1994 to transform young people's fear of bats into informed affection. She also wanted to share a story about a friendship between two different kinds of creatures, a bat and baby birds.

Baby bat Stellaluna's life is flitting along right on schedule - until an owl attacks her mother one night, knocking the bewildered batlet out of her mother's loving grasp. The tiny bat is lucky enough to land in a nest of baby birds, but her whole world is literally turned upside down.

Stellaluna's adoptive bird mom accepts her into her nest, but only on the condition that Stellaluna will act like a bird, not a bat. Soon Stellaluna has learned to behave like a good bird should - she quits hanging by her feet and starts eating bugs. But when she finally has an opportunity to show her bird siblings what life as a bat is like, all of them are confounded.

Stellaluna discovers she has different abilities than her other family members, and she eventually learns that being different doesn't matter and doesn't mean that you can't have different friends. Anyone who has ever been asked to be someone they're not will understand the conflicts and possibilities Stellaluna faces.

The production of Stellaluna is a wonderful new adaptation, utilizing music and elaborates puppets to tell the story. 

Stellaluna is on stage at the Victoria Theatre, Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5. Performance times are 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. each day. Come out early and enjoy special pre-show lobby activities, beginning one hour prior to each performance.

Tickets are priced at a family friendly $17 for adults and $15 for children (ages 12 and under). Tickets are on sale now through Ticket Center Stage, and may be purchased at the Schuster Center box office in downtown Dayton or by phone, at (937) 228-3630 or toll free (888) 228-3630. Ticket Center Stage hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday, noon - 4 p.m., and two hours prior to each performance. 

Stellaluna is presented with Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle support from The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation. The official candy of Victoria Theatre Association's Young at Heart Family Series is Esther Price Candies Corporation. Support for Victoria Theatre Association's Family Advocacy program is provided by the P & G Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

Victoria Theatre Association just announced next season's Young at Heart Family Series. For more information, visit www.victoriatheatre.com/youngatheart.

Victoria Theatre Association is one of Dayton's premier arts organizations, presenting the Chase Broadway Series, the Young at Heart Family Series, the Michelob Ultra Cool Films series, Star Attractions, the Universal 1 Variety Series, and the Physicians for Kids Discovery Series, which features curriculum-enhanced live theatre productions for school children. Victoria Theatre Association is proud of its alliance with the Dayton Opera Association. In addition to the performances it presents, Victoria Theatre Association also manages the historic Victoria Theatre, the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, and the Metropolitan Arts Center, which houses The Loft Theatre. Victoria Theatre Association receives funding from a variety of diverse public, corporate, individual and private sources, including the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District and the Ohio Arts Council. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program or organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

 

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