KIDS/SNEAK PEEK : TIME TO GET CHILDREN INTO THEATER MOOD.If you want your kids to appreciate Shakespeare when they're older, start bringing them to some of the excellent local children's theater productions now. The Serendipity serendipity happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else. Theatre Company in Burbank presents ``Lyle, Lyle Crocodile'' through Oct. 26. Based on the book by Bernard Waber, ``Lyle'' is the story of a family living with a talking crocodile in their New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of apartment. Recommended for children 4 and older, the tale teaches a lesson of acceptance and responsibility in a very humorous way. Show times are 1 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 and 4 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children. Leave the babies and toddlers at home - no one under 3 admitted. Tickets can be charged over the phone by calling (818) 557-0505, mailbox No. 2. The Bitter Truth Theatre & Playwright Productions in North Hollywood opens ``The Witch's Surprise'' on Saturday. The scary - but not too scary - production plays through Nov. 1, natch. ``Witch'' is the story of little witch Belladonna belladonna (bĕlədŏn`ə) or deadly nightshade, poisonous perennial plant, Atropa belladona, of the nightshade family. , who asks a black cat named Midnight to help her scare up a frightening present that will make her mother scream. The rest of the cast is rounded out by a zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user. , a mummy, a vampire, a ghost and a skeleton. Tickets are $5 (children under 2 are welcome and admitted free). A portion of the proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Theatre Hope for Abused Women. Call (818) 755-7900 for information and reservations. Theatre West in Hollywood presents the interactive musical ``The Circus Is Coming to Town'' every Saturday beginning Oct. 4. In the show, the circus performers fail to show up, and children from the audience are enlisted to become clowns, acrobats and animal acts. Tickets are $8. All performances are at 1 p.m. Call (818) 761-2203 for more information. The Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Playhouse presents ``Mary-Mary, Quite Contrary'' at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 19. The 1 p.m. performance on Oct. 4 is free. Admission is $8. Call the box office at (310) 394-9779, Ext. 2, for more information. Happy-happy, joy-joy The offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. children's music label Kid Rhino is getting a jump on the holidays with the release of two wacky yuletide albums based on animated characters: ``Ren & Stimpy's Crock crock - [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which O' Christmas'' and the Animaniacs' ``A Hip-Hopera Christmas.'' Both sell for $11.99 CD or $7.99 cassette. Call Rhino Direct to order at (800) 432-0020 or www.rhino.com. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Little Boy Blue (Graham Silbert), left, Little Miss Muffett (Kirsten O'Connell) and Georgie Porgie Georgie Porgie kissed the girls and made them cry. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 185] See : Mischievousness (Dane Biren) entertain children in ``Mary-Mary, Quite Contrary,'' at the Santa Monica Playhouse. |
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