A Family Friendly and very, silly production from the minds of Millibo!
Delightfully charming and funny. If you have children grandchildren, nieces, nephews, neighborhood children or just want a treat for your “child at heart,” go see this.
Susan Jaynes Loring
Professor Splatz has a very special laboratory where she captures sounds in bottles. In fact, Professor Splatz has a whole library of sound bottles. There is just one problem: She doesn’t know what to do with all those sounds until a mysterious singing book appears in her laboratory. With the assistance of her book and its magical singer, Professor Splatz is introduced to the fantastic world of Opera with all of its amazing ingredients.
Recommended for K-5 Elementary students and families
Underwritten in part by The Pikes Peak Opera League Inc.
Saturday, October 5th and 12th | 11:00am & 2:00pm
Saturday, October 12th | 11:00am
Sunday, October 6th and 13th | 2:00pm
“THANK YOU for that wonderful program last night. It not only met expectations, it exceeded them! The young audience members were delighted, and I hope more will enjoy it during the next week. PPOL could not be more proud to have been a collaborative partner in this venture, and we look forward to the future of our partnership with The MAT…”Nicole de Naray = President – Pikes Peak Opera League
Individual Tickets: $15.00
Family Four Pack: $48 – by phone only ($12 per ticket when you purchase four or more for a single show)
Flex Pass: $115 – ten punches to use in any combination. ($11.50 per Kids First performance)
Box Office at (719) 465-6321
Daniel Brink (Piano) is well known as a teacher, vocal coach, and collaborative artist throughout the Front Range of Colorado. He served on the artistic staff of the Colorado Opera Festival, and is currently musical director with Opera Theatre of the Rockies, also serving on the faculty of their Vocal Arts Festival since its inception. He has been a member of the music faculty at Colorado College since 1987. He received his Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Judeth Shay Comstock (Arianna the Singing Book and Co-Creator), has performed in opera and musical theatre throughout
the region and is so happy to be back at The Millibo. Some recent highlights include Signora Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza and Mrs. Mullin in Carousel, with Central City Opera, and a retrospective of the works of Craig Bohmler with the Aspen Theatre Festival. She was nominated for a Henry Award for her work as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and received two Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards and the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation. She has also performed with Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Opera Colorado, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
Birgitta De Pree (Professor Splatz) is co-founder of the Millibo Art Theatre and has served as the MAT’s Artistic Director for over twenty years. A graduate of Oberlin College, she received her MFA in performance from the National Theater Conservatory and has spent the last three decades working throughout Colorado as a performer, director, and educator. She is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Birgitta is a five-time recipient of the Gazette’s Best of the Springs “Best Actress” Award. She thanks her daughter and clown husband, Jim, for making this adventure so joyful!
Jim Jackson (Director & Co-Creator) is an internationally acclaimed clown with over 45 years of laughs in circus and theatre.
From 1976 – 2001, he toured his solo shows throughout the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. In 2002 he and Birgitta co-founded the Millibo Art
Theatre where he has produced and directed many theatre, circus, and cabaret performances. He credits his three daughters Julia, Caitlin, and Lisbet
for his best jokes.
SEATING:
The MAT seats 109 patrons in a proscenium theatre with stadium style seating. Every seat at the MAT has excellent sight lines and acoustics.
All seating is assigned. If you have any special seating needs, or would like to request a specific seat, please call the MAT Box Office at 719-465-6321. We will do our best to accommodate your requests.
Wheelchair seats are A1 & A15
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