It’s Magic! Just imagine…a room dimly lit by candles and sparkling lights on a Christmas tree forest. Music begins and glittering fairies swirl out from pines to dance around guests’ tables bringing winter magic to awake an old castle asleep for hundreds of years. Welcome to Kaleidoscope Youth Theater’s, “A Winter’s Madrigal,” a traditional medieval English feast set inside a fanciful theater production. As time rewinds, royal hunters set forth to hunt the boar for the feast, followed by plucky village children imagining a way into the castle too. When two capering jesters arrive, the gates open and guests are invited into the rich banqueting hall to dine with King Fredrick’s royal court waited on by musical maids serving a hearty family-style feast including tasty desserts. Entertaining jesters, a masked Christmas story play, and joyous madrigal carols bring to life the warm holiday spirit of ages past for guests young and old.
Performances are set for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 8th–10th at 6:30pm each evening, with a matinee seating on Sunday, December 11th at 3pm. Tickets will guarantee attendees reserved seating by tables and will run $35 per person. These may be purchased at the Kaleidoscope Playhouse, 1602 W Beall (behind Hastings Shopping Center), or by calling the theater at (406) 587-3642.
Kaleidoscope Youth Theater (KYT) offers year-round opportunities for children and youth to participate in the wonderful world of theater arts. They recognize kids have a tremendous capacity for reaching high skill levels and meeting challenges, and that theater is the perfect outlet for kids to do just that! Through theater, youth not only learn valuable performance skills but also cultivate teamwork, develop empathy for others, learn responsibility, and grow confidence in themselves and their abilities that will last a lifetime. Not to mention creating living art on stage provides a fun release for youthful energy!
Kids are always center stage at KYT. In this, they are different from most theaters. KYT works exclusively with children and youth, offering after school classes, summer camps, and fully staged original productions performed for community audiences at the Kaleidoscope Playhouse and other Gallatin Valley venues. Learn more at www.kytbozeman.org/. •
