Children read books and earn free tickets to Performance Riverside/Riverside Philharmonic Family Series production CINDERELLA at Landis Performing Arts Center
The Performance Riverside/Riverside Philharmonic Family Series and Riverside Public Library are teaming up to play fairy godmother by promoting literacy and the performing arts. Children between the ages of 4-14 who check out two fiction books from the Riverside Public Library between February 10 and 22 may pick up a voucher redeemable for one free general admission ticket to Cinderella, presented at the Landis Performing Arts Center February 23.
Bring the stamped voucher to the Landis Performing Arts Center Box Office on the campus of Riverside City College or to the Riverside Municipal Auditorium Box Office, 3485 Mission Inn Avenue. The offer is good for up to four general admission tickets per one paid adult.
People are most familiar with Disney’s 1950 animated Cinderella or the Rodgers and Hammerstein version originally produced for television in 1957; but Cinderella’s story is an ancient one that appears in virtually every culture on earth. Rhodopis, the oldest known version of the story, dates back to Greece of the first century B. C. Some of the Cinderella books available at the Riverside Public Library include Adelita: a Mexican Cinderella Story, Little Gold Star: a Spanish American Cinderella Tale, Rough-face Girl, a Native American version, Sootface: an Ojibwa Cinderella Story, and Raisel’s Riddle, set in Eastern Europe during the holiday of Purim.
Cinderella is performed by the California Theatre Center, twice named by the American Theatre Association as the top professional theatre in the United States for young audiences. Over the past 32 years, CTC has performed great children’s literature on six continents.
Cinderella performs February 23, 2008 at 2 pm. Landis Performing Arts Center is located on the Riverside City College at 4800 Magnolia Avenue. Single tickets are $18 for reserved seating and $10 for general admission. Specially priced Discovery Theatre weekday morning performances are also available on February 21 and 22 for school groups. For more information call (951) 222-8100, or visit http://www.performanceriverside.org/
