Terrific giveaway for Ottawa families: GCTC tickets and the Playtime Program

You’ve heard of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, right? They’ve been putting on great theatre in Ottawa for more than 35 years.

The current performance, running now through October 2, is a musical called Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly. From the description on the GCTC site:

Be transported to the Golden Age of Flight – a world of planes, dreams and celebrity. Amelia is the fascinating story of the meteoric rise and mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart. The legendary Earhart was a pioneer of the skies, a courageous woman who defied all conventions of her time. This new hit musical from the writer that brought us Billy Bishop Goes to War, traces Amelia’s transformation from “girl next door” to iconic first woman of flight. Amelia is inspiring, entertaining and chock full of wonderful music.

Sound terrific, right? And our fine friends at the GCTC have offered up a pair of free tickets for you, my bloggy peeps!

BUT WAIT! There’s more!

I love this idea. Love it! During specific performances, the GCTC offers the Playtime Program, a fun and enriching opportunity for children ages 6 to 12 to exercise their creativity while theatre-going parents get to enjoy a great GCTC matinee.

Kids participating in the Playtime Program, with Kids Create, will be part of a fun and exciting craft time. This experience will include learning to create with new and recycled materials. At the end, all children will have finished creating several, unique crafts to take home with them. Crafts and supervision are provided by Kids Create, a local business run by an Ottawa resident and mom with years of experience in teaching and art.

During other performances, the Playtime Program with the OYP Theatre School will give kids the opportunity to play theatre games and work on a short performance piece in the theme of the play you are attending and then perform it for you.

An afternoon of theatre for the grown-ups with free childcare? What’s not to love? The Playtime Program doesn’t run for every performance, though. Check the GCTC website for details. The Playtime Program performance for the Amelia is for the 4 pm matinee performance on Saturday September 24 only.

And, as I mentioned, the fine folks at the GCTC have a pair of tickets to share with you. You don’t have to use these tickets for the Playtime Program matinee on September 24; the tickets are good for any performance during Amelia‘s run until October 2. However, if you want to also check out the Playtime Program, you must use the tickets for the September 24 matinee. Got it?

So here’s the details:

  1. This is a giveaway for two adult tickets to a performance of Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly
  2. The tickets are good for any performance of Amelia through October 2, 2011.
  3. The only performance during which the Playtime Program for children ages 6 to 12 is available is the 4 pm matinee performance on Saturday, September 24.
  4. To enter, leave a comment on this post mentioning a great live theatre performance you’ve enjoyed, from Shakespeare to little Johnny’s third-grade play.
  5. The contest runs from now through 9 pm on Wednesday, September 21.
  6. One winner will be chosen using the random number generator at random.org. Winner will be announced on this post on Thursday, September 22.
  7. Winner will pick up the tickets directly from the GCTC box office.

Thanks to the GCTC, both for the excellent giveaway, and for making it easier for parents to get out of the house with the brilliant Playtime Program!

Good luck!

Edited to add: Sorry for the late update. Congratulations to Cath in Ottawa, the lucky winner! 🙂

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11 thoughts on “Terrific giveaway for Ottawa families: GCTC tickets and the Playtime Program”

  1. I had actually not heard of this theatre company and was searching the NAC and Centrepointe theatres for kids’ theatre. They are, apparently, not all that interested in seeing Shakespeare’s Macbeth. 🙂 Would love to win tickets and allow the kids to see some live theatre.

  6. I’m a PEI girl and will always remember seeing the Anne musical for the first time! I can hardly wait for my kids to be old enough to see it!

  10. We just saw The Lion King which was awesome. And at Christmas we saw Suessical which my daughter LOVED! And come on her NAME is Amelia!!!!

  11. We saw “Voice of the Turtle” at the Perth theatre last summer and loved it. Would love to go see “Amelia: The Girl Who Wants To Fly”.

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