Kids theater takes trip to 'Wax Museum'

A comedy of historical proportion opens Friday in Bigfork.

Bigfork Playhouse Children’s Theatre’s “Night at the Wax Museum” will be staged Friday, Saturday and Jan. 25 through 27 at the Bigfork center for the Performing Arts.

The hysterical meets the historical in this comic romp through the wackiest wax museum in history.

School’s out for summer, but not for six unlucky students who don’t know much about history — they have to re-take the class in summer school. First-year teacher Heather Fairchild has arranged for them to help her two aunts set up a new wax museum as a class project. Though the students’ eyes glaze over with boredom, there’s a twinkle in the wax figures’ eyes when a mysterious incantation from the back of Cleopatra’s bracelet brings King Henry VIII, Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Butch Cassidy, Calamity Jane, pirates and more to life.

All have returned and are looking for something. Come see how the students survive their first-hand history lesson.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. this weekend and Jan. 25 and 26, and 2 p.m. Jan. 27.

Get a discount if you purchase tickets today. Buy tickets at the box office between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. and pay $6 for any performance.

Regular ticket prices are $11 for adults, $9 for seniors, $8 for students and $7 for children under 10. Buy tickets at the box office or www.bigforksummerplayhouse.com.

For more information, call 837-4886 or email bpct@bigforksummerplayhouse.com.