Their first musical.
Fifty-five minutes on stage. A memory that outlasts everything else you'll do this weekend.
- 55-minute runtime
- Made for ages 2–7
- Booster seats, always
- Meet the cast afterward
Built for how a four-year-old actually watches theatre.
Anyone can put on a show for children. The harder thing is designing every part of the morning around a two-year-old's attention span and the grown-up who has to get them there, seated, and home again. That's what we've spent more than twenty-five years learning.
Fifty-five minutes
Long enough to be a real musical. Short enough that nobody melts down in Act Two — because there isn't one.
Booster seats & clear sightlines
An intimate house where a small person can actually see the stage without being held up for an hour.
Wiggling is allowed
Talking back to the stage is not a problem here. It's the point. Nobody will shush your child.
Songs for the ride home
Live music, written to be hummed badly by a grown-up on the subway six hours later.
Meet the cast. Take the photo.
The character walks off the stage and says hello. That photograph is the whole outing, and you get to keep it.
Birthdays get a shout-out
Tell us when you book. Being named from the stage is a very big deal when you're turning five.
One of you has to want it. One of you has to trust it.
They came for
The child
- a character
- a song
- silliness
- a favourite
- the same joke again
- movement
- someone like me
- a world to come back to
- a big feeling that gets fixed
You came for
The adult
- the right age
- a runtime you can survive
- a real production
- predictable logistics
- proof they'll engage
- value
- no surprises
- somewhere to park the stroller
- a genuinely good morning
A child's desire plus an adult's confidence
is the only thing that ever sells a first musical.
Thursday night, deciding
- "What are we even going to do with them this weekend?"
- "Will she sit through a whole thing?"
- "Is he too young for this?"
- "Is it worth the money — and the trip in?"
Saturday, walking out
- "She loved it."
- "His eyes actually lit up."
- "They met the character. We got the photo."
- "That was their first musical."
No child has ever fallen in love with a production.
They fall in love with a fairy, or a penguin, or a girl in a pink tutu. The character opens the door. The musical is what's on the other side of it — and it's the one place the character is standing in the room with them.
Twinkle
Fairy · wand · one very stubborn dragon
A small fairy with a large amount of nerve, from Katharine Holabird — the author who gave the world Angelina Ballerina. A story world that already has books, pictures and a voice of its own.
Enter Twinkle's world& friends
Tickled Pink
Four personalities · one very pink world
Our first wholly original character world. You'll meet Poppy and her friends on a screen long before you meet them on a stage — that's deliberate. Recognition comes first; the musical is where it becomes real.
Meet Poppy
Penguin
Goggles · feathers · a bird who insists he can fly
Thousands of New York schoolchildren already know him. He is a penguin who has decided he is an eagle, and he is not taking notes. Now we're introducing him to families the same way.
Meet Penguin
Pinkalicious
Cupcakes · consequences · a great deal of pink
The show that has been a New York child's first musical more times than any other we've produced. Still the surest place to start.
See PinkaliciousSee them online. Love them at home. Meet them for real.
We're not going to lecture you about screen time. A screen is a wonderful place to meet someone. It's just a terrible place to be met back.
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See them online
Short films, songs and stories, free, wherever your family already is. No ticket required and none implied.
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Love them at home
The same characters, the same songs, the same jokes, again and again — until your child can tell you exactly what Poppy is about to do next.
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Meet them for real
Then one Saturday morning, the person they have been watching all year walks out from behind a curtain and says their name.
What the screen can't reproduce
- A character standing directly in front of them
- A room full of children laughing at the same second
- A live actor who answers when your child shouts
- Music happening in the actual room
- Meeting them afterwards, and the photograph
- Sitting next to you while all of that happens
Digital content creates familiarity.
Live theatre creates the experience.
The best advertisement for a first musical is another parent describing theirs.
A wonderful place for parents to introduce their kids to the glories of live theatre — done well, and at modest prices.
Vital audience review
Captured the children's imaginations and had them engrossed throughout the performance.
Vital audience review
The talent of these artists was only exceeded by their kindness and generosity.
Vital audience review
My kids absolutely loved the show. We both loved every minute of the performance.
Vital audience review
The questions you were actually going to ask.
Nobody hesitates over a children's musical because of the reviews. They hesitate because of the logistics.
Will my three-year-old sit through it?
That is the question the whole show is designed around. Fifty-five minutes, no intermission, live music, direct address, and characters who talk to the audience rather than past it. Three is well inside our range — we build for two through seven.
What if they get loud? Or cry? Or need to leave?
Then they get loud. This is a room full of small children and everybody in it knows what that sounds like. Nobody will shush your child, and you can step out and come back in whenever you need to.
How long is it, really?
About fifty-five minutes, start to finish, with no intermission — then a few extra minutes if you stay to meet the cast. Plan on being in the building for roughly an hour and a half.
Can they actually see the stage?
Yes. It's an intimate house rather than a large Broadway auditorium, and booster seats are available so a small person can see over the row in front without spending the show on your lap.
Do they really get to meet the characters?
Yes — the cast comes out after the show. Bring your phone. For a lot of families, that photograph turns out to be the thing that lasts, not the ticket.
It's a birthday. Can you do anything about that?
Tell us when you book and we'll take care of it. Being named out loud from a stage is a genuinely enormous event when you are turning five.
Where and when, and how much?
Dates, venue, prices and the current on-sale live on each show's own page — they change by production and by season, so we keep them in one place rather than repeating them here.
Keep the story going between shows.
The characters don't stop existing when the curtain comes down. Join and we'll send the songs, the stories and the things to make on a rainy Tuesday — and, once in a while, tickets.
- Songs to play in the car
- Colouring & activities
- New character stories
- Behind the curtain
- First look at on-sales
We make unforgettable first musicals for young children — and for the adults who love them.
Our characters begin the relationship. Our stories deepen it. Live theatre is what makes it real.