“A Sick Day for Amos McGee” will be presented on Nov. 12 at the Theatre on the Green in Cheraw by the Tarradiddle Players of the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.
CHERAW – The Cheraw Arts Commission presents the Tarradiddle Players of the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte in “A Sick Day for Amos McGee” on Nov. 12 at the Theatre on the Green in Cheraw.
The performance with puppeteers is based on the award-winning book by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead. A Sick Day for Amos McGee received the 2011 Caldecott Medal and also was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book. This performance is part of the Cheraw Arts Commission’s Children’s Playhouse Theatre Series, which features shows for families throughout the year at the Theatre on the Green.
The show is geared toward family audiences and relays that friendship can be the best medicine when someone is feeling blue. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In this heart-warming story about the joys of friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee knows friends can come in all sorts of species, too. Every day, Amos visits his animal friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, caring for a particularly shy penguin, and reading stories to an owl. One day, Amos is too sick to visit his zoo friends, but, fortunately, the animals know just what to do.
In the spring of 1989, the Tarradiddle Players became the Resident Touring Company of the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. The Tarradiddle Players continue to bring live theatre for young people to audiences across the southeast and beyond.
Admission is $5 per person at the door. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. and the show begins at 11 a.m. The sponsors for the Children’s Playhouse series are Buddy Brooks State Farm Insurance, First Presbyterian Church McArn Fund, and HAB Companies. For more information, call the Cheraw Arts Commission at 843-537-8420, ext. 12.