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Take My Advice: Go See Dear Edwina

2/9/09 - By

200902041412.jpgHow do you handle an ill-behaved, nose-picking younger brother? If anybody should know it's Edwina Spoonapple, a girl from Paw Paw Michigan who performs a musical advice column from her garage. Such is the set-up of the DR2 Kids Theater's production of Dear Edwina. The situation reminds me of my favorite Judy Blume stories from childhood and the storytelling of Dear Edwina is just as vivid and fun as those books are. Add the terrific music and you have the best of childrens' theater.

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With a female heroine, the play would be especially great to take your tween-aged daughter to, but I promise you there is an amazingly well played collection of diverse characters, and my 5 year old son loved the play too! Dear Edwina is chuck full of enough humor, cheerfulness, and wholesome fun while still being relative and cool for kids of all ages, with great characters and life lessons so simple even a five year old can understand without realizing he is learning.

The length is perfect at exactly one hour and  if you haven’t been to the DR2, you’ll find that it, too, is really cool for kids: small in size, easy to find, and great staff who, besides being friendly, wanted to offer Mommy Poppins Readers a special discount to go and see Dear Edwina.

Here's some advice from me: take your kids to see Dear Edwina. Click here to get discounted tickets to Dear Edwina at the reduced price of $29 and use code DR2DEMP.

Dear Edwina
Through April 19, 2009
DR2 Kids Theater
103 E 15th St, Union Square
www.dearedwina.com