'Click Clack Moo' to Open at Fairyland

From a Bay Area Children's Theatre press release:

Dancing cows, a wily duck, and a chatty hen will amuse preschoolers and their families alike when Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type opens on Saturday, July 7, for a five-weekend run at Aesop’s Playhouse in Children’s Fairyland, 699 Bellevue Ave., Oakland. 

Presented by the Bay Area Children’s Theatre (BACT) to introduce pre-kindergartners to live theatre with productions specially designed for them, this musical adaptation of the Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin tells what happens when Farmer Brown’s animals decide to rebel.

The barn is cold, you see, and the cows would like cozy electric blankets. But the farmer doesn’t speak their language — how to tell him? Eureka! They discover an old typewriter, and start sending him notes. Farmer Brown finds the click clack of the typewriter annoying, but he doesn’t take it seriously … until the cows post a defiant notice on the barn door: "Sorry. We're closed. No milk today." Uh, oh, how will barnyard peace be restored? 

Adapted for the stage by James Grote, with music by George Howe and lyrics by George Howe and James Grote, Click Clack Moo is directed by Erin Merritt, an award-winning director, dramaturge, actor and arts educator who is best known to Bay Area audiences as the founder of the all-female Shakespeare company Woman’s Will. Merritt is assisted by set designer Peter Parish, choreographer Nicole Helfer, who last worked with BACT on Pinkalicious, the Musical, and costume designer Tammy Berlin.  

Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type plays Saturdays and Sundays, July 7 through Aug. 5, at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.  

Tickets: $15 general admission (includes all-day admission to Fairyland); $10 groups and Fairyland members. All ages welcome; 1 and up need a ticket.

Box Office: http://www.bactheatre.org/ or (510) 296-4433