Bringing live, professional entertainment for children and families, to Sault Ste Marie
Upcoming Season
2024 - 2025
Over the Rainbow Children’s Entertainment Series is Sault Ste Marie’s first live theatre series for children ages 3 and up. The shows have entertained, enchanted, and created lasting memories for many families for over 23 years.
Audiences are introduced to fantastic worlds where the imagination soars, participation is encouraged, and lessons in trust, caring and integrity are learned.
We bring quality children’s entertainers to our community audiences at an affordable price. We are a not-for-profit volunteer organization and we subsidize ticket pricing through federal, provincial, and municipal arts grants and generous local sponsors.
Evolution of
B Boying
Break Dancing with Canada's top street dancers!
2 pm Saturday November 9/2024
Community Theatre Centre (White Pines)
B-boying and B-girling (street dance), born in the early 1970s, is an integral component of contemporary black history and hip-hop culture. This dynamic street dance now has a significant international following and reputation. In addition to its roots in Funk music and African American culture, the powerful acrobatic aspects of B-boying, or “breaking”, make it one of the most unique dances in the world.
Dancer-choreographer Crazy Smooth brings together some of Canada’s best street dancers to present a show that will amaze and inspire participants and teachers alike, while educating them on the evolution of the dance, its culture and music.
Perruche
A fabulous adventure with Puppets and Poetry
2 pm Sunday January 26/2025
Community Theatre Centre (White Pines)
Noah, a child passionate about the tropical world, lives with his cheerful accomplice, a parakeet named Naughty Heart, as well as his mother and father who argue a lot. On Halloween morning, Naughtyheart walks through the door. Noah blames the shock of his friend's sudden departure in a world deaf to his distress. Sad and angry, Noah only thinks of one thing: finding Coeur-Coquin to add a little color to his daily life. At the height of his sentence, Noah's room is transformed into an unusual jungle through which he courageously ventures to find his friend. In this mystical journey, our hero meets strange, disturbing or inspiring characters who accompany his quest. This fabulous adventure tells with poetry how we can emerge transformed from a painful ordeal.
Carnival of the Animals
2 pm Sunday February 2/2025
Community Theatre Centre (White Pines)
The Carnival of Animals is a classical music composition by Camille Saint-Saëns, often used to introduce children to the world of classical Western music with movements devoted to elephants, chickens, and turtles. Our production features Trevor Copp's interpretation of these animals - watch him become a clucking, growling, and flapping parade of animals who bridge this wonderful music to the hearts of children and adults alike.
Each animal will also be introduced by poems considering the ecological role these animals play in this world we share, poems that were longlisted for the Canadian Society for Children's Literature awards. The Carnival of Animals tours as a solo show or as a performance with orchestras.
Circus Incognitus
2 pm Sunday March 2/2025
Community Theatre Centre (White Pines)
In Circus Incognitus, virtuoso clown Jamie Adkins is the vulnerable everyman. An expert at comedy born of desperation, Jamie's performance is humble and unguarded. Adkins deftly escorts the audience along his poetic journey with sidesplitting wit.
Kattam and his
Tam-tams
2 pm Sunday April 27/2025
Community Theatre Centre (White Pines)
To the sound of the n'goni, balafon, djembe, naffar, derbouka and dhol, percussionist Kattam invites you to discover Africa, the Middle East and India through rhythm, song and dance! From African rap and desert dance to trance sufi rhythm and Bollywood dance. Accompanied by his monkey, Takoum, Kattam never fails to enrol his audience! An incredible multicultural adventure!
Tickets
Over the Rainbow Passport
$79
BEST VALUE
Admits 1 ADULT and 1 CHILD to all 5 shows!
Cost:
$79.00 - that works out to $7.50/person/show.
Transferrable:
If you can't make it to a show, share your passport with a friend.
Where to buy:
The Box Office in Station Mall or
order from Sandra Houston
705-946-4081 and pick up at
door before the performance.
Family pricing:
Passports for first two children are regular price, any additional passports are $50/child.
Individual tickets
Note: if you plan to attend 2 or more shows, the Passport is a better value
Child: $15 per show
Adult: $18 per show
Box office charges apply
Available at the Box Office in Station Mall or at the door prior to a show.
Workshops
Up close with Over the Rainbow performers
BAM
Free Workshop
James L. McIntyre Centennial Library
Sunday February 17, 2019
10 - 11am
Registration required 705 759-5241
Space limited to 30 children
For ages 7 years and up
What to Expect
A great way to spend an afternoon
Performances usually run about an hour
There is no intermission
It's okay to get up and go out to the washrooms during the performance - it's for kids and we understand!
At the end of the show the performers stay on stage to answer audience questions
We have a draw for door prizes at every show
You can visit with the performers in the lobby after the show and get their autographs
We sell popcorn ($2), juice ($1) and water ($1) in the lobby on your way out (no food allowed in theatre)
Reviews
Sault kids review : Duo Hoops
Sault kids review: Hamelin
We rely on the
generous support of our local sponsors
Bringing arts to children and families in the community