Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, Indiana, has been a fixture in the area for more than 30 years and offers live stage productions that run year round. The theater offers seating for up to 500 guests, making it one of the largest dinner theaters in the country while entertaining more than 200,000 people per year.
Among it’s normal shows designed to attract adult guests the Derby Dinner Playhouse also offers a special series of productions for it’s popular Children’s Theatre. Children’s Theatre productions are held on Saturday mornings with a Breakfast and Lunch show.
The Children’s Theatre productions are perfect for children age three to twelve, because the one hour productions are just long enough to be entertaining and hold their attention without being too long.
The breakfast buffet before the productions offers kid-friendly food with options such as ham, sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, milk and orange juice for breakfast, and for lunch you can find chicken nuggets, corn dogs, turkey, a full salad bar, green beans, and macaroni and cheese. While the dinner buffet before the adult productions offers a full salad bar, fish, beef, and chicken dishes, as well as a variety of vegetables served with hot rolls. The food on the buffet is typical buffet food, there is nothing too spectacular about it, and it is not memorable but it also not too awful.
The show is what makes the ticket worth the money. The theater is round in shape, and with tiered seating there is not a bad seat in the house, so everyone who attends the show has a perfect view of exactly what is happening on the stage at all times.
The Children’s Theatre offers Birthday Party Packages which are available during their Lunch Shows. Birthday Party Packages include Lunch and Show for twelve people, Birthday Cake and Ice Cream served with Punch, Party Hats and Favors, a Balloon Bouquet, a Birthday Card signed by the cast, and a visit by a Derby Dinner Theatre character.
Future 2008 productions of the Children’s Theatre are set to include Charlotte’s Web, which runs February 23rd through March 22nd, and The Little Mermaid which will run May 17th through June 14th. While future 2008 adult productions include Don’t Hug Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Stamps Quartet, Elvis Through The Years, and Legendary Ladies in Country Music.
For more information on The Derby Dinner Playhouse, their shows or to purchase tickets you can reach them by phone at (812) 288-8281 or visit their website at www.derbydinner.com.
