Bring Your Class to a Show

Join us for our specially priced school-day performances at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts! All titles are appropriate for all ages.

Our MainStage musicals are professionally designed productions performed by large casts of youth actors ages 5-18. They are performed on the MainStage at the MVCPA in a theater that seats nearly 600 people.

Our Stories on Stage plays bring beloved children’s stories to live each month of the school year. Each show includes a small cast of 6-15 actors ages 12 and up. These shows are ideal for younger grades as they only last about an hour, including a “talk-back” session with the cast after each performance to ask questions about the play and their experience as actors. The plays are performed in the intimate black-box setting of the SecondStage at the MVCPA which seats approximately 160 people.

Face masks are recommended for all attendees at all performances.

 

School Group Pricing (groups of 10+):

  • MainStage: $10/person
  • Stories on Stage: $7/person
  • Reduced admission is available to groups attending from Title I schools. Please contact us at info@pytnet.org for more info and requests.

TO ORDER TICKETS: Contact Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts ticketing office at (650) 903-6000 or performingarts@mvcpa.com. Please provide your name, school name, group size, show title, showtime(s), and how your group will be traveling to and from the venue.

Refund Policy: All ticket sales are final. Refunds will only be issued if an event is canceled. Exchanges may be made between PYT performances of the same title upon availability and with at least 24 hours notice.

 

MainStage Musicals

Seussical - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Anything’s possible when you think about Seuss! A trip to a town too tiny to see, a journey with an elephant on an egg, in a nest, up a tree. Join us as we travel to the Jungle of Nool to see Horton and swim in McElligot’s pool. It’s a great family musical – you just have to see exactly how Horton gets out of that tree!

Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Co-Conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, and Eric Idle, Based on the Works of Dr. Seuss.

  • Dates: Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15, 2024
  • Time: 9:30am
  • Show length: 2.5 hours, including 1 intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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Stories on Stage

The Rainbow Fish - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

With shiny, multi-colored scales, Rainbow Fish is the most beautiful fish in all of the ocean, and the only one of their kind. But when Rainbow Fish refuses to share their vibrant, shimmering scales, the whole ocean seems to turn against the vain creature. Unhappy that no one adores them anymore, the Rainbow Fish seeks out the wise Octopus, who helps them learn that it’s far better to be admired for being kind than for being beautiful. Adapted by Austin Zumbro based on the book by Marcus Pfister.

  • Date: Friday, February 2, 2024
  • Times: 9:30am & 12:30pm SOLD OUT, 11am LIMITED
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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The Reluctant Dragon - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

There’s a terrible dragon rampaging across the countryside…or is there? Based on the short story by Kenneth Grahame, “The Reluctant Dragon” is a story of a boy that makes a friend and shows his town that you shouldn’t always believe everything you hear. Adapted by Karen Simpson.

  • Date: Friday, March 1, 2024
  • Times: 9:30am & 11am SOLD OUT, 12:30pm LIMITED
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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The Talented Clementine - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Clementine does N-O-T want to be in her class talent show, because she doesn’t think she has a talent to share.  She tries all of the talents her neighbor Margaret isn’t doing – will she find the perfect act before she has to miss the show? The Talented Clementine was adapted by Karen Simpson from the book by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee, published by Disney-Hyperion.

  • Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
  • Times: 9:30am & 12:30pm LIMITED, 11am SOLD OUT
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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The Princess and the Pea - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

A world-premiere adaptation from Karen Simpson to be written specifically for PYT’s “Stories on Stage” program based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

  • Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
  • Times: 9:30am & 11am LIMITED, 12:30pm SOLD OUT
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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