Special Family Events - Stepping Stones Museum

Every Day Fun!

A 3-dimensional Laser Light Show
Twinkle the Talking Tree and the Luminescent Light Forest
Light STEAM Stations
Light Treasures
The Amazing Light Maze in the Celebration Courtyard

Light Festivals!

Get Into It! FREE: Tree Lighting
Thursday, December 5 • 5:00 – 8:00 pm
The museum stays open late with free admission as we host our annual tree lighting ceremony in the Celebration Courtyard. Unpack this holiday treat with holiday characters while enjoying hot chocolate, musical ensembles and fun programming. An Open Arms program.
Kaleidoscope Days
December 6 – 15
Christmas
December 12 – 24
Saint Lucia
December 13
Las Posadas
December 16 – 24
Winter Solstice
December 21
Hanukkah
December 22 – 30
Kwanzaa
December 26 – December 31

And WOW! there’s more…

Santa Sightings
November 29 – December 24 |11:15 am • 1:15 pm daily

Come in and snap a photo with Santa and his friends as your children let him know what they want for the holidays.

Nutcracker Suite
December 7 |11:00 am • 12:30 pm • 2:00 pm

The Academy of New England Ballet Company will perform some of your favorite Tchaikovsky numbers as they present The Nutcracker Suite. Performance will be followed by meet and greet with the dancers.

Run time: approximately 30 minutes

Noon O’clock Rock
December 31 |10:30 am – 1:00 pm

“One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock. Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock. Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock. We're gonna rock around the clock…”

Our 2019 concludes with a stomping good time at Stepping Stones. Beginning at 11:00 am, join BooZoo™ and friends for our spectacular, annual New Year’s Eve celebration. Make party hats, masks, poppers and music makers and kick off a new year with over-the-top-fun! Experience different celebrations from around the world, and when the clock strikes noon, the ball drops, the move-and-groove dance party featuring a live band breaks loose, and the bubble wrap stomping begins. Real fireworks too (weather permitting). Then, you’re ready to welcome 2020 with playful hearts, innovative minds and outstretched arms!

The Silly Dilly Musical: Holiday Edition

Saturday, November 30 | 11:00 am • 2:00 pm

Monday, December 23 | 9:30 am • 11:00 am • 2:00 pm

There’s no better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a specially created edition of the world premiere The Silly Dilly Musical at Stepping Stones Museum for Children. Six performers will share the joys of the season with a selection of songs from Alan Katz’s Silly Dilly Songbooks, this time featuring hilarious tunes from Where Did They Hide My Presents?

And because rhyming helps teach children how language works by noticing the sounds within words, you’ll have fun in the car ride home making up your own silly songs!

Run Time: 35 minutes Tickets first-come, first-served

About the Silly Dilly players:

Alan Katz

As a print and television writer, I've majored in silliness for more than 30 years. During that time, I've written for a whole bunch of Emmy-nominated TV shows (five years worth of parody songs and other funny stuff for "The Rosie O’Donnell Show"), animated series like "Pinkalicious", "Taz-Mania", "Disney’s Raw Toonage and Goof Troop", several editions of the Grammy Awards and Tony Awards, "Kids Are People Too", a slew of Nickelodeon projects including Whoopi’s "Littleburg", network specials, game shows, articles for publications including The New York Times and the New York Daily News, and I've created hundreds of comic books, trading cards, web videos, and other special projects for kids and their parents. But my proudest achievement is the brilliance of Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David, the children my wonderful wife Rose and I “co-authored.” They have taken me to new heights of silliness, and they are the reason I'm a happy man.

Producer Eli Newsom and
Director Christy McIntosh-Newsom

Producer Eli Newsom and Director Christy McIntosh-Newsom have twenty years of producing theatre between them, and together they run Fairfield Center Stage, an environmental and immersive traveling theatre in Fairfield. Christy has an extensive background in children’s and educational theatre, having directed and taught at Fairfield Summer Stage, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Curtain Call Summer Youth Theatre, Trumbull Youth Association, West Conn, and others, and is also a professional actress and member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity. Eli has served as director and music director at Curtain Call, Bedford Middle School, Coleytown, Fairfield Teen Theatre, Tomlinson Middle School, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, and is a founding member of both Bridgeport Theatre Company and Fairfield Center Stage. They live in Fairfield with their son Carlson John, and two dogs.

Nick Carrano is incredibly blessed to be back on stage after taking some time off. He is a graduate of the BFA Theatre program at Central Connecticut State University. Nick recently performed at the Bethlehem Fair with Masque Family Theater, and he played Dickon in Fairfield Center Stage’s production of “The Secret Garden.” Nick would like to thank Christy and Eli for being such warm and wonderful people. Nick would finally like to send a shout out to the cast, to Alan Katz for having such a creative mind, and a thank you to his wife-to-be, Kyra. God bless you all.

Betzabeth Castro

Betzabeth Castro graduated from Southern CT State University where she received her Bachelor's in Theatre. Credits include: "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" (Suzanne) with Westport Community Theater, "Love's Labour's Lost" (Katherine) with Elm Shakespeare Company, and "Lysistrata" (Lysistrata) with Southern CT State University. Betzabeth is very excited to be working with such a talented, fun group of people!

Chelsea Dacey is blessed to be "silly dilly"! Her recent credits include "Gypsy" (Dainty June), "The Winter Wonderettes/The Marvelous Wonderettes" (Suzy Simpson), "Hairspray" (Amber), "Fancy Nancy" (Nancy), "The Great Gatsby" (Daisy), "This Is Modern Art" (Selena), "Piggy Nation The Musical" Off-Broadway (Lacey), and more. Chelsea's recent television credits include "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "The Daily Show, " and "Younger." Be on the lookout for her voice overs of books on Audible.com in 2020! Chelsea is also a professional teaching artist, training aspiring professionals across the state. See her next as Sophie in "Mamma Mia" at The Little Theatre of Manchester this November 1 - 17. Special thanks to the creative team and cast. Peace and love to family, friends and her pet toucan.

Bobby Earl Henry is excited to join the cast of The Silly Dilly Musical at Stepping Stones Museum for Children. He most recently appeared as (Hans) in Cabaret with Fairfield Center Stage. Some of his favorite credits include (DJ/Ensemble) in Seven Angels Production of The Who’s "Tommy" (Joice Heth) in "Barnum" (Moonface Martin) in "Anything Goes", (The Lion) in "The Wiz" ,(Margaret Mead in Hair), a (Featured Dancer) in "Sweet Charity" a (Soloist/Dancer) in "American Idiot" and a (Brother) in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". Besides performing Bobby has a passion for hairdressing and is a licensed Cosmetologist in the State of Connecticut. He would like to thank the Alan, Christy and Eli and Stepping Stones for such a silly dilly adventure.

Eric Regan is delighted to be apart of this super silly musical! A Fairfield native, you may have seen him performing with various local theatre companies in the area. He would like to thank Eli and Christy for their direction, Alan Katz for his wonderful and creative works, and Stepping Stones Museum for Children for putting on this show.

Madeleine Tommins is a NYC actor who is thrilled to have the opportunity to perform at the Stepping Stones! Madeleine grew up in Fairfield, CT and enjoyed visiting the museum as a kid. Favorite credits include Wendla (Spring Awakening) and Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz). Special thanks to Eli, Christy, and Alan for having her on board. She is grateful for the chance to all be silly dilly together!

The Silly Dilly Musical only at Stepping Stones!

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