Kids Under 17 FREE With Paying Adult at MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Family Nights

CHICAGO’S HIT, FAMILY-FRIENDLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MUSICAL 

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET PRESENTS FAMILY NIGHTS  

MARCH 15, APRIL 5, MAY 17, JUNE 14,

JULY 12, AUGUST 9, 2015
With more than 2,000 performances and 6 smash years in Chicago, 
the Tony Award-winning rock ‘n’ roll musical has set a new record for the longest-running Broadway musical in Chicago. 

Million Dollar Quartet is one of our favorites here at ChiIL Mama. It's a high energy, fun multigenerational show you can feel great about taking your parents and/or kids to. I took the kids and they even got to go back stage and meet the actors! Highly recommended. Click here to check out our past review.

ChiIL Mama's kids, Dugan & Sage hangin' back stage with the stars of Million Dollar Quartet--seriously talented performers who sing, play music, get wild on stage, act, and rock some of the best music of the 50's that still has staying power today.

Million Dollar Quartet, the musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together legendary rock ‘n’ roll icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, invites family members of all ages to enjoy the production.  The family-friendly musical will offer special family discounts on Sunday, March 15, April 5, May 17, June 14, July 12, and August 9, 2015 at 6:30pm. 

*Tickets to Million Dollar Quartet family nights are buy one, get one free.  (One child under 17 will be admitted free with each adult ticket purchase.)*  

The evenings will feature giveaways with special gifts from Million Dollar Quartet. Million Dollar Quartet is a 90-minute, family-friendly production.  Audience members of all ages are invited to laugh, clap—and even dance—during the show.

On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together. The place was Sun Records’ storefront studio in Memphis.  The man who made it happen was Sam Phillips, the “Father of Rock ’n’ Roll,” who discovered them all. The four legends-to-be united for the only time in their careers for an impromptu recording that has come to be known as one of the greatest rock jam sessions of all time. 

Featuring a treasure trove of the greatest rock ’n’ roll, gospel, R&B and country hits from these music legends, including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “I Walk The Line,” “Hound Dog” and “Whole Lotta’ Shakin’ Goin’ On,” Million Dollar Quartet captures the infectious spirit, freewheeling excitement and thrilling sounds of a singular moment when four of the music industry’s most extraordinary talents, all in their creative prime, came together for one of the most memorable nights in music history. 

Million Dollar Quartet has extended performances through summer 2015, with cast members Brandon Bennett (Elvis Presley), Shaun Whitley (Carl Perkins), Lance Lipinsky (Jerry Lee Lewis), Adam Lee (Johnny Cash), Jason Bradley (Sam Phillips), Marc Edelstein (Jay Perkins/Bass player), Marty Kondziolka (Fluke/Drummer) and Kelly Lamont (Dyanne).

The Tony Award-winning musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together legendary rock ‘n’ roll icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, celebrates its long run in Chicago, a Tony Award-winning New York run, a long-running London production, a current production in Las Vegas, and a national tour that kicked-off in October 2011. 

TICKETS

Million Dollar Quartet tickets are now on sale through Summer 2015.  Tickets to Million Dollar Quartet at the Apollo Theater are available through the Apollo Theater box office, 2540 N. Lincoln Ave, (773) 935-6100.  Tickets are available online through Ticketmaster, www.ticketmaster.com. 

Tickets to Million Dollar Quartet Family Nights, Sunday, March 15, April 5, May 17, June 14, July 12, and August 9 at 6:30pm, are buy one, get one free.  (One child under 17 will be admitted free with each adult ticket purchase.)  The evenings will feature giveaways with special gifts from Million Dollar Quartet. 

Million Dollar Quartet is a 90-minute, family-friendly production.  Audience members of all ages are invited to laugh, clap—and even dance—during the show. 

Rush student tickets for select performances (Wed-Fri and Sun evenings only) are available 2 hours prior to curtain at the box office with valid Student ID. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

The Apollo performance schedule is as follows: Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; and Sundays at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.

For more show information, visit www.milliondollarquartetlive.com.

FLASH GIVEAWAYS & MORE: Freebie Friday $25 Mrs. Greens Gift Card, Live Show Tickets & More #giveaway

**FLASH GIVEAWAY: First to comment below with your family's favorite instrument(s) WINS 4 FREE tickets to see Apples, Peaches, Lemonade this Sunday at noon!**

ChiIL Mama Presents:

(Check below for more family friendly Beat Kitchen's Kids Shows. New winners announced weekly.)

• WIN a FREE $25 Mrs. Green's Market gift card. CLICK HERE (*enter through midnight 4/5). 

Kindie Land:

• Family 4 Pack of Tickets to Beat Kitchen's Kids Series, presented by ChiIL Mama ($24 value, Sunday at noon, all ages). 

• **Check back soon to enter to win 4 tickets to our spring shows on 4/27, 5/4, 5/11 & 5/17** 

UPCOMING CONCERTS • $6

APPLES, PEACHES, LEMONADE! Apr 6 • 2 PM Get Tickets! ISTVAN & HIS IMAGINARY BAND Apr 27 • 12 PM Get Tickets!

Super Stolie MAY 4 • 12 PM CORRIENTES ENSEMBLE May 11 • 2 PM Get Tickets! LITTLE MISS ANN CD RELEASE PARTY! MAY 17 • 3 PM Get Tickets!

*Congrats to Teresa O.--ChiIL Mama's winner of 4 tickets ($100 value) to the opening performance of SPARK at Adventure Stage Theatre (& after party) 4pm next Saturday, 4/12.  Click here for our prior SPARK feature, past video interview with Tom Arvetis & more show info.

KINDIE LAND: Labor Day 3 CD Giveaway -- Justin Roberts' Recess & Shine and the Moonbeams #giveaway

New Fests, ChiIL Mama's Giveaways, Kids Music Releases and More From Our Friends at Sugar Mountain

**ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama for your chance to win Justin Roberts' new CD release, Recess (2 Winners) & Shine and The Moonbeams' new CD too!   Enter below.** This Summer Marks the Debut of Two Free Family Music Festivals:   Rox in Sox and Wiggle Out Loud Just Past:  Rox in Sox: Aaron Nigel Smith and a host of partners brought the first free music and books festival to the Portland area, on August 3rd.  What's cool: Donations of socks and shoes will help kids in need. Coming Soon:  Wiggle Out Loud: Chris Wiser (Boom) of the Sugar Free Allstars presents the first-ever kindie rock festival in Oklahoma on September 1. The Verve Pipe, an alternative rock band most widely known for its 1997 blockbuster hit single, “The Freshmen,” will headline.   What's cool: tons of fitness activities. **Click here to check out loads of ChiIL Mama's original Verve Pipe coverage including live show clips!** Also, check back with ChiIL Mama like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often.   We'll have our photo filled recaps of our 9th year of Kidzapalooza up soon, and lots more great fall giveaways! Say it Three Times Fast: Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers  The new release from Trout Fishing in America! Coming September 3, this collection of fresh tunes provides the kind of tongue-twisting, expectations-defying, and generally genre-bending good times that Trout Fishing in America is renowned for. Listen here and catch Trout live, here. Heidi Swedberg's Retro-Ukulele Style is My Cup of Tea Over the past few years, Heidi Swedberg, perhaps best known as the actress who played Susan on “Seinfeld,” has built a national reputation for her ukulele-inflected, highly interactive approach to family music-making. Amidst her ongoing weekly music classes at McCabe’s and Los Angeles schools, plus frequent national touring with the Sukey Jump Band, Heidi has produced her second album, due for national retail release on September 10th. Learn how to play the title song on the ukulele with Heidi, here!            ChiIL Out With Justin Roberts' 'Recess'  It's been more than two years since Justin Roberts received a Grammy nomination for Jungle Gym, and now he's recently released an even more energetic (how is that possible?) set of pop tunes that  he's calling Recess. As if the music weren't enough, the album package includes colorful recessed printing, a pop-up robot, and secret links to craft activities and bonus media. Listen to three songs here.   **Click the Rafflecopter link below for a chance to win.  We're giving away 2 copies to our lucky readers ($15 value each)!  Winners announced Labor Day.** *A Rafflecopter giveaway-Justin Roberts' Recess   Shine and the Moonbeams debuted on Sirius-XM's Rumpus Room earlier this month. Check out the new self-titled release that's generating happy streams of light everywhere. Shawana (aka Shine) and her band closed out NYC's Madison Square Park summer concert series on August 8th. Alastair Moock Gets Mega Media Attention for  'Singing Our Way Through... Songs for the World's Bravest Kids.' Plus, he's donating music to many families and organizations dealing with childhood cancer. **Click the Rafflecopter link below for a chance to win.   We gave one away last month, but ChiIL Mama's giving away another copy of Shine & The Moonbeams ($8.99 value) to our lucky readers!  Winners announced Labor Day.**   * A Rafflecopter giveaway-Shine & The Moonbeams CD **Click here for info on how to win a rockin' kindie family vacation to New York with Just Kidding and Symphony Space through Aug 21!!** Expect more news soon about Mister G, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Mr. Palindrome, The Secret Mountain and the new "Just Kidding" season at Symphony Space. News links of note: Kindiefest quits What's good... and bad...in  kids' music: A Manifesto Grammy.com on the state of kindie KidsCanGroove

KINDIE LAND: New Poochamungas CD Block Party Out September 17th #giveaway #tourdates

Poochamungas Block Party!  Train Rolls On Productions  17 September 2013 Click here to WIN The Poochamungas current CD plus 20 Other Kindie Favs from ChiIL Mama all month! **We're giving away 20 Kindie CDs, 10 books, 2 Blu-Ray/DVD Combos nationwide, and lots of Chicago theatre & music tickets. So check back like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often.**

COME ON DOWN TO THE FIREHOUSE FOR AN OLD-FASHIONED, CHICAGO-STYLE 'BLOCK PARTY!' with POOCHAMUNGAS "Poochamungas, an Americana rock-n-roll outfit from the second city, rocks a clean electric guitar and a jumpy piano on their canine-centric self-titled track from their brilliantly named kindie debut, Mud, Mommies, and Mayhem."  -- Jeff Bogle, Out With The Kids "A great blend of blues, folk and Americana.  With lyrics that talk straight to the kids and music sophisticated enough for the whole family to enjoy, Poochamungas will get toes tapping and bodies moving," -- Dave Loftin, The Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl   Led into action by a real-life, full-time Chicago firefighter, kindie rock band Poochamungas is all set to blaze a trail on the national scene with the September 17 release of their second kids'/family CD, Block Party!  Block Party! follows hot on the heels of Poochamungas' NAPPA award winning debut album, Mud, Mommies and Mayhem, continuing the band's tradition of "musically diverse, rockin', angst-free music."  There's nothing pretentious about this group.  Block Party! cooks up a down-home, musical celebration with friends and family.  This CD is about fun and sharing good times, pure and simple. The straightforward, uncomplicated musical charm of Block Party! harkens back to Poochamungas' firehouse origins, when John Joyce, a 17-year veteran of the Chicago Fire department, teamed up with fellow firefighter Pete Cunningham to see how far they could go with their musical talents.  The pair had always enjoyed each other's company since their days together in the Chicago Fire Academy, and their mutual love of music soon began to consume a big part of their lives.  In 2008, Poochamungas was born!  Block Party! revs up the fun-o-meter with "Around the World," a bit of rocking '50s style topped off by a driving honky tonk piano reminiscent of early Jerry Lee Lewis and Bill Haley, followed by a great action song about bike riding, "Till the Sun Goes Down."  In contrast to the driving intensity of the first two numbers, "My Favorite Summer Day (Block Party)" is a kind of hometown, Americana nostalgic reverie of neighborhood good times from the perspective of a young parent -- something of a rock 'n' roll Rockwell.  Another highlight, reflecting the band's firehouse connection, is a spiffy rhythmic ode to the fire truck, "Big Red Fire Engine/Truck."    POOCHAMUNGAS IN PERFORMANCE Highlights - Summer/Fall 2013 July 28                 Jefferson Park Arts & Music Festival, Chicago IL August 10            Peanut Butter & Jams for Kids, Kenosha, WI August 25            St. Helen's Carnival, Chicago, IL September 21      Voce, St. Louis, MO October 31           Trunk or Treat, Chicago, IL November 16        World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA Check out the Poochamungas website at http://poochamungas.com. Poochamungas on Facebook: http://facebook.com/poochamungas

Win 10 Family Friendly Freebies To ChiIL Out With This Summer #Giveaways

ChiIL Out with ChiIL Mama This Summer

Here are all our rockin' current giveaways in one easy place.   Enter any or ALL.  Good luck!

  Enter here for your chance to win loads of books, DVDs/Blu-Ray, CDs, games, toys and more (open to anyone 18+ in the USA) and a ton of sweet Chicago theatre and family concert tickets.

We love summer time and want to share our ChiIL Picks List for rockin' kindie music, movies, eco-friendly finds, events and more with you, so 2013 can be the best summer vacation EVER.   We're giving away great fam friendly freebies all summer long!!  

Disclaimer:   Thanks to all the kindie musicians, theatres, authors, publishers, Warner Brothers and American Girl for providing us with giveaway prizes and review copies.   All opinions are our own. Check back with us like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often, for loads of original content including video band interviews with kindie (kids' indie) favs, reviews, photo filled features, free downloads, new releases, and more great giveaways.

Here's the scoop:

  Click the name of the giveaways below to enter & see our full feature on each.

  #1/#2.  2 ChiIL Picks Book Bonanzas:

*Lost in Suburbia : A Momoir, by Tracy Beckerman (5 paperbacks available/$15 value each) Now extended through midnight 7/30. 

*The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall (5 hardbacks available/  $26.95 value each).  Enter through midnight 7/30. 

  Watch for loads of our original circus content throughout the month of our giveaway.  We have video interviews with Cirque Du Soleil performers featured in the book, live show clips we've filmed at CircEsteem Shows, and loads of stills from international touring circuses including Cirque Shanghai, performing on Navy Pier all summer in Chicago, and more!






#3/#4.   ChiIL Picks Blu-Ray & DVD Movies

*Jack the Giant Slayer Blu-Ray/DVD combo! Enter through midnight 7/9($44.95 value)





*Saige Paints the Sky (American Girl) Blu-Ray/DVD combo!  Enter through midnight 7/30. ($26.99 value)

#5/#6/#7.    Rockin' 20 Kindie CD Extravaganza 

We're giving away sets of awesome brand new releases along with 2012 & 13 favs of ours.   All entries are open through midnight 7/30.   Winners will be announced on Winning Wednesday, July 31st! It's road trip season ya know.   And time to ChiIL out and kick back with some of the best kindie artists around.   Throughout the month we'll be bringing you our original reviews and full info on each of the 20 CDs, along with original kindie band interviews, live show footage and more.   Enter to win any or all of these sets.   All of these CDs make it onto

  ChiIL Mama's ChiIL Picks List.

  *Set 1:  Great American Tunes  for July 4th & beyond  ($74.95 value)

  Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter:

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 One lucky reader will win these 6 sweet CDs:

  

• Putumayo Kids Presents American Playground (featuring loads of greats including favs of ours Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell--brand new 6/18 release) $14.98

• Ratboy Jr.--Champions of the Universe (These guys are one of our all time favs, back with a 2nd release.) $12.97

• Shine and The Moonbeams (brand new release) $9.99

• Ozomatli Presents Ozokidz (LA culture mashers known for singing about immigration protests, gang violence & hurricane Katrina they've now expanded their boundaries again and released a rockin' CD of kids' tunes about photosynthesis, spelling, balloons, germs, skateboards and a runaway moose that's so good you won't want to stop playing it the second you drop the kids at camp.  Freakin' hilarious, great musicians bringing quality, multicultural music in a range of genres.) $10

• Live in Lexington--Under the Copper Beech-Ben Rudnick & Friends ($14.99 with 4 panel eco-jacket)  Sure he's got a new one out, but this one's too cool for the 4th of July.

With five Parents’ Choice® awards to their credit, Ben Rudnick & Friends have what it takes to make recordings families love. Families also love their live shows, where the band’s unique dynamic transforms a concert into an event. The events are celebrations.

On July 11, 2008, the band set up at one of their favorite venues, the town green of Lexington, MA. The same green that saw the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Flying high from the string of shows that comes with summer, saying goodbye to their accordion player Mark Yacovone who was moving to Mississippi the next day, and joined by Rob “It’s Saturday Night” Lee on saxophones, the band turned in an unforgettable performance.

Featuring songs from their first six recordings and some favorite cover tunes, Live in Lexington fills every available second on the CD with good time tunes as only they can deliver.

Live in Lexington has garnered BR&F their SIXTH Parents' Choice Award.

• Okee Dokee Brothers--Take it Outside (Grammy Winners-Best Children's Album of the Year for Can You Canoe)

ChiIL Mama had the great pleasure of catching the Okee Dokee Brothers for a video interview and shooting their live show at The Beat Kitchen in Chicago, where we sponsor an annual, weekly kindie music concert series.   They're down to earth, cool guys, with an eco-friendly bent and talent to spare.   We've given away copies of Can You Canoe earlier this year.   Now check out one of their earlier albums, Parents Choice Silver Award Winner and one of our favs, Take it Outside. $15

($77.93 value)

*Set 2:   Kidzapalooza Favs ($82 value):  

  Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter:

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ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama at one of the best kindie fests in the nation!   We've covered Kidza all 3 days of EVERY year of it's existance.   We'll be back again for 2013.   To get you jazzed for the fest, we're giving away a CD set including Ella Jenkins' latest release-Get Moving, and kindie favs that have graced the Kidza stage in years past.   One lucky reader will win 6 CDs from these Kidzapalooza Favs:

• Ella Jenkins'--Get Moving  Click here for samples from Get Moving. $11.98
• Rocknoceros--Colonel Purple Turtle $15
• Candy Band--High Five  Click here for samples from High Five $11.04
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• Recess Monkey--In Tents $14.99
• Recess Monkey--Flying $14.99

(These guys are long time favs of ours and we've had the pleasure of shooting their live shows at Kidzapalooza and catching them for a video interview.   They have a new release out--Deep Sea Diver.   But we also adore their last two, In Tents and Flying.)

• Laura Doherty-Shining Like a Star $13.99 Parents Choice Silver Award Winner and Laura's latest release

($82 value) Here's the rockin' 2013 Kidzapalooza lineup!    

 Ralph’s World

The Not Its

The Q Brothers

The Blisters

Peter DiStefano & Tor

Jambo

School of Rock

Ella Jenkins

Kristian Bush

Perry Farrell

Special Guests 

  *Set 3:   Windy Kindie CDs ($96.80 value!!) Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter: 

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  Our own home town kids' musicians are awesome.   Look for these Chicago favorites at street fests all summer & at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids again this fall.   One lucky reader will win these 8 CDs by Chicago Kindie favorites:

• Pop of the Tots--Human Tim + Robot Tim $9.99
• Mud, Mommies, and Mayhem--Poochamungas $12.00
• Mr Singer & The Sharp Cookies--Bouncing Ball of Energy $9.99
• Mr Singer & The Sharp Cookies--Muddy Water Beaver Dam Band(full album download card)  $9.99
• Ice Cream Vendors--Now!  With More Dog Barks $13.99
• The Dreamtree Shakers--Dream and You Will See (An oldie but goodie & still one of our favs.  Also check out their new release Big Top Tent) $10
• Istvan & His Imaginary Band--Sweet!  $8.00
• Boogers--Extractum Victoris (This is their latest & heaviest kids' punk yet and one of our top picks of the year.  ChiIL Mama's even quoted right on the front page of their site.) $12.84

($96.80 value!!)


  #8.  Mini Bunny Bonanza ($39.95 value)
  Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter:
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  For those summer days when some bunny needs a nap and some big bunny needs a break!!   Let Randy Travis & Lilly Tomlin take over on the endless story reading detail for a while.   Then watch your little one drift off to sleep to Deborah Poppink sweet, original tunes.   She's an over 40 mom of 2, and she gets it! Hop from Spring into Summer with bunny fun from our ChiIL Picks List for birth to 7 year olds.   *Some bunny will win both a DVD story collection & DidiPop CD! (Since bunnies know how to multiply over the summer months... we'll double this winning!!  2 winners chosen.)

• Scholastic Storybook Treasures Read Along DVDs--The Springtime Collection featuring Max's Chocolate Chicken.   12 stories on 3 DVDs with narration by Lily Tomlin, Randy Travis and others.  $24.95 

• DidiPop--Bunny in the Moon CD--bedtime songs for falling asleep $15.00

Deborah Poppink is a kindie musician with 2 daughters of her own.  She says DidiPop comes from when I was a kids (“Debbie Poppins”) and because it’s fun to say and sing. The Beatles are my inspiration, and I was raised on pop radio from the 60s and 70s and musical theater. I started playing piano when I was 3, guitar at 9 and songwriting at 17. My mom says I sang the day I was born. I’ve always loved great music, a catchy chorus and interesting story.

“Bunny In The Moon: bedtime songs for falling asleep" is a new album of 14 original songs, designed to wind your child down to dream-land.

The “Goodnight Moon of children’s music. Your child will look forward to turning out the light and listening as s/he falls asleep to this intimate collection of winding down songs. 

Deborah says, as a mother who waited until she was 40 to start having kids, I pour as much art, music and mindfulness into my girls as I can… in small and fun doses. I hope that you will and can give your child music and art that inspires and teaches. I make music for my girls because it was my very best love as a child and it provided me with so much. I hope to share that love and present mindedness with you and your child…through song, rhythm and magic.

ChiIL Out in Chi, IL with theatre & live music:

#9.  Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Shrek at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre ($100 value) Your choice of any dates pending availability 7/13-9/1!   Enter through midnight 7/9.

#10.   Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Justin Roberts at Ravinia-Pavilion Seats ($40 value).  
Enter through midnight 7/9.

Check back soon for his brand new release!!   We'll be reviewing it right here and giving one away.

Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Mindy Hester & The Time Outs at Wilmette Theatre ($40 value).  
Enter through midnight 7/25.

Disclaimer:   Thanks to all the kindie musicians, theatres, authors, publishers, Warner Brothers and American Girl for providing us with giveaway prizes and review copies.   All opinions are our own.

It's Winning Wednesday People! Winners Announced from Goldfish to Whales... And Current Giveaways #giveaways

It's finally getting to be outdoor swimming weather in Chi-town with temps in the 80's, and we have an aquatic assortment of winners to announce today.   Congrats!!

ChiIL out with the coolest swim lessons in town at Goldfish Swim School!   We had an awesome response with 455 entries to win 2 months of swim lessons and a free registration at Goldfish Swim School, Chicago ($199.00 value).

Big congrats to our winner:  Nicole F!!!!

Click here for our past Goldfish coverage.

We also had a rockin' response to our 2nd family 4 pack of tickets to see The Elephant and The Whale, Chicago Children's Theatre's stellar show (160 entries).   Come see a baby whale depicted to scale in an awesome multimedia production that includes screen projection, puppetry and live action.   There are even mermaids, too!   Check out this whale of a friendship tale.   All ages.

Big congrats to our winner:  Selena!!!!

Click here for ChiIL Mama's past coverage of The Elephant and The Whale.

If you missed our original interview with the Co-Directors Frank Maugeri (Redmoon) and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig (500 Clown) and actor/narrator, David Catlin (Lookingglass), check it out right here.

All 3 are parents as well as theatre professionals and they have some excellent insights on the creation of the show as well as "How Creatives Parent and How Parents Create".   We were pretty blown away by what this talented trio had to say.   Check it out.




Current Giveaways:
(click link to enter)

Chicago:

*(low entries!!) 4 free tickets to Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies at Beat Kitchen this Sunday 5/19 at noon.   Ages birth-8 with parents.  Season finale!!   Be there.   Open through midnight 5/16.


*(low entries!!) 4 pack of tickets to Future Hits at Wilmette Theatre Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 10am ($48 value)

*(low entries!!) a coupon for free LACTAID® Product (you can even use it for your choice of 5 ice cream flavors!


USA:

*ECOBAGS® Classic String Market Bags™ in Earthtone sold as a set of five ($40 value) Open through midnight 5/18.

*Skrub'a Gloves ( kid and adult) and Magic School Bus All About Earth DVD. (TOTAL VALUE:  $36.92)



Coming Soon:

Chicago:

*Family 4 pack of tickets to Putting Edge Glow In The Dark Mini Golf & Arcades 

USA:

*DANCE ACADEMY: SEASON 1, VOLUMES 1 & 2

Street Date: May 14, 2013

DVD SRP: $19.95 ea. (2 Discs)

 "The most striking quality of this enjoyable series is its dissimilarity to many of the flashy teen-geared shows available today, thanks to relatable, diverse characters and realistic interpersonal issues that are handled with maturity." 

-- Commonsense Media

THEY'VE GOT THE WORLD AT THEIR FEET,

BUT HAVE THEY GOT WHAT IT TAKES?

THIS MAY, JUMP INTO THE FIRST TWO SEASONS OF TEEN NICK'S TWEEN SMASH, AS FLATIRON FILM COMPANY RELEASES FOUR SPECIALLY-PRICED 2-DVD SETS NEVER BEFORE RELEASED!

Congrats again to our winners.   Be sure to check back with ChiIL Mama like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often.   We give away lots of sweet Chi-town tickets to theatre and family friendly concerts every week.   We also have giveaways open to anyone in the USA that include books, DVDs, CDs, toys and more.   We're your source for photo and video filled features, reviews, and original content, so ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama.    

ChiIL Mama:  2 ii's... one L... all fun in Chi, IL and beyond.