The KU Presents! Family Series will delight children and their parents with “Pinkalicious: The Musical” in the Vital Theatre Company tour of its long-running off-Broadway production on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m.
at Kutztown University’s Schaeffer Auditorium. Tickets for “Pinkalicious” are $20 for all ages and can be purchased at the KU Presents website, https://www.kutztown.
edu/about-ku/administrative-offices/ku-presents.html , or by calling the KU Presents! Box Office between 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, at 610-683-4092.
The musical opened at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre on Broadway at 76th Street, New York, in 2007 (a year after the publication of the beloved children’s book), and is still running at the Actors Temple Theatre on West 47th Street, just west of Eighth Avenue. But you don’t have to travel to New York to see it, because VTC has created a touring branch of the show that crisscrosses North America. The book “Pinkalicious” was written by sisters Elizabeth and Victoria Kann for toddlers and early readers.
The protagonist, Pinkalicious Pinkerton (inspired by Victoria’s daughter), loves eating pink cupcakes so much she winds up with “pinkititis,” which turns her pink from head to toe. She has to come up with a solution to her predicament, with the help of her parents and brother Peter. The book, with illustrations and cover by Victoria and text by both sisters, became a New York Times bestseller, sparking a “Pinkalicious” craze that r.
