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Thursday July 17
Does a bear cha-cha-cha in the woods? Let’s see. It does if it’s the furry, 7-foot-tall star of Jim Henson Television’s Bear in the Big Blue House, which comes to interactive life onstage this weekend. The Emmy Award-winning show on the Disney Channel is beloved by both parents and children for its socially educational entertainment. In this live production titled A First Time For Everything, the Mann family gets lost in Woodland Valley and meets the aforementioned Bear and his friends, including Pip and Pop, Tutter, Ojo, and Treelo, as they prepare for school and learn to ride a bicycle. The lessons emphasized here are “first-time feats” and the “rewards of the journey.” Performers will also roam throughout the audience capturing commentary on camera and broadcasting it over an onstage screen. The tour is produced by the same folks who brought Sesame Street Live and Dragon Tales Live to the stage. Bring your honey for the bear and his buds to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Showtimes are 7:00 tonight; 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Friday; and 10:30 a.m., 2:00, and 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets range from $10 to $25. Infants are required to have lap seat tickets. Call 954-462-0222. — By Margaret Griffis
Saturday July 19
Wild Life
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Kids connect with creatures
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Watching possums scamper around the back yard is no way to spend the summer for a child. Nor is chasing raccoons out of garbage cans or whacking snakes with a baseball bat. That sort of activity could be dangerous, not to mention downright unsanitary. The little ones should learn to appreciate nature, not fight it. You wouldn’t want them growing up to be shady developers, ready to drain and pave over the Everglades to build their latest cookie-cutter “community.” If you take them to Florida Neighborhood Animals at the South Dade Regional Library (10750 SW 211th St.), they just might bond better with local beasts. One animal they don’t need to get too friendly with? Cockroaches! Admission is free. Call 305-233-8140. — By Nina Korman