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Initiative to feature holiday specials, circus classes

Kid-centric Gotham venue New Victory Theater has partnered with the Children’s Museum of Manhattan on an initiative called “The Play’s the Thing,” a yearlong series of programs introducing kids to legit. Series kicks off Saturday with a “New Vic Studio Sampler,” featuring classes in circus basics by New Vic teachers.

Also Saturday, Children’s Museum teachers will lead a program called “Calder-inspired Circus Dioramas,” in which kids will build their own art projects. On Oct. 18, the theater/museum coalition will host the Halloween program “New Vic Family Ghoul Times.” At the end of the year, the orgs will feature a Dec. 29 holiday special starring troupe the Flaming Idiots, “Chestnuts Roasting on the Flaming Idiots.”

All “The Play’s the Thing” events will take place at the museum on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

By SAM THIELMAN