WEB ONLY: Major Flapps to fly at River Run Feb. 8
River Run Centre presents Major Conrad Flapps in World in a Flapp, an adventure with music, dancing, and hilarious antics.
The audience will have to help the clown aviator get airborne as the world’s only human airplane. The fun-filled performance on Feb. 8 at 4pm is the third in the family series at River Run.
Major Conrad Flapps is not a standard airline pilot. Although he has outfitted himself in a leather helmet, red nose, and eight foot long flying scarf – all the things any clown aviator requires – he can’t seem to get in the air. Flapps enlists the help of the audience as well as his incredible acrobatic comedy, musical parody, and zany wit to take off and travel around the world.
Flapps’ fiddle and imagination bring the audience such music as sit-down square dances, maritime jigs, cracker waltzes, Celtic madness and even a blues band.
Major Conrad Flapps is played by Stuart Nemtin who has been appearing as Flapps since the character’s inauguration at the 1978 Vancouver International Children’s Festival.
Nemtin has brought Flapps and his signature physical, acrobatic, and musical comedy to Africa, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United States and has appeared on The Elephant Show and the award winning television series Take Off.
Tickets are on sale now through the box office. Adult tickets range from $17 to $19 and children’s are from $14 to $16. As part of the eyeGO programme, high school students may purchase tickets at the box office for $5. All tickets may be purchased online at www.riverrun.ca, by phone at 519-763-3000 or in person at the box office.
