Did you know we have a homegrown mascot who stages musical performances?

I’ve always loved our very own mascots. I grew up with Singa the Courtesy Lion, Sharity Elephant, Teamy the Productivity Bee, and POSB’s Smiley Squirrel. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, you probably didn’t grow up here. These guys gave us some wonderful memories of singalongs and dance performances at school assemblies.

My favourite lion! (Picture from visualarchive.sg)

Nowadays, our kids see some huggables that are quite different. Meet Gloobaloo, a curious alien from Planet Global who has travelled to earth on his Big Boat Spaceship. He’s here to make new friends and learn all about Planet Earth and her environment. Every journey is filled with exciting adventures as he goes about trying to solve problems with his creative and magical ways.

And he’s back to stage his second musical this March at Kallang Theatre, following a successful first performance last October. Last year’s show, In the Ocean with Gloobaloo, also raised S$10,000 in support of the Children’s Cancer Foundation.

This year, Gloobaloo and his friends will bring you on a musical journey into the Enchanted Forest in a performance filled with original songs and energetic dance choreography. Gloobaloo and his friends, Chirpy, Grumpy and Wikki Zikki,  need to search for the Fire Dragon that is destroying the plant life in the forest. Come journey with them and see how this exciting story unfolds! Now, if only Singa the Lion, Sharity Elephant and Teamy the Bee could all be guest stars, that would be a blast from the past indeed!

*Yay! I have a pair of tickets to giveaway!*

Big Boat Studio, in partnership with Global EduHub, is giving away two (Category 2) tickets worth $70 to ONE reader of this blog. Just leave a comment here with your name and email address saying who’s your favourite homegrown mascot. A random picker (named Ben Kao) will be selecting a winner on 4 February 2013.

More details:

• For the pair of giveaway tickets, seats and date / time are fixed and cannot be changed.
• Giveaway is open for Singapore residents only. The winner will be notified by email. Tickets are not exchangeable for cash.
• Gloobaloo and the Enchanted Forest will be staged on 16 March 2013 (Saturday, first day of the March school holidays), 10 am at Kallang Theatre. Tickets are at $40, $35 and $30. More ticketing details from Sistic here.

**Disclosure: Motherkao received complimentary tickets to catch the performance too, so see you there!**

UPDATE: We have a winner! The random picker picked Carol Lim, so congratulations! We’ll be in touch soon!