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We're giving away four four packs of tickets to a showing of Rapunzel!: A Very Hairy Fairy Tale! 

This contest is closed! Congratulations to our winners: myself, kristenwilliams, blytheclifford and Making Memories!

<a href="https://www.wral.com/storybook-theater-new-performance-series-for-families-opens-friday-with-rapunzel/12135090/">As I wrote over the weekend</a>, the new family performance series called Storybook Theater at the Duke (formerly Progress) Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh opens with its first show Friday.

It launches with Rapunzel!: A Very Hairy Fairy Tale. <a href="http://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/storybooktheater" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> for tickets and more information about the series, which is part of a partnership between Marbles Kids Museum and the performing arts center.

I have four packs of four tickets to give away for the 6:30 p.m., Friday, performance!

How do you enter to win? Do one or both of the following:

1. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/goaskmom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@GoAskMom on Twitter</a> and tweet once about the contest.

2. Answer the following question in the comments below: Have you taken your kids to live performances before? If so, which ones?

This contest ends at noon, Feb. 27. Four winners will be picked at random from all entries. The winners' user name or Twitter name will be posted on this post by 9 p.m. Feb. 27 and an email or message will be sent to the winner, if possible. Each winner must respond by noon, Feb. 28, or a runner-up will be selected. Good luck!

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Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale will open the Storybook Theater series

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