Catch Disney on Ice With Your WOO Card

Thursday, April 24, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Features Team

The weekend is fast approaching, and GoLocalWorcester brings you the best places to use your WOO Card around town for discounts and WOO Points.

Help your friends and family get in on the act as well. WOO Cards make great gifts! Share discounts and special offers at more than sixty area cultural destinations, restaurants, hotels, retailers, transportation providers and more! Best of all–WOO Cards NEVER expire!

Use the coupon code 'GLW' to save $5 off the online purchase of a WOO Card today. Click here to purchase your own.

Through April 26th

Disney on Ice presents Princesses & Heroes at The DCU Center
50 Foster Street, Worcester
Use your WOO Card to save $4 off select seats to April 26th 7 p.m. show
Enter a world of wonder where heroes and hearts prevail. Join Disney princesses as they do high flying jumps, daring acrobatics, and breathtaking skating.

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Thursday, April 24th

The Old Neighborhood at the Worcester Historical Museum
Fletcher Auditorium, 30 Elm Street, Worcester
Admission is free, Swipe your WOO Card for WOO points
Join Thomas Doughton as he discusses the unique history of Worcester’s Black neighborhood, Laurel/Clayton, and its eventual loss due to the urban renewal efforts of the 1960’s.

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Thursday-Saturday, April 24th – 26th

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare at Worcester State University
486 Chandler Street, Worcester
$2 off admission with WOO Card
Worcester State presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, where love and comedy are the vines that weave through shipwrecks, foiled villians, and mistaken identities – what happens in Illyria, stays in Illyria!

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Opening weekend Friday April 25th – Sunday, April 27th

Rocky Horror Show on stage at Worcester County Light Opera
21 Grandview Avenue, Worcester
Use your WOO Card to save $2 off tickets
A humorous tribute to science fiction and horror movies of the late 1940s through early 1970s, the musical shares the tale of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist. Are you ready to time warp?!

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Friday, April 25th

Spring Fling Family Hike at Tower Hill Botanic Garden
11 French Drive, Boylston
Use your WOO Card to save $2 off adult garden admission
Hike the Gardens and trails to look for the buds and blooms of early spring.

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Weekends in Worcester…www.WorcesterMass.org/Culture

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