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“Birthday Candles” at the Ives Auditorium in Bloomington


Adult Enrichment / Trips / Effortless Excursions -
2025-26 Adult Trips - FINAL

The ingredients for the cake are simple: eggs, butter, sugar, and salt. Look closer, though, and you’ll see the essence of life itself. Every year, Ernestine bakes a cake and celebrates with her family on her birthday — a delicious ritual that unfolds onstage across 90 years of birthdays. We meet Ernestine and the people who sweeten her life every year on this day as she grows from 17 to 107 years old. Through glimpses of Ernestine’s life as the years go by, Birthday Candles tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss, and finding your place in the universe. This charming new play, recently on Broadway, will warm the soul!

* Fee includes coach transportation, lunch (Creamy chicken breast with roasted red potatoes, glazed carrots, coleslaw, dinner rolls, assorted dessert, coffee & hot tea), and theater ticket. 

* 9:30 AM Depart RCTC Sports Center Parking Lot

* 5:30 PM Approximate return 

* No refunds after March 1

* Fee: $109

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9199.231 on Wed, Apr 22
RCTC Sports Center : Parking Lot
Wednesday, Apr 22
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9199.232 on Thursday, April 30
RCTC Sports Center : Parking Lot
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