Along with rides geared towards children, theme parks have often featured children's shows as part of the overall offerings for families. Most parks feature a scaled down theater as part of the children's section where kid friendly acts perform throughout the day.
	Plans for a children's theater date back to 1976 when Great Adventure's original children's section Ride-A-Rama was removed and the new Kiddie Kingdom section was created. Though renderings of Kiddie Kingdom showed a theater as part of the new area, none was built for several years. Instead, Kiddie Kingdom featured a ship-shaped puppet theater for some time. With the makeover of Kiddie Kingdom in 1984 when the Shirt Tales characters were brought to the park, a children's theater was constructed as part of the children's section's total makeover. For the 1984 season the "Shirt Tale Shenanigans" debuted in the Shirt Tales Theater.
	The Shirt Tales were short-lived, with the Looney Tunes characters taking over in 1985. Six Flags had acquired the rights to the Looney Tunes characters with the purchase of Great America in Gurnee, Illinois from Marriott. With the arrival of the Looney Tunes, all of the Six Flags parks rethemed their children's areas as Looney Tunes Land, and the theater took on the name Looney Tunes Theater. The "Mr. Bugs Bunny & Friends" show premiered in spring of 1985 and ran all season.
	Though the Looney Tunes were at the park to stay, the Theater was referred to as the Kiddie Theater for the 1986-87 seasons and played host to a family friendly bird show. For the 1986 season the show was called "Cheep Thrills" and for 1987 it was known as "Feathered Follies". Another name change and facelift was coming for the 1988 season as the children's section was renamed and rethemed again.
	Theater Names & Shows Through the Years 1984 - Shirt Tale Shenanigans - Shirt Tales Theatre 1985 - Mr. Bugs Bunny & Friends - Looney Tunes Theatre 1986 - Cheep Thrills - Kiddie Theater 1987 - Feathered Follies - Kiddie Theater 1988 to 1989 - The Bugs Bunny Wonder Circus - Bugs Bunny Theatre 1990 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Show - Bugs Bunny Theatre 1991 to 1992 - The Bugs Bunny Magic World of Kids - Bugs Bunny Theatre 1993 to 1994 - Bugs Bunny Goin' Hollywood - Bugs Bunny Land Theatre 1995 to 1996 - Bugs Bunny Wacky World Games - Bugs Bunny Theatre 1997 to 1998 - Warner Bros. Kids Club - Bugs Bunny Theater 1999 to 2002 - What's Up, ROCK? - Bugs Bunny Land Theater 2003 to  2004 - Warner Bros. Kids Club - Bugs Bunny Theater
	In 1988 Six Flags Great Adventure introduced Bugs Bunny Land which was part of the park's strategy to try and attract families after a year of bad publicity in 1987. As part of the Bugs Bunny Land makeover, the theater was expanded and a covered viewing area was built to provide a break from the summer sun for both the audience and performers.  The covering for the theater wasn't in place until several weeks into the 1988 season. The first show presented in the 'new' Bugs Bunny Theater was the "Bugs Bunny Wonder Circus" which ran for two seasons, combining the Looney Tunes characters with circus animals played by children from the audience. The shows presented in the Theater were updated ever few seasons. For 1990, the "Bugs Bunny Birthday Show" played, celebrating Bugs Bunny's 50th birthday every day. For 1991-92 the "Bugs Bunny Magic World of Kids" played, the with the acquisition of Six Flags by Time Warner, "Bugs Bunny Goin' Hollywood" took over. For 1995-96 Six Flags cashed in on Olympic Fever with the Atlanta Olympic Summer Games taking place in summer 1996. The "Bugs Bunny Wacky World Games" was an Olympic style competition between the Looney Tunes. For 1997-98, the "Warner Brothers Kids Club" came to Bugs Bunny Land, promoting the Looney Tunes and the new Time Warner owned "WB" network. The longest running show in the Theater was the "What's Up Rock" show which ran from 1999 through 2002. A new version of the "Warner Brothers Kids Club" came back to the Bugs Bunny Theater for the 2003 and 2004 seasons and it was to be the last show at the children's theater since the Bugs Bunny Land section would be demolished to make way for The Golden Kingdom.
	Throughout the years, the basic theater changed little. It was a simple box of a building with dressing area backstage and a small proscenium with side stage areas and flats behind them making the stage appear larger than it was. The seating was a set of simple aluminum benches which before the addition of the covering would get extremely hot. The heat also took its toll of the costumed performers in the show, so the shade structure was a huge improvement for guests and performers alike. Since the removal of Bugs Bunny Land the Looney Tunes shows were moved into the former Bandstand on the Lake which was rethemed as the Bugs Bunny Wilderness Theater as part of  Bugs Bunny National Park.