Pancakes inspire children's book, performance

Wit, merriment, and mirth are the hallmarks of The Great Pancake Escape , Ballet Theatre of Toledo's winter production, which finds three of the city's most creative minds joining forces to lift characters from the pages of a children's fantasy for two weekend performances. The project began in 2002, when local author Paul Many brought his lifelong cooking passion into the pages of the book he was writing at the time.