After a wonderful 2022 season of puppet shows, we are settling in to the quiet time of January and February. It’s a good time to make puppets and plan other projects. We are looking forward to an equally fun year of puppetry ahead.
This spring, we are bringing back two fairy tales that start with R! We haven’t performed “Rumpelstiltskin” or “Rapunzel” for many years and thought it was time to bring back these old chestnuts.
They will be available to school and other audiences during the week.
This summer, we will dust off “Ivanushka and the Magic Horse.” This is a handpuppet show based on an old Slavic fairy tale. We were set to perform it for libraries during the first summer of Covid shutdown. We made a YouTube video of it available for libraries and 2 did generously take us up on that offer. But now, we have decided to bring it back live. It is a rollicking tale of 3 brothers, the youngest of whom is a kind of male Cinderella. Meanwhile, there is a Rapunzel-like princess in a tower and a horse that serves as a fairy godmother.
Our “Halloween Adventure” is a spoof of the “Wizard of Oz,” which finds Hazel and her little cat, Momo, trying to find their way to the Big Cheese.
And finally, we are going to spend this quiet winter time working on NEXT December’s Christmas show, which will be a new production, “The Gingerbread Chronicles.” Inspired by a non-puppet production — the Gingerbread House Fundraiser we hosted for Family Promise of Grant County in 2022, we plan to create a show that’s a mash-up of “Hansel and Gretel” and “The Gingerbread Man.” Wish me luck!
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