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 Pinocchio! - Highly acclaimed, captivating and
exceptionally playable adaptation of the Carlo Collodi
novel. Two Acts. 12 major characters which can be
performed as 2 women and 10 men - or just the opposite (2
men and 10 women) - since many characters don't have to
be gender specific - plus The Voice of the Talking
Cricket which can be played by one of the other principal
actors, or cast separately. For a smaller cast doubling
can reduce the company size to 7. For larger groups we
recommend our EXPANDED cast version
of this script, which has a total of 33 speaking roles (the
original 13 principals plus 20 smaller roles -
townspeople, additional puppets and performers at the
puppet theatre, and other boys and girls who are tempted
to make the journey to the Land of the Dingalings), and
can even be expanded further if desired. Settings:
requires simple representative pieces. Costumes: "storybook"
"Italian" fairy tale. Approximate Playing Time:
70 to 75 minutes.
When
ordering this play please specify whether you want the
The best of these occurs when
Pinocchio comes to life . . . Pinocchio at first droops
motionless atop the work table on which he was carved. Before long, Geppetto and his
creation are carrying on like old friends, and one of the
play's most amusing sequences is Pinocchio trying to
master the difficult skills of walking and talking. The
puppet points to a foot and calls it his nose; he motions
to a chair, calling it a school. And once he has the
vocabulary Pinocchio's curiosity leads him,
of course, to run away from home in the pursuit of
adventure; and whenever he finds himself in a jam he
meets up with . . . the Blue Fairy . . . whenever she
soars onto the stage, the young audience seems transfixed
in her presence-wondering, perhaps, whether fairy spirits
really do exist. But, if the Blue Fairy is always there
to bail In the end, however, Pinocchio finally proves that he's learned to be brave and unselfish. The Blue Fairy grants the lonely Geppetto's wish for a son of his own, and Pinocchio awakens to find that he has become a real boy at last. Photo credits: PINOCCHIO! production and publicity photos - (lower left) Rockingham Theatre Company, Australia , (all others on page) Classics On Stage! (Chicago) A special version of the Classics On Stage! script of PINOCCHIO! recently played over 100 performances in the Lilly Theatre at the beautiful Children's Museum of Indianapolis! |
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"The
little puppet with the long wooden nose is getting into
mischief again, this time at Marriott's Lincolnshire
Children's Theatre . . . 'Pinocchio,' the venerable
children's tale of a sweet-but-silly puppet that comes to
life . . . attains moments of real theatrical magic.
But
as Geppetto the puppet-maker looks away to reach for a
paint brush, Pinocchio leaps across the table. The puppet
master can't understand how the wooden figure seems to
change its position every time he glances away, and the
kids in the audience roar with laughter as they wait for
Geppetto to discover what they already know: Pinocchio is
no ordinary puppet. 
thoroughly
confused, he jumps from the table to test his rickety
puppet legs. He bobs around the workshop with the
greatest finesse, until the momentum of his effort sends
him tumbling into a high speed pratfall. 
Pinocchio
out, the mischievous Candlewick seems just as likely to
cause trouble. He lures the puppet into every prank and
scheme imaginable . . . " - Reich, Chicago Tribune