Monsters have one job, and it’s to be SCARY! “Booga booga booga!” However as exhausting as he tries, Leonardo can’t scare even a mouse. When the opposite monsters chuckle and make enjoyable of him, Leonardo searches for probably the most scaredy-cat child on the planet to attempt to scare the tuna salad out of him! Manual Cinema breathes progressive life into this beloved story (and its doubly charming sequel), magically utilizing tons of of puppets to create a film earlier than your very eyes. Will Leonardo lastly grow to be the scary monster he goals of being? Or will he uncover one thing even higher to be?
Impressed by the Books Leonardo, The Horrible Monster and Sam, The Most Scaredy-Cat Child within the Entire World by Mo Willems, Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster, premiers on the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) at present and runs via March 9.
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster on the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) (Photograph credit score CTC)
Leonardo! A Great Present A couple of Horrible Monster makes use of tons of of illustrated paper puppets, ebook pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, and songs to deliver Mo Willems’ books to life. Handbook Cinema wished to re-create the expertise of holding considered one of Mo’s ebook pages, that are large, daring, colourful, and stuffed with visible rhythm, with a playful use of scale. Like all Handbook Cinema productions, you’re invited to observe the massive display screen like a conventional film, or to observe the artists beneath as they create the story in actual time.
Latino Information Community had the prospect to talk with Maydi Díaz (Stage Supervisor, Stay Video, Sound and Mild Cueing), who’s a part of the artistic group and manufacturing employees.
“I fell in love with the crafts-making of theater. Theater isn’t just what you see individuals doing on stage. One of many targets that I’ve with doing “Leonardo” is giving youngsters that lightbulb second that I by no means had as a child: a whole aspect of theater that could possibly be my job,” Díaz stated about displaying kids the work she performs.
Díaz grew up in San Juan, PR, and at the moment resides in Chicago. Her earliest reminiscence of performing is as a dancer in a kids’s manufacturing of “Zorro.” Schooling introduced her to Chicago. Díaz has a BA in Arts Administration and MA in Theatre Manufacturing. “Rising up, I didn’t know that my present job existed,” she stated. “I didn’t know this was an choice of what I might do. By by no means having met somebody who truly did that for a residing and did that for a job, it meant it appeared out of attain.”
The difference of Leonardo! A Great Present A couple of Horrible Monster is by Sarah Fornace and Drew Dir, with music, lyrics and sound design by Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter. The manufacturing is directed by Sarah Fornace.
Along with Mo Willems, Sarah Fornace, Drew Dir, Ben Kauffman, and Kyle Vegter, the artistic group and manufacturing employees for Leonardo! A Great Present a few Horrible Monster contains Liz Breit (Hand & Rod Puppet Design), Mieka Van der Ploeg (Costume & Wig Design), Trey Brazeal with Nick Chamernik (Lighting Design), Megan Alrutz (Dramaturg), and Maydi Díaz (Stage Supervisor, Stay Video, Sound and Mild Cueing).
The forged of Leonardo! A Great Present a few Horrible Monster options Karly Gesine Bergmann (Sam, Puppeteer), Leah Casey (Kerry, Puppeteer), Lily Emerson (Narrator, Character Voices, Musician), Kevin Michael Wesson (Leonardo, Voice, and Puppeteer), and Lindsey Noel Whiting (Leonardo, Voice, and Puppeteer).
“It’s in the end a narrative about friendship, which I actually love and speaks to lots of people,” stated Díaz. “Friendship, discovering who you’re, attempting to know who you’re in each stage of your life is one thing we’re all going via continually, not simply as kids as adults too.”
