Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Voice Box recommends

A selective listing of performances for the weekend of 4/17 - 4/19:

Seattle Children's Theater presents Goodnight, Moon

From the SCT website:
“Enchanting…Feat of inspired genius.” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Little Bunny’s imagination is a wondrous place when he must say his goodnights. A place where toys come to life and pictures are filled with real, talking, breathing people. After all the pandemonium of getting ready for bed, Little Bunny finally closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep.
Eve Alvord Theatre
Friday, April 17 - 7:00 pm
(runs through June 7)

*****

ArtsWest presents Gutenberg! The Musical!

From the ArtsWest Playhouse website:

“Uproarious and hysterically funny!” - Associated Press

GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! is a loving spoof in which two aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new project: A big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg (not Steve Guttenberg from the cinema classic Short Circuit).

"I don't recall the last time I left a theater with a face that ached from laughing way too much." - Paul Constant, The Stranger

With an unending supply of enthusiasm, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, with the hope that one of the producers in attendance will give them a Broadway contract – fulfilling their sky-high, if simple-minded, dreams.

ArtsWest Playhouse
Friday, April 17th - 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 18th - 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 19th - 3:00 pm

*****

Northwest Puppet Center presents Don Quixote
Baroque Marionette Opera

From the NWPC website:

Each year, Northwest Puppet Center presents an elaborate baroque marionette opera. Hand-carved figures take the stage with chamber orchestra and singers on either side of the proscenium.

The Carter Family Marionettes are joined by an ensemble of outstanding musicians and singers for this unique production of Don Quixote.

George Philipp Telemann's Don Quixote Suite is a well known instrumental delight. Rarely seen, however, is his one act operetta, in which the chivalrous Don and the earthy Sancho Panza attend and disrupt a shepherd's wedding. These two works are combined by Carter Family Marionettes and Maestra di Musica, Margriet Tindemanns. Sancho Panza's aria to his donkey and the attack on the windmills are among the treats to be dished up by hand-carved marionettes and our beloved musical collaborators. This is our 10th live opera, with nearly a decade of these unique and challenging presentations at the Northwest Puppet Center. Please join us for a night at the opera with this quixotic delectation!
Northwest Puppet Center
Friday, April 17th - 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 18th - 2:00 pm, 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 19th - 2:00 pm

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