Once upon a time, there was a little boy, somewhere around 3 or 4, obsessed with a VHS recording of a musical about fairy-tales. I didn’t actually see it again (or Act II) until I was a teenager, but that grainy recording on a black and white TV in the corner of my grandparents’ living room has never left me.
While preparing this production I made a risky decision, I decided to let 3 year old me take the reins. Why? Because as a child, my imagination didn’t have any boundaries. A chair could be a cow if necessary (in fact, the arm of our couch often served as my horse when playing cowboy or knight). If someone needed to be several characters in a story they just did it, because it’s what the story required. The imagination of a child is driven by necessity and availability, and that’s what you’ll see tonight. Things can be other things, actors can be many people at once, but the story is always the important thing. So I invite you to imagine with us. Let this beautiful script and score take you to that same place I visited so many years ago. And remember, children will listen. I certainly did.
While preparing this production I made a risky decision, I decided to let 3 year old me take the reins. Why? Because as a child, my imagination didn’t have any boundaries. A chair could be a cow if necessary (in fact, the arm of our couch often served as my horse when playing cowboy or knight). If someone needed to be several characters in a story they just did it, because it’s what the story required. The imagination of a child is driven by necessity and availability, and that’s what you’ll see tonight. Things can be other things, actors can be many people at once, but the story is always the important thing. So I invite you to imagine with us. Let this beautiful script and score take you to that same place I visited so many years ago. And remember, children will listen. I certainly did.
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