{"id":1428,"date":"2010-03-26T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2010-03-27T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:16:20","slug":"peppa-pigs-party-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2010\/03\/26\/peppa-pigs-party-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Peppa Pig&#8217;s Party, live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yEfnPbXBGTo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>When I mentioned the cartoon British TV show <em>Peppa Pig<\/em> a few years ago the pigs were<a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/07\/26\/peppa-pig-theatricals\/\"> putting on a puppet show<\/a> for their parents. Now an adaptation, a live theatre show <a href=\"http:\/\/peppapiglive.com\"><em>Peppa Pig&#8217;s Party<\/em><\/a>, has become a roaring success for pre-schoolers.<\/p>\n<p>The puppets have lovely simple lines and are very cute! Built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljomain.biz\">Paul Jomain<\/a>, (known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljomain.biz\/PJ\/Gallery_1.html\">Virgin One mascot, Red, and the PG Tips monkey<\/a>), they are &#8216;operated by actors who remain on stage with them, perform alongside them, and provide the voices&#8217; in the style of the Avenue Q puppets, an aspect discussed in an <a href=\"http:\/\/peppapiglive.com\/about.html\">interview<\/a> with the puppetry consultant, <a href=\"www.nigelplaskitt.com\">Nigel Plaskitt<\/a>. He also talks about the decision not to use body suit puppets; they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-2LNKzcOs6U&amp;feature=related\">exist<\/a>, but are gross in comparison!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned the cartoon British TV show Peppa Pig a few years ago the pigs were putting on a puppet show for their parents. Now an adaptation, a live theatre show Peppa Pig&#8217;s Party, has become a roaring success for pre-schoolers. The puppets have lovely simple lines and are very cute! Built by Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14,33],"tags":[1095,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-peppa-pigs-party","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-n2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}