{"id":290,"date":"2006-11-21T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-01-02T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:20:32","slug":"finding-nemo-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/11\/21\/finding-nemo-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Nemo: the Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/nemoc.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicbearpress.com\/portfolio\/\">Brian Kolm<\/a> sent me a note a few weeks ago about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdwmagic.com\/nemo_musical.htm\">Finding Nemo: the Musical<\/a><\/em>, <span lang=\"en-gb\">a new musical stage show at<br \/>\nDisney&#8217;s Animal Kingdom. (Thanks, Brian!). If you page down you can see photos of some of the large puppets, which seem impressive.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"en-gb\">&#8216;Principal characters such as Marlin, Nemo and Dory will be represented by live performers operating animated puppets. Some puppets are larger-than-life &#8212; such as Crush, the cool sea turtle, who is nearly the size of a Volkswagen, and Nigel the pelican, who stands 22 feet tall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\nOther characters will be portrayed by a diverse array of puppetry styles, including rod, Bunraku and shadow. Tap dancing sharks, puppets riding bicycles, and a punk rock routine by Bruce the shark create theatrical magic and fun throughout the big blue world.<\/span><span lang=\"en-gb\">&#8216;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Laughing Place has  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/Lotion-View-289.asp\">a couple of extra pictures<\/a> in their two-page gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The puppets have been designed by Michael Curry, who was the co-designer for <em>The Lion King<\/em>. The production opens officially in January 2007, but meanwhile preview shows have begun, and you can read a few reactions <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.wdwmagic.com\/showthread.php?t=110907\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Kolm sent me a note a few weeks ago about Finding Nemo: the Musical, a new musical stage show at Disney&#8217;s Animal Kingdom. (Thanks, Brian!). If you page down you can see photos of some of the large puppets, which seem impressive. &#8216;Principal characters such as Marlin, Nemo and Dory will be represented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[607,606,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-disney","tag-nemo","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}