My Very Muppety Puppety Play!

[Muppetfreak]

Hi guys,

I the vein of shameless self promotion, I have published my play which I have told many of you about at different times. The play has several puppet characters and is a wild slapstick comedy in the vein of the Muppets (obviously, since I am all obsessed and such...). It is a rewrite of an old commedia dell'arte play and it sold out every night when it was produced and the audience was laughing like crazy. Those of you that are puppeteers will likely enjoy it very much!

It is available on Buy.com, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and lots of other fun places for retail (its easiest to search for the ISBN number) but over at this site its under $10 for a print copy and under $5 if you are just curious to read it (e-book):

http://www.lulu.com/HillaryDePiano

Title: The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium
By Carlo Gozzi, Hillary DePiano
ISBN: 1411602250

I would really appreciate the support if any of my Muppet buds would buy a copy or at least take a look. and if you do read it and could post a review on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, that would be great!!

I will happily answer questions and share an amusing Muppet story connected to this play if anyone is interested!

 

[Phillip]

Very cool Hill! I'll have to check that out.

 

[Muppetfreak]

Thanks Phil!

Hill

(Anyone else getting a Muppets Take Manhattan vibe?)

 

[Muppetfreak]

While i am shamelessly self-promoting, I am selling lots of hard to find Muppet Stuff this week:

http://www.stores.ebay.com/pricednostalgia

Included are: Of Muppets and Men, Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, That old Fisher Price Animal Puppet that has the moving eyebrows, A vintage Ernie Puppet, a Miss Piggy snowglobe, lots of fun stuff!

I would appreciate your taking a peek!

 

[Muppetfreak]

OK two things: Number one is that a few people asked me what puppet characters there are so i figured I would post it. The following characters are definately puppets or else some wicked costume effects: a dove (that someone turns into), a rope that speaks shakespeare, a donkey, and a talking gate. There are also tons of devils, witches, etc who would also work as puppets if you wanted.

Second, I wanted to tell my Muppet story, though no one asked. In the play there is a narrator who is sometimes a narrator and sometimes a character in the action. In the production meetings one of the designers kept saying "I don't get the narrator. I don't get how he is a character and a narrator." and the only way I could think of to explain it was to say "Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas" over and over again like a crazy person. I was trying to tell them that it was like Kermit functions in that story, because he starts out as the narrator but then has his part to play.

Not a single member of the production team had even heard of that special let alone knew what I was talking about.

Sigh. i thought someone here would appreciate that......

 

[Beauregard]

Wow. I've been trying to get one of my plays published for ages, but the publisher keep juggleing my back to teh bottom of his intray...

Good Stuff

Beau