Theater Review -- Pinocchio

Pinocchio

A Puppet Show at the Fisher Theatre -- Produced by Magical Marionettes

March 17, 1976

I saw the puppet show 'Pinocchio' at the Fisher Theatre last Tuesday morning and here is my review:

The story is told by Wicky, the Leprechaun from Ireland.

In the first scene, the Blue Fairy brings Pinocchio to life as a puppet with her magic wand. Then Pinocchio is on his way to school and the bad fox and the cat capture Pinocchio and sell him to a bad puppet master. The puppet master locks Pinocchio in chains and Pinocchio starts crying.

Then there was a 45-minute intermission, and when it starts again they are in the enchanted forest. Rabbits and squirrels are playing. Talking weeping willows are talking to Pinocchio.

Pinocchio tells lies to the trees and his nose starts growing longer and longer. The Blue Fairy comes to tell Pinocchio that his father was swallowed by a carnivorous catfish and is alive inside the catfish's stomach. Pinocchio and his dog Coco swim under the sea to save him. Pinocchio and Papa meet inside the big carnivorous fish. Coco barks and the catfish sneezes and everybody jumps out. Pinocchio turns into a real boy because he saved his father, and then the play ended.

There were seven marionettes and one hundred and two puppets. The marionettes did a good job. The audience liked it just as much as I did.

-- Sunny Sinclair