Animalitos (The Little Animals)
Bay Area troupe Magical Moonshine Theatre brings Animalitos to Humboldt for the finale of the 2018 Arcata Playhouse Family Series Friday and Saturday, May 11 & 12. Animalitos is a collection of Aesop’s fables woven together in a magical puppet dance told with Spanish and English and a good dose of festive live music. Told with a collection of wonderfully designed and constructed puppets. A rabbit starts a race with a tortoise, but seeing that he has plenty of time, he wanders off, and gets involved with a fox who is trying to court a crane with a romantic dinner for two. With some clever tricks they manage to get some food to serve but things go awry when the fox talks the rabbit into being the waiter for the meal. Meanwhile the tortoise is getting closer to the finish line! Founded in 1979 by Michael and Valerie Nelson, Magical Moonshine Theatre performances have been seen coast to coast in the U.S., as well as internationally with performances in 15 countries in 8 different languages. Michael Nelson studied puppetry at the International Puppetry Institute with the late Jim Henson of the Muppets and is a past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Puppetry Guild.
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