The Story You Will See
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites is a stage adaptation of three books by Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. Black light staging techniques illuminate stunning puppets and props while shrouding everything else in darkness. A pre-recorded narrator reads the books as two performers, dressed in black and invisible to the audience, manipulate large puppets. Accompanied by a playful musical score, the vibrant puppets appear to leap, float and fly, bringing Eric
Carle’s beloved stories to life.
In Little Cloud, a cloud slips away from the rest of the clouds and transforms into all the things it observes – a sheep, an airplane, a shark –but eventually, Little Cloud rejoins the rest of the clouds as they all come together to make rain.
In The Mixed-Up Chameleon, a chameleon is bored with its life and heads to the zoo to see what else is out there. Coveting the diverse and interesting animals there, it wishes for bits and pieces of every one it sees until it is so mixed up that it can’t even catch a fly when it gets hungry! Finally, the unhappy chameleon wishes to be itself again.
In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the
audience watches the caterpillar emerge from its egg and begin looking for food to satisfy its ravenous appetite. It turns out that preparing to transform into a butterfly requires a lot of eating!
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