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Our Original Puppet Musical Comedies
Our Original Puppet Musical-Comedies have been delighting audiences
throughout the Gulf South for over a decade!  We have always thrived by
providing custom-made productions which adds to our repertoire and
helps us to provide a better selection for you, our friends.  If you have an idea
and would like us to custom-create an Original Puppet Musical-Comedy
for your event, please e-mail us with your idea!
We'd love to make a show for you!

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"Horrible Monsters"  ||  "An Afternoon with Aesop"  ||  "5 More by Aesop"
"Humpty Dumpty: The Early Years"  ||  "The Prog Fince"  ||  "No Drugs!"
"2003"  The Ugly Duckling Odyssey"  ||  "The Porta-Puppet Music Revue"
"DePaul da Pirate"  ||  "The Shy Re-Cy"  ||  "The Billy Goats' Bluff"
"Sammy the Sorcerer's Unsightly Halloween"  ||  "Tiz (Almost) the Season"
"Mother Goose Gets A Boost"  ||  "Louisiana Fred Riding Hood"
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"Horrible Monsters"
Horrible Monsters!is what our aging but trusty (but elderly) postman must deliver mail to. A comical (and non-scary) view of high self-esteem, all sung to lilting and classical waltzes by Johann Strauss! 

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"The Porta-Puppet Music Revue"
The Porta-Puppets Music RevueA celebration of 12 fun-filled Broadway-style musical numbers, culled from our celebrated first 10 years of Original Puppet Musical-Comedies as performed by "Uncle Wayne", the puppets, and sometimes, even the audience!!

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"Humpty-Dumpty: the Early Years"
Humpty-Dumpty:  The Early Yearsis a lyrical (and laughable) look at the rise and 'fall' of one of fairy-tale-dom's most egg-citing characters... beginning at birth, going through his teens, middle age, and right on up to 99!   Featuring the voice talents of multiple Big Easy Award-winner Ricky Graham!  (P.S. only the audience will be 'cracked-up'!)

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"2004: The Ugly Duckling Odyssey"
2003:  The Ugly Duckling Odysseyhas our vague little bird with pelicans as original parents ("Ralph & Alice"), and finds his true mom to be an egret. The children get to actually meet, greet, and name him in this all-bird cast!

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"DePaul da Pirate"
  takes a typical pirate story and allows the local humor toClick Here to listen to DePaul da Pirate run amuck!  With unique Sea-Monster (the "Crocto-pus"), Ethel Mermaid,  "Stella" The State Bird, and a surprise ending; our hero is (fictitiously) the one who originates
"throwing stuff from a Mardi Gras float!"

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"The Shy Re-Cy"
The Shy Re-Cyteaches a very inhibited nephew (and the audience) the important process of recycling... a rolicking trek to the North Pole in what ever month you book it!! 

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"An Afternoon With Aesop"
Click Here to listen to An Afternoon With Aesopbrings you more traditional storytelling, done in our inimitable Porta-Puppet musical-comedy style.  5 top-notch Fables told: "The Fox and the Grapes", "Grasshopper and the Ant",  "Tortoise and  the Hare", "Boy Who Cried Wolf", and "Mouse and the Lion" (featuring the voice of award-winning actress & opera star Melissa Marshall) (also known as "An A.M. with Aesop")

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"5 More by Aesop"
Click Here to listen to Five More By AesopThe actual "sequel" to our popular Aesop show. New fables re-told in inimitable Porta-Puppet music-comedy style:  "The Dog and the Shadow", "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse", "Belling the Cat", and "Androcles and the Lion". 

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"Mother Goose Gets a Boost"
Click Here to listen to Mother Goose Gets a Boosthas our audience as members of "the classroom", assisting our frazzled "substitute teacher" and a forgetful gator who cannot remember his nursery rhymes (voiced by Storer Boone Award-winning director/designer Edward R. Cox).  A gag-a-minute...with fairy tale foolishness on parade!! (also featuring the vocal talents of recording artist Miriam Baron)

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"Sammy the Sorcerer's Unsightly Halloween"
Sammy the Sorcerorgives us a peek at  someone whose chore it is to rid the world of everything symbolizing Halloween: he wants everyone to remember him for the holiday. 

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"No Drugs!"
No Drugs!A youngster moves into a new neighborhood encountering several "un-neighborly" types in this cast. A lovely lesson in what our not-so-subtle title infers. 

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"Tiz (Almost) the Season
Click Here to listen to Tiz (Almost) The Seasonshows us a very grumpy old man who gloats that he "doesn't have to buy presents anymore," until "Hannah, the Holiday Goblin" (voiced by Big Easy Award-winning actress Amy Alvarez) widens his eyes (and Christmas spirits)!!

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"Louisiana Red Riding Hood"
Click Here to listen to Louisiana Red Riding Hoodtakes our familiar heroine "down Sout" to New Orleeens, where local humor runs amuck and involved children inform her of where (and who) "the wolf" is! Porta-Puppets' debut show from 1990. (Also available: "Louisiana Fred Riding Hood" ) 

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3141 Michigan
Metairie, La 70003
(504) 469-7019
(504) 669-4159
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