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ST PETERSBURG, Fla. – The children’s storybook about a hand-crafted puppet that comes to life will be performed live on stage this weekend in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
“Pinocchio” is a known story. In fact, it could be said that it is a timeless tale made familiar by the different variations of the story that have appeared in books, videos and even a Walt Disney movie.<\/p>\n
The original tale comes from an 1883 Italian book by Carlo Collodi written about the Tuscany town where the author spent his childhood.<\/p>\n
The St. Pete Opera took that original story and adapted it into a live-action play which they perform on stage at Opera Central on 1st Avenue South.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
Julie Glicksberg plays the puppet Pinocchio in this rendition, and Matteo Adams appears as the Clockmaker Geppetto.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is actually the first show that I’ve done the title role,” she said. “When I was trying to figure out how I wanted to portray the character, I felt like I got a really good sense of how I wanted Pinocchio to look as a puppet and his transformation into a real boy.”<\/p>\n
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Geppetto crafts the puppet from wood and gazes at the creation with the wish of Pinocchio being a “real boy.”<\/p>\n
The blue fairy, played by Maria Nunez, hears that wish and brings the puppet to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Ross and Ryan Kosinski appear as bad influences on Pinocchio. They play the wolf and the cat in the story. They are the ones who lead the puppet on a path making wrong choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Might I suggest that school is a dangerous place for a little wooden head with no right answers in it,” said Wolf (Ross) on stage.<\/p>\n
Wolf and cat encourage Pinocchio to give them his money and to lie about going to school.<\/p>\n
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READ: St. Petersburg Catholic High School football program is proud of first undefeated season<\/a><\/p>\n Geppetto asks about the 1st day of school, and we see the live action take on the challenge of a growing nose as the puppet lies to his father.<\/p>\n “That’s when we see the magic trick of the nose,” shared Jessica Burton the stage director. “This is a little bit of a different story than what we’re normally used to.”<\/p>\n She encouraged those interested that this performance would be more like the movie which they would be more familiar with.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n To see the live action play performed at St. Pete Opera, performances are at 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at Opera Central.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can learn more about them and purchase tickets by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on live interviews at the St. Pete Opera with the performers of the play Pinocchio.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Lifestyle<\/a>Pinellas County<\/a>Entertainment<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST PETERSBURG, Fla. – The children’s storybook about a hand-crafted puppet that comes to life will be performed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[104,47,555,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-56860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-entertainment","tag-fl","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vlcsnap-2025-11-20-17h58m46s355.png\")
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