{"id":57187,"date":"2025-11-23T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57187\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:13:50","slug":"pinocchio-play-comes-to-life-on-st-pete-stage-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57187\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinocchio play comes to life on St. Pete stage this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

The live action play “Pinocchio” is being performed this weekend in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

With lyrics adapted to English, the musical is performed by the St. Pete Opera.<\/p>\n

The performance is a great introduction to the performing arts with a familiar storyline and timeless tale.<\/p>\n

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.<\/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

\"\"<\/p>\n

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.<\/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.<\/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

\"\"<\/p>\n

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

\"\"<\/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.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about them and purchase tickets by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

This story was written based on live interviews at the St. Pete Opera with the performers of the play Pinocchio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The live action play “Pinocchio” is being performed this weekend in St. Petersburg. With lyrics adapted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35283,202,204,203,199,201,200,35284],"class_list":["post-57187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinocchio","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-timeless-tale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187","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=57187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}