ST. LOUIS – “Life of Pi” has begun its run of shows at the Fabulous Fox Theatre through Oct. 19. FOX 2 News got an inside look at the team who brings a tiger to life on stage and in person. The tiger, ...
No sooner had Kate Rossell, Puppet Director, finished speaking than a “tiger” emerged from behind the wall. To be precise, a tiger “puppet.” Three puppeteers responsible for the head, heart, and legs ...
THANK YOU. SWITCHING GEARS NOW. SO A MAN, A ZEBRA AND A TIGER ALL GET ON TO A RAFT. AS THE PEACE CENTER’S NEWEST BROADWAY PLAY. AND MANY OF THE ACTORS ARE MADE OF WOOD AND METAL. WHO BETTER TO TELL US ...
One of the best dramas to be staged at the Fox in years, the Broadway hit, based on Yann Martel’s novel, was previously adapted into a feature film. Given new life as a stage play, this Tony and ...
When Richard Parker slinks into the room, it is difficult not to catch your breath. The Royal Bengal tiger puppet is the star of the stage production of “Life of Pi” and the puppeteers who operate him ...
Taha Mandviwala as Pi and puppeteers Anna Leigh Gortner, Shiloh Goodin and Toussaint Jeanlouis as the tiger Richard Parker. Anyone who has read or seen the film “Life of Pi” might be surprised that it ...
Big cats are familiar territory for The Fox Theatre, where glowing eyes and roars greet visitors at the bottom of the grand staircase and Simba and Nala and a whole cast of Jellicles have made several ...
That classic icon from vaudeville and film, the great curmudgeon W.C. Fields said it best, “Never work with kids and animals.” But he never worked with Richard Parker (the tiger). Fields would have ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — “Life of Pi,” the book by Yann Martel, sold more than 15 million copies before the blockbuster film, and on Wednesday night, the Tony Award-winning theatrical experience opens ...
You’ve never seen anything on stage quite like Life of Pi. Life of Pi tells the story of a young man who is the only survivor of a cargo ship sinking. Pi and his family booked passage on a ship from ...