Guests who need the assistance of the interpreter should request seats on the right side of the auditorium. performance on Saturday, Octowill have a sign language interpreter. (There is no wrong way to watch the show!) Like all Manual Cinema productions, you’re invited to watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or to watch the artists below as they create the story in real time. Manual Cinema wanted to re-create the experience of holding one of Mo’s book pages, which are big, bold, colorful, and full of visual rhythm, with a playful use of scale. Leonardo! uses hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, and songs to bring Mo Willems’ books to life. Kerry and Sam need to make a big decision: will they just be scaredy cats or can they become friends?

Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets Kerry and Frankenthaler, an even scaredier-cat and her monster friend. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just… isn’t. Leonardo & Sam received its world premier streaming via the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in March, 2021.Leonardo is a terrible monster. Kerry and Sam will need to make a big decision: will they be friends or will they be controlled by their fears?Īdapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, and realized through mind-bending puppetry, DIY cinema, music, and an original score by critically-acclaimed multimedia artists Manual Cinema, Leonardo & Sam tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions about identity and empathy that we all must make. Will Leonardo finally get his chance to scare the tuna salad out of an unsuspecting human? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets Kerry and Frankenthaler, an even scaredier-cat and her monster friend.

When he is unable to scare the biggest scaredy-cat in town, he is able to realize that being a friend to someone is more important than being a monster, and that friends accept you for all you have to offer. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. Leonardo, the Terrible Monster is the story of Leonardo, a monster unable to scare people. *THE TERRIBLE MONSTER AND THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT KID IN THE WHOLE WORLD, RESPECTIVELY

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